Yue Haibo, Long Teng Huaxia, China s 100 Contemporary Artists, Celebrate New Year s Day and Welcome

【Artist Profile】Yue HaiboProfessor of Shandong University of the Arts, graduate tutor. He is a member of the Chinese Artists Association and a member of the Comprehensive Material Painting Committee of the Chinese Artists Association. Director of the Comprehensive Material Painting Art Committee of the Shandong Artists Association, Vice President of the Shandong Chinese Painting Society, Judge of the 12th and 13th National Art Exhibition of the China Artists Association, Judge of the National Art Exhibition of the China Artists Association to Commemorate the Centenary of the Xinhai Revolution, Judge of the First, Second and Third Comprehensive Material Painting Biennale of the China Artists Association, and Teaching Tutor of the Training Center of the Chinese Academy of Arts. He has been awarded the titles of "Famous Teacher of Shandong Province" and "Leader of Painting Major (Chinese Painting) of Shandong University of Arts, Provincial Excellent Teaching Team". 11 works were selected for 78.9.10.11.The 12th National Art Exhibition. He has won the highest award at eight national art exhibitions. "Qi Huan's Hegemony" in collaboration with Li Zhaoqiu was selected as the "Creation Project of Major Historical Themes of Chinese Civilization" and was collected by the National Museum. In cooperation with Li Zhaoqiu, "Lide Cultivates People and Strengthens the Country through Education" was selected as the "Large-scale Art Creation Project to Commemorate the Centenary of the Founding of the Party" and was collected by the Party History Museum for the Centennial of the Founding of the Party. In 2017 and 2019, he was hired as a substitute professor at the School of Continuing Education, Academy of Fine Arts.

"Difficult Birth".

The experience of the past few days reminds me of a story in "The Legend of the Laughing Forest", Xiucai lit the lamp and boiled oil to write, threw waste paper on the ground, and kept sighing, frowning, and in a state of pain. Mrs. Yu really couldn't bear it, "Xianggong, I think it's more difficult for you to write an article than for us women to have children?"Xiucai forced a smile, "Madame smiled, don't you know, no matter how painful you give birth, there is always something in your belly, and my belly is empty and difficult to give birth one by one."

Yue Haibo, Manuscript of Flowers and Birds

Some time ago, a friend in the publishing department asked me to publish a booklet of flower and bird paintings, and I said, "I can't do it." After all, it's not a professional painter of flowers and birds, which makes people laugh", "Who dare, your flowers and birds are very powerful, I've seen them". People don't praise it, especially when they are older, they love to listen to good things, and they don't bother to praise it. (The elderly buy this and buy that, they all make people say good things before they suffer a loss) couldn't stand three good words, so they agreed to others.

Yue HaiboManuscript of Flowers and Birds II

Speaking of which, I have also painted flowers and birds in the past, one is to smear a few strokes at the pen meeting, and the other is to socialize friends. Drawing people is too slow and uncomfortable. With the facial features of the hands and face, I have to calm down and serve carefully, and if I am a little careless, Daiyu changes to Zhang Fei, and the characters are not drawn randomly. Flower and bird paintings are chic, free and smooth. The painter himself is relaxed, anyway, he is not a painter of flowers and birds, or it doesn't matter if he doesn't paint well.

Yue HaiboManuscript of Flowers and Birds III

At the end of the year, I started to draw a few paintings, and the problem came. Cheng bites the gold and goes into battle, bang!Bang!Bang!After the three axes, I don't know how to get them, and then I still get those three axes, boom!Bang!One by one. I am not a flower and bird painter, and I don't have enough "memory" of flower and bird painting materials in my head. If you want to paint twenty or thirty pictures in the album, it's over. It's the same when you draw it, and if you want to improve, it's not a day's work, so I sigh, so I don't show my eyebrows, so I can't bear the pain. I remembered the three and a half sentences I wrote many years ago, and transcribed a paragraph, "I was bored in front of the painting all day long, watching the blank paper and smoking, how the characters came out, difficult to deliver!."Now it's "How flowers and birds come out, difficult to give birth!".”。Difficult births are also deliverables, and this year's publication plan is about to be completed. Fortunately, mobile phones are so convenient now. Searching for the works of their favorite flower and bird painters, the eldest girl sat in a sedan chair once, and now she is on the sedan chair and now pierces her ears and eyes, and begins to piece together the works of famous artists. The flower and bird paintings, which were originally free and relaxed, made me "calm down". Now I am learning and selling, others are paintings, and my batch of flowers and birds are boiled out, and I have been boiling for more than 20 days. Although it was painful, it was finally born, although it was a difficult birth, it was beautiful and ugly, it was my own child. Regardless of whether "the child is his own good" or not, but the child has his own hard work, and it is not easy to take a handful of and urine.

Yue HaiboManuscript of Flowers and Birds IV

The uphill road is difficult. Climb Mount Tai and walk to Zhongtianmen is a little tired, there are three miles of happiness, a horse and a flat river, happy and comfortable, but only three miles. If you want to be comfortable, you can only go back. Don't think about "will be the top of the mountain", at most it is a glance at the halfway of the mountainside, if you want to have the feeling of "the mountains are small", you have to climb the steeper "eighteen plates" in order to reach the "South Heavenly Gate" and climb the "Jade Emperor Peak". The pain of non-tiredness is unbearable, and the mountains are high and the people are the peaks. "There is nothing difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to climb". The paintings of flowers and birds that I have painted are, personally, an improvement. To progress, it is inevitable to suffer. Difficult birth, but it is the beginning of a new life. (Wen Yue Haibo at Huajiadi South Street, Beijing, 2021.)11.5）