Before entering the examination room, Teacher Yang took off her watch and lent it to me to keep track of the time, and the principal Luo Sande said to me and Cai Changshengsong, Cai wrote ** in the composition exam, and Yang wrote lyrical essays. When the exam came out, Cai Changsong wrote the lyrical essay "After the Rain", and I wrote **"Say I'm Not Afraid of Ghosts". The admission letter came down, and Cai and I were admitted to the Department of Political Science and Education of Hunan Normal University. It turned out that we filled in the Chinese Department and the History Department, and the school said that we were still student union officials when we graduated, and we were asked by the Department of Political Science and Education. I still want to learn to draw, and I also want to go to art school. So, I crossed the Xiangjiang River and found the admissions office of Hunan Normal University and said that I would not read. When I came back, I asked Principal Luo to assign me to teach in a primary school.
I was assigned to teach in the kindergarten attached to the primary school, when I was not yet 20 years old, and it was the age when I was highly motivated, wanted to draw, and wanted to study, but I was asked to become a role model. However, I love teaching as a teacher, and I especially like teaching elementary school. First, I am a good teacher. Moreover, as soon as I stepped onto the podium, I met the childish and innocent eyes of the students, which also inspired my confidence in self-learning and self-improvement. In the first year, I received an internship salary, 29 yuan and 5 cents a month, and as soon as the money arrived, all of it was handed over to my mother, who gave me food expenses, 8 yuan a month, and another 5 yuan for pocket money.
Kindergarten teacher attached to the primary school outside is Cai Yi North Road, after dinner for a walk, out of the school gate turn right, go straight to the south, in front of the water wind well, the intersection of Zhongshan Road, there is an old bookstore on the left, on the sidewalk outside the bookstore, there is a line of stalls, specializing in the sale of old books.
I squatted down, flipped through it casually, and found a thin book, called "Words in the World", the author Wang Guowei, was published in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, lithographed, and bought it for a few dimes. Later, I learned that this is a very rare and good book, and the artistic conception proposed by Wang Guowei in the book has touched my mind and benefited me for life. It's a blessing, an accident. Imagine, if I hadn't gone to the bookstall that time, I would have met Wang Guowei, and I don't know how many years I would have to postpone it. The opening of the mind requires an opportunity, and the sooner this opportunity comes, the better.
Yang Gospel. Born in Changsha, Hunan Province in 1942. He is a national first-class artist, former vice president of Guangzhou Painting and Calligraphy Research Institute, director of the Art Committee, and is currently a visiting professor at Central South University and Hunan Normal University, and the director of Yang Gospel Art Museum.
In 2006, Changsha set up the Yang Gospel Art Museum on the shore of Nianjia Lake in Martyr's Park.
In 2008, the People's Fine Arts Publishing House published "Yang Gospel of Chinese Modern and Modern Masters".
In 2012, the TV station "Everyone" column published Yang Gospel's documentary "Looking for a Distant Place". He has hosted many solo exhibitions at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing Fine Art Academy, China National Academy of Painting, Guangzhou, Changsha and other places.
Recent exhibitions include:
In September 2018, the "Huan Wuji" Yang Gospel Painting Art Exhibition was held in the Hunan Museum.
In September 2020, Qi Baishi, He Shaoji, and Yang Gospel Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition of "You Don't See" was held at Changsha Art Museum.
In December 2021, the exhibition of "Grass on the Plain" Yang Yanlai, Yang Xuelai and Yang Gospel calligraphy and painting seal carving exhibition will be held at Changsha Art Museum.
He is the author of more than 10 collections of paintings and essays, such as "Collection of Chinese Modern and Modern Famous Artists: Yang Gospel", "Yang Gospel Painting Collection", "Yang Gospel Chinese Painting Collection", "Gospel Words", "On the Long Ridge", "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", "Remembered by Red Beetroot", "Days", "Liang Miao Huaixin - Interview with Yang Gospel", "About the Gospel", "My Joy and My Love".
The art world believes that Yang Gospel's decades of exploration and practice in Chinese painting, and the anti-line drawing method, not only inherited the spirit of Chinese painting, but also opened up a new field of Chinese painting, made a revolutionary contribution to figure painting, and gave birth to a new aesthetic style of Chinese painting.