2022-04-08
Wang Xiaobo said: "It is not enough for a person to have this life. He should also have a poetic world. "
When we take some time out of our anxious life to read a book, look at an ancient painting and appreciate a calligraphy, our hearts are far away from this world and we see a different world and a different life. This is art, the "poetic world".
China art is in people's memory, that is, in the museum, separated by a glass cover, and they are relatively silent. On the small display board below, who is it and where it was unearthed. But it has come to us for thousands of years, and we know nothing about what it has experienced and how it came to modern times rain or shine.
China's art history, in the form of "big talk", explains thousands of years of art history. There is no sense of disobedience, the language is humorous and vivid, 45 famous artists, 150 art treasures, 10000 years of art history, and the way of telling stories is very substitutive, which makes you share joys and sorrows with thousands of ancients. It makes you feel that you are not talking about the ancients, but about your past life, your glory, your decline and everything about you. ...
Yi Gongzi, formerly known as Han Xiao, founder of accident art and former TV presenter. On 20 13, self-media accident art dedicated to the popularization of art was established, aiming at popularizing unpopular art to the public in a relaxed and interesting way and gradually growing into the largest Internet art community in China. The work "History of Western Art" ranks in the MLM book list in 2020. "Is art difficult?" It has been broadcast for six consecutive seasons, with a broadcast volume of hundreds of millions.
She said that China's art history is a capital "person", so she divided China's art history into infancy, childhood, adolescence, 30 years old and 40 years old. ...
Let's take a look at this "most familiar stranger", take us to tear apart a corner of life, look at the past and look at the future road.
0 1. The first running script in the world: Preface to Lanting Collection.
There are scenery that is not old in the world, and young people have minds that are not old. Because I am young, I am fearless. I work hard because of my dream. Have feelings of home and country, and have a childlike innocence.
A generation has a generation's mission and a generation has a generation's feelings.
During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, various forces were constantly fighting, and there were several disasters in China, such as "ten thousand surnames were scattered, the death was slightly exhausted, and the chaos was extremely extreme". Therefore, in the frustration of life, in the search for the meaning of life, the literati of that era had more thoughts and feelings.
War makes life fragile, so grasp the short life delivery and mountains and rivers. It is impossible to increase the length of life, and it is difficult to increase the width of life, so that every day of life becomes valuable.
The "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest" are the representatives of the literati of that era, who struggled to be born into the WTO.
"Book Saint" Wang Xizhi. His appearance gave people a new understanding of calligraphy. Every word he writes has life and soul. His Preface to Lanting Collection is the best in the world, and it is called "the best running script in the world".
This is a work that pays equal attention to literature and calligraphy. Its appearance caused a sensation in that era. Emperor Jiang Xiang wants it, so do elites and celebrities. Everyone wants it for himself.
In that era when thousands of troops were in harmony and celebrities were silent collectively, Wang Xizhi's career path was mixed with too many interests struggles and family struggles, and there were obvious stab in the back everywhere. At the age of 53, he didn't want to be a victim of the political rights struggle. He couldn't bear it any longer, completely lost his confidence and patience in officialdom, and made a clean break with his official career decisively.
So in that case, I wrote Preface to Lanting Collection. His pain, his disillusionment, all his emotions are intertwined with pen and ink, and I can't help shouting-"sad husband"!
Words come from the heart. When Wang Xizhi was drunk thinking about his life situation, he wrote a stunning work and stood out from the crowd. He broke the previous skills and gave every word a soul.
War, plague and drought made the Chinese nation "almost extinct" in that era, and celebrities survived temporarily. They went to the mountains, looking for Zhuangzi, thinking about the universe and life, eating, drinking and having fun. Because of the troubled times, people with different beliefs and cultures have richer artistic themes and styles through communication and collision, which also makes people have more exploration and awakening in their precarious lives.
There are many dazzling names: Ji Kang of Guangling San, Gu Kaizhi of Luo Fu Goddess, "Beautiful as Youlong" and Cao Buxing, "Father of Buddhist Painting". ...
What they left to the world is not a simple painting, but a spirit that future generations look up to and follow.
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02. Su Shi: "Huangzhou Cold Food Post"
There is no doubt that age is the best age in a person's life. Both young people's physical strength and the wisdom of the elderly.
Thousands of years later, China's art finally ushered in its best moment-the art of the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty.
After Zhao Kuangyin proclaimed himself emperor, he lifted all kinds of hidden dangers with a glass of wine. The great powers vigorously developed the imperial examination and abolished the "square time system" and curfew, which made the commerce and handicraft industry flourish in the Song Dynasty. Nightlife was once extremely rich, culture was unprecedentedly prosperous, and art was no longer a private product of emperors and princes.
Six of the "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties" lived in the Song Dynasty. Three of the four great inventions were born in the Song Dynasty. Follow my footsteps and take you to feel the peak of China art in this golden age.
One of my favorite characters: Su Shi, Su Dongpo, who is well known all over the world. He can be called the ceiling of China literati. Poetry, prose, calligraphy and painting are all good at.
Poetry, the highest achievement of poetry in the Northern Song Dynasty: Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian.
Words, representatives of the unrestrained school: Xin Qiji.
Prose, the highest achievements of prose in Song Dynasty are: Ouyang Xiu and Su Dongpo.
Calligraphy, four masters in the Northern Song Dynasty: Su, Huang, Mi and Cai, Su Dongpo was the first.
Painting, his "Dead Trees and Strange Stones" set the highest price for ancient paintings in China.
There is no universal type of Su Like Dongpo. He is no less than anyone in politics. At the age of 24, he worked as a judge in Fengxiang, Baoji, Shaanxi, equivalent to the executive deputy mayor. He also served as the local mayor for eight times, and also served as the minister of rites, as opposed to the minister of education. I have also worked as a minister of the Ministry of War and an official minister, but I am only a prime minister.
He has a strong smell of fireworks, which makes him enjoy a high reputation in the domestic food industry, and 66 dishes are related to him.
So Su Shi can definitely be called our "most familiar stranger".
One of his Cold Food Stickers in Huangzhou directly won the third running script in the world, second only to Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting Collection and Yan Zhenqing's Sacrifice to a Nephew.
At the age of 45, Su Shi was the loneliest year. Su Shi was detained for Wutai Poetry Case 103 days, almost becoming the first scholar-bureaucrat to be criticized since the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Once, he was also the cleverest boy in the eyes of the emperor. He was the first in the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty in a hundred years, and fell from the altar to the soil overnight. I didn't understand until I was put in prison and exiled all the way. There are superior intellectuals, and there are also people who are hungry and greedy.
So his "flowers" fell into the "mud" and began to make friends with people of different levels in society. It is precisely because the flowers have fallen into the soil that he has lived out his great tolerance beyond the literati in his life. Only then did I write the broad-mindedness of "this peace of mind is my hometown", "life is like a line, I am also a pedestrian" and "rain or shine".
Therefore, we should empathize with him and feel him with our hearts and bodies. You will find that you and Su Dongpo actually have emotional resonance and connection. You can feel that he met you through thousands of years, and you can hear the distant sigh when he finally put pen to paper, and he met beauty in despair.
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03. Huang: Fuchun.
There will always be a time in a person's life when he feels confused and helpless and falls into a meaningless state of life-this is the middle-aged crisis.
Art also has a midlife crisis.
The Yuan Dynasty was the first dynasty with the largest territory established by ethnic minorities in the history of China, which also promoted the exchanges between countries, the integration and mutual influence of ethnic groups, and diversified aesthetics appeared in art.
Muslim merchants from West Asia, Central Asia and Southeast Asia entered China in large numbers along the Silk Road, bringing with them a special cobalt material-Sumaliqing, which is widely used in the firing process of blue and white porcelain and presents a very bright blue color.
In the Yuan Dynasty, literati painting reached its peak. There are four literati painters: Zhenwu, Huang, Ni Zan and Wang Meng.
Huang took a career, became a small official, and was implicated in prison. He wants to die. After he was released from prison, he became desperate, joined Quanzhen Taoism, and made friends with Zhang Sanfeng, Leng Qian and others. From then on, I traveled the mountains and rivers, and by the way, I gave people fortune telling, which was called a big idiot. "Insanity" means "lying in a green heart watching white clouds" and integrating yourself into the landscape.
He revised the "Three Distances between Mountains and Rivers" advocated by Guo in Song Dynasty, and changed "Gao" and "Yuan" into "Gao", "Yuan" and "Guang".
On a moonlit night, he would sit on the bridge with a pot of wine, sing and recite while drinking, and pour out his loneliness and depression to the scenery in the night. In his eyes, moonlight, mountains, trees, streams, bridges ... are all his old friends and confidants.
Fuchun Shan Jutu is a long scroll about 7 meters long. It describes the four seasons of Fuchun River, from the beginning to the smoky people in spring, to the lush mountains in summer, to the last glory in autumn, to the distant mountains in winter.
This is the four seasons and life. Dynasties rise and fall, things change. Huang was trapped by the times for the first half of his life and was unable to resist. When he melted into the mountains, he realized that life was like this. There are roundness and lack, sadness and joy. Just like there are four seasons in a year, each season has its own scenery and will not stay for anyone.
So he finally "looked back at the bleak place, no wind, no rain and no mercy" and was open-minded in life.
When Huang painted this picture, he didn't know whether he was crazy or awake.
All day long, he sat quietly in the barren hills, rocks and the depths of the jungle, and his thoughts were erratic, making people wonder what he was going to do. Sometimes, he will walk into Haikou and watch the torrent rush like a monster, even if a storm is coming, he doesn't care.
In the face of great sorrow and joy, fearless. It should be the meditation that "the world is Penglai and life is the universe". Talk with heaven and earth, complain with mountains and rivers, and transcend the material spirit of the world. So there are figures in his paintings, but there are no fireworks, and he is a hermit like himself.
Ni Zan, his contemporary, won the title of "Top Ten Painters in Ancient China" and was listed as a world cultural celebrity by the British Encyclopedia. Qu Yuan and Shakespeare were selected together. Ni Zan is regarded as a wonderful flower in the history of China art.
His "Six Gentlemen" uses little ink, and usually uses a very dry brush to wipe ink on paper. "One river and two banks" is his trademark. The mountains, water, trees and yellow I just painted spoke highly of "Qi Jie". Later generations said that Yuan Dynasty landscape painting was good, which created a peak of the artistic conception of China landscape painting. Ni Zan is a monument on that mountain.
Write at the end:
There is a persistence in the world, that is, trying to run forward towards the distant light. In this era, there are many young people who love life and are serious about life, and the son of Italy is one of them. Strive to popularize the cold art to the public in a relaxed and interesting way, so that art and national treasures can meet you across the Millennium.
Stick to yourself and live up to your original heart. Thank you, mr. yi. Without your efforts, ordinary people like me would not have read books about art.