The father scolded me angrily and cursed me to death, and gave my son a bad name
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Regarding Xu Beihong's life, his artistic creation has reached its peak, but he seems to have no idea where to start in his personal emotional life. What affected Xu Beihong's emotional life?
Or is the artist's emotional world so elusive?
Xu Beihong's achievements in the field of painting are admirable, but people often overlook the hardships he experienced in the process of artistic creation. Even at the peak of his artistic career, he lived in turmoil and uncontrollable hardship.
This situation seems to have planted the seeds of tragedy in his early emotional life.
Under the feudal system, arranged marriages were unavoidable. Unexpectedly, Xu Beihong's first wife didn't even leave her name. Although she is Xu Beihong's wife, she has been witnessed and blessed by both parents, although she has been silently supporting his parents in her hometown during her study in Shanghai, although she gave birth to Xu Beihong's first son.
However, the ruthlessness of history deprived her of the opportunity to leave her name, and even Xu Beihong rarely mentioned her in his later autobiography.
So, does this mean that this is an unhappy marriage? The answer may be yes, but this is not Xu Beihong's fault, let alone the fault of the unknown woman, but the tragedy brewed by that feudal and conservative era.
It was an era when women needed to bind their feet, an era of arranged marriages by parents, and an era when there was no freedom to fall in love. This is undoubtedly the greatest sorrow for the young artists who have been full of love for artistic creation since childhood and are deeply influenced by democracy and free culture.
Seventeen-year-old Xu Beihong is hungry for study and job search in Shanghai, absorbing advanced culture and ideas from all over the world. On the other hand, he had to bear the pressure of his father, urging him to go home and get married and have children.
Xu Beihong once constrained his painting creation due to feudal marriage, and in the face of his father's death, he had no choice but to compromise. After marriage, life is difficult, not only to support the family, but also to face creative difficulties.
During this period, his works were mostly mediocre.
In the painting of "Gunma", Xu Beihong and the woman have the pain of childbirth and parting. Xu Zaosheng, the name of Xu Beihong's first son, reveals his father's helplessness and despair.
However, an unfortunate scene still happened, Xu Beihong's first son died in the seventh year of his life, and his mother also died. We have no way of knowing how much this has affected Xu Beihong.
Because Xu Beihong received the news of the death of his mother and son in Japan, it had been four years since he had crossed overseas.
Jiang Biwei, a woman who once spent 28 years of married life with Xu Beihong, her life is full of entanglements and misfortunes. Although they have spent so much time together, she has always referred to Xu Beihong as "Mr. Xu" in her memoir "Me and Beihong".
This kind of indelible hatred has existed since ancient times. Perhaps, the combination of Jiang Biwei and Xu Beihong is just a momentary impulse.
In the Jiang family in Shanghai, the young Xu Beihong and Jiang Biwei met for the first time. At that time, Xu Beihong was still a newcomer in the art world, and Jiang Biwei's father was a senior senior in the literary and art world. In order to broaden his career path and befriend Jiang's father, Xu Beihong often came to the Jiang's living room.
And the real goal in his heart is Jiang Biwei, who is knowledgeable and reasonable, young and beautiful. However, at this time, Xu Beihong had already married in his hometown in Jiangsu and had a son, but Jiang Biwei was arranged by her father for a marriage and felt very sad.
Jiang Biwei's ill-fated fate made men and women who originally did not have much common language find resonance with each other: they were both dissatisfied with the arranged marriage in feudal society and longed for free and romantic love.
As a result, the young genius painter Xu Beihong showed his imagination, and he advocated eloping overseas with Jiang Biwei. For Jiang Biwei, following the talented young painter to the end of the world is both exciting and free, which is simply a lifesaver for her to free herself from the cage of feudal etiquette.
So, she decisively said goodbye to her parents and happily stepped on a passenger ferry from Shanghai to Japan with Xu Beihong.
The story of a pair of lovers, like a dramatic elopement, begins their emotional journey. Unfortunately, Xu Beihong is only a painter, not a playwright.
On canvas, he can use the whole picture to depict gorgeous beauty; But in screenwriting, an overly good start is often a harbinger of tragedy. After the two arrived in Japan, the first time was full of happiness, talent and beauty, and they enjoyed life to the fullest.
However, with the needs of Xu Beihong's studies, they had to travel to France, this artistic paradise, again. However, it did not bring them the expected romantic warm-up, on the contrary, because of the pressure of life, they ran for a livelihood all day long, and their hearts were heavy.
In such an environment, Jiang Biwei began to realize that Xu Beihong may be a genius painter, but he is by no means a qualified husband.
In Jiang Biwei's memoir "Me and Beihong", she fondly recalled the difficult years of drifting overseas with Xu Beihong. Although the memoirs are full of complaints about life and helplessness and disappointment that Xu Beihong doesn't understand the world and can't manage life, the relationship between the two is still deep.
Jiang Biwei said that Xu Beihong is a person obsessed with art, and the money he earns is always spent on buying paintings, attending salons, and inviting guests to dinner, and she often cries and laughs because of this.
Not only that, but the financial difficulties of the two also put a lot of pressure on their lives. Still, they stuck together and got through it together.
The love foundation of Xu Beihong and Jiang Biwei is not stable. The occasional meeting in Shanghai was in the Jiang family's social setting, and the two did not really communicate privately. The so-called "elopement" is nothing more than a romantic explanation of impulsive emotions, more like the two of them escaping reality together.
Although they have been adrift for a long time, they have developed a feeling of mutual dependence, but this does not sustain the marriage for a long time. A few years after their marriage, both of them encountered emotional problems, Jiang Biwei met a man who pursued her passionately, while Xu Beihong met another woman in his life - Sun Duoci.
Xu Beihong's life may only love Sun Duoci alone. He inscribed on her, praising her for her intelligence, talent, and rarity. However, their love did not end well.
Xu Beihong's sketches of Sun Duoci reflect his deep appreciation for Sun Duoci's talents, which is undoubtedly the most attractive for him, a master who loves painting and art.
Therefore, in the days of getting along with Sun Duoci, Xu Beihong ignored the boundaries of teacher-student status, nor did he care about the opinions of the outside world, and the way he expressed his love for him was almost crazy.
His paintings are not only portraits of Sun Duoci, but also the priceless "Moonlit Night in Taicheng", which is widely known in the painting world.
In the painting "Moonlit Night in Taicheng", Sun Duoci reads intently, while Xu Beihong watches her intently. This kind of emotional interweaving is just like the artistic conception of "you are watching the scenery by the bridge, and the people watching the scenery are watching you from upstairs".
Xu Beihong expressed his admiration for Sun Duoci with a brush, and this female apprentice also became the unity of his artistic creation and emotional pursuit. At the same time, he also created two gold rings inlaid with red beans for Sun Duoci, expressing his lovesickness.
The words "sadness" and "compassion" on the ring seem to have foreshadowed the ending of this extraordinary teacher-student relationship.
Sun Duoci's story is always thought-provoking, especially about her emotional entanglement with Xu Beihong. It is rumored that this is not the first time Xu Beihong has used a ring as a token of love.
He once engraved two rings with his name "Beihong" and his lover's name "Biwei". Although some people called him indiscriminate, Xu Beihong was not discouraged by this, but loved Sun Duoci even more.
He even publicly claimed in the newspaper that he wanted to divorce his wife Jiang Biwei to express his love for Sun Duoci. However, their love has been suppressed by society.
Sun Duoci was forced to withdraw from this teacher-student relationship, and Xu Beihong reluctantly returned to his and Jiang Biwei's family. Until Sun Duoci died, she never publicly talked about her relationship with Xu Beihong again, as if this relationship was just a good memory in her heart.
Despite this, the story of Xu Beihong and Sun Duoci still makes people sigh that the power of love is enough to resist all difficulties and pressures, but the cruelty of reality is often unbearable.
For those readers who like to dig into the privacy of celebrities, Sun Duoci's departure in his later years is indeed a pity. However, for Xu Beihong, this may be more of a blessing.
Shortly after Sun Duoci's death, Jiang Biwei also chose to end her marriage to Xu Beihong for more than 20 years. The two of them have a son and a daughter, and they have left countless fragments of their lives, but they did not get a happy ending in the end.
Decades later, "Mr." also became "Mr. Xu".
At the end of his life, Xu Beihong and Liao Jingwen, who is 28 years younger than him, experienced long-term companionship and deep love. Their marriage was once questioned by the outside world, but Liao Jingwen resolutely chose to pursue love and revolutionary cause with her courage and determination.
During Xu Beihong's illness, she went to Chongqing alone to take care of him despite the dissuasion of others, until he decided to marry him after his condition improved. The love affair between this "old husband and young wife" is their persistent pursuit of love and life, and it is also their deep trust and respect for each other.
Their stories tell us that no matter the age and identity gap, as long as there is true love, we will definitely be able to go through the ups and downs of life.
Xu Beihong and Liao Jingwen are engaged, and they hope that relatives and friends will witness this beautiful moment together. Since the publication of this notice in Shanghai newspapers, the fates of the two have been intertwined forever.
Xu Beihong may only be able to accompany her for the next 7 years, but for Liao Jingwen, it was her full 70 springs, summers, autumns and winters until she passed away in 2015. "
In the later years of Xu Beihong's illness, Liao Jingwen took care of his daily life without regrets, and wholeheartedly supported his artistic creation and management. What is even more admirable is that she regards Xu Beihong's painting career as her life career and sticks to it until the last moment of her life.
Conclusion: Although Xu Beihong's life seems to be full"Sad", but his life ended up with"Hung"The word is the end. Although people often criticize his love life, especially his feelings for his students, this does not hide his persistent pursuit and love for art.
In fact, Xu Beihong does not take love as the center of his life, but pours all his efforts into artistic creation.
In his universe, artistic creation and pursuit always take precedence, emotions follow, and other elements of life are relegated to the back burner. Even in that most impulsive love affair with Sun Duoci, he favored Sun Duoci's talent for painting and the creative spark he triggered by this affection rather than the emotional impulse itself.
This may be a bit unfair to many people, especially for Jiang Biwei, who has been with him for 28 years, and Liao Jingwen, who has taken care of him in his old age. But this is the spiritual world of the great masters of art, which ordinary people cannot comprehend and even cannot step into, just as they cannot comprehend the great works of the masters.