There are many factors for success in life, and after dating Yan Yuchen for a long time, this feeling is especially obvious.
In the vast army of calligraphy and painting, Yan Yuchen, who is nearly seventy years old, has his own place among the landscape painters in Henan, Shaanxi and other places. And Yan Yuchen's love for painting actually comes from the *** villain book in his childhood.
China is a traditional agricultural powerhouse. A few decades ago, if China could become a worker and eat "commercial grain", it would definitely be the envy of everyone. Mr. Yan Yuchen was born in Tsukatou West Village, Luying Township, Nanyang City, Henan Province, from a poor family. After graduating from high school in 1972, he returned to the village to work as a farmer. The desolate land, the barren life, the daily work to go home, the villain's book, ** is the only entertainment and spiritual life. It is precisely because of this special experience that Yan Yuchen has an obsession and love for painting. Every night, under the dim kerosene lamp, the character stories, myths and legends in the villain book*** will make him obsessed. From then on, he began the road of copying, imitating the stories of the characters in the book, using his own understanding to describe and draw.
Destiny favors love, diligence, and ideological pursuits. In 1976, fate took a turn for the worse. Because he was a high school student and could write and draw, the local township recruited him to work as a technician in the township cotton production office. Since then, a large area of land in his hometown has been sweated by him. During the day he was a technician, and at night in the dim light he continued his dream of painting. It took him 12 years to complete the transformation from a temporary worker to a township cadre. For twelve years, the half-finished rice paper piled up in his dormitory was as tall as his.
Love is the best teacher! What really brought Yan Yuchen into contact with Chinese painting was in the summer of 1986. this year. Professor Qiao Xiyan of Nanyang Normal University held a painting class in the Municipal Cultural Palace, and Yan Yuchen immediately asked for leave from the unit if he received a treasure. It was the season of the fires in July. Every day when people were still asleep, Yan Yuchen set off on a bicycle. After class in the afternoon, I braved the scorching sun and rode my bicycle back to my home dozens of miles away. A month of exposure to the scorching sun, rain or shine, made Yan Yuchen have a qualitative leap in painting. Immediately afterwards, he applied for the Chinese Painting Correspondence University. Through three years of systematic theoretical study, Yan Yuchen's painting creation has made a great leap. It was also at this time that he chose landscape paintings that could better reflect his painting style and character and express the emotions of his inner world.
Nanyang City, Henan Province, there is a majestic Funiu Mountain that stretches for 800 miles, and there is Shiren Mountain in Nanzhao County, which is close to it. These mountains are all classrooms where Yan Yuchen transforms theories into achievements. His holidays and rest time are basically spent in the hinterland of Funiu Mountain, the peak of Shiren Mountain. In order to better express the mountains of his hometown and the famous mountains and rivers of the motherland, so that the majesty, strangeness, danger, and beauty of the mountains can be expressed with his own understanding, his limited salary is spent on the journey to Qingcheng Mountain, Huangshan, Mount Tai, Lushan and so on. It is precisely because of these observations and precipitation that Yan Yuchen's landscape paintings have more majestic and magnificent styles.
Lu Yanshao quoted the words of the Tang Dynasty calligrapher Li Yi in "Discussion on Landscape Painting": "Those who learn from me are sick, and those who resemble me die." Yan Yuchen started to learn painting from the villain's book, and copied the paintings of Zhang Daqian and other famous artists. However, Yan Yuchen, who has a unique life experience and comprehension, can absorb the strengths of all families, find beauty from ordinary mountains and ordinary life, and gradually form his majestic and broad style, delicate and imposing style. In his pen, the beauty of the mountains in autumn and the fragrance of the mountains in spring; Or the fog lock valley, or the autumn dyed mountains and forests, will let you indulge in the meantime.
Pragmatic people have pragmatic character. Yan Yuchen's various honors over the years have been piled up, but he rarely mentions them, and the awards he has won have also been mentioned. He is a national first-class painter and a member of the Henan Provincial Art Association. But in the end, he chose the ancient city of Xi'an as his home. Yan Yuchen said that people's success is accumulated with the hardships you have endured. We have to endure the unbearable hardships of ordinary people, and endure the unbearable hardships of ordinary people. Yan Yuchen, who came out with hard steps, his steps will become more and more stable and solid.
Zhan Gaoyou) Editor: Zhou Fengchuan.