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COLORFUL INK’S REALM
The colorful ink painting of FENG Zhongyun is of an intensely liberate idiosyncrasy, his creative state almost reaches to a kind of frenzy from the soul. It is essentially a self narration of the soul, a natural revelation of his heart. With his painting brush, extrinsic substance seems to be withered by disassemble, restructured, concrete and visible image, substituting it for the vivid color mixed into painter's heart. He exposes his life to others, with his natural character full of abundant spirit, which is in tranquility yet without any fervency, while sometimes it is accompanied with a mysterious wilderness. It reflects a free, leisurely, sometimes bewildering shadow, and to him, art is a route accessible to freedom of soul.
FENG introduced himself in his own poetry album as a modern painter, a freelancer. Freedom is something that there is no obstacle encountering the common affair, and it is also a kind of state that follows the heart as desired. However, human is nevertheless a group-born social being, as an old saying goes like “self heaven is just other's hell”. For the purpose of freedom, someone has to transcendent between the rule of life and art, including self rule, while it is also a kind of solemnly tragic odor. FENG Zhongyun grew up in the hutong of Beijing, and he is keen on easy life without disguise. With the rule of life and art, he is actually a defender, just wishing to return to his own truthfulness.
FENG Zhongyun admits his painting as modernity, while he possesses the fine technique in tradition, while on the other He has been making efforts to breakthrough the tradition. In reality, he has done the most traditional deed, which he built a meditation temple in Haiyang County of Shandong Province. Hardly imagined, FENG threw himself into the traditional landscape scenery like the so called Blue Lantern and Yellow File, while he seemed to indulge in alcohol and song. FENG could not get rid of the bewilderment of this world, which is de facto an times voice, however he is clearly aware that that is his harbor of wandering soul when FENG built up a supernatural garden for himself in the remote mountain of Haiyang County.
FENG used to write a poetry titled Tasting Tea at the Top of Cloud, which described the meditation of his soul when stayed in the temple of Yuntai. “ Several leaves dipped into the water, still delicious after many cups; asked about the meaning of tea taste, which is clean water with green leaves.” It sounds like an anchoret that stays in wilderness. Indeed, FENG, who are always intoxicated, is a totally commonality in such an uproar world. If a man is truly secular, he would naturally contemplate the supernatural realm. FENG can be intoxicated during dancing and singing, seeking the life’s comfort, indulging in the melody interweaved between the alcohol and entertainment. However, his nature is, without doubt, simple and sheer. He can keep himself to sit watching the cloud rising, overwhelming against the mountain after experiencing life's fervency.
FENG Zhongyun has been pursuing such a colorful ink realm in both his life and art, and his colorful-ink world is pure and transparent. FENG creates an abundant and self-spiritual new realm by his unique colorful system as he is basically in a deep tradition, while his traditional brush-ink associates with the colorful exploration fraught with modernity. The sense of times he creates is obviously appeared, and the colorful mixture between block and flat is like an expressive factor full of modern abstract meaning, seeming like a metaphor to the times.
FENG Zhongyun’s work can be divided into two categories, which one is traditional theme, pursuing the quietly tranquility and classic passion, which another is his colorful creation, pouring out his own tales. His colorful ink world is full of meticulous fascination, integrating the color with ink, with the surface of picture massy yet no lacks of clarity, providing for a strong abstract factor. FENG’s creation is incline to free, random and occasional too, in comparison with traditional paintings as to its determined brush ink characteristics, his colorful ink of painting is close to an undetermined occasional vividness in brush stroke, forming an intense tension, visually exciting, while the introspection and tranquility of the traditional painting are weakened, substituting it with modern, conceptive, abstract and structured beauty. That is the true beauty emanating the strength of life’s vitality.
Infusing the life’s ideology into the painting, enabling the painting to avoid mechanic copying and deadly forming, making the art return to its own nature, it forms the artistic melody of FENG’s painting by his artistic fervency and alcoholic idiosyncrasy. Through this point of view, I feel that painting is just a media that FENG tries to convey his life, and it has more widely view behind the painting, which is the profundity of life’s liberation.
ARTICLE ABOUT FENG ZHONGYUN’S SKETCH:
Written by LIU Changchun
A blank paper is empty and lonesome, while a pencil walks around on it freely; every point and every line wind up unconsciously a vivid, lively world with life. Gazing at these dimly appeared pictures, the noise, song, struggle, cry, softness and moisture of the world appear out spiritually, and the single relationship between paper and pencil becomes attractive fascination, which FENG is particularly fond of.
Material world seems to build up a special kinship with FENG, and he can always finds the most appropriate words for interpretation when dialogue with Nature.
FENG has liquor all the time, and often drinks enjoyably; but he never falls down, however the more he drinks, the brighter his eyes are; and his words are almost up to sky. It is probably the real abstraction of his life’s revelation.
As a result, his abstract sketch is full of the smell of liquor in nature, while the leisurely calm appearance always reflects a kind of wisdom, which might be the spiritual expression right after communicating with God. Actually, the pencil held on his hands seemingly possesses a free will, creating a miracle on the white paper in liberation. Each point and line are drawn leisurely, dimly appeared; but occludes a closely structured relationship within, literally layer by layer while incessantly extending an imaginative space for the spectator. It is the colorful world flashed by the material world. Let us peacefully enjoy each point and each line of FENG’s sketch draft.
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