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Accidental without Principles, Inevitable with Principles
----Interpretation of Bi Keyan’s ink Works
Bi Keyan’s ink works in recent years firstly give an impression of oddity, surge, and disorder, when your visual memory seems to find some clues, it abruptly becomes quite another scene; When you simply appreciate it as abstract ink painting, the traditional factors in the scene will pull you back to familiar rules. Mountains and stones which are integrated with clouds are bizarre, you probably can’t find appropriate adjectives to describe its beauty, and I believe this kind of feeling does not only exist in my heart.
Her painting process is like this, “with general layout and arrangements in mind, then I can spill, pour, toss and spot on the xuan paper with light inks, leaving some strange and abstract images, and then to organize, split and shape these accidental images, to make the abstract to idiographic, irrational to rational.”(Bi Keyan “My Experience in Painting Creation”) Once people got understand her painting process, the doubt to oddity and surge will disappear; accidental without principles is only the surface appearance, while the inevitable with principles is the intrinsic factor.
As an ancient saying goes, “to learn from the Creator and get apperception from the heart”. Bi Keyan’s works come from her inner heart not from the Creator; there is inevitablity in accidenality. Of course, this is not like Bi’s own sayings, she believes that the starting point of taste of her ink works attributes to her respect and imitation to the ancient painters, especially MiShi’s clouds mountain.
The situation of Mishi’s is namelessly illusory, but it is the change in inevitablity, it is expression from confidence, and excellent painting from fancy. While Bi Keyan’s paintings enter from an unknown state, the process of her fancy is replaced by accidental douse process; every douse is a process of exploration, because the artist
cannot controlthe free fall of water; every ooze and tinge is a kind of stimulation and challenge to the artist. ZhangDaqian pours color, Liu Haisu pours ink, they let the bound of pouring be limited to the object body structure, they pour for shape, for structure. However, Bi Keyan seeks for non-stereotypical and accidental from the beginning, the relation between the whole picture and structure depend upon the accidental configuration and then adjust. In this sense, her approach is close to modern Western art schools in the comprehensive three-dimensional approach, or is close to the abstract expressionism of droping of colored pattern.The difference lies in her latter painting section, the careful closure after the bold beginning represents the return of traditional Chinese ink painting symbol. Combination of Chinese and Westen, in her words, “using modern methods of composition, cutting the screen so that the screen has a strange aesthetic effect, but it will also increase the modernity of the works” . From the system of all symbols in her paintings, there is no doubt to say they are from traditional Chinese ink paintings, but the whole structure is accidental and composed. She could efficiently make use of the resources from east and west, and benefit a lot fromthese two cultures by this way. This is also the impression I got from Bi Keyan’s recent works published in “ Means of Chinese Calligraphy”, but what makes me feel pity is that these works have no names or titles, so I have to name them in this way.
In fact, my interpretation is never to praise her optionally. If she separates the two culture resources, and focus on only one of them, the effect of works, the strength of the picture, and the so-called oddity and surge would undoubtedly weaken.
Every Chinese artist wants to achieve the realm from rules to non-rules. In fact, pure non-rules is impossible, every artist is confined or limited, this kind of limit or confinement are from image resources, education background, or personal individuality. To an artist, especially in the field of Chinese ink paintings which has a profound tradition, it is really a blessing to find a free feeling and benefit from different resources; from the perspective of artist creation style, not every artist has this kind of opportunity.
Being an artist, Bi Keyan has digged a deep well, the it is uneasy to dry, and it already has brought coolness and cleanliness to us; and many people are still desperately digging on the land around her.
May, 2008
Louhen House of Jinling
作者:Gu Chengfe
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