I always want to
force myself to do something other than what I know how to do. I think it’s a
transformation which hasn’t borne fruit but which will. In my works, I like to
use singularly skillful and subtle procedure, to seek renewal from the direct
impression of Nature as much as from a kind of poetic thoughts.
Led harmoniously,
form and colors in themselves produce poetry. Therefore everyone could feel the
sensation in front of a painting that brings us to a poetic state, depending on
the painter’s intellectual forces, which emanate from it. A real master translates not only forms and
colors from Nature, but also the ineffable charms repose in it. So there is
some truth in Plato’s words: “How do you think he would answer if he were told
that until then he has seen only ghosts, that now, before his eyes, are objects
more real and closer to the truth? Would he not think that what he saw before
was more real than what he is being shown?”By demonstrating
the unexplored aspects of Nature, a masterpiece extends the viewers’ visions.
Whenever I start
to paint, I am sunk in the intimate and incessant contemplation of Nature,
where I find everything poetic, and which is more than sufficient to start the
creative impulse. The undulate margins of the lotus leaves flowing gently in
the lovely cool breeze; having the curvilinear shapes, the leaves look like the
springing up waves with a splash. What is more, the veins of the lotus leaf at
the right moving in an upward direction is stimulating and suggestive of a kind
of dynamogenic qualities, evoking moods of liveliness and effervescence which
would be experience by the viewers. There is always something more elaborate
artistic concerns in an idealized type of subject which is not only an
orchestra, but also a diapason.
A painting, though
it is a logical construction and vigorous design, keeps something of the generalized
aesthetic feeling which records the pleasure of the artist. Whenever I work, I
draw with my hand, my heart with an eye toward the big confronter of my
feelings: a structural completeness to embrace the forms, the atmospheric
colors, the value of lines, as to render the rich, exuberant, and even florid
of Nature.
The composition of
this painting has been carefully contrived as to unite the relationship between
surface pattern and spatial recession, an interest which I communicate with the
sensibility of my own delight. I have been satisfied to make little isolated
records of the delight in the details of the lotus flower and the fluff of the
chicks. Especially the lotus flower is the most prominent part that I arrange
the light to let it receives the highest luminosity which makes it illuminates
the immediate surroundings. The flower also being treated as the gilt boss of a
bas-relief is echoed with the mellow sonance of diverse glimmering tones of the
chick and the leaf. The superfluous sinuosities of Nature turn into the
simplified statement by a process of gradual elimination. Therefore the
painting is devoid of profound distances of three dimensional spaces, though of
course, by means of atmospheric color, the gradational hues of greenery, the
eye may interpret these recessions as distance.
Behind the sensual
delight, that Nature herself present to our senses, is the tenet of musical principle,
by which all the constituent elements are welded together so well in their
union to perform the lyrical harmony and rhythms. I often manage to conceal poetry
and intelligence in my works through such secondary feeling of music which
strikes the deep chord in us.
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