Gulangyu is coming to Shanliwa.
Gulangyu, with its natural beauty, has fascinated all the guests and friends in the world. Gulangyu Art School-Fujian Arts and Crafts School is located on this "mirage". For half a century, this cradle of muses has fulfilled the childhood dreams of many talents! 199 1 September, Lin Jiawei's passion was hard to restrain, because he entered the cradle of this muse, and from then on, he will dream here. Lin Jiawei, who lives in Houping, a small mountain village in northern Fujian, has never attended art classes from primary school to junior high school. He didn't know what sketch and sketch were until he went to Nanping No.3 Middle School half a year before the senior high school entrance examination.
Wow, you can't even sketch, and you want to take an art school? What a hill girl! The students in the city laughed.
-What happened to Shanliwa? Stubborn by nature, he doubled his sprint! See more, think more, and don't be shy about asking questions. During the day, he has a culture class in No.3 Middle School, and at night, he rushes to the studio several miles away to make up lessons. He also practiced sketching under mosquito nets at night ... Lin Jiawei passed the exam! Shanliwa, who doesn't know the small land, finally jumped into the "Longmen"! In the meantime, the price and hardships he paid were only clear to Mr. Zhang in the studio. Teacher Zhang firmly believes that as long as he keeps working hard and under the guidance of famous teachers, this knowledgeable and promising disciple will definitely become a new star in the art world!
After receiving the admission notice, Houping Village is more lively than the New Year. Leaders from villages, towns and even counties came to congratulate ... Weiwa, be sure to cherish it! Grandpa went through the tunnel. What is Gulangyu Island in the eyes of the mountain people? It's a paradise on earth. It's a blessing to be able to study on that island for 800 years! The whole family and villagers sent him all the way to the railway station bound for Xiamen.
Ah, goodbye Hou Ping! Goodbye, raise me, raise my mountain in northern Fujian! I will live up to my expectations ... Looking at the distant peaks, Xiao Jiawei feels a little sour in his nose. Oh, mountains, mountains; Mountain-or mountain ... straight to the point, it's all mountains. Go home from school, chop wood behind the slope, "play hide and seek" and "fight guerrilla warfare" with friends. When don't you climb mountains? Since he opened his eyes to see the world, this mountain has become everything to him. Mountain products, who can't finish eating, can't finish listening to folk songs, can't drink enough mountain spring water, and his grandmother's milk made him a real mountain girl. Forever and ever, the simplicity, kindness, diligence and persistence of the mountain people, as well as the aura of the mountain stream, have penetrated into the soul of this mountain baby.
Hey, Gulangyu, I'm coming, the art school is coming! Being in a fairyland-like campus, Wei Jia shouted in his heart.
But art school is not a safe for lazy people ... genius and diligence are the only way out for artists! The headmaster's speech at the opening ceremony was deeply impressed on Jia Wei's heart. So the teachers found that Shanliwa, who was the smallest and started the latest, was the hardest-working student. Four years later, the only miyoshi student in the whole grade stayed in school to teach. ...
Speaking of sculpture, there is an interesting story. The third grade began to be divided into majors. At that time, sculpture was not as popular as it is today. Compared with painting or decoration, it is not only slow to make money, but also more difficult to pay. Therefore, many people are unwilling to report this upset, and several students assigned to the sculpture class are crying. As an excellent student with the highest professional score, Wei Jia has the priority to choose a major, but in order to help counselors do their work well, he took the lead in "choosing" sculpture. Unexpectedly, this "sacrifice" paved the way for his future career. Once in the state, he is more like a duck to water. Since then, Michelangelo, Rodin, Mayor, Pan He ... these world-renowned masters have entered his life with immortal artistic language.
Self-sculpture
Paintings are for people to see, songs are for people to listen to, and sculptures? Both. This ancient and young art, which originated from ancient humans, not only gives people an "audio-visual" feeling, but also communicates emotions with its unique language, conveys joy and sadness, and impacts the soul of the viewer with passion.
Students, please take a look at the similarities and differences between Michelangelo's Mourning Christ 500 years ago and this German bronze sculpture Mourning the Virgin of Kloc-0/936. They are all adapted from the same story in the Bible, and they also express the grief of a loving mother who lost her son, but the latter used the topic to convey the groans of ordinary people and the voice of anti-war during World War II. If the author "carves" blindly and is indifferent to the things around him, can he create touching works? In the appreciation class, Wei Jia looks with his eyes, listens with his heart and thinks with his brain. Isn't the soul of the sculpture ready to be vividly portrayed the voice of the author? As he said in his notes, I should not only learn the basic theories and skills necessary for sculpture, but also understand the essence of masters' creation. How to create impulse without going deep into life? Without passion and love, how can a work have flesh and blood, spirit and soul? If you want to sculpt, you must constantly sculpt yourself.
From then on, he loved life more and cared more about others. His enthusiasm for studying with the class committee inspired everyone. The whole class chased each other and often worked until midnight with candles lit. Professor Wang Zejian, a master sculptor, is still boasting after many years. I have taught many sculpture classes, and the class of 95 moved me the most! The ugly duckling turned into a white swan, and the League branch led by Jia Wei was once rated as an excellent League branch in Fujian Province. ...
Carve the soul of mountains and seas
The mountain has spirit, and the sea has soul. Don't believe it? After reading Lin Jiawei's series of sculptures, I will definitely come to this conclusion. Whether it is crying ghosts and gods, Changhong's Majiang naval battle will defend the Qing army against the invaders to the death; Or forge ahead into the future and re-create for the brilliant "pioneer"; Or "jingwei", save the day, fill the sea for the people, and dare to sacrifice ... even a grass, even a piece of wood, should give them the rhythm of life. You see, this cracked washboard has been used for many generations. A-mei shouted several times. What age is it now? Why are you still using this stupid thing? Grandma hid it like a baby. That's your grandmother's dowry in those days, bearing the imprint of our generations! Wei Jia, on the other hand, artistically reproduces Ah Nai's wrinkled hand with the feeling of life, endowing the years with the "autumn sound" and engraving gratitude to the mountains.
1997, his "One Country, Two Systems" was selected as an excellent work for the 45th anniversary of the school. It is displayed in the center of Toyama Exhibition Hall. Expert comment: The author captured the facial expression of Comrade Xiaoping. His eyes sparkled with wisdom, his closed lips and frowning brows portrayed the bold, cheerful, enthusiastic and rigorous character of the characters, while his arm pointing the country made the finishing point, showing the strong will and broad mind of a generation of great men to the fullest.
-Art school, the mother of Shanliwa's artistic life, and Lin Jiawei will always be your student. 1998, he bid farewell to his beloved alma mater with a very contradictory mood and swam to the vast business sea. He creates, he wants to shape the voyage of life. However, the school's creative funds are tight, and sometimes even the soil necessary for sculpture is in short supply, not to mention the sculpture art needs continuous investment. He can't wait for the years, and he urgently needs the necessary funds to back up his creation! There is nothing to be done about choking the salt, but the mountain soul is cast after all, and Shanliwa finally survived the beating of the wild waves! At the same time of initial accumulation, the Zhongwei sculpture studio he founded also quietly took root and sprouted, spitting out a little new core.
In China Sculpture Art Festival in 2000, experts gathered, and a sculpture caused a heated debate among Chinese and foreign experts. This is Lin Jiawei's award-winning work "Protecting the Ancient". This work is "fantastic", which actually puts the head of the Terracotta Warriors in the body of the Greeks, and skillfully uses the beauty of Venus, causing a shock from vision to soul, thus highlighting the theme of "protecting human cultural relics and historic sites". This "absurd" expression technique appears from time to time in his works in recent years. It shows that Javey is not only inheriting, but also innovating. He used the language of sculpture to convey the emotion and passion of the soul.
"Westbound to Ban Chao" is a huge relief in the order of Zhang Qian's voyage to the West, which artistically reproduces the historical picture of the ancient Silk Road between Ban Chao and his son. Facing the 63-meter-long "story of the West" with thousands of people, you have to sigh his interpretation of life, reminding you of the great strategy of strengthening national unity and implementing the western development. ...
Of course, in the face of the sea of carving mountains and carving arts, the young defender looks very immature. He also needs to care, temper and absorb more nutrients from life and art; Only when you are young will you have an infinite future. However, we have to remind Shanliwa that they all aim at "carving souls from mountains and seas" and don't forget to "carve themselves".
-Zhang Yiqi's Sculpting the Soul of Mountains and Seas