Feng Yuan from a distance

Author:Cultural Tourism China Time:2022.07.31

▲ After sketching by the Yellow River, Feng Yuan took a photo with the local fellow.

Mr. Feng Yuan is 70 years old, and I and I are not very familiar with him. Presumably, because of "seeing the leader and avoiding far away," the innate inferiority, or some superstitious Chen Yan who "eat an egg to know the hen". In short, it is not familiar. Make force.

But if you pay attention to the development of contemporary Chinese art, can anyone know Feng Yuan?

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▲ Great Wall (Chinese Painting) 155 × 490 cm 1980 Feng Yuan

Ten years ago, when Feng Yuan left an administrative job, he held an exhibition at the China Art Museum and made a small section of his "pen and ink". In the impression, in the grand scene at that time, leaders and experts have highly evaluated Feng Yuan and interpreted from different perspectives. However, Feng Yuan's performance made people remember deeply.

Indeed, Feng Yuan, who was seen in various art activities, was not the most "dazzling" one. Even in his own exhibition, he seemed to be mediocre, and he always looked like a university teacher. As the most commonly exposed character in "various scenes", Feng Yuan is neither the speaker who speaks Hongzhong, his eyes flash, and the mouth of his mouth is not the artist who is hugging and hugging, a strong aura, and a halo. Sometimes you suddenly think that his gray shirt has not been changed for many years?

Feng Yuan, a leader and an artist, is a bit too usual. Even if this makes people feel a bit inconsistent with his identity, Feng Yuan is always like that -unlike leaders, unlike artists. Are these farmers related to Feng Yuan's 8 -year peasant when they were young? I am not sure that there are many people who are shaken by farmers as artists and do not hinder the scenery.

Of course, the artist who impressed me with a simple and honest temperament was not only Feng Yuan, such as Han Shuli and Wu Changjiang, who were similar to his age. However, after all, Feng Yuan has more "identity": Deputy Dean of the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, former Director of Culture, Chief of the Chinese Art Museum, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Federation of Literary and Art Federations, Deputy Director of the Central Cultural and History Research Museum, and Honorary of the Chinese Artists Association Chairman, Honorary Dean of the School of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, the first director of the Museum of Art of Tsinghua University, Dean of the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts ... You see, he does not have to apply fat and applied powder like many people in this circle. There is no light.

Feng Yuan's name

▲ Two of Yuanshan Rahant's father and fellow (Chinese painting) 100 × 100 cm 2011 Feng Yuan

In addition to the reason why there are many titles and a lot of appearances, there are certainly more important reasons that "Feng Yuan must not know Feng Yuan". "Identity" is more, but with a few more meals, I can always finish reading in one sentence. In June and July, Feng Yuan held two exhibitions at the calligraphy and painting channel of Olympic Park and the Tsinghua University Art Museum. The self -introduction that the audience saw was "painters, teachers, and civil servants", which was simple and accurate.

The media likes to say that Feng Yuan is the "leader" of the Chinese contemporary painting world -although the painting world is called "military", I don't believe it, but this at least shows the role played by Feng Yuan in today's art development: an important aspect Yes, in a series of national large -scale theme art creation activities, Feng Yuan is a planner, promoter, and organizer. These work have accumulated a large number of achievements for the art creation of the new century, and also allowed a large number of young and middle -aged art to art. The family has gained growth; on the other hand, Feng Yuan himself has also been cultivated on the road of realism. At the same time, he continuously explained the ideal and thinking of "leaving spiritual maps for the nation" in the lecture, interviews, and articles. Young people.

In fact, what I said, "You can't know Feng Yuan", there is another meaning, which often occurs in the whispering of the workshop. In ancient times, there was a light saying in ancient times. Since the recent life, the strange causes of market interests, names, and large circles of market interests, names, and large circles are even more inevitable that "painters are light" -at least the back to the ground is light. But Feng Yuan's word of mouth is particularly different. This is a bit inconsistent with his identity, because even if it is jealous, it should always be a bit thin? Over the years, there are several young and middle -aged painters who have met several times, saying how Feng Yuan made suggestions for him, how to write an encouragement article, and how to help him. At the opening ceremony of the Tsinghua Art Expo, Du Pengfei, the person in charge, said that at the beginning of the art expo, Feng Yuan was moved as the first curator without paying for reward and willingness. The Tsinghua Art Expo has improved. In order to help the establishment of the Shanghai University of Fine Arts, Feng Yuan ran to Shanghai as the dean. Once I wrote thousands of words of long -character essays in the newspaper to introduce the relocation and past in Shanghai. Whether you watch it ...

It is not all the fact that I have never heard of Feng Yuan's "opinions". On one occasion, an elderly artist I respectfully sent a link to the exhibition news. A sentence attached expressed the meaning: Feng Yuan also went to the platform for this person. This little episode has passed for many years. What I have always remembered is not to "blame" Feng Yuan, but that Feng Yuan just went to an exhibition opening event with a reputation. Naturally, he is not the only one, but in many people's hearts, Feng Yuan is different.

Feng Yuanzhi

▲ Sixth Baby Play Picture (Chinese Painting) 43 × 31 cm 2013 Feng Yuan

Feng Yuanzhi is not brought by his identity, at least not essentially. Because of this, Feng Yuan, who is an official and walking in the art world, is difficult to do "Feng Yuan" in people's hearts! Feng Yuan has never said how he was human, and he came all the way, and his years were rare. Feng Yuan often said about the dream of painting. There is a media reported title "Following the dream of art, leaning for a life." Those who are art editors have heard and met, and of course, there are always a train that has been written in empty words, rumors, and nonsense. But I am willing to copy this passage of Feng Yuan directly:

I admire the Han Tang Xiongfeng, trying to sound the sound of iron plate copperpas in the world of red tooth sandalwood. Maybe it was because of my nature, or because of the ups and downs of experience, Sphinx's eternal mystery caused me to fall into the sea of Jing Mang, and I did not know how to regret it. I paint history, intending to set up monuments for the nation; I am a stagnant sea, but I feel desolate in my life; I paint the heavenly world because I realize that I have realized it; The same is the same; I wrote that Luo Han's Han soul aims to control and strengthen traditional painting skills, while discussing the possibility of transition from the abstract phase of ink and ink.

▲ Qu Yuan and Chu Ci (Chinese Painting) 550 × 394 cm 2016 Feng Yuan

▲ Emperor Hanwu sent a Silk Road (Chinese painting) 155 × 340 cm in 2018 in the sterile border.

I don't know when Feng Yuan made a grand wish in his heart. Over the years, Feng Yuan has spared no effort to create historical works by artists. He always said: "Of course, hundreds of flowers and hundreds of arguments are good, but there are always some art to take on heavy themes and profound content. Not all arts are hot and hot. At the time, the "two strokes', or they are all used to nourish nature." "My creations are indeed more laborious, but as people in the process of the times, I added such a mission to myself." Take a look at these giant systems in recent years: "Pan Gu Kaitian", "Qu Yuan and Chu Ci", "Emperor Hanwu's Scripture Scriptures to the Silk Road", "Citizen", "Chinese Humanities", including his latest "The World" 》 Wait, if I am his friend, I will talk about the "retirement leader" and the seventy -old man blurted out: Why do you paint these, why do you paint, and why do you want to be so "strenuous"? But Feng Yuan has already replied: "I think the history of Chinese art is a" calcium deficiency "history, and we should review it again." "This is the requirements of history", "I am willing", " Do you always do it? "

Feng Yuanzhi

▲ Xiaoyaoyou (Chinese painting) 97 × 80 cm 1985 Feng Yuan

Mencius said, "Polying his poems, reading his book, I do n’t know what it is, is it?" We can still say: Watching his paintings, listening to his words, wondering, is it? Because the person is Feng Yuan, you have to respect such a hard work.

But the problem will come from this. When people pay attention to and study Feng Yuan's major historical theme art creation, it seems that it is easy to ignore many aspects of his painting, such as his deep classical feelings, some of his explorations on the form of ink and ink, and he has a mental state of the urban crowd. The capture, his perception of the survival situation of the Tibetan people, he sketched the Yellow River's grasp of the simple state of farmers on both sides of the strait, and for example, his preference for the Dapeng of Dapeng.

You really find that Feng Yuan is not only pursuing the big space and space, the world's large pattern, but also the broad space of the spiritual situation. But this "Feng Yuan" that is easy to be ignored, I don't know how to accurately describe it: it is "Feng Yuanzhi's hidden" -the hidden feelings hidden in the heart, or "Feng Yuanzhi's Yi" - Intersection

The exhibition of the Tsinghua Art Expo comprehensively shows the explorations of Feng Yuan's different stages and aspects, so that you can see his self -confidence of "unparalleled, not to do". And the "Yong Huai chanting" in the Olympic Park exhibition, after all, is not a copy of the "Gao Shitu". Feng Yuan will probably have a bit of wild release before?

Those who draw characters, can I not read people? Jiang Zhaohe, the predecessor of the character painting, said that he should cook a bowl of bitter tea wholeheartedly and dedicate it to the public. Feng Yuan, who is good at reading people, has no observation of life, no reflection, no criticism? Is there a bit of bitterness in the knowledge youth who came to the North Great Wilderness now?

冯远曾说：“想得很好，未必能够画得很好。”在清华艺博展览开幕式上他又说：“我觉得人生也好，学问也好，艺术也好，无尽意，无止境， Endless words, endless art, and art difficulty. Therefore, as an individual artist, it is this era, and it is just a drop in the historical trend. A scratch and marks are already an honor for me. "Rather than Feng Yuan's self -humility, it is rather to be the sober monologue of the artist.

Confucius said: Seventy and what you want from his heart is not more momentum. In terms of art, Feng Yuan seems to have achieved "no torque" for a long time, try not to be tired of all kinds of floating names that do not be crowned, and to do his own things in the ground! His thoughtful, his sincerity, his self -humility, his diligence, his dedication, and his works together constitute a well -known "not over -the -time" Feng Yuan.

An old friend of Feng Yuan told me that he wanted to write a long time to write Feng Yuan he knew. Because he was too familiar, he was a bit hard to write.

Feng Yuan said that the painting was not satisfactory.The big painting is really hard to do, how can it be done?

I was a little happy, and I was not familiar with it. It was not a bad thing. From a distance, endless intention, just right.In fact, mature and unfamiliar are not the point. The point is that we have a common blessing to Feng Yuan: Seventy and what we want from our hearts, but we can!

▲ Yellow River sketch (Chinese painting) 41 × 32 cm 2021 Feng Yuan

▲ In the next life of this life (Chinese painting) 220 × 509 cm 2011 Feng Yuan