Lao Sai is very thin, the kind of skinny and clear-looking man. When I saw him, I always thought: the slender pockets that used to hold grain in the countryside earlier were full of potatoes. Hard-boned eyes. The eyes are blazing like two old wells, and there is a sharp and deep light in the purity. This look is like a knife on the sickle of the Maike, which makes people happy and cramped, as if it can split any of your thoughts and hesitations, and point straight to your heart. (Excerpt from Cao Dongxian's essay "Lao Seganyu").
About the Artist
Yang Saifeng (Lao Sai).Born in Tongwei, Gansu Province in 1976. He graduated from Northwest Normal University, majoring in art education. Graduated from the Chinese Academy of Arts, China Calligraphy Court. He is currently a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association.
Appreciation of calligraphy works
Lao Sai used a fearless spirit in the boundless sea of suffering to pursue the Taoist nature in calligraphy. He grew up from the feng shui of Tongwei, and the entire grand spiritual map is the demeanor of Wei and Jin. (Excerpt from Cao Dongxian's essay "Lao Seganyu").
Lu You, Dutou".
Du Xunhe, Spring Climbing the Tower Over the Rain".
Plum Blossom Smoke and Rain".
Bai Juyi: A poem
Watering the Flowers: The Couplet 3
Appreciation of paintings
I prefer to call Safran's paintings brushstrokes or traces, which is a little more realistic, because the brushstrokes and traces are extracted from the painting, it is closer to the painting itself. His paintings are images that break free from the heart, and are the author's own perception and thinking about life, and there is a sense of postponement in these irregular images, or the delay of life, which prolongs the sight of **. There are a lot of paintings that are even semi-finished, but it's just full of life. He is doing the offset of fullness, which is not a spatial dimension, but is actually a sign of life, an arrival, perfection or death. There is a subtle interruption in Safran's paintings, and this interruption is the extension of traces and meanings. (Excerpt from Liu Jianguo's essay "The Shadow of the Brushstroke").
It's another year when the leaves fall
Folk Voice".
The autumn wind is colder tonight
Cold Pond Crossing Crane Shadow Cold Moon Burial Flower Soul".
Autumn Sound "Double Horse" 4
Appreciation of clay sculpture works
[Clay, Life, Art].Yang SaifengPeople who have been dealing with the land for a long time have finally grown into a land-like appearance, honest, simple, and enthusiastic.
People who love life love the land and love the life on the land, including themselves.
The significance of my clay sculpture is not in the work itself, but in looking for people who look like clay and stories that look like clay.
The demeanor of the characters is my memory of my past life, and it is also a "look of time". Someone asked me, "Is there such an ugly person?"Or ask, "Who is this?""I can't answer them, these questions are still ......
My ideal work is one that is vague, chaotic, dissociated, conceptual, even divine, and does not require answers.
Dirt is the explanation.
The traces of hands and tools often make the work lose its aesthetic balance, hinder the flow of the work, and it is difficult to bring a smell of earth.
The works that lack the earthy flavor are naturally colder and lack temperature.
What I want is the authenticity of the work, then the "ugly" is also real.
I'd rather accept this clean ugliness.
There is no one who understands life better than the land, and the life and stories on the land grow old in the same silence, how sacred and alive this old age is, just like the land!
Mr. Teach, "The Elderly".
"He grew up savagely from the barren land of Tongwei, and grew into his own appearance, but he didn't look pleasant. This is also destined for him to walk on a lonely artistic path, and the loneliness of an artist is also fate!
Although it is a clear breeze and a bright moon, there are few admirers. If you have been to Tongwei, wandered through Yedai, boiled pots of tea, listened to the little songs sung by farmers in rough voices, walked through the thick doorway of the rammed earth wall of the old fort, squatted in the corner of Yangdai and rolled the old dry tobacco with the old men, then you can understand Lao Sai. He is like a wild thorn cover growing next to this water-scarce crop field, independent of the weeds and crops around him, disdainful of making wheat or flax, but loving and understanding the land more than they are.
If you understand these, you will be able to understand the "ugly eight monsters" that came out of Lao Sai's hands. In the eyes of most people, these are ugly. But you clearly feel that they are more alive than "beautiful people", and you can see a steaming emotional tension more. This tension is like a bowl of inferior liquor, spicy tongue and throat, the whole stomach and even the whole body can be burned, this burning is the power of life, but also the power of art. (Excerpt from Cao Dongxian's essay "Lao Seganyu").
One Question, Three Don't Know".
I can't think of it" Three Children".
"Brother Saifeng grew up in the northwest, knocked on Jinghua ten years ago, and then returned to his hometown due to family changes, while taking care of life while writing and painting and making clay sculptures. What impressed me the most was the clay sculptures he made of loess, most of them resembled old men basking in the sun at the entrance of the village, his face was wrinkled like a northwest ravine, and he only had one bucktooth when he smiledThere are also bitter and thoughtful expressions, like the bitter bard Du ......Fu who abandoned his official position in the war and famine and brought his family to pass through Qin and Sichuan
Compared with clay sculptures, his paintings are more relaxed and witty, but they all have a "local flavor", and there are no sophisticated techniques, which is the beauty of discovery in life with pen and ink. Some are lively and some are depressed, similar to Chen Zizhuang's method of folk, using a simple brush to express plain and naïve.
Brother Safran's calligraphy and painting highlight the nature of pen and ink, mostly from the folk, the pursuit of simplicity, not carved and charming, but in the pen and ink reflection can be seen in the delicate thoughts. Naturally, in addition to the golden iron horse and the sunset of the long river, Qin Feng also has "the leaves are pale, and the white dew is frost". Brother Safran also wrote poems and sent them to share them. Like his calligraphy and painting clay sculptures, there is the sound of a flute in the cooking smoke. (Excerpt from Gu Kewei's essay "Blunt Sword Cutting Mud, Stone Quenching Gold - Yang Saifeng and His Art").
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