A melancholy land - Hu Ning with his landscape oil paintings
(Qin An Jian)
Since reform, because the infiltration of impetuous psychology and commercialized utility consciousness that the society brings in transformation period, a lot of artists avoid reality, " that kind of public morality, suffering consciousness and social responsibility in order to seek fame and wealth, have been regarded as the thing out of date by a lot of people and thrown away.
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The contemporary artist, to the decline even disappearing of the consciousness of community responsibility, one ' the trade marks ' that nearly becomes. (Man’s square language) "' However, Hu Ning would rather be unusually calm, he didn't cater to the fashion and indulge in the popular image; But apathetic to shocking various phenomenon to flood society, he lonely ponder, the problem with closely bound up human survival of especially to environmental pollution, cultivated land etc. pays close attention to. What is called " less than one hundred year's old, cherish a thousand years' worries ", scenery's painting of Ning Hu is exactly what he is suffering carrier of consciousness. In fact, we cannot find many painters at the present such as Hu Ning enjoying with a lonely character.
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Hu Ning studied the mountains and rivers of the traditional Chinese Painting in the past, the practice of several decades, he had already known in landscape painting successfully: he taught at the Chengdu institute of Sichuan in mountains and rivers course of the traditional Chinese Painting since Sichuan institute's graduate student, has obtained numerous domestic rewards, the works have been exhibited in China mainland, Hong Kong and other places. But as a suffering consciousness and the social responsibility's artist such as Hu Ning, he does not give his life to beautiful mountain and rivers like ancient scholar, but face reality actively in the capacity of a modern intellectual, express himself heartfelt wishes informally, fulfill to a citizen and artist's due right and responsibility. In fact, it is exactly the practice of the traditional Chinese Painting mountains and rivers for many years, make him deeply in love with scenery's painting too, mountains and rivers impelling his special concern and feeling to reality to the high realm of human in mind, his recent scenery's painting especially reveal the strong feeling of an artist " born in the suffering ", it is painter's ideal personality too.
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Among his serial paintings, he always use a visual angle of panorama, describe those loud, big and modern machine tear merciless our beautiful land, vast and rich green land disappear gradually cause of the mankind for satisfied with the selfish desire that is ceaselessly expanded. The painter has abandoned that magnificent color of the canvas and chosen ink to be similar to black-and-white tone, in fact, it can express his heart melancholy pale accurately; Composition of panorama make Champaign spacious quiet, announce painter discover in the face of while in reality oneself so negligible again, loneliness like this, having no way out like this. Several group picture with oblique line cut apart enable the instability feeling that the composition produces at the vision, the ones that have expressed painter's heart are anxious and uneasy directly, especially in one of his series.
The painter explains to the realistic suffering, his works title is exactly painter's introspection and questioning of the realistic state. True, mountains and rivers' aesthetics can be seen in Hu Ning's scenery's painting everywhere; his melancholy makings actually reach the suffering to human destiny. In fact, the artist's life is that the personal training improves the course shown with the morals; Hu Ning's art has shown his suffering consciousness and good personality grade!
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Artists are all melancholy innately, from reaching western art masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Monk, etc., we have seen artist's melancholy individual character. Philippus Melanchthon divide being melancholy into two kinds of the hero's melancholy and harmful melancholy in " In terms of soul ", but the artist's melancholy must not be restrained. It means talents that melancholy, the artist's melancholy has two major characteristics: Ponder, and lonely, this is because the artist has conscientious " suffering consciousness ", scholar Mr. Yu Qiuyu thinks " suffering consciousness " is an artist's intuitive knowledge and due quality, this can be by finding out obviously in painter Hu Ning and his scenery's painting.
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