Nowadays, traditional Chinese paintings, which emphasize charm and brushwork, are rare, and real Chinese paintings can no longer be seen in exhibitions and competitions, and almost all the works in the exhibition are so-called innovative "Chinese paintings".
The so-called innovation, detached from tradition and Chinese culture, is pushing Chinese painting into decline step by step, and innovative things are no better than traditional.
It is not the result of traditional development, nor is it a new type of art that is different, but it uses the materials and tools of Chinese painting, borrowing the corpse to return the soul, borrowing the corpse of Chinese painting, and returning the soul of Western painting.
Yes, the so-called innovation revealed by the current exhibition body is nothing more than to engage in a little ** against the painting, or to make a little decorative effect, with some patterning and the like, I really can't see anything more clever than traditional Chinese painting, the charm, brush and ink, artistic conception These most important elements of Chinese painting have long been gone, most of them are just using rice paper to paint Western paintings, or simply painting **, stop at the shape, he has no long things!
Today's mainstream exhibition body is the culmination of this kind of work, which is large-scale and realistic, but it is far from Chinese painting. It can be said that there is no brushwork, although the work is also a craftsman, not into the painting!
So, the future and way out of Chinese painting lies in the **??
We can take a look at the Chinese painting market, and when we really understand the preferences of the widest range of people, we believe we can find the answer.
There are three major markets for Chinese painting, high, medium and low, and the high-end market is more than that of auction houses, which is extremely high, the number of participants is too small, and the distance from the masses is too far, and there is a lot of suspicion of hype bubbles, so it does not matter.
In the mid-end market, most of the works of artists sold by themselves or by galleries are sold by painters, and from the fact that most painters find it difficult to support their families by selling paintings and calligraphy, they are also not sold and the demand is not large, so it can be ignored.
The store with the largest sales volume is the low-end store, which is all over the country and even the world, and this store is mainly based on licensed goods.
Licensed goods, also called line paintings, that is, mass-produced commodity paintings, are mostly hand-painted.
This kind of painting, mostly imitates the works of famous artists, because it is cheap, and can be voted for, so, it is becoming more and more prosperous, and there are many production bases in many places across the country, and there are many wholesale markets.
After nearly twenty or thirty years of development, the production of line painting began to be refined and specialized, such as the place where the tiger is painted, the place where the peony is painted, the place where the feng shui is painted, and so on.
Some masters of line painting have a very deep traditional foundation, and they are not inferior to professional painters, and even many professional painters are forced to make a living and also go to paint.
The line painting or imitates the original work of a famous artist, a low-end licensed product with thousands of stylized productions, or imitates the style, imitates the painting style of a famous artist, this kind of requirements are quite high, and it is a high-end line painting.
There is also originality, there is also originality in the line of painting, this kind of requires the painter to have a deep foundation, but its purpose is to cast people's favor, please the mediocre, also known as kitsch, so the painting style is vulgar, such as feng shui painting, the initiator is the original, but the original one, and will be copied by thousands of pieces, from the high-end to the low-end!
This is the line of painting, but through the appearance, it can be seen that many Chinese people and even foreigners like this kind of art very much, is it just because it is cheap?
*It's definitely an aspect, but it's actually a traditional Chinese painting!It is this kind of traditional art that the broad masses of the people like.
Although it is a copy and imitation, although it is a stylized production, although it is kitsch, although the level is not high, but how to say that it is also a traditional Chinese painting!
The above content is enough to show that the future of Chinese painting lies in inheriting the tradition, carrying forward the tradition, and developing and innovating on the basis of inheriting the tradition, which is actually the development model of Chinese painting that the official has been advocating.
Of course, Xinghua is not the future and way out of Chinese painting, it is just a craftsman who makes a living in the form of Chinese painting.
Painters should have higher requirements, that is, to inherit the tradition at a high level, to use the traditional brush and ink to express this era, to improve themselves in continuous learning and pursuit, and not to force innovation, but innovation will quietly appear in the long-term brush and ink career, which is the most in line with the law of the development of Chinese painting.
This is the inspiration that the Chinese painting market has given me.
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