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Gao Dexing's ink art realm.

*Sanzhutang Art Space* 三竹堂藝術空間


Contemporary Chinese Painter Mr. Gao Dexing高德星:


Who comes in the morning and gets drunk in the forest with frost? Daiyu wrote a poem, "The shadow of the crane is crossing the cold pond, and the soul of the flower is buried in the cold moon"; Su Shi also said, "Picking up all the cold branches and refusing to rest on them, the lonely sandbank is cold"; similarly, in the works of Mr. Gao Dexing, there are also It is full of the charm of cold style and high simplicity of artistic conception. Although it is lonely and silent, it is infinitely rich, just like the wind has traveled eight hundred miles, and finally in the cold autumn, after experiencing the wind and frost of the mortal world, you can know the beauty of heaven and earth and the sweetness of life.


Mr. Gao Dexing 高德星, whose courtesy name is Henglu, was born in Nanjing in 1959. He is on contemporary Chinese painter. Former director of the Flower and Bird Painting Research Institute and member of the Art Committee of the Jiangsu Traditional Chinese Painting Academy, dean of the Jiangsu Ziyun Painting and Calligraphy Academy, chief supervisor of the Jiangsu Flower and Bird Painting Research Association, executive vice chairman of the Jiangsu Qunwen Art Research Institute, and Fine Arts of Nanjing Normal University A part-time professor at the college and a national first-class artist.


Endless romance


Fortunate cloud


Shore of heart


His works have participated in major academic activities at home and abroad and won many awards. The work "Returning Wild Geese" was selected for the 8th National Art Exhibition; the work "Boundless Wind and Moon" was selected for the 10th National Art Exhibition; the work "Auspicious Clouds" won the Silver Award for Jiangsu Art Works in "Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Mao Zedong's "Speech at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art"". National Art Works Exhibition Excellence Award; the work "Heart Shore" won the Jiangsu Province Art Works Exhibition Excellence Award for the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China, and was selected into the Jinling National Chinese Painting Exhibition of One Hundred Jinling; "Yangchun" won the second prize in the "National Soul and Land Conditions National Chinese Painting Grand Prix" Award; the work "Harmony" won the Jiangsu Outstanding Works on the 65th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China and the Jiangsu Provincial Wenhua Award.


The blue sea is like mountains and the setting sun is like blood


Morning


He has held personal art exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Turkey, Canada and other places. His works are collected by major art galleries, museums, the Central Military Commission Building, the China Artists Association and major galleries at home and abroad. His works and biographies have been compiled into large collections such as "Chinese Contemporary Artists Painting Library", "Modern Flower and Bird Painting Library", "Chinese Contemporary Flower and Bird Painting" and "Jiangsu Art Journal". Published more than 20 personal collections of paintings.


Spring breeze dawn and charm


Desert style


Mr. Gao Dexing is a Manchu and his ancestral home is Liaoning. Since his father joined the Northeast Army in his youth and was an officer under the patriotic general Zhang Xueliang, this "historical issue" cast a shadow on Mr. Gao Dexing's childhood and laid many obstacles for his growth. The bitter years have cultivated his character of being lonely and taciturn, but this has also made him feel connected with the Badashan people in his heart, which makes some of his works after learning painting have a bit of "horizontal painting and vertical painting". It means that if you wipe thousands of pages, there will be no more ink dots and more tears."


Winter rain


The sky is quiet and mysterious


His inner wisdom prompted Mr. Gao Dexing to fall in love with painting early, and he lingered in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties during his decades of artistic journey. He looked for simplicity and heaviness in the tablets of the Han and Wei dynasties, subtlety and elegance in the courtyard paintings of the Song Dynasty, and vastness and etherealness in the sketches of the Yuan and Ming dynasties. He admired the uniqueness and novelty of the "Eight Eccentrics" who were not limited to ancient methods or formulas. He absorbed the freehand emphasis in the paintings of Zhao Zhiqian and Wu Changshuo. He understood the dialogue between Lin Fengmian's color and ink. He introduced Qi Baishi's interest in "life". He also follows the ancient and simple style of Bada.


Winter clouds


Cold branches


Badashan people are known for their simplicity in appearance and elegance in meaning. Mr. Gao Dexing has been immersed in the artistic conception and ink of the Eight Great Works for a long time, and obtained their essence and interest.


2018 Prosperous spring time


Listen to the rain


Freehand brushwork means "writing" - the pen used in calligraphy is straightforward and flexible; "meaning" - what is in the heart. "Freehand brushwork" does not mean hasty, simple, and thick strokes, but the objects in the painting reveal their hidden "meaning", that is, thoughts and realms. What pays more attention to is the spiritual sustenance and yearning of "people" themselves. Just like Bada Shanren's "Painter's East-West Shadow", paintings have their own shapes, but they are not paintings of "things", but transcend shapes and transcend the shapes themselves. Unbridled wonders arise, and emotions arise.


Flowers without ugly branches


Relaxed and at ease


The important link that connects the concise and implicit pen and ink with the sublime and moving artistic conception is the original exaggerated and deformed image. Reading Mr. Gao Dexing's flower and bird paintings, the trees in the paintings sprout branches in the sky, showing a strange tension; the rocks in the paintings are large and small, like rising mushroom clouds; the birds in the paintings shrink their necks, arch their backs, bulge their bellies and stretch their legs, as if they are about to spread their wings and soar. Expressive human eyes are transplanted into eagles, making them frightened, aloof, childish, or pensive - with a life-like expression and a moving interest. He writes about birds in the same way as people, and expresses people's character with the bird's expression. In the painting, Mr. Gao Dexing finally meets his favorite Bada Shanren.


The green mountains are painted without ink for thousands of years, and the green water is a stringless harp for thousands of years.


Heaven and earth are long


Mr. Gao Dexing is good at painting flowers and birds, as well as landscapes. Those exaggeratedly deformed spiritual birds are either clear and proud, or weeping and wailing, or fluttering their wings high, radiating a strange aesthetic light; the background is simple and unconventional, such as pond reeds, sparse shadows of bamboo branches, or dead branches and leaves. , or the dawn wind and the waning moon, a stone, a cloud, all express the mood of various lives in different environments, all have a Zen meaning of movement and stillness, reflecting the power of life, and at the same time becoming the expression and expression of the painter's self-image. Portrait of personality. Herbs, the heart of wood, the traces of nature; clouds and mountains, autumn water, letters from white geese.


2019 Prosperous spring time


Cold weather moon marks


While inheriting tradition, Mr. Gao Dexing also tries to integrate traditional taste into contemporary aesthetics. Under the influence of modern aesthetic taste, composition methods and new ink painting situations, he created an ink painting pattern that has a measured opening and closing, creates momentum in danger, combines work and painting, and creates a multi-dimensional environment, which has won a lot of attention in the Chinese contemporary painting circle. reputation.


Autumn is warmer


Song Dynasty word meaning


Reading through the reviews, some people saw the landscape techniques and spatial awareness in his flower-and-bird paintings; some admired his superb painting ability; some commented that his large-paced compositions were wild and strange, and some read the humor in his paintings. feel.


There are only two or three branches that are pleasing to the eye


Sky fragrance


However, Mr. Gao Dexing's personal pursuit is not only about novel patterns and rich writing. Although flower-and-bird paintings use natural flowers and birds as their themes, they express the subject's emotional interest and aesthetic experience, as well as the author's entire personality and spiritual world. Regardless of ancient times or contemporary times, all mature people have their own original formal language expression techniques and techniques. It can also be said that all their means of expression are created for the needs of freehand brushwork. Only in this way can law and intention be intertwined and a high degree of unity and perfection of artistic form and content can be achieved. This is exactly Mr. Gao Dexing’s lifelong pursuit and achievement.


Every night


Doesn't know how deep the clouds are


Bada Shanren and even Jian created Zhifeng, and Mr. Gao Dexing went after Bada, trying to dilute his efforts and try to match his writing with the eternal and new spirit of the universe, full of simplicity and profoundness. Just like the current frost season, when the cold air at night condenses the moisture in the air into frost, you will obviously feel a sense of constriction and sinking solemnity. Only by being like Mr. Gao Dexing can one be filled with heart and be prosperous. "The wind blows and the clear frost disappears, and the sky is covered with frost."



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