Chapter 130: Life Experience and Art

Xu Hong also has a good understanding of the theory of ancient landscape painting.

But even if you know a lot of theories, it doesn't mean that you will be able to draw a good work, in fact, a good work not only depends on excellent painting skills. At the same time, it is necessary to have more life experience.

Only when the work is combined with a person's life experience can the work be closer to reality and more moving.

"Fuchun Mountain Residence" is such an excellent landscape painting. The reason why the painter Huang Gongwang was able to paint this famous painting is not unrelated to his life experience.

Huang Gongwang, a painter in the Yuan Dynasty, has a long word, a peak, and a big idiot. He is good at painting landscapes, describing the natural scenery of the south of the Yangtze River, mainly in ink and light style, and Wu Zhen, Wang Meng, and Ni Zan are called the four families of the Yuan. Originally a scribe in the Zhejiang West Lian Visiting Division, he was implicated in the corruption case of his boss and was falsely imprisoned. After being released from prison, he changed his name to "Big Idiot", and since then he has believed in Taoism, traveled all over the world, entertained himself with poetry and painting, and once sold divination for a living. He started his painting career late. However, due to the ups and downs of life, the cold and warm self-knowledge, the painted landscape, must be personally observed, painted on thousands of hills and ravines, strange and profound. His brushwork was first learned from Dong Yuan and Juran in the early Song Dynasty of the Five Dynasties, and was later influenced by Zhao Mengzhao, making good use of wet brushes to cover linen, which was highly respected by Ming and Qing painters, and became the most popular painter in the "Yuan Four Families" (Wang Meng, Ni Zhan, Wu Zhen). In addition, in addition to the paintings, there are also writings, such as "Writing Landscapes" and "On Painting Landscapes", which are all exemplary studies for later generations.

The reason why Huang Gongwang was able to paint such a masterpiece as "Fuchun Mountain Residence" is inseparable from the experience of his life, he is not a prodigy who has been good at painting since he was a child, he can be said to be a monk halfway before he learned to paint.

According to records, Huang Gongwang began painting at the age of 31, and due to the ups and downs of his circumstances, he did not concentrate on landscape painting until he was about 50 years old, that is, after he was released from prison. Because of his love for nature, he has a more comprehensive cultural accomplishment, and in the early days, he has cultivated profound skills in copying many ancient masterpieces, and has accumulated broad and profound knowledge in his chest, so that one of them has shown a high style of art from the beginning. Based on the painting method of Dong Yuan, a great painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, he absorbed the strengths of other famous artists, integrated the nutrients obtained from the cultivation of the teacher's method, and gradually created his own artistic outlook. There are two styles of his landscape paintings: one is light red, with many rocky hills and majestic brushstrokes, and the other is ink, with fewer wrinkles and simple and far-reaching brushstrokes, which fully embodies the idea of "pinning interest in painting" and the effect of "rich and rich" brushwork. Huang Gongwang had close contacts with his contemporaries Wang Meng, Ni Zan and Wu Zhen, and gave poems and paintings to each other, discussed with each other, and often enjoyed cooperative landscape painting. Not only did they create their own unique painting styles, but they also devoted themselves to the organic combination of artistic conception and poetry, and painting, and jointly pushed Chinese literati painting to a new world. Huang Gongwang especially stood at the peak with his outstanding achievements, which had a huge impact on the painting world of later generations, and was promoted as the "head of the four Yuan families". Huang Gongwang has an indissoluble bond with Fuyang. He traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, but he was only fond of Fuchun landscapes, and settled in Shauki Spring on the bank of the Fuchun River in his later years, where he spent the most glorious period of his life and left a large number of masterpieces. Since then, Huang Gongwang's name has been closely associated with the beautiful Fuchun River, which is the cradle of a generation of masters that made him a generation, and he has also added dazzling brilliance to the beautiful Fuchun River. "Fuchun Mountain Residence" was created by Huang Gongwang when he was 79 years old.

The reason why Huang Gongwang was able to paint the pinnacle of his life at the age of 79 is also a masterpiece, which has a lot to do with the ups and downs of his life.

In a certain aspect, painting is similar to writing, both of which pay attention to the organic combination of reality and illusion. No matter how high the artistic accomplishment of a painter or writer is, if he does not have rich life experience, he will not be able to create a masterpiece that will be handed down.

The reason why "Dream of Red Mansions" has become a masterpiece has a lot to do with Cao Xueqin's ups and downs in her life.

It can be said that it is precisely because Cao Xueqin's family background has changed greatly that he has changed from a 'rich second generation' to a poor bastard, which prompted him to complete a masterpiece "Dream of Red Mansions" like life experience.

It is precisely because the author writes with his 'heart' that it can be deeply moving. From the words of "Dream of Red Mansions", people can feel the author's sad life.

Just as Cao Xueqin herself commented on her own work in the afterword of "Dream of Red Mansions", "The paper is full of absurd words, and a handful of sad tears." Duyun is an idiot, who understands the taste'.

From these four sentences, it can be seen how Cao Xueqin's "Dream of Red Mansions" was created. It can be said that "Dream of Red Mansions" is a portrayal of Cao Xueqin's life.

He is not writing books with a pen, but writing with his heart, blood, tears, and even life, after all, he did not finish writing "Dream of Red Mansions" until his death. Let this monumental work become a great regret in the history of world literature.

Art is connected, and so is painting. Only when a painter has experienced too many people and things and has a bumpy experience, can he have a higher level of understanding of life, and he will be able to create excellent works that are higher than life.

The same is true of "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map". It is precisely because Huang Gongwang's life has been very bumpy that he has been imprisoned and become a Taoist priest. Only then did he have a higher level of view of life, and when he painted, he also had a deeper meaning.

The reason why "Fuchun Mountain Residence" can become a masterpiece is because Huang Gongwang has spent his whole life to depict a beautiful landscape painting, so that this painting has spirituality and life, and this painting can be passed down and become a masterpiece.

Compared with art masters like Huang Gongwang and Cao Xueqin, Xu Hong may be nothing.

However, Xu Hong can feel the state of mind of these two masters when creating their heirloom works from the life experiences of these two masters.

Even though Xu Hong does not have such rich life experience as the two masters, he has experienced a lot of things at a young age.

From the earth before his death, he was reborn to the parallel earth in front of him, and he had just experienced a process of 'fighting' with Jin Dabao Yao Hong.

All these life experiences have given Xu Hong a higher understanding of life. He knew that when he was painting, he would not be as hasty as before, just copying the master's works without feeling the master's state of mind.