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Wang XijingBorn in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province in August 1946, he is currently the vice president of the Chinese Painting Society, the vice chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the honorary chairman of the Shaanxi Artists Association, the president of the Shaanxi Chinese Painting Society, the honorary dean and professor of the Art School of Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, and the professor of the Chinese Academy of Arts, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Northwest University, Yunnan University, and Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts.
Member of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, representative of the 9th and 10th National People's Congress, first-class artist, was awarded the "National Expert with Outstanding Contributions", and won the honorable titles of "Pioneer of the Chinese Era", "The Top Ten Most Influential New Figures of the Fourth Chinese Reform", "Red Flag Person of Shaanxi Province", "Industry Leader of Shaanxi Province", "Outstanding Communist Party Expert of Shaanxi Province", "Model Worker" and other honorable titles.
The glorious return of the aesthetic spirit
——View Wang Xijing's dancing figure paintings
Sun Ke
Wang Xijing is an excellent contemporary figure painter, who has been creating unforgettable works for decades, and it is indeed commendable for a figure painter to maintain strong creativity and improve his artistic level in continuous creation and exploration. In the early 80s of the last century, he began to paint with historical subjects, which was very well received. His paintings cover a wide range of subjects, from court figures to African women and children, full of sympathy and love. Not long ago, I saw his painting of dancing figures, which are unique, extraordinary, and very vivid. After watching it, I have a feeling and a little comment.
Chinese painting has always been divided into different departments, such as figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, pommel horses, etc., the aesthetic ideas of Chinese painting can be summed up as the spirit of "expressive" and "freehand", which are used for each other, but expressive is more required for figure painting, and freehand is more advocated in landscape and flower and bird painting. This is very different from the artistic concept of Western painting, which has always focused on real and concrete images, and Western figure painting has developed rapidly due to the requirements of religious transmission, through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. In ancient China, the development of figure painting was the first, Buddhism flourished during the Jin and Tang dynasties, Gu Kaizhi and Lu Tanwei were shocked in the front, and Wu Daozi in the Tang Dynasty made murals in Luoyang, Xi'an after 300 walls, they are known for their expressive skills. After the rise of literati painting in the Song and Yuan dynasties, figure painting failed to follow up with the development, and there were only a few outstanding figure painters in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
At that time, Mr. Lu Xun described literati paintings: "One stroke is a bird, I don't know whether it is an eagle or a swallow, two points are eyes, I don't know whether it is long or round, and the competition simply becomes empty", which shows his opinion on figure painting. One of the major changes in Chinese art in the 20th century was the introduction of Western teaching methods. It is undeniable that the impact on the traditional "oral teaching" learning method is denied by some people. However, paying attention to the training of sketching and modeling is very beneficial to the expressiveness of figure painting. Anyone who has studied art knows that the most difficult thing is to draw people, because people are the most perfect living beings that nature has nurtured and evolved successfully for hundreds of millions of years. The proportions of the human body are perfect, the motor function is harmonious, the labor and creative ability is strong, and more importantly, the intelligent thinking ability and innate aesthetic ability of human beings make people the spirit of all things in the world. Moreover, people's dynamics are flexible and complex, and their expressions of joy, anger, sorrow and joy are rich and ever-changing. Therefore, the figure painting has become a very difficult painting technique, China's figure painting after the Tang and Song dynasties is not without genius painters, try to see the Taoist murals of the Yuan Dynasty in Yongle Palace, Shanxi, one of them "Han Zhongli Du Lu Dongbin" is amazing for its vivid expressiveness. It was only during the Ming and Qing dynasties that literati painting became the mainstream, which influenced the development of figure painting.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, under the slogan of "transforming Chinese painting", Western painting techniques and teaching methods have been introduced. Although it had an impact on literati landscape and flower and bird paintings, it was beneficial to pay attention to sketching. It is undeniable that the figure painting aspect has benefited more in comparison. After the 50s, the propaganda and education role of figure painting was valued, and more excellent figure painters emerged. The subject matter of figure painting is more extensive, from historical themes, social situations, portraits and folk dances. In particular, the song and dance works that depict the joyful life of various ethnic groups are loved by the masses for their aesthetic pleasure.
The theme of dance has existed since ancient times, but it has not been circulated much, and the flying figures in the Dunhuang murals are about inspired by dance, and the movements of the pipa are extremely moving. In the 20th century, sketching became a training course for painting techniques, especially figure sketching, which became the path to success for many painters. As far as I can remember, since the 50s of the last century, Mr. Ye Qianyu can be called the leader in painting dance figures, not only because he insisted on drawing sketches all his life, and his hands and eyes were quick. is more related to the fact that his wife is the famous dancer Dai Ailian. In addition, Mr. Ye was influenced by Zhang Daqian in the 40s, and his pen and ink skills were very high. His dance figures are now classics and are highly prized.
Wang Xijing's dance figure works are a great harvest of contemporary figure painting, the color of the brush and ink is very distinctive, and the aesthetic sense is outstanding, which makes people feel that the painter has pursued the painstaking pursuit of artistic beauty and achieved success. It deserves attention and research.
First of all, this series of dance works embodies the aesthetic pursuit of art, so that the audience can get aesthetic pleasure, noble emotions and comfortable mood. Achieve the return of the essence of artistic aesthetics. The function of art, the ancients in China adhered to the Confucian position, emphasizing "education, helping others", when we study literary and artistic theories, we know that art has educational, cognitive and aesthetic functions, and the ancients seem to be far away. Therefore, over the years, artistic creation has paid more attention to themes, subject matter, and ideological content, so the large-scale theme and large-scale production of figure painting have been encouraged and promoted, focusing on the content of consciousness and neglecting the pursuit of formal beauty. Sketches such as dance themes are difficult to enter the palace of national exhibitions. Wang Xijing's series of dance figures can be launched at this time, highlighting the pursuit of aesthetic goals, which is very breakthrough in the fashion of the times.
In my personal opinion, Wang Xijing's dance figure works can be said to inherit the artistic tradition of Mr. Ye Qianyu, and have their own style, it is not an exaggeration to say that Wang Xijing's dance figure art is to inherit and develop the excellent tradition of modern dance figure painting represented by Ye Qianyu. At a time when Chinese painting art is facing various challenges from the trend of Western modern art and relying on scientific and technological means to carry out fine production, Wang Xijing's art is a very successful answer, allowing us to see that Chinese painting art is not afraid of the wind and rain of the times, and it is prosperous and prosperous.
Secondly, the beauty of dance art is visible to everyone, and it is also a painting material worthy of attention, but it is not easy to treat it as a special subject and draw it well. In the eyes of the painter, the beauty of dance is the rhythm and rhythm embodied in the continuous movement of the human body, and the balance and harmony achieved in the dialectical factors of movement and stillness, softness and strength, which fully express the beauty of human movement, and what is even more rare is the beauty of the dancer's attitude and demeanor, which is of course the pursuit of the dancer, and it is also the height that the painter is not easy to achieve. Looking at Wang Xijing's paintings, I feel that he has been pursuing to depict beautiful dynamics, and at the same time, he has rarely captured the beauty of the dancers' attitudes and expressions. Conveying the spirit is an important aesthetic requirement of China's painting, from the time of Gu Kaizhi has made this clear, the expressive saying should include the spiritual interest of the work, Wu Daozi's true works are no longer available, but "Eighty-seven Immortal Scrolls", "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" and the portraits of the Ming people collected in the Nanjing Museum are all clear proof. Of course, the requirement of valuing God is not light form, how can God be obtained without form?It's a combination of both, and it's what we ask of a painter. This is where the success of Wang Xijing's dance figures lies.
Thirdly, in terms of artistic expression, these dance works are not only dynamic and flexible, but also very characteristic in terms of brush and ink techniques, which are not too much to describe as unrestrained vertical and horizontal, exaggerated and moderate, dripping ink and color, and superb technique. The dances of different ethnic groups have different styles, different movements, different rhythms, and different costumes, giving painters a lot of leeway. The dancing and swirling coloured skirts dazzle the viewer and give the painter the opportunity to show off his skills. This is where Wang Xijing gives full play to the infinite changes of xuan paper and pen and ink rendering, the combination of line and surface, the coexistence of virtual and real, the movement of form by intention, and the formation of each other by the heart, which is the successful embodiment of the combination of the freehand spirit of Chinese painting in pursuit of intention and the ability of realism. The preciousness of art lies not only in the difficult reproduction techniques that Western painters once mastered, but also in the technical aspects. What is even more rare is the natural outpouring of the artist's soul and the unexpected spark of inspiration, written by a Chinese painter who has been tempered for a long time, and spontaneously born, which is our cultural advantage. We also realize that the concept of Western painting is based on the comprehensive embodiment of shape, color, light and sense of space, which we have also borrowed from us for more than 100 years, and in the process of abandoning it, it has also improved the expressiveness of Chinese character painting, as evidenced by Wang Xijing's artistic skills.
The times are advancing, living in change, the painters living in the 21st century, facing a wider world, reading thousands of books is an ideal that the ancients are difficult to achieve, in today's rapid development of science and technology, there is no place on the earth that painters can not reach, their minds, vision is more broad. Wang Xijing's dance figure art selects the different dance postures and costumes of various ethnic groups in China, as well as those ethnic groups in Europe, America and Africa. It fully demonstrates the beauty of dance art, and gives full play to the skills and charm of Chinese ink art. It is also a valuable harvest of contemporary Chinese painting art.
July 2023 in Jinghua.
editor：magie xu（apgae）
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