Text / Wang Guoqing | senior editor and writer
In
the face of an artist's work, people tend to subjective interpretation and
judgment from various spiritual perspective, and I love through the work to
make conversation with the artist's heart, from the artist's picture,
brushwork, brush structure to seek the mentality and trail. Ink freehand
painting is mostly painted on the rice paper, vertical brush sway, ink color flying,
not only can reflect the artist's description of the scenery charm, but also
can express the emotional pursuit of the artist’s feeling directly.
Good
at freehand ink painting from ancient to modern times the artists are not very
few, the ink animal painting of Guo Shaojun’s creation, expressing emotion in
freehand brushwork, highlighting the pursuit of animal spirit dynamic Charm:
painting chicken is displaying chicken lively and changeable, arbitrary angle
changeable; showing arrogant and domineering rooster, eyes cold; hen highlights
gentle, eyes look kindly. The pursuit of painting donkeys naive, adorable; then
the pursuit of painting cats adventure, naughty and cute, the pursuit of
painting deer attention to fairy aura and delicate; such as the pursuit of painting
horses is the charm of flying as wind, through flying mane and horsetailetc
outline the picture, with the imagine of running horse, continue to effectively
run fast, brings a fresh and vigorous atmosphere to work.
Guo Shaojun | Snowland——horse | 64x99cm | 2016
The
painter Guo Shaojun was born in a family of scholar, erudite through paternal
teaching and influence, just began to read and accepted art education, adhering
to the tradition of diligent learning painting flowers and birds, hard-working
and pragmatic spirit of scholarship. In 1970s, learned from painter Mr. Zhong
Zengya and began to contact the structure of the human body painting art of
Bryman, then greatly influenced by Bourne Huo Garth dynamic human body
structure and pencil painter Paul Kaul works. In 1980s, he received strict
anatomy training in medical higher education, and extensively studied oil
painting, acrylic painting, watercolor and comics, focusing on ink ballet. In
1990s, he preferred animal paintings and adored Huang Zhou's art.
In
the 21st century, the painter in the painting study after nearly 40 years,
began to enter the stage of creation, it is accumulate steadily. According to
the analysis of ink painting circles, freehand beasts and ink ballet require
skilled mastery of human body and animal structure, which is different from
landscape flowers and birds, and is extremely difficult. It is a field where
few painters are involved. The painter Guo Shaojun indulged in the past several
years, spent decades effort to study other animal and human dance anatomy, and
introduced western painting techniques in traditional Chinese animal and human
ink painting, add a lot of highlights for painting freehand works.
Guo Shaojun | Ink ballet | 53x110cm | 2016
The
works of Guo Shaojun were independently displayed in the 2017 Xiamen Art Fair,
ink animal, ink ballet are very rare, attracted many experts enjoyed. The
painter's ink ballet and animal quite innovative, while maintaining the
traditional ink lines at the same time, skilled use of anatomy and perspective
of western painting in the art, the paintings of ink lines are concise and
vigorous, ink color is thick, well arranged, mastered dye just right. The
ballet and animal of picture is fresh and elegant, vivid, unity of form and
spirit, use of perspective techniques, successfully extended the longitudinal
perspective and depicted deeply, the dancer and freehand animal has clear
structure and more attitude.
Guo Shaojun | Flight to the moon——ink ballet |
67x118cm | 2016
The
artist's ink painting ballet, smooth lines, anatomical precision, coloring and
delicate; animal painting is sophisticated and skilled, not only can master the
shape, structure and dynamics of the animal and animal can grasp more just
perfect, the chastity character and full of mud flavor characteristics.
Guo
Shaojun through the simple lines to depict animal bone structure, texture, fur,
pattern, inside and outside the body, physiological characteristics, etc.
feature shrimp, deer, chicken, cattle, donkeys, cats, lions and all kinds of
animal so vividly. The paintings of the animal show in front of people, not
only vivid, true to life, but also endowed with distinctive character. These
features highlight the painter not only uphold the rigorous and meticulous
attitude of painting, and continuous innovation of freehand brushwork ink
creation concept, formed own unique style, so also in the fair attracted many artists,
the mass media attention.
Guo Shaojun | Mother chicken and a chick | 34x44cm
Guo
Shaojun's paintings are good in writing, from the picture of the atmosphere,
ink charm to a certain extent. "Lao Tzu out of the exit" in this
painting Lao Tzu although white hair and beard, but ruddy, hale and hearty, the
image of before reality after virtual shows a sage-like type. Guo Shaojun's
painting of "Lao Tzu out of the exit" than the "Lao Tzu out of
the exit" of Fan Zeng’s painting, although less a child carrying the
burden, but more in line with historical truth: Lao Tzu committing the crime of
dereliction of duty in a hurry home, not just to die, gave a chance for Guan
Ling Yin Xi in Hanguguan, to make the most beautiful enlightened Lao Tzu left
five thousand words, the most profound and Miscellaneous Poems
"Moral".
Guo Shaojun | " Lao Tzu out of the exit " |
67x137cm | 2011
The
painter painting Lao Tzu drapery with strong lines, free and ease, the spirit
of a drapery processing dynamic; the picture of the Lao Tzu, quiet as water,
air blowing like a sage. Fresh and charming, is a pale beauty, there is an
atmosphere blurred beauty. Let a person feel like this character, how fresh and
ease, contemporary people need to practice the body several generations, can be
like the wind and floating color.
Guo Shaojun | Rooster | 60x60cm | 2016
In
the modern freehand brushwork ink animal painting, Guo Shaojun is a rare and
painter of creating animal paintings, he inherited the unique perspective of
medical skeletal anatomy in depicting animal, can be painted exquisite texture,
and a stunning painter. The painter’s outstanding works are the Cat and
Butterfly, Six Lucky and Lao Tzu out of the Exit, clear structure, strong sense
of perspective, and bold brushwork, concise picture, under the brush of the
animal’s color is elegant and clean, is not only a true portrayal of the animal
in reality, more valuable is the art re creation, given the their thoughts and
feelings and anthropomorphic animal image.
Guo Shaojun | Shrimp | 68x34cm | 2017
Guo
Shaojun is good at using color ink rhyme, to create an atmosphere of the
original ecology, and smart cat butterflies, deer loose bat prominent among
them, form own unique style, works with great tension and dynamic spirit, in
the direct stimulation of vision at the same time, let people appreciate his
profound painting skill and uninhibited, free personality.
The
Chinese love cats since the ancient. The pronunciation of cat is same as the
"Mao", the pronunciation of butterfly is the same as "Die”, in
ink animal painting, cat and butterfly is an eternal theme of fixed, meaning
the beautiful meaning of longevity. According to the data record: our country
has established the country by agriculture from the ancient times, has the
grain, but the cat is good at catching the rat, it has protects the grain and
is gentle lovable, is loved by the world very much. "Mao” is as seventy
years old, “Die” is as eighty years old, so for the elderly birthday, send to
them this painting is wishing the elderly health and longevity. It is because
of good meaning, the Cat and Butterfly become painters’ favorite theme, the
Yuan Dynasty painter Wang Yuan, Sun Kehong of the Ming Dynasty, Shang Xi, Lu
Zhi, Dai Jin, Shen Zhenlin, Shen Quan in Qing Dynasty all painted the Cat and
Butterfly painting to later generations.
Guo Shaojun | cat and wasp | 48x52cm
Xv
Beihong, Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Xie Zhiliu, Yu Feian, Wu Hufan, Lu Yifei, Liu
Kuiling, and other modern painters have painted the Cat and Butterfly. Watched
Guo Shaojun's the Cat and Butterfly, I found Guo Shaojun through concise
brushwork, draw images and spirit, to express the artist's taste. Particularly
surprising is Guo Shaojun’s the Cat and Butterfly, compared with Xv Beihong’s
work in 1942, adds a bit of fun by upturned cattail, very attractive, the
posture of cat and butterfly in Guo Shaojun's painting showed more vivid.
Guo Shaojun | chasing butterfly | 48x58cm
The
freehand Sika Deer in Guo Shaojun's works emphasize the head and blur the other
parts. The intention is to highlight the deer of anima, the immoral gas,
delicate and antlers of masculinity. Good at freehand skills and no bone, hook
filled with mixed together, using color and ink separation method, resulting in
black and white ink and color painting effect, fresh style, suit both refined
and popular tastes.
Guo Shaojun | Sika deer
Guo
Shaojun in the creation of ink painting both western elements, but also can
keep the traditional spirit and culture connotation, make the appearance of the
works rich in pluralism, anatomy and perspective: partial realistic style, and
strive to dissect the key details in place, beautiful and varied shape. In
those with eternal static animal attitude, ink animal is clear and long
distant, it is in a calm mood, the artist natural deduction.
Guo Shaojun | Donkey | 35x55cm | 2016
Guo
Shaojun loves life, loves nature, loves animal, he is kind and devoted to
depicting the world of dynamic creatures. Observe any painters pay more
attention to details in life around, in the works in the original painting,
exquisite craftsmanship, the composition provided by the conception of
philosophy spirit will become every creation stage charm focus. Guo Shaojun's
artistic style is full of a new spirit of the times, which will eventually form
his mind map and make us look forward to it.
2017.8.15