Castle clouds, mixed peanut tree, Laogan Wonder, health Pitt colorful …… no matter from which angle to enjoy the sea Dan Chen Peiqiu everyone paintings are undoubtedly unique, heavier color meticulous, to freehand brushwork, and even Degage are unique charm, showing that she is a unique character of the artist. Mounted at Museum of familiar people know, once her early landscape as a starting point, after the 1950s, specializing in birds and flowers, beautiful style Nong Li, euphemistic style. 90 years she has focused exploration fine pen green landscape and a large number of Western painting absorbs light and color performance skills, called spectacular, nearly a six decades of artistic exploration, work the harvest, until his later years, Chen Peiqiu the green landscape mostly written with ink and color, Guanghua brilliant, natural atmosphere, creating a combination of Chinese ink and color painting of fresh air.
It is precisely because, in today’s Shanghai painting, 92-year-old Chen Lao became unique, the only remaining generation masters. As the Shanghai Academy of Painting and Calligraphy, she appeared in both the exhibition or seminar, or Jing Kun famous performances in the theater, a silver-haired, posture capable, refined atmosphere, Jen, a ripe old age still does not change its pure, straightforward nature. In the recently announced “6th Shanghai Literature and Arts Award” award, the Chen Lao deservedly received the “Lifetime Achievement Award”, the good news came, as it happens, “Xinmin Weekly” reporter Chen home visits, face congratulations lady smiled:! “In fact, I did not make any results, I did not expect the award-winning judges may be looking at my age so much, still painting the field constantly explore, study it, I think, as long as my life is not interest, I will put painting career to do so. I hope I do a few years longer. ”
Indeed, although in recent years, Chen Lao old, who may have social responsibility, but that did not alleviate. Not only has a lot of painting and calligraphy task, but also a large number of students enrolled, the desire to draw the Chinese context generation to generation. Just shortly before the success of the APEC meeting held on the leaders of 20 member economies, have received a host China sent invitations, and this beige satin, brocade pattern invitation, written in the front row in italics “invitations” word, is from the hand of Chen Lao. There are whole hall hanging antique bone china Chinese style lanterns, chosen precisely Chen Lao’s two works, one is depicted in bamboo leaves swaying in the shuttle bird; the other one is very Chen typical old-style re-color green landscape. It was 92-year-old Chen Lao, with a full five days and nights of painstaking time to complete the works of outstanding quality.
Today, Chen Peiqiu a resident of the western suburbs of flowers and trees, quiet and elegant cell, every day is still pen stopped working, even though last year a little gout, wrist pain, painting by a little affected, but she still put a lot of time to join in calligraphy and paintings being identified, it is often still holding a magnifying glass in the early hours of the Song and Yuan famous album selflessly doing annotations. At this point in life, in addition to the beloved painting and calligraphy, Chen Peiqiu already seeding, therefore, strict dietary restraint of her life, vegetarian, boxing, writing, every day unshakeable eat some nuts, life is full and satisfied.
High flower branches open late start, fragrant King House at the top level. Mounted at Museum late bloomer with its dedication to the arts, stick with unremitting exploration, ushered in the arrival of a seat height of life.
Pro ancient refinement
“Xinmin Weekly”: Although you have 92 years old, but still healthy body essays, energetic, never forget. Recently you to write more time to paint it?
Mounted at Museum: To be honest, very little. I’m sitting at home every day, try to decline in some social activities, but things still busy. Every day, the guests came to visit, many of them are drawn to ask me. I have a rule, to help people look at the paintings, not a penny to close. And the quality of authenticity will be 11 I tell you, without reservation. So I look at the paintings look for many people, especially. It also affects the drawing time, it is difficult to get down. The other is a little gout, so relatively little time to write.
“Xinmin Weekly”: You are in Nanyang, Henan people, adolescence is spent in Kunming. So there you are very emotional, has an annual summer you will still go to Kunming summer, painting, meeting with friends, there is not a relative can have a little more time to create?
Mounted at Museum: A few years ago when all this went, and now does not work, my friends know that I will go to Kunming summer, so many people are still looking for me, no way, huh. Speaking of Kunming, I was a kid in there lives. Then do not like to draw, I was brought up a good number of physical and chemical performance, so volunteers are learning science and engineering. My brother is the steel expert formerly in high school, my math is better than him. But my father feudal comparison, he said, the girls learn what science and technology, learn economics, accounting after the bank doing fine. So he would call the shots, I changed to the Department of Economics, Southwestern United, but I do not read the economy.
At that time, Zhang Daqian, Fu Baoshi, Li Keran, pi and so many artists have come to Kunming to do exhibitions. It can be said, Kunming during the war, gathered a lot of good artists. I often see the exhibition, see much more on getting to know them, Mr. Huang Junbi once asked me: “? You are so fond of painting, why not come to test art school,” I think makes sense, then went to Chongqing test National Art. That year I was 22 years old, and she was admitted to a test, and thus began the painting’s fate, until today.
“Xinmin Weekly”: It is said that you coincides with the “new system” at the school, will be able to graduate three years. But you gave up, volunteered to learn a few years.
Mounted at Museum: At that time, the famous art school described as clouds. Tianshou time, Kenneth Chang Zheng, Huang Bin and other masters, have done my teacher, so I benefited. After the war, I returned with the school in Hangzhou, back and forth to read a total of seven years, I had to read three years to graduate, but Mr. Zheng Wuchang advised me:. “Three years is too short, you learn anything.” I think that makes sense, it is requested to extend the semester, so stay in school for seven years, seven years I have mostly focused on the inside face painting, sketching.
“Xinmin Weekly”: I know that in copying it, a lot of teachers, students and your point of view is different. They continue to copy your paintings, especially the Song painting this thing does not understand. For example, Mr. Huang Binhong, he saw you copy Zhao dry “snow line river map” very not agree that this is “artisan paintings.”
Mounted at Museum: Indeed. I studied painting at that time, every day except eat and sleep, is copying, sketching. Seemed not interested in anything else. Remember mentor Mr. Zheng Wuchang Ming and brought many prints and photos let me copy. Six clear, bright four, I could find the atlas are temporary. Landscape I was up by the Pro, from the Qing, Ming Yuan Song has been traced back almost every dynasty Pro before. Bird is from the top down, primarily Song, because it is the peak, is also facing a number of Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties on the decline, with little copy. These seven years, I probably total around a hundred paintings copy. High school classmates was the creation of two or three years all of them some of them laughed at me, this man can not hack it, is still a day of high-grade Pro painting. But I did not mind, I do not rush yourself creative, something which I feel good, go Pro, has been facing a lot of years. After graduating from Shanghai, to the text of the tube will be later and later into the Shanghai Art Gallery after including still provisional, is basically a good thing to see going Pro.
“Xinmin Weekly”: look at your pictures, a lot of early clinical ancient works, reflecting on your tireless artistic excellence. At that time the printing conditions are not good, but your copy yet meticulous, almost able spurious, visible is the next big effort to.
Mounted at Museum: the site is copying Zhao dry “snow line the river,” is my third time in the end. The first time I face the full volume, in 1946 the school moved from Chongqing, Hangzhou, I saw in the library, a small copperplate printing, do not know the exact size, give it big with Sichuan parchment. The second time was in the early 1950s, I found Beijing Palace Museum of collotype printing, copperplate larger than I did as a temporary original size of this, with the silk in Japan. When I face this volume, Ink, said he had seen the original, there is a color, and now it seems that he was probably not seen Mr. Daqian see. But then the old man said, snow painting colors, as well as white powder points. I did as he said the painting. Then this volume to Boqing Xu saw something, he has to face, they lent him. I did not write the above paragraph. Later he asked him, saying, “Cultural Revolution” in the raid copied out. Now this volume draw Ink’s added a paragraph, the auction house last year brought me plus I do not add money, more than a word in front of Wang Ji move questions. The third piece is temporary, about 1960 years ago, is a local Pro.
There painting “thick narrow mountain Shiquan” Song painting is temporary, but also drew twice album, a hand-rolled, Mr. Qian Shoutie Pro has borrowed too. I was bought Song handmade glass negatives, and divided into two sections, as well as some behind the aloe, geese, mountains, but I did not temporary. May then buy the glass negatives incomplete, so I face a local, but I think this is a local well. Mr. Qian also think this painting is very special, a touch of boneless, plus a little cracked pen. I drew the whole second Pro, and also added color. In addition, Mr. Qian Shoutie There’s a Song Li Song “baskets map”, with style. I saw on the house to borrow a copy of. Later, Mr. Zhang Congyu in my house to see, feel good, flew to Beijing Palace Museum bought for 100 dollars.
Painting innovation
“Xinmin Weekly”: After the founding of you graduating from art school, together with Mr. Xie Zhiliu settled in Shanghai, Mr. Xie into the museum, you will first work in Shanghai, paper tubes, five years later was appointed artist Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy, and Cheng Shifa, Liu Dan, who along with the house, became the youngest group of artists, and also showed the painting to your art affirmed.
Mounted at Museum: Painting talked about the establishment of the twists and turns can be big. A liberation, the national academy only two are public, Shanghai has Painting, Art Academy in Beijing, the whole of China only two cities have a professional painter. With Painting After the founding of the artist are all raised up, set up a year’s time, planning incredible, to get the number of acres of land, but also raise ducks, raising waterfowl, studio and what the result was on the anti-rightist thing …… , and was immediately criticized, now what age? Now is the socialist era, you have to go feudal road? You want to engage in the ivory tower of the old society? Finally, the State Department said two academy to local control, all treatment withdrawn, artist regardless of age, seniority, all it took only traveling expenses, living expenses equal to you, send 80 dollars. 50s I mainly rely on royalties painted bird bird pictures. Painting pictures to meet the aesthetic taste of the people, full of paintings, color exaggeration, beaming, tens of thousands of printed copies distributed nationwide. Light Royalty had five or six hundred, at the time considered quite good.
“Xinmin Weekly”: infamous “sandalwood event” you are also involved, right?
Mounted at Museum: Ah, that’s painting sandalwood incredibly bitter. Then public ownership, the artist does not sell paintings, no way, you are going to eat painting. Then draw a not much money, but once broken even lose a painting. Hanting Jiang Qian thin iron and other old painter painting. Later, when the fanfare, the artist will put forward their views on this matter in order, several people being labeled a rightist. WU Fan Fulfilled by students is the most typical one, because he told a joke: “painting tinfoil money, lose lose money coffin painted much exhausted, painted less starve..” Made complaints, so he labeled a rightist.
“Xinmin Weekly”: thank you and old at the time the situation is not good, especially the old Xie, said to have been some blow.
Mounted at Museum: the old man the outset in the text of the tube will be offended tube personnel of an old woman, is a Shandong. At that time no one would dare to offend her, Ink did not know for what, and she took the stage. Later this person out of the “tigers” movement, in fact, there will be no paper tubes guilty of corruption, and where they come from “big tiger”? Somehow concluded that the “big tiger” is Ink. In fact it was better than many people decide to buy a painting together. But she deliberately grasp pigtail. Said Ink painting charged with forgery, sold to the state. Shi Tao eight paintings that time the market less, but the old man there, chairman of the Management Committee on the text of the old man said:. “We like to buy, then sell it to us now.” So he took them cheap enough, a few hundred ten dollars one, two three hundred to block. Later, two said it was fake paintings. This is how it clear where we stand? Finally restitution. Eight paintings really good photograph, the original Zhang Daqian’s collection the restitution of one hundred and fifty dollars, Tang Yun fancy, pay out money by Tang Yun, painting gave him.
The old man was being held in the museum’s basement, write every day to help those paintings signed article, make cards. Later, the mayor Chen Yi came to understand the situation can not be said after this, and this saved the old man. Think about it, the old man suffered from this, of course, will say when fanfare. Xu Pingyu still good, Paul the old man cross the border, he was the Deputy Minister of Municipal Publicity Secretary for Culture, WU Fan, made Huizhu are under his protection, was not wearing the right hat. In fact, when he was working in Nanjing before we are good friends, he likes to draw, paint and we gave him a lot of painting. He once went to Hangzhou to see Huang, wonder, said: “Huanglao cataract, see it painted so dark, he did not mean to be so dark now how to engage, but feel painted black is good for him.? “Ha ha ha.
“Xinmin Weekly”: In 1956, you are in a Painting “Tianmu cuckoo” participate in the Shanghai Youth Art Exhibition, won the first prize, and later this painting also participate in the National Youth Art Exhibition, won the second prize, gained high reputation. This work is dedicated to the art exhibition and the creation of it?
Mounted at Museum: No, that painting thing. I went to photograph a painting come Tianmu manuscript. Painting is azaleas, plus a bird. Azaleas are large leaves, flowers are large, and our house is not the same as seeing. I feel very special, it drew a sketch, the creation of the painting back. Previously I have been painting landscapes in school, into the academy, Mr. Jiang Hanting said to me, Shanghai bird like many people, you see, Ren Bo, Changshuo are painted flowers and birds, so you still have to set a good bird, you can often go out sketching. I heard the words of Mr. Jiang. In that period I often Yelu Yuan, Hanting Jiang went to the nursery, which is now a botanical garden to paint. When I went to a lot of people, especially in the spring to see orchids, drew a lot of sketches.
“Xinmin Weekly”: Indeed, in addition to copying, painting is also a part of your very seriously. One cycle in your creative process, the light will have accumulated a good sketchbook dozens of different categories, the full range, from a flower, a leaf, to birds, fish and insects, landscape transform four o’clock, all eleven your pen. Until today, when you paint, sketch will still look at the year’s draft to find inspiration it?
Mounted at Museum: Yes. The so-called painting that Sheikh “Six,” Lane said, “should things pictographic.” West is called the basic exercises, also known painting. Our “should matter pictographic” best, contains many words mean. Song of the best landscape painting, bird, is painting, so I face painting, I also sketch. In school, I am in the West side painting, painting climbing roses, flowers climb that wall has been able to climb to the roof so long, I’ll get three rolls is rolled up, draw up from below, slowly drawn to high, this method stupid. Later in the academy, how to go out with a brush painting it, I took a brush, cut off the top, packed in a metal cigarette box, I have two tubes of eye drops bottles, plastic, ink absorption me a tube, a tube absorbent, get a small dish, two caps, one is slightly larger, squeeze a little water is drawn on top, lick when sketching with pen; a small, squeeze a little time for painting with ink when painting, just install a cigarette boxes.
Early in the school to study painting, always copy what the ancients, as is the understanding of some norms, tradition of excellence. Just a few years, I can learn some rudimentary theory of painting, modeling basics, let alone creative achievements. Long years after graduation, not limited by time and curriculum, they learn slowly. Over time, you can dictation and some familiar flowers and birds, respectively, and their morphology, structure and color. Due to the limited memory, can not remember when, repeatedly read the manuscript painting, it helped me to write down what they want to remember and remind yourself you can switch to a different theme.
In contrast, a number of artists now, too dependent on modern equipment, like a mobile phone with a camera and filmed the scene first, see what a rush. Painter, the depth of life if only superficial, that is not enough, be sure to real painting. Around plants and trees, can be art, as long as you have this thought and perseverance.
Grand talents mature slowly
“Xinmin Weekly”: Just for your painting to sophisticated skillful, the arrival of the “Cultural Revolution” You wasted a whole decade.
Mounted at Museum: “Cultural Revolution” began, the Red Guards ransacked our house all the paintings, the old man, and my collection, including our own paintings, and even ink stone, pen, ink, have been confiscated, a full copy of the two, the paper tube will once academy once. Even our family’s woolen clothes confiscated. “Cultural Revolution” ended, me and the old man took away a total of 130 pieces of art, are sold Duo Yun Xuan, gave us thirteen thousand dollars. Later, these paintings are sold to Hong Kong to go, return that year also opened the exhibition out of the album.
“Xinmin Weekly”: to pick up the brush is when?
Mounted at Museum: pick up the brush again about 1971, when they began to call us Painting to paint, because Nixon coming, Premier Zhou care, hotels must be arranged painting. We went to the Xin’an River to paint, came back to the hotel to draw layout JJ painting. I remember a room and Zhou Xia Lian.
“Xinmin Weekly”: Did arranged for the hotel painting painting. After the “Cultural Revolution” ended, thank you to Beijing with the old, as Beijing’s major hotels, embassies and other works of painting a large number of subtlety. This appears to be very high at the time courtesy.
Mounted at Museum: paintings arranged painting is from 1977 until 1983. Outset Beijing Artists Association invited us to go to the Beijing Hotel draw layout drawing. I tell you, do not look it is well-known hotel, but it was not our day outside the imagination is so good, the condition is still very hard. Think about that time and now a bad ratio. Although the condition is not good, but the reception of a high standard, the then Deputy Prime Minister and Mrs. Xi often to see us, and Gu Mu and more. Our first year in Beijing, once parties ask us, the best landscape painters, and the old man said to me, the best is Mr. Lu Yanshao painting landscapes which Shanghai. The second year we went to the Foreign Ministry to draw, there luk up.
“Xinmin Weekly”: In addition to the Beijing Hotel was also where the paint?
Mounted at Museum: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and later invited us, and go for the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, there are major embassies and consulates painting. Diaoyutai State Guesthouse is to entertain quite well. I remember the last time was into Zhongnanhai painting, painting for Ziguangge and Wu Ying layout drawing. Comrade Xiaoping Ziguangge receiving foreign dignitaries in place, to the best layout. So we draw very seriously. Several painters Beijing Central Academy was also transferred to painting, Haixia, Yu Zhizhen, etc., we were painting the big screen, seasons, spring photograph of me and the old man painting. Then painted birds and flowers are mostly remember Cheng Shifa also painted, a gold string and wind, great, impressed.
“Xinmin Weekly”: reform and opening up, not only to improve your life, but also get the opportunity to exchange access times out, the big eye-opener. Those years living in the United States, Western painting you a lot of research, especially impressionist painting artistic features, and make reference in their works to enrich the Chinese painting techniques with color, but also makes your style is one of the changes.
Mounted at Museum: Since the 1950s, I mainly painted birds. Bird specimens at the Natural History Museum painting, painting real flowers in the park nursery and feeding a lot of true birds, bird also copy a lot of the previous template. Around 90 years, I focused on learning painting landscapes, and multi-party composition, not rigidly stick to only hook cracked and point method. Slowly studied painting re-color from light colored, heavy color I began to learn the traditional big green. Traditional Golden heavy color method, the method is almost always cracked after coloring hook or hook cracked after coloring, and more to cyan, green-based, ocher, ink, Zhu, followed by white. At this time, I learned is that this painting.
Because a peek into the opportunity, I saw both sides of the mountain nature blooms, color fan such as Jin, these impressive and inviting colors, I am eager to put their income paintings; also a peek into the opportunity, let me learn and realize that nature is not only mountains, but also the northeast. Dedicated to the performance of the main color green landscape typical, which is representative of the writer in the history of creation and summarize a form of nature; and I saw in front of the mountain, it’s tall and prominent part, almost to white, and the water covered by the clouds of light, but also almost to black. These colors of nature, seasons endless variations, is difficult to learn hard to remember. Or I mentioned earlier, highly sophisticated techniques, learn it a sudden not only learn slowly.
Before the reform and opening up, to see things less, so look when work is quite old, and the level of general. Look after much more, especially after the reform and opening up, saw a lot of domestic and international exhibitions, eye-opening, gradually have some advantages and disadvantages of the traditional superficial understanding and selection of paintings from the West also benefited many colors . For example, the color of the Impressionists, China to the Tang Dynasty, mainly ink, and sometimes add a little color dismissively called Qianjiang. But the West’s impressionist colors used are very good, more change. I live in the United States in those years, as well Angeles climate all year round flowers. Soil volcanic belt is the most fat, do not own and then pouring fertilizer, long fruit good, flowers or. Spring blooms row on both sides of the road is too beautiful. Western painting is to see these things, and more color variation. I also like the color, so sometimes I use color, and learn to use, and slowly come, all of a sudden have a bad draw. Well a little more carefully, slowly learning. Until today, I also worked in the school, which to absorb nutrients. West learned something, I am currently still a schoolboy.
“Xinmin Weekly”: How do you evaluate your own life ink?
Mounted at Museum: my life, having chosen to study painting and put it as a career, this is a long time to do. Predecessors said, “life-long learning.” To old age, I realize this is a classic statement.
Emphasis on identification
“Xinmin Weekly”: In recent years, apart from you in painting and calligraphy, and a lot of time and effort invested in the identification of painting, not only in the convention for many years, “painting” questioned, but also personally led the establishment of cut-Hsuan ancient paintings Research Society, dedicated to the training of personnel to identify paintings. Why do not expect such a tedious and thankless job?
Mounted at Museum: tell you the truth, not only pleasing, but also time-consuming and costly. But I think that this thing must be done.
Now identified behind our country is the biggest problem of the last century 50’s Academy of Fine Arts in painting history department no. Now is the theory does not know the painting method, which is another kind of knowledge. Our own people to go out to paint the identification is made very clear that they have no way to find out. Because look at a painting, the most fundamental is to look at paintings, calligraphy look, just look at the bottom of silk material, seals and other not completely sure, many technical appraisal is only an auxiliary. In painting identification, perceptions are important. I am familiar with the clinical picture and the artist’s pen dynasties habits, as well as ink, inscription, record, and even silk weaving its way affect space and time and so on. Ink had engaged in the identification, the first motivation is not to when the “connoisseur”, but in order to draw a good picture. So he assiduously studied the ancients is “how painting”. As a result, through the study of the ancients “how to draw” on the one hand will draw on the successful experience of the ancients to their creative practice, it also increases the authenticity of works for the ancients identified eyesight. So, I think, do people want to know how to identify words, will draw a few strokes, there is perceptual. Understand painting and pen are not familiar with the characteristics of the artist’s style, and sometimes it will be deceived.
Especially today, the painting has become a commodity, so the authenticity of the issue has become the biggest problem. We are out of the “Complete Works of Song painting,” even print out a lot of foreign collections together, very clear, but many pieces did not even know the authenticity. Ancient Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Ink They identified that the Working Group on eight years after the end of a pile of books, but there are still many problems did not talk about, or really much more pseudo? Really where? Pseudo where? Do not talk about.
I think now it should be for each museum people together, the “Complete Works of Song painting” authenticity problem all clear. I say now is engaged in working conditions to identify the best of times, do not need to see the original tune warehouse, now printing, photography wise, good technological conditions, it is very clear print-out version, can be seen clearly in the local provide favorable conditions. When I sell paintings and old man’s money, they all take to buy two copies of the mysterious agency of HD, there are a lot of studies, local details, I filled an entire room. These are going to work hard for.
Our lives, to do a little merit. I teach people to look at the paintings, this is the merit.
