--- A Note on Chinese Female Painter Ren Ran
Text/Wei Ligang (President of the International Society of Calligraphy and Imagery)
No matter how mysterious art seems to outsiders , nobility, glory, for an artist it is completely unique as a gamble. It requires a gambler's piety, persistence, hunger, and trembling. It requires absolute devotion and disregard for everything. Enthusiasm and enthusiasm courage.
Ren Ran studied calligraphy and painting under a teacher since she was a child, and her handwriting is still left in front of the streets of the ancient capital. One year, the snow fell heavily, reflecting the red light of the lanterns hanging all over the place. I actually learned the name of her courtyard from an old man based on the remaining address. At that time, I thought to myself: This guy is indeed a celebrity in the ancient city. Ren Ran has painted lacquer paintings and studied in the Department of Crafts of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. His imitations of ancient paintings such as "Night Banquet Picture", "Five Cow Picture" and "Lady with Hairpin Flowers" are so profound that they may look real. She studied art under Liu Wenxi, Vice Chairman and Executive Chairman of the Chinese Artists Association and President of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, which cultivated her good artistic foundation and released her brilliance in calligraphy creation.
Ren Ran, who also works in various styles, is especially good at regular script and running script. His regular script is inspired by Fa Liu Gongquan and Ouyang Xiu's writing style, which is strong and strong, with strong bones, calm demeanor, calm and elegant. It also has the ancient charm of Han Li, and the momentum of the inscriptions is like stars among the rivers and Han. His cursive script was first learned from Wang Xi's father and son. It is solemn and smooth, and it also incorporates the elegance of He Shaoji in the Qing Dynasty, and then borrows the ups and downs of You Ren in the Republic of China to be open-minded. In Xi'an, I once entered the house of Wei Junxiu, the great calligrapher of today, and got to know him personally. I learned to nourish calligraphy with knowledge. I was immersed in Wei Junxiu's graceful, strange appearance, green and simple aura, and I was fascinated and intoxicated. . . . . . . A few years ago, in the Fushan Stele Forest on the Fenhe River in Taiyuan, Shanxi, Ren Ran was amazed when faced with hundreds of original large inscriptions. After sitting cross-legged for several days, he realized the secrets of heaven and realized the rush, entanglement and entanglement of Fushan's continuous cursive writing. , Pibo's energy melted into his wrist. He also studied Huai Su's Kuang Cao, making his cursive writing more sophisticated. The preface to Orchid Pavilion, horizontal scrolls, vertical scrolls, couplets and traditional Chinese painting figures, landscapes, flowers and birds have been successfully held in the touring exhibitions of Guangdong Ancient and Modern Auction Co., Ltd. Long-term engaged in advertising planning work, Foshan Haiyue Restaurant, Foshan Yicui Garden, Nanhai Yicui Garden, Zhangcha Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., Elegant Building Decoration Art Components Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Meiyuan Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd., Shunde Glass Co., Ltd., Guangxi Baijinlong Liquor Co., Ltd., Guangdong Zuimingjishan Tea Company, and Yangcheng Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Children's Seven Star Tea) all retain her handwriting. . . . . .
Ren Ran inherited the majestic spirit of the northwest, and now he is nourished by the beautiful water of Lingshan Mountain in southern Guangdong. He holds a huge pen like a rafter, composes a piece of wonderful music on silk, and spreads his wings to soar into the sky. She attempts to be in an atmosphere of artistic experience and creative spirit through calligraphy and painting. Only in this atmosphere did she feel comfortable all over, like a fish in water. Trying to impose various restrictions on her intentionally or unintentionally, in order to express the object, and at the same time blur the object, pursuing and searching for the emptiness of her inner world and the depth of the external world.
When she does this, she is truly doing her part as an artist. Every change she makes moves in a deeper, broader, and broader direction, and every exploration she makes is a step closer to true art. As a painter, she is still quite young, and we cannot estimate how far she will go, but I believe, and let us wish her well, that she will realize her great and sincere artistic ideals step by step. . . . . . ——The spiritual purpose of Ren Ran’s art
Text/Zhao Xinge, Director Professor of Tongzhou Campus of China Academy of Art
Ren Ran’s comprehensive artistic accomplishment not only benefited from the influence of his family, but also The result of her years of hard work. Ren Ran was born in the land of Sanjin with rich cultural heritage. Grandma is good at embroidery and paper-cutting. Her grandfather is a calligrapher and has a profound knowledge of traditional poetry. She spent her childhood in a sea of ??books with a faint fragrance of ink. Ren Ran graduated from high school and worked as a painter in a local lacquerware factory, which deepened her understanding of traditional arts and crafts. At Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, she painted diligently, wrote calligraphy diligently, read a large number of classics and stayed up all night every day. She often visited the Mosan Forest of Steles and was amazed by the inscriptions and murals. She copied and carefully compared the works of famous artists from all over the world. In the early 1990s, Ren Ran went south to Foshan, founded an advertising company, and engaged in trademark design and production. With diligence and solid painting skills, her design style has been well received by local people.
Opportunities always come to those who are prepared. Ren Ran's diligence gave her the opportunity to enter the first master's class of landscape painting creation and research studio of the China Academy of Art for further study. The students in this class are older and have higher skills. Among the 20 students, she is the only female student.
Ren Ran’s rich life experience and unremitting pursuit of art have given him a comprehensive painting style and diverse techniques. Traditional Chinese painting is a genre that Ren Ran has created a lot of in recent years. Her works can absorb many of the tastes of traditional literati paintings and express broad and profound artistic qualities with hearty freehand brushwork. Ren Ran's landscape paintings show a kind of grandeur and boldness. The composition is composed of many criss-crossing mountain foothills, thick peaks, vast trees, and lush greenery. There is stillness in the movement, movement in the stillness, and infinite vitality. Ren Ran visited famous mountains and rivers all over the world, which broadened her vision and mind. She painted the uncanny craftsmanship and graceful beauty of nature on silk, achieving artistic sublimation. Ren Ran's works are good at cutting corners, and the combination of hillsides and rocks reflects the leisurely contentment of people living in the mountains. Ren Ran, who was born in the north, came to Foshan and was nourished by the beautiful water of Lingshan Mountain in southern Guangdong, and the experience of his works has reached a new level. Thanks to his calligraphy skills and understanding of pen and ink, Ren Ran's freehand figure paintings are fast, white and flowing, with exaggerated language and powerful structure. One picture of Zhong Kui slaying demons with his sword reproduces the spiritual charm of ink painting of figures in which white appears as black. The Budai monk, who has the world in his heart, smiles brightly and is full of energy, showing the Zen thought of always being happy and welcoming the world.
Ren Ran has a unique research on calligraphy, and she often spends sleepless nights trying to figure out how to use real cursive script. In her early years, she also visited the forest of stone inscriptions in various places, and studied and learned from the strengths of many experts in order to gain a comprehensive understanding. Ren Ran's calligraphy style is heroic and unconventional. The brush is bold and powerful. It is not as delicate as women's calligraphy, but more embodies the elegance of a literati and the flavor of the times. Ren Ran's calligraphy and painting skills have been fully utilized in advertising design. She integrated calligraphy into trademark production and designed a number of trademarks with different styles that combine classical and modern elements. Ren Ran often paid close attention to the inscriptions and murals to observe the exercises, and gradually formed her artistic style that later combined the strengths of many artists and integrated modern elements into the traditional essence. Her early experience in folk lacquer painting and her modern approach to advertising design in Foshan also gave her works a strong sense of decoration, with darker colors and strong color contrasts. Especially in tempering his own pen and ink language, he highlights the beauty of the scattered and jagged shapes of mountains and rivers. Regarding art, Ren Ran has a dream: to go global and become a great artist. Ren Ran has been pursuing this dream for decades. Now, Ren Ran is realizing his dream step by step. ——Appreciation of the art of calligraphy and painting by Ren Ran
Text/Chu Huaisen: Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Calligraphy Association, Honorary President of the Songzhuang Traditional Chinese Painting Academy of China
The land of the Three Jin Dynasties has been full of treasures and outstanding people since ancient times. . Wu Zetian, Sima Guang, Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty, Haowen of the Jin Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, Hanqing of Yuan Guan, and Fu Shan and Dong Shouping of modern times all came from Shanxi, the fertile land that nurtured Chinese civilization. Growing up in Pingyao, a famous historical and cultural city in China, Ren Ran inherited the spirit of the sages and was influenced by traditional culture. With his unique orchid heart quality, he worked diligently in Linchi since childhood. After years of hard work, he has now become another calligrapher and painter from Jinyang. A group of young and middle-aged artists.
The art of calligraphy has always been a traditional expression of Chinese art. Its universality and practicality have formed its appreciation of formal beauty. As the birthplace of Shanxi merchants and banknotes during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the ancient city of Pingyao not only left behind the spectacular ancient city walls and the magnificent murals of Shuanglin Temple, but also passed down the enthusiasm for culture and art from generation to generation. As a teenager, Ren Ran was impressed by the traditional Chinese calligraphy styles of seal, official script, regular script, running script, and cursive script. She studied calligraphy assiduously in order to become one of the ancients. She attacked hundreds of schools of calligraphy, studied the inscriptions and inscriptions of famous writers, and gradually understood the true meaning of calligraphy through Liu Gongquan, Ouyang Xun, and Wang Xizhi, and later formed Ren's calligraphy style of strong penmanship, full strength, and free and easy style.
Ren Ran's calligraphy works are free and easy, and his momentum is self-satisfied. From my perspective, one of them is "release": Mrs. Wei said: "Horizontally, it's like a formation of clouds thousands of miles away, but it's faint but actually tangible"; point, "It's like a dangerous rock on a high peak, bumping and collapsing is like a collapse"; sideways, " "The land is broken like a screen"; the hook is like "a hundred guns are angry"; the upright is like "long live withered vines"; the back is like "collapsing waves and thunder running"; the fold is like "strong crossbow tendon joints". Ren Ran's book can be said to be the essence of it. The second is "smooth": the writing is ups and downs, the legal structure is leisurely, the writing is carefree, and it is natural and self-contained. There is a sense of pleasure in "appreciating the world, admiring the saints, and embodying the charm of famous people". It has three levels of "qi": Ren Ran's calligraphy is characterized by smooth air flow, majestic momentum, and rich charm, and his play is not limited to legal rules.
Just as the ancient Shen Zongjian explained Qi in "Gate Zhou Xue Hua Bian": "Everything in the world is made up of the accumulation of Qi, that is, like mountains and rivers, from mountains to mountains to every tree and stone, all of them have vitality running through them. This is To be complex but not chaotic, to be few but not dry, to combine them together and to form a unified whole, and to separate them and form their own shapes, all things are not the same, and all changes are not the same. In short, this is what unites the Qi to show the interest of its activities. This is the so-called momentum."
Ren Ran's paintings are also very exquisite, and the figures, landscapes, flowers and birds are all in his own way, and they become wonderful. Regardless of shape, composition, lines, colors and themes, or artistic languages ??such as points, lines, surfaces, colors, light and shadow, and visual images, they are all skillfully used and varied. His landscape painting "Sunny in Western Sichuan" has clever composition and proper management. The main scenery is focused, the secondary scenery is well-contrasted, and the distant view is clearly visible. The beautiful and picturesque natural scenery of the southwest is successfully reproduced in the form of art.
The world itself is a work of art. In nature, mountains and rivers reflect each other, vegetation and trees depend on each other, and the arrangement of nature forms its own pattern. It is from this natural structure that the painter should understand the rules of painting. How a painting captures the macroscopic world is the artist's primary consideration. The recognition of natural beauty is the prerequisite for artistic expression of the world. In the figure painting "Mountain Flower", a Dai girl is affectionately smelling a beautiful mountain flower. The pure beauty of the girl is as natural and simple as flowers in the painter's painting. The image is vivid, the lines are round and smooth, and the eyes, gestures, body posture, etc. are carefully depicted and very vivid. The flower and bird work "Chang'an March Flowers" is simple, clean and full of freehand brushwork, with equal emphasis on calligraphy and painting. The landscape with no trace of fireworks is the ideal state created by the painter, and the plum blossom orchid style is a metaphor for the perfect personality pursued by the painter. Ren Ran integrates the charm of life into her pen and ink. Even though the mountains are left with water, dead trees and rocks, her spirit and spirit are still visible.
Those who are poor are skilled in literature and art. The peaceful age injected vitality into art, and the golden age provided a broad stage for artists. The artistic world described by Ren Ran is the fusion of her temperament and mind and the nature of heaven and earth. Nowadays, although Ren Ran has made remarkable achievements in the field of calligraphy and painting, she is still unremittingly exploring the inner connotation and tension of art, striving to have both form and spirit. I hope she will soon reach the artistic spiritual state of harmony between nature and man, and forgetfulness of things and myself. Text/Wu Xiaohan, editor-in-chief of "Thai Style" in Thailand
It is said that female calligraphers and painters are a very different kind of people. They have the aura and elegance of artists, but also the delicacy and sensitivity of women, so they are somewhat mysterious and noble. Even brilliant. But when I met Ren Ran, she was a woman who pursued her artistic dream at all costs. Some people say that an artist needs a gambler's piety, persistence, hunger, and trembling, as well as absolute devotion and the enthusiasm and courage to disregard everything. This statement is appropriate for Ren Ran. The ancient city of Pingyao in Shanxi Province shook off its forgotten dust and was vividly presented to the world because of Zhang Yimou's "Raise the Red Lantern". Ren Ran, a girl who was born and raised in this ancient city, is influenced by traditional culture and is always reflected in her words and deeds. She is gentle and humble, kind-hearted, persistent in pursuit, talented but not arrogant, just like the high and simple wall tiles of Qiao's courtyard.
A female painter who studied in the Department of Arts and Crafts of the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts went south to Guangdong with the grandeur and richness of the northern painting school, and settled in Foshan. Ren Ran inherited the majestic spirit of the northwest and the beauty of the beautiful mountains and rivers of southern Guangdong. Guan, his calligraphy and painting works have reached a higher level.
Ren Ran is good at calligraphy in all styles, especially regular script and running script. His regular script is inspired by Fa Liu Gongquan and Ouyang Xun. His writing style is strong and strong, his bones are full of strength, his demeanor is calm, calm and elegant. It has the ancient charm of Han Li and the momentum of inscriptions. His cursive script was first learned from Wang Xizhi's father and son. It is solemn and smooth, and it also incorporates the elegance of He Shaoji in the Qing Dynasty, and then borrows the ups and downs of You Ren in the Republic of China and is open-minded. No wonder she was selected as one of the calligraphers and painters to inscribe the calligraphy on the hero spectrum of the Beijing Olympic Games, and she participated in this glorious event in Beijing in early August this year. Ren Ran's calligraphy is indistinguishable from male to female, old and young. Her calligraphy is experienced and calm, and her strokes are strong. Collectors often mistakenly call her Mr. Ren Ran.
Ren Ran’s life and art paths are both difficult. God is mercilessly tempering a talented woman. Is it going to make her deeper or make her better? She attempts to put herself in a spiritual atmosphere of artistic experience and creation through calligraphy and painting. Only in this atmosphere could she feel comfortable physically and mentally.
Looking at his paintings, he copied the ancient paintings "Night Banquet", "Five Cows" and "Lady with Hairpins" in his early days, which are profound and almost unreal, which shows that he has a profound foundation and extraordinary skill; looking at his recent landscape paintings, they are grand and atmospheric. Ethereal, profound, rich in ancient charm, and far-reaching artistic conception. In 2007, she put down her management of the advertising company and Jingyi Hall, and went north alone to join the first master's class of landscape painting creation and research studio of the China Academy of Art. She studied for a one-year master's course in landscape painting, and won The true meaning of landscape painting is to nourish creation with artistic knowledge. Among the 20 classmates in the class, she is the only female. Her talent is not inferior to that of the men, and her landscape paintings do not reveal any traces of women. They are delicate and elegant in the atmosphere. value.
In September 2008, the Seventh International Photography Exhibition was held in Pingyao, Ren Ran’s hometown. She captured the information keenly and promptly planned and organized a series of exhibitions of works by famous Chinese artists, inviting seven The painter brought his works to the ancient city of Pingyao to add beauty to the international photography exhibition, which was well received. It can be seen from this that Ren Ran is not a dull painter who is ignorant of what is going on outside the window. She also has a very active planning and market concept, which is one of the comprehensive qualities that a modern painter must possess.