Usually speaking, the heart of a child. What is a Child's Heart? That is to support the wall and touch the wall, and move forward with people. Later, when I went to Mr. Chen's house, it was raining heavily outside, and he just came back, took off his thick oil-green raincoat, and sat down shirtless to prepare to paint. A sketch is mounted on the door panel, and the painting is a big scene of Miao women playing swings.
I saw that the ink lines he drew were not restrained at all, flying and elegant, like a book. The teacher looked very happy and said, yes, it should be like a book, and there should be a blank space at the junction of several lines, so that it can be breathable, and there should be affection between the lines. At that time, I felt that someone was leading me forward. A voice said, "Go forward, go forward, and be afraid." I touched it with both hands, but I didn't touch anything, it was empty. The voice continued to guide me. As if I had touched something, I pushed the door open with both hands, and my eyes lit up, and I finally stepped into the door of Chinese painting. I am grateful to my teacher, who introduced me to the door of Chinese painting.
In 1959, I graduated from junior high school and was sent to Changsha Normal School. We lived in Changsha No. 5 Middle School, a normal school for three years, and spent half of our time picking bricks to build the teaching building. I deeply feel that it is better to choose a school than a teacher. Here I met two good teachers, one is a female teacher, named Yang Qi, a native of Beijing, who has just transferred from the army and is a painter in the army. Teacher Yang is our homeroom teacher, probably less than 30 years old, with the beauty of a woman and the heartiness of a man. And our classmates, because of such a class teacher, are inexplicably proud.
The other was the principal, Luo Sande, who taught us classical literature. Principal Luo entered the classroom and brought an open cigarette box paper with something written on it, and two pieces of chalk. He did not follow the textbook to give lectures, but said openly, what is the eye of poetry today. Principal Luo is a native of Shaoyang, who reads and recites ancient poems in a high-pitched voice, and his voice is high-pitched and agitated. As he spoke, he wrote five words and seven words on the blackboard. There is a spring breeze and the south bank of the Green River, there is a spring of red apricot branches, and there are many, many more. Then it singled out the word "green" and the word "trouble", saying that this is the eye of poetry. He also said that with the eye of poetry, poetry has life and the flash of life. Principal Luo simply tugged at my heartstrings, and since then I have had a copy of "Three Hundred Tang Poems" in my pocket, and until now, this is the original germination of Tang poems and Song lyrics in my heart.
Yang Gospel was 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.