Thoughts caused by the appreciation of famous paintings by Writers

In the 2019-22 issue of Reader magazine, I read that Xin Xiang was excerpted from the book tie Ning Prose by the people's Literature Publishing House. Tie Ning's fine appreciation article of Chinese painting, Han Xizai Night Banquet, is a painting by Gu Yizhong, a painter of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the five dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. the original is lost, and the existing copy of the Song Dynasty is a copy of the Song Dynasty, and the silk book is colored and hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

The picture of Han Xizai's Night Banquet depicts the scene of the official Han Xizai's family holding a night banquet to carry songs and music. There is a story in this picture: Li Yu, the master of the Southern Tang Dynasty, wanted to give Han Xizai a promotion and a raise, but heard that he was obsessed with money and didn't do his job all day, so he appointed a painter and paparazzi Gu Yizhong to sneak into his home to find out. Gu Yizhong, who once served as a painter in the Southern Tang Dynasty, was covered with cameras, recording the demeanor and movements of everyone present. After coming back, he created the long volume "Han Xizai Night Banquet", but it was only a piece of political intelligence at that time. Reading and appreciation of American articles

This painting is about a complete banquet process of Han Fu, that is, five scenes of pipa playing, dancing, rest between banquets, blowing and seeing off guests. The whole work's lines are vigorous and smooth, neat and fine, and the composition is imaginative. The shape of the work is accurate and delicate, and the colors are gorgeous and elegant. The use of pen and ink in different objects is varied, especially the color is more rich and harmonious.

When I was in university, I had already studied and appreciated this famous painting in the course of Chinese art history. Later, I was engaged in art education in middle school and introduced, analyzed and taught students. As evaluated by tie Ning's "Han Xizai Night Banquet Picture": it is like a heavenly book falling from the sky, pulling Chinese figure painting to an insurmountable height. Its supreme value has not been surpassed until today.

Chinese and foreign art history and all kinds of art appreciation books praise and comment on the best works of Chinese classical figure painting. However, tie Ning's article analyzes the legendary story, historical meaning and profound influence of this painting from the point of view of doubting the written records of painters and works in Xuanhe painting in the period of Huizong of Song Dynasty.

Starting with the way of asking and questioning, from the perspective of historical development, the article makes a profound and simple appreciation of the time background, picture content, artistic characteristics and achievement status of Han Xizai's Banquet Picture, which is different from that of other art critics. She can appreciate famous paintings with the writer's unique sharpness and thinking.

After commenting on the description of the characters in each scene of the work, tie Ning spoke highly of the most wonderful part of the fourth paragraph, such as Han Xizai's dynamic expression and picture composition. She exclaimed: this paragraph, no matter the portrayal of the characters, or the composition, color design, can be called a classic of Chinese figure painting. The combination of his three groups of colors is magnificent but not complicated, and the characters gather and disperse steadily but not rigidly, especially the five singers in the middle, who all achieve the unparalleled beauty of Chinese painting in their consistent movements. Finally, the author believes that "Han Xizai Night Banquet Map" does not fall from the sky, he is the crystallization of great talent and wisdom of ancient Chinese painters.

The article also compares this work with the church murals of Byzantine art in the history of western painting in the 10th century. The murals depict Jesus and his disciples as the main object, and its form is also the method of flat painting and ticking. However, no matter the composition, color design, or the use of lines are greatly inferior to the contemporary "Han Xizai Night Banquet Picture".

I am curious that this masterpiece of appreciation of a famous painting, which has a clear artistic point of view, profoundly expressed professionally and tastes elegantly, is actually written by a female writer and by tie Ning, president of the Chinese Writers Association. This can not help but let a member of the team of writers, and I have painting art experience, I can't wait to solve the mystery. Sure enough, I found on the Internet that tie Ning was born in an art family, his father was a painter, and his mother was a vocal music professor.

His father is a famous painter Tieyang, formerly known as qu Tieyang, his father is an oil painting and watercolor painter, graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, and his mother is a professor of vocal music and graduated from Tianjin Conservatory of Music. Iron condensed into the eldest daughter. Tieyang (1935. 9) from Zhaoxian County, Hebei Province. Be good at oil painting and gouache painting. Graduated from the stage Art Department of the Central Academy of Drama in 1960. He has taught in Hebei Institute of Culture and Arts, Central Academy of Drama, and stage art designer of Hebei Song and Dance Theater. In 1982, he joined Hebei painting Academy as a professional painter and first-class artist. His works have been collected by gallery of China and multinational art museums in Europe, America and Asia. The work "Summer Gift" won the bronze medal of the Seventh National Art Exhibition. He has published Tieyang painting Collection and so on.

Perhaps due to the influence of the family environment, tie Ning showed her talent for literary creation at an early age, and her level of appreciation of art is also reflected in many of her works.

One of the important reasons why she can maintain the vitality of art and the life of creation for a long time is that her novels win with art, no matter how the times change and which trend of thought is popular in the society. She never deviates from the direction of art. Her greatest contribution to contemporary novels also lies in her creation of novels as art, creating many fine works of novel art. Novel is not only a language art, but also the most comprehensive art. Many excellent writers are versatile and proficient in many kinds of arts, such as Wang Wei, Su Shi, Song Huizong, Zheng Banqiao, Tang Bohu, Wen Zhengming and so on. They are both poets, writers and painters.

Tie Ning pays great attention to absorb the nutrition of painting, music and dance in literary creation, and integrates the advantages of other kinds of art to enrich the expressive force of novel art. In her novels, we can see the natural combination of modern painting, dance, music and novel art.

Tie Ning believes that artistic exploration refers to the writer's unremitting pursuit of the essence of literature, the essence of literature lies in its artistic beauty, it can be said that literary works without artistic beauty are not good works, and the neglected artistic beauty of practical significance can only be castles in the air. This passage is not only her philosophical thinking on the development of literature and art, but also the summary of her experience in literary creation. Below, we might as well read tie Ning's prose: a segment from "Reading my Father's painting" to appreciate and feel the artistic charm of her words:

There is no doubt that my father regards painting as a part of his life, and every picture of him is like many eternal moments derived from his life.

Father's painting, therefore, is filled with a kind of touching passion. Even in the face of his still life, I will give birth to happy uneasiness. So I thought, what is still life? Literally, still life is a quiet thing. But aren't the mountains and trees quiet? They enter the painter's field of vision, can be called scenery, still life is actually a kind of landscape ah! In the painter's pen, the breath of a vase and the silence of a river need not be defined, they are both tangible lives. Is there anyone else who is not a quiet nature in his father's writings? As a spectator, I will read many stories from the north on the edge of the village after the rain; feel the solemnity and playfulness of the world on the countless petals wet by mist; only then will I find the frightening beauty on the delicate red earth mound; only then will I receive the gift of nature on the thriving human body; only then will I realize the beauty of joyful life on the black and white trees.

Shanghai, November 25, 2019