(Text: Luan Xinqiu).
He is a famous connoisseur, a famous collector, a research expert of Zhang Daqian, a famous calligrapher, a special artist for Chinese national gifts, a national first-class artist, and a ...... museum librarianHe has many titles and countless halos, but behind these equal honors, Cao Gongdu is more like an innocent and pure child, with a warm and sensitive heart, with a pair of clear and gentle eyes, painting thousands of clouds and clouds, writing the immortality of the years.
When I first met Mr. Cao Gongdu, the author only felt that it was "too much" to look at ** before talking, Mr. Cao was a high-profile in the crowd that could be captured at a glance, this high-profile was not a gorgeous brocade robe, nor a fragrant car BMW, but a kind of spiritual induction, he liked to wear Xuanyi, beard, friend Du Chunlin humorously commented on him as a beautiful bearded man in the poem, which shows that the words are in fact. Born in the water town of the south of the Yangtze River, he did not have the sorrow of the smoke and rain, but carried the dust of history, and the free and easy passion of the walkers.
Cao Gongdu's life is deeply rooted in two words: art. As the son of Mr. Cao Datie, a famous poet, calligrapher and painter, and a collector, Chen Peiqiu, a master of Shanghai-style art, and Mr. Gao Shixiong, a famous calligrapher and seal carver, entered the room. Painting can choose a corner, but also must first look around the earth, Cao Gongdu is exactly like this, he stands in a higher dimension overlooking the world, in order to collect the essence of heaven and earth in the tip of the pen, his pen is sharp and heroic, free and uninhibited, quite Su Dongpo wind, Mr. Cao once wrote a poem: "Life is full of madness, merry soul, heaven and earth." Reading only feel that the mouth is fragrant, natural, such as seeing a bright moon on the treetops, gradually feel the wind at the bottom of the sleeve, the moon to the heart of the waves, vulgar worries, refreshing. This is a kind of belief that still pursues the true meaning of life after thousands of sails, and it is also the persistence that still does not forget the original heart after years of consumption. The uninhibited in the text is not all his artistic style, looking at his paintings, it is more experienced, artistic creation is the expression of feelings, for the expression of personality, Mr. Cao's painting, splashing ink and waving a bit of a teacher's style, and full of self-will, and the words in the free and easy jump, face-to-face humor and open-mindedness are different, his paintings with a "ice and snow atmosphere", such as Zhang Dai in the lake pavilion watching the snow, but also like the east slope of the words under the moonlight, off the vulgarity, washing the buoyancy, removing the spirit of craftsmanship, one stroke outlines the outline of modern Chinese art, The Xinghan universe is included in the millimeter, to the vast, as subtle as possible. Danqing thick ink looks in the mirror, the harrier waving the heart, the real and the virtual complement each other, it is a natural masterpiece! This is a kind of practice, and it is also an immeasurable world. In half a lifetime, Mr. Cao has gone through a lot, a year of Jiazi, which has made him a national treasure-level art master, and also allowed him to have unimaginable glory, experience, precipitation, accumulation, and abundance. When the Eguan Bo belt has long been scattered into mud, it is a bamboo pen occasionally scribbled poetry and paintings, which can engrave mountains and rivers, carve people's hearts, and never roam. He loves history, when it comes to the calligraphy of famous masters, he gushes endlessly, and the history is vast for thousands of years, prosperity and decay everywhere have disappeared, only the same open-mindedness and humor as Mr. Cao, can cast the unquenchable fireflies in the dark, and lay out his eternal brilliance of the breeze and bright moon, because of such brilliance, he has many friends, and also loves to use him into the text, into the words, into the painting - the old view of the green mountain, the heavenly stone Lin Cao Gongzi; When the author mentioned this couplet, Mr. Cao only said that his friend joked and praised it, and did not boast and show off, but the author read Mr. Cao's other identity from this friend's couplet - a collector connoisseur.
Collection is a kind of cultural inheritance activity for human beings to preserve and develop civilization. Speaking of the collection experience, Mr. Cao said. On the road of collection, father Cao Datie and his mentor Chen Peiqiu, Mr. Gao Shixiong and the careful guidance of the ancestors have contributed a lot, modern collectors are more with a utilitarian mentality to blindly pursue the best value of money, and even use the "hype" and "momentum" and other ways to "make money", or pick up leaks, for such a phenomenon, Mr. Cao's evaluation is humorous and sharp: "With the mentality of collecting to meet the leaks, it is unintentional to insert willows, that is the fate of life; And collecting with the mentality of picking up leaks is to deliberately plant flowers, which is close at hand. "Mr. Cao's collection, not to money on the hero, but all by preference, no one in art can be unsurpassed, so that he naturally has a keen eye for calligraphy and painting antiques, especially Zhang Daqian's painting collection appreciation is the most prominent, every collection, he loves his own skin, such as a number of treasures, for the culture behind the collection, he also understands, through the mottled paper, caressing the dry ink marks, in these countless traces, he sees not the amount of money, but a historical detail, In these star-like fragments, we can see the footsteps of human beings moving forward in the years, when the wind moves, at this time the heart moves, for Cao Gongdu, the spiritual resonance through the years is the unique fate between him and each collection.
The past days are the first in the rings of the years, through the mud of the years, but also through the spring of life, through Mr. Cao's quiet and simple appearance, a gentle and honest heart jumped in front of him. Most literati are "born", but Cao Gongdu has no hesitation to enter the WTO, his pen and ink paintings are never just the height of the temple, again and again for public welfare, again and again donations, poetry pen and ink into food for the stomach, warm clothes for the body, learning opportunities, and countless children more life possibilities, his love and kindness, across the hills and rivers, will be gentle and goodwill, so that countless people even in the dark realm, can also look forward to a better future, it is not difficult to imagine that in the children's lives, because of him, there are notes flowing, The fragrance of books is long, and the brushes are shining, because people like him always have a power to make us believe: Spring Mountain is everywhere in Pingwu.
He seems to be a bright but not dazzling brilliance, a mellow but not tired sound, a kind of calmness that no longer needs to observe the words and feelings of others, an atmosphere that finally stops pleading to the surroundings, a smile that ignores the commotion, a kind of indifference that washes away the extreme, a kind of thickness that does not need to be publicized, a height that is not steep but difficult for ordinary people to reach. The years have made the pride of the blush fermented, the sharp mountain wind has reined in the strength, the turbulent stream has become a lake, and it has also allowed him to walk safely in history with the thickness of life, not stagnating at a time, not repeating a step, blooming all the way, and the clouds are wide all the way, such as the aroma of long-brewed wine, without fear of frost all the way, but seeing the sky under the moon.