"When I die, my ashes are gone, and I am much freer with that lonely ghost. ”
You're all too serious, and I have to be unserious. ”Imagine if your grandfather was such an old man :
When he is in his sixties, he still gives himself a nickname"Old urchin"., driving a red Ferrari drag racing, at the age of ninety, still said:
The world has gotten bigger, and I'm getting old, so I set the way to dispose of ashes as flushing the toilet.You'll think that this grandpa is too improper!
But this is the best thing in China"Old urchin".A true portrayal of the painter Huang Yongyu, he will"Improper".These two words are vividly interpreted.
For him, impropriety has become a kind of art, a free and tumultuous attitude towards life. He spent his life creating themes for "improper", and he also used them"Improper"."To create an artistic life like no other.
The name Huang Yongyu may be unfamiliar to you when you hear it, but when it comes to his masterpiece "Monkey Ticket", you must know it.
That's right, he is China's most famous "old naughty boy" and contemporary ink master Huang Yongyu.
But such an old man, who was downbeat to death, died of illness on June 13. He was 99 years old.
Even the international superstar Jackie Chan rarely sent a group photo to mourn him!
once fascinated Lin Qingxia, and even Bai Yansong was his little fan brother.
He is the most "improper" painter in China, and he is also the most "improper" old man in China.
He turned his life into a legend, and turned "improper" into art with free and easy brushstrokes.
Today, let's review the interesting story of Huang Yongyu's grandfather. See just how legendary his life really is
In 1924, Huang Yongyu was born into a family of scholars, and his father Huang Yushu and mother Yang Guanghui were both school principals.
It stands to reason that children from such families should be smart and studious.
However, Huang Yongyu is a real one"Problem students
If there is one word to sum up Huang Yongyu, it is"Improper".
He was born with a love of drawing, and as a child he scribbled on the walls with exaggerated slogans and enjoyed himself.
People themselves are afraid that I will be thin.
After he went to school, he was tired of boring schoolwork, and he always tried every means to skip class and was punished by the teacher without caring about it.
Huang Yongyu said:
"I keep saying that there is something going on at school, look how funny you are, you guys!”It is inevitable that Huang Yongyu will not be able to get along in school, and he resolutely decided to drop out of school after three years of junior high school and began a wandering life.
In the days of wandering, Huang Yongyu lived a chic and comfortable life, while he made a living by hunting and selling paintings, and at the same time continued to teach himself to paint.
The wandering life of his youth injected endless inspiration into his later paintings.
At the age of 28, Huang Yongyu finally got his wish and entered the ** Academy of Fine Arts as a teacher after twists and turns, becoming the youngest associate professor.
Here he met the love of the rest of his life - Zhang Meixi.
Zhang Meixi is beautiful and generous, and there are many suitors, Huang Yongyu can only do everything he can to win her heart.
He would stand upstairs and play a trumpet to greet Zhang Meixi, and he would also write sweet love poems for her.
Finally, Zhang Meixi was also moved by his true feelings, and the two entered the palace of marriage.
Many years later, Huang Yongyu still clearly remembers that when he was poor, he had to cancel his haircut in order to buy Zhang Meixi a favorite woodcut.
Zhang Meixi understood his thoughts, so he sent a woodcut and his sincerity.
Love turned Huang Yongyu into a poet and taught him to dedicate himself to love. He said:
"I kiss your weak but cracked hand, and I kiss your quiet and brave heart. ”Beginning in his fifties, Huang Yongyu rose to fame as one of the most prominent ink painters of his time.
His paintings don't follow the routine, and it is often said."It's not like Chinese painting", "nondescript
To this, he just laughed:
"Whoever says that I paint Chinese paintings, I will sue him!”He never cuts ribbons at his exhibitions, and never speaks for fear"Polluted air".
On the contrary, it was a birthday banquet, and the old farmer who came to cut the ribbon for him to send flowers, and asked the farmer to wear his usual clothes and leave after cutting.
There were too many people who came to ask for paintings, so Huang Yongyu simply posted a notice at the door:
The bargaining price will be doubled, and then the expulsion will be driven out. The proceeds for the construction of rural attractions are his style.
On weekdays, he spends his time drawing and writing articles.
In order to earn manuscript fees, he used soy sauce as a paintbrush to paint a picture on the spot, which solved his friend's urgent need.
Stepping into his twilight years, Huang Yongyu is still full of vitality and free and easy.
At the age of 50, I took a driver's license just to drive my lover to relax;
80-year-old on the cover of "Vogue Magazine", magazine review:Huang Yongyu not only played with playthings to the extreme, but also played with an open-minded mind.
Huang Yongyu himself said:
I don't play, I don't drink, I don't listen to karaoke, I don't play mahjong and any cards. Don't pick and choose what to eat, it doesn't mean that you have to eat good things, you just eat what you have.The old Huang Yongyu wrote a picture:"The world has grown up, and I'm old".
At the age of 90, he called himself a "post-90s", and he still drove a Ferrari to drag racing!
In 2017, Bai Yansong went to visit Huang Yongyu, who was in his nineties, and as soon as he entered Huang Yongyu's yard, he saw Huang Yongyu playing with his red sports car.
Huang Yongyu, who is in his nineties, is more like a child than an old man.
Bai Yansong asked
"Old man, you're still playing this when you're a lot older, and you're not afraid of flashing your waist!”Huang Yongyu said:
"Why can't I play?".”Bai Yansong said:"Isn't this all for young people?"
Huang Yongyu replied:
I'm not an old man, I'm going to play.Bai Yansong said:"Old man, aren't you showing off your wealth. ”Huang Yongyu replied:
"I can show off my wealth, I play whatever it is because it's fun, and sports cars are just a thing. ”Playing sports cars, just because sports cars are fun, it's amazing. After listening to this, Bai Yansong sighed with emotion"When you're old, you'll be Huang Yongyu. ”
Talking about life, Huang Yongyu said himself".ordinary".
He explained:
"Why did the Seven Fairies go down to earth to marry Dong Yong?Because there is everything, only the ordinary. ”In his later years, he slept only a few hours a day, and often watched TV and watched late nights.
He wrote long stories** and also published a collection of poems that told the story of his life in his own words.
Speaking of death, Huang Yongyu is also a hippie smile, and he also made a will in advance!
He proposed to hold a memorial service before his death and listen to everyone's praise in person, he said
My ashes can be given to friends to plant flowers or flushed down the toilet.That's his attitude towards life. At the age of 94, Huang Yongyu was asked in an interview how he hoped future generations would call him, he thought about it and said with a smile:"This bastard. ”
This sentence is just like a portrayal of his life.
If Huang Yongyu's life is legendary, so is his art.
He is a prodigal son of the Southwest, but he has achieved an abstract painting style that is in line with contemporary Western art.
In his paintings, the image of animals turning into mischievous children is allegorical behind the playful images.
The blue-skinned and red-eyed rabbit and the bespectacled owl are all his star characters.
They are innocent with childlike innocence, and they are also satirizing the ugliness of reality.
If you have to define Huang Yongyu's art, it can only be——"Improper".
He prides himself"Old and improper",I hope others will remember him like this. He said:
You're all too serious, and I have to be unserious. ”When a serious person paints a serious painting, he paints those that are not serious, and those that others dare not paint.
He painted himself with a hippie smile.
This is Huang Yongyu, China's last prodigal son carrying his immodesty in the world.
He used his life to interpret what it means to be free and easy, and what it means to be happy.
"The world has grown up, and I'm old".
At the age of 98, he also published a book of poems, "Seeing Laughter", and drew an illustration for each poem in two weeks. He laughed at himself.
"More than 170 paintings were driven out in two weeks, which is a bit of a cowhide!”Also express yourself:"I did my best very sincerely."
Birds are good birds, that is, they talk a lot)
After Mr. Huang Yongyu left, many celebrities posted condolences!Jackie Chan posted:
"Mr. Huang Yongyu is gone, you have lived a vigorous and brilliant life, and you can always maintain the innocence of a child. The entrustment you left behind is as free and open-minded as you are, which is admirable. At this moment, I recall many precious times with you, and my heart is full of emotion. Mr. Huang, I wish you a good go, I will always cherish the title Mobao that you wrote for "Zodiac", and I will always miss you! ”
Now that Mr. Huang Yongyu has also gone west, he must be looking for his beloved!
We call for his story, for his soul, and for the immodest self that will always exist in our hearts.
I hope that the old man can be better and happier in heaven, and keep "improper" all his life.
Salute to Mr. Huang Yongyu!