What's the difference between natural beauty and artistic beauty?

Tired of all kinds of combinations of square figures, I suddenly read the Collection of Landscape Photography just published by Mr. Jiang (China Photography Publishing House, May 2004), and a shocking high degree of harmony and unity of natural beauty and artistic beauty strongly impacted me. In the works, it's like holding out a magical artistic hand, holding your eyes tightly and holding your mind. Pull your thoughts to the depths of this art world ... The feeling that comes with it is like a spring breeze, which comes in waves with tenacity and strength, making you unconsciously indulge in the landscape, forget the landscape, and then send your feelings to the landscape. You suddenly feel that your mind is suddenly enlightened and your emotions are suddenly enlightened. For a time, you forgot something, forgot yourself, and you were humiliated. It seems that you have experienced a baptism of mind, purification of spirit, sublimation of thoughts, and inadvertently realized life.

Hiding your taste is really like enjoying a spiritual feast.

Landscape photography comes from painting art, which is a natural extension of western oil painting, gouache painting and traditional landscape painting in China. Ancient painters took pictures with naked eyes, while modern photographers used modern historical instruments-photographic lenses to complete artistic creation through composite means such as framing, composition, lighting and color. Compared with traditional painting techniques, landscape photography, with the help of science and technology, makes the creation space bigger, the artistic language richer, the colors more gorgeous and the effect more realistic, which can not only create the freehand brushwork atmosphere of China traditional landscape painting, but also have the texture like western oil painting. Western landscape painting and China traditional landscape painting often show landscapes, twilight and their seasonal changes; The theme of landscape photography is nothing more than famous mountains and rivers, with four seasons as the scenery. Jiang's landscape photography works also follow this artistic law, and his photography lens reproduces two major contents: landscape and pastoral, but his artistic characteristics and style seem to be more personalized.

In this content section, the exotic Baganta City from Myanmar, the Egyptian remnant city, the German castle, and the moonlight night in Bangladesh ... went to the local Yaya Nature Reserve, Meili Snow Mountain, Bashang in Inner Mongolia, blue lagoon on the Gobi Desert in Xinjiang, and the magical and spectacular Mount Everest ... The author shook it out like a treasure; The idyllic pastoral under the author's lens is full of tranquility and serenity. The terraced fields in the south of the Yangtze River, the long-lived villages surrounded by mountains, the green carpet-like pastures in Bayinbuluke grassland and the mythical Shangri-La are all desirable, especially the gouache morning scene in Wuyuan Village, as if a crisp cock crow is about to kick off the day. When expressing the scenery of mountains and rivers, the author is passionate and has a clear view; When singing pastoral songs, the author is affectionate and delicate, including animal euphemism.

The personalized color in the author's artistic temperament is strongly manifested in the pursuit of grandeur, grandeur, remoteness and a majestic beauty of the picture, as well as the use of contrast between light and shade in composition and lighting to strengthen the visual effect and produce shocking artistic charm. The first work of this episode shows the grandeur and grandeur of Annabra Mountain in the snowy plateau almost in a panoramic way with a long scroll that is divided into four parts and eight parts. To tell the truth, I was stunned from the beginning, which made me dumbfounded. This work focuses on the tiger's mouth terraces of P.23, the Liaodong sky of P.55 and the mountain scenery of P.98 It is a representative work of the author's contrast between light and shade, including the portrait of the author behind the title page, which is shot in black and white with bright backlight, highlighting the characters and emphasizing the inner temperament of people.

This collection also has a subtitle-landscape photography and poetry. It should be said that the impromptu poems of Mr. Lv Cheng and Miss Lv Ru also add icing on the cake to these glittering photographs. Although it seems to look at pictures and talk, it is more interesting than others, with explanations, generalizations and improvements. Poetry is full of poetry, and some poems are like a stroke of genius, which makes people linger and have endless fun. ...

The sages once said, read thousands of books and take Wan Li Road. At least Jiang has achieved one of them. This is his second collection of landscape photographs. If he hadn't traveled all over the mountain, he would never have achieved such impressive results. Jiang has been an official for many years and holds important positions. He can be an official or write songs (he also wrote lyrics and composed a CD). It's really not easy to stick to it. I think, besides hobbies, it may be more of an attitude towards life, that is, "don't cling to an established mentality", because "life is as colorful as a picture." This is actually a bigger gain for me.