Text / Zhang Guoliang
At present, from the current situation of the national art exhibition, the phenomenon of assimilation is very serious, and it is not difficult to see the problems of the artist's pursuit of personal style. Then, call the master of Chinese painting, call the masterpieces, sound and vibration of china. The reason why the whole country with hope, in the final analysis is a problem of the quality of Chinese painting.
In this regard, I was thinking something from the painter in the creation of emotional germinal ideas, although the idea of speech is not high, but also wrote to discuss with colleagues. These ideas can be quite unconventional, but in the title after adding "different argument" two words to explain. To be clear: This is the word "don't take the difference between" positive "meaning, as a nickname, history, biography, not without meaning, it would like to take this topic to illustrate their point of view to discuss.
A very important but easily overlooked problem
This problem is concerned with the painter's emotion, and the painter's emotion is formed with the formation of Chinese painting. The rise of Chinese literati painting, it is a powerful interpretation of the painter's creative emotions on the development of Chinese painting. Shi Tao’s known as "painting quotations" to "a painting" throughout the film, the center of which is "self", is to explore how the artist was stretching personality to free creation realm, with own emotion "law" beyond the ancient law". Known as the "Eight Wonders of Yangzhou" is even more so, they will be the classical art through the things one seeks the spiritual world of aesthetic sublimation, change for supporting objects full of human feelings, expressing the interest of the personal survival experience.
This experience has comfortable, excited, worried, resentful, living emotion through the trees, stones, flowers and birds, plum blossoms, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum to freehand expression, writing and analogy for the value of the individual struggle vitality. This fully illustrates the painter's emotion is an important cause of creation. Bill, an art theorist, also believes that art is a medium that allows the mind to see. "Thought itself cannot be expressed directly through the senses, except through the medium of art. Therefore, I believe that art can be transformed into something that can be perceived directly in a certain way".
Of course, we are here from the perspective of positive factors of emotion, that is not all emotions are conducive to the creation of Chinese painting. Emotions of painter must be based on the art of painting creation rules, through specific media art language, the individual should express genuine feeling, should express feeling and other factors can be transformed into a sense of art, only through emotional works is the real high quality works. Therefore, Lenin has pointed out: "no one's feelings, it has never been impossible for the pursuit of truth". To create a high quality work of the artist, we should first understand the value of the observer emotion, which is unquestionable.
However, as far as today's artists as a whole, how effective? The answer can not to say no, but it is difficult to say yes, even if there is also the unique art of painting with the Chinese painting of the artist's own requirements for the poor. This very important, very clear concept of art has been ignored or thrown away by many artists. There are both the artist's personal reasons and the artistic environment.
This is the essence of emotional problems, is a reflection of human nature and social contradictions. Even in the era of diversification, the most basic criteria to judge the emotional problems still follow the two dimensions of naturalness and sociality. As the most important and nuclear standard of emotion is naivety and freedom of the natural scale, the scale of sociality, which is reflected in a legal, moral and secular standard. From the subjective point of view, emotion is the artist's individual behavior, it is difficult to work because of some kind of measure, rely on the title of the artist should bear the sacred duties from self constraints.
Psychologically speaking, body is the life material commitment of human life, mind is the meaning of life, and the relationship between body and mind, everyone will encounter problems and the philosophy of life must be answered. However, our painters often can not balance the relationship between the body and mind, so that the two in a lot of time in a state of imbalance, resulting in the creation of errors. Only pay attention to the skill method of painting, craftsman style repeating own creation, presented to the audience the works of mechanical, rigid and inflexible, ignore the emotional transformation of works through the action of art symbol and artistic form carrier. On the other hand is the objective reason.
Now, the development of our society by leaps and bounds, is entering an era of diversification, people's attitudes are changing, the desire to enhance the fame, the mental state is blundering and changeable, chasing fame and fortune drive use unscrupulous divisive tactics, our country in recent years, a few painting evil blasts will illustrate this point, a lot of people playing with performance art, destroy art authenticity, distort the true, the good and the beautiful of this important aesthetic orientation, breaking the balance of the artist emotion, go to the magic circle of madness. Therefore, we can no longer put forward to further understanding, so as to correct the behavior of our artists, to reshape China's local art simple, original unique artistic style.
Problems that are not easy to solve but must be solved
From psychological point of view, when people understand the objective things and not be completely indifferent, always in the understanding of objective things at the same time, take this or that attitude, which produce satisfaction, love, fear, anger, disgust and other subjective experience, this is emotional. It can be said that, the emotion is reflected in the relationship between human needs and objective things, the people of the saying: "the feeling is moved by sight". Any art is the highest realm of freedom to pursue and realize.
The same is true of traditional Chinese painting, the freedom is an emotional issue. Therefore, emotion is an important law of the painter's creative activities, and the works created by the artist are the crystallization of the emotional experience. There are positive and negative emotions, so the painter has positive emotions and negative emotions, but also a degree of difference. Therefore, how to maintain positive emotions, and overcome negative emotions, and maintain positive emotion to a deeper degree, this choice is a certain degree of difficulty for the painter.
At the same time, the limitations of the emotional activities of the body, determine the painter's emotion is a personal behavior, by its own operation, no doubt hindered the play of emotional role. Emotion is not only the highest realm of the painter's creation, but also the most difficult problem to solve. But as a painter, the emotional problem determines the development of art, the artist can not be put the feelings into the art can not be called a real artist. Thus, the emotional problem which is every painter must attach great importance to solve the problem.
The first is to strengthen the cultivation of sense of reason. Sense of reason refers to the painter of reason and wisdom and knowledge, grasp and use and the pursuit of emotional experience. The reason is the ideological basis of the artist activities. High quality creation is the result and crystal of wisdom of the painter. On this issue, I think the first thing to tell the talent, past critique of idealism, transcendentalism, number of people did not dare to speak natural differences, and too much emphasis on acquired education and the influence, now look at this is somewhat biased.
Talent is born with the characteristics of personality and intelligence, which can not play a decisive role in the development of a person, but it can not be ignored. Painting is a higher demand for talent, although not absolute, but a great impact on the achievements of an artist. In the process of emotional control to the creative process, be good at thinking, based on practice, development with times, can’t go with the tide, should be brave and good at innovation, innovative ideas in order to consider the situation, innovation and courage to face challenges, embrace the future with the spirit of innovation. Advocating science, the pursuit of truth, let the feelings of accompanied becomes the motivation of going forward.
The second is to strengthen the sense of duty. Professional emotion refers to the painter's own value through the relationship and unity of emotion and professional value, social value, and is the reflection of the psychological activity and the activity of consciousness. Now the life and art of many artists into extreme personal consciousness, ignoring all the rules of life and art, the artist's social responsibility desalination, advocate some inconsistent words and deeds of the healthy development of the art of Chinese painting, in this case, the painter's emotion will have a negative effect, or start impetuous, or to deepen, in the creation can not accurately grasp the theme and content of thoughts, with audiences in the works, it is inevitable that is not accepted by the society, can not stand the test of practice, not only can increase the spiritual wealth for the society, but increase the trouble and burden.
Therefore, strengthening the vocational painters emotional awareness, positive factors increase the feelings of the painter, consciously examine the object, concerned subject, both can criticize, and review their own self understanding, correct deviation of their art on the road.
Third is to strive to improve the aesthetic ability. Aesthetic feeling is the emotional experience of the artist in the creation of aesthetic activities. Think of modern aesthetic psychology, aesthetic needs of a particular state of mind, is the greatest freedom of mind and spirit, in this state of mind, people can go beyond reality, divine contemplation, to realize the object of beauty and truth, into the non utilitarian aesthetic realm of freedom. The most basic characteristic of artistic creation thinking is the aesthetic generation of the individual and the world in the process of sincere emotion exchange, is the manifestation of the individual's inner emotion by means of materialization.
When the painter regards creation object as the aesthetic object of beauty appreciation and evaluation, and applied to the creation, the creative works can better reflect the painter of the subject of essential power of created beauty, to guide the audience's aesthetic habits and aesthetic taste, with their own unique transcendence way to guide people into aesthetic realm of life, in order to resolve the conflict of their own real life caused by the difficulties.
From another point of view, the majority of the audience's aesthetic habits, and aesthetic taste are also backward, unhealthy factors. If our painters blindly cater to these things, not only the quintessence of Art – traditional Chinese painting lost advanced, it will have a negative impact on the development of public spiritual and cultural life.
The new era, endow our artists the sacred historical mission, our painters adhere to the traditional and free from arrogance and impetuosity, down-to-earth into life, rational carefully absorb various kinds of artistic elements of positive and healthy, to create belong to this era, with the continuous line of traditional arts.
In a word, say so much, I feel that it is hard to say exactly what is the creative emotion of the painters? but I would like to quote a passage of the famous writer Shi Tie sheng, mutual encouragement with the painters: "where am I? In a body, in communication with others, in the world of thinking and dreams, in the memories of the past, in the future of the look, in the finally talk with god".
Zhang Guoliang(a member of Chinese Artists Association, Painter, Theorist)