The historical and cultural background of his father Luo Zhongli.

Farmers are the biggest subject in this country, and their fate is actually the fate of this nation and this country. "Luo Zhongli said.

Father Luo Zhongli, a famous contemporary oil painter in China.

My father's prototype is an old farmer in Daba Mountain. Luo Zhongli was born in a worker's family in Sichuan. He inherited his father's interest in art. 1964, the first in sichuan fine arts institute High School. When he was in the second grade of the affiliated middle school, he came to Daxian County, Sichuan Province, which is more than 200 kilometers away from home. Luo Zhongli said: "At that time, our school was in Dabashan Xincun Primary School because the whole teaching policy was to serve politics, to live and to go deep into the fiery masses of workers, peasants and soldiers to teach." He still clearly remembers that night more than 30 years ago, in the open field on the third floor and outside the third floor of Xincun Primary School, enthusiastic villagers surrounded Luo Zhongli and other students from big cities. The village chief shouted the students' names and was taken away by a villager. [6]

That day, Luo Zhongli was taken to his cabin by an old man named Deng Kaixuan. Luo Zhongli felt that frogs were particularly loud and the stars were particularly bright that day. He smoked at that end, and the smell of smoke made me unable to smell it from now on. I never smoked, but I liked it at that time and got used to it. "Luo Zhongli said. In a very strange environment, Luo Zhongli soon got along well with the landlord and slept in the same bed with the old man at night. Deng Kaixuan, an old man, was the prototype of the later oil painting Father. Luo Zhongli, who is good at drawing cartoons with brush strokes, really has the skills envied by his classmates. [6]

1968 after graduating from the high school attached to sichuan fine arts institute, Luo Zhongli chose to go to Daxian and work as a locksmith in Dazhou Iron and Steel Plant. Later, he became a propagandist who painted critical columns in the factory, drew a lot of cartoons, and drew a portrait of the chairman for the publicity column in the factory. Luo Zhongli said: "Those are some big portraits of the chairman on the wall," Chairman Mao goes to Anyuan ",and some big heads." 1September, 977, the national college entrance examination resumed. Luo Zhongli applied for sichuan fine arts institute. Luo Zhongli said, "I wanted to take the Chinese painting exam, but I didn't take it that year. There is no Chinese painting enrollment, only oil painting, printmaking and sculpture. I wanted to paint that kind of pastel painting before, which was similar to oil painting, so I chose oil painting. Anyway, four years later, I still do my Chinese painting. " He can only hide in the dormitory and draw cartoons, drawing more than 300 in four years. Is it really necessary for Luo Zhongli to find a sense of accomplishment in comic books? How far is he from his first "father"? At this time, another opportunity appeared. [6]

In the second grade, the school began the postgraduate examination, and Luo Zhongli applied for the postgraduate majoring in Chinese painting. The professional exam ranked first, but he failed because of his failure in classical literature. The professor of the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting also said that fortunately, Luo Zhongli failed in classical literature, otherwise he wouldn't have.

Works of Luo Zhongli, a famous contemporary oil painter in China.

And later "dad". Luo Zhongli, who failed the postgraduate exam, had to come back to continue painting. At this time, the news of the second national art exhibition came, and Luo Zhongli decided to make a final attempt for his oil painting career. He went to Daba Mountain again to find creative inspiration, and at this time he was close to his work Father. Third, Daba Mountain finally drew my father. In the second year in sichuan fine arts institute, just before the Lunar New Year, Luo Zhongli saw a farmer collecting feces in a roadside toilet. This scene touched Luo Zhongli. "When I saw him, it was already dark, and the weather outside was raining, wet and cold. At that time, I thought he was still numb and didn't know it was New Year's Eve at all, so I was shocked. Then I went back and immediately drew a lot of scenes about dung farmers. " He believes that dirty and smelly farmers support the country, and farmers are the real backbone to support the country and the nation. [6]

At that time, the notice of the second national youth art exhibition came down. Luo Zhongli intends to create a work called "The Old Man Picking up Dung".

He told his friend that he wanted to draw a big head, and his original words were "a painting as big as Chairman Mao". Then I jumped and jumped, very excited. Before the formal creation, Luo Zhongli returned to Daba Mountain. He found all the photos of the old man Deng Kaixuan that he could find, drew all the pictures that he could draw, and then synthesized them to form the image of an old farmer. In almost half a year, it changed from a draft to a draft. When he returned to school from Daba Mountain, the title of the painting changed from "the farmer who collects dung" to "my father". 1980 during the summer vacation, students in sichuan fine arts institute were preparing for the upcoming second national youth art exhibition, and the college was very supportive. Instead of turning off the lights in the past, the dormitory lights were on all night. Adding a ballpoint pen means that you are the father of the new society. At that time, someone read that my father said that you are a new society in the old society, and you can't see it even if you do this. So I proposed to add a ballpoint pen and put it on my ear. There were ballpoint pens after liberation, but there were no ballpoint pens before liberation in the old society. Luo Zhongli said: "If you add a ballpoint pen, it means that he is a well-educated farmer in the new society, unlike the old people in the old society. I will draw this ballpoint pen soon. [6]

In order to reduce the visual intensity of this ballpoint pen, I drew a particularly large perspective, which is basically a pen with a bamboo pole on the round core, which is the image of the ballpoint pen commonly used in that era. "Luo Zhongli and this ballpoint pen are hardly easy to find if you don't look carefully, but it is this small change that determines his father's historic work and Luo Zhongli's future destiny. After several changes, the sketch of the peasant image has become a huge image. At the last moment, this work finally passed the examination of Sichuan Artists Association at that time and agreed to participate in the second national youth art exhibition. The deletion of the word "father" caused controversy. When the work was sent to Beijing, Luo Zhongli's heart was in by going up one flight of stairs. " Some pressures from all sides, some estimates, feel very suspended. "This is an unprecedented huge portrait in the history of China oil painting. Looking at the wrinkled old faces in front of us, almost all the judges were deeply moved. It is said that the judges stood in front of the portrait for a long time on this day, savoring every detail of the portrait. At this moment, Judge Wu Guanzhong thinks that the characters in the work are completely the summary of our father's image of the previous generation. The word "mine" is too small, so "mine" should be removed and "father" should be left to represent the father's generation. Although Wu Guanzhong's suggestion only removed two words, it just triggered a new debate. After the founding of New China, the audience voted for their father and won the gold medal in one fell swoop. On February 20th, the 2nd National Youth Art Exhibition finally kicked off in China Art Museum, with 543 works. Surprisingly, Luo Zhongli's "father" once again became the focus of the audience. Because the judges have different opinions on the works on display from the beginning, how to give a fair evaluation of each work has become a difficult problem. Finally, the judges came up with a good way to give the audience the right to judge and let them vote on the work. This is the first time that such an important national exhibition is graded by the audience. Which painting will the audience choose? When the youth art exhibition received widespread attention in Beijing, Luo Zhongli was accompanying his wife who was about to give birth in Daxian. [6]

One morning, he couldn't believe the news suddenly came on the radio: Luo Zhongli's "father" won the gold medal, which marked the highest honor of China art circles at that time. Enthusiastic audience voted more than 800 votes for his work, more than 700 votes higher than the second one. For a time, news about his father's reputation spread like wildfire. However, what surprised him even more was yet to come. After winning the prize, a bigger debate about "father" is quietly brewing, and the criticism is once again strangely aimed at the ballpoint pen on his father's ear. Many people think that the ballpoint pen is redundant, and some people think that this ballpoint pen is well added. 198 1 in June, the controversy about ballpoint pens has not been finalized. [6]

This year, Luo Zhongli, as an outstanding artist who participated in the Youth Art Exhibition, was invited to attend an art seminar held in Beijing. This is the first time that Luo Zhongli has the opportunity to explain his creative ideas as an artist to experts and teachers. At the seminar, Luo Zhongli was finally unanimously recognized by experts. [6]