The fisherman's painter, chiang deye
International news online (journalist ting xue): zhejiang province, the largest island in china, is located near the world's famous canoe fishing grounds. The fishermen here come from the grass-roots level to paint the sea of naivety and fantasy. With its strong geographical and national identity, a canoe of fishermen draws artists from all over the world with a running imagination, colours, and content filled with life。
At this spring festival, the fishermen's painter, jiang deha, is busy with their paintings, he is creatively using sea sand and acrylic paint as a material for painting, artisticly displaying hot fishing grounds and quiet and beautiful fishing villages, presenting the praises and aspirations of the people of the fishing area for a better life through a fine picture。
Take a single path and draw it in sand
At the age of 53, chiang dehai, from the pudu district of zhejiang province, the island is home to many fish producers. Chiang de yee, aged 16, went fishing in the sea, was in his 30s, abandoned the ship when he was 40, became an independent artist and has been working for over a decade. His painting, " the big yellowfish of the ark " , was collected by the china trade promotion association, and another, " the big yellow fish of the rock " , was presented at the korea river fair and became a collection of chinese houses. Modern folk drawings are dominated by water powder, while jiang deha, a man with a unique heart, is trans-pollenated with sea sand, giving the image a three-dimensional sense of the sculpture. He explained: “there is a humidity in the drawings that were transferred to the sea sand, as if the paints were not dry, were more glamorous than the paints that were painted with only paint, and there was no sensationality.” this unique drawing was the result of three years of thought and attempt. In 2008, his small picture of fishermen was already available for 50,000 yuan, but he refused to follow the old pattern and tried to break through in the hope that it would show a 3d effect. But it's not easy to create new paintings, "no way to try, it's painful."
On one occasion, the wind blew a grain of sand onto his painting and glued it to an undry acrylic paint. When he found it, the sand was stuck firmly on the painting, and it couldn't get down. And he thought, "well, you know, maybe you could paint with sand." so he went to the site and came back with a pile of sand, washed and washed, and began his attempt carefully. Despite a few failures, he has tried tirelessly to achieve the desired results. After that, he created four paintings of sea sands, one of which, "the sea of the rock and the fish" , featured at the subsequent hangzhou expo in china. "it's a gift and a result." remembering his own path to artistic innovation, as chiang de ye said。
From fish boss to independent painter
The canoe fishermen's paintings evolved from the ancient accolades. According to historical records, “the days of coming and coming, the qing generation and the nation ... Have been marked and marked by a growing flow of paintings and symbols on fishing vessels”. The art of boat paintings has been passed on from generation to generation with crude, exaggerated styles, and eventually developed into modern canoes. They are mainly depicted in the sea and in sea-related matters, and because of their presence in great waves and even in the struggle against nature, they appear to be fantastic, mysterious, of deep colours, glamorous and powerful, almost abstract. The details of the fishermen's origin, jiang deye, who was familiar with fish production, were also brought to the fisherman's drawings, which were at a high level restored to the scenes of the first-line fisherman's production operations, making the drawings more solid than the vivid imagination. The fisherman, who was fishing from the net, had his thumb covered in the eye, “this is how we fish,” he smiled and explained。
Chiang de yee's experience in the life of his fisherman benefited from his long-term work in drawing boats and fish. It's not easy to paint fish, and the fish in the sea are vibrating, fast and powerful. In chiang deye's view, the painting is easy and simple, and it's done in the simplest way, “i'll paint the feeling of fish coming out with a wide pen, and then a few strokes with a line.”
Looking back on the art road, he felt a lot. The difficulty of living by abandoning the arts without any support from any side, merely by drawing a pen, has led him several times to return to the ocean. But the support of his wife, and that of his master zhu inmin, led him to persevere in his pursuit of art, “the wife supported me without regret, and never complained; my master even said that he could support me, and i now think that the tears were almost falling”
Today, chiang deye's paintings are displayed not only at important exhibitions in beijing, shanghai and chongqing, but also at well-known international exhibitions in france, korea, japan and croatia. They are also collected by the chinese maritime museum in shanghai and the zhejiang gallery. In 2014 and 2015, his fishermen earned an average of $300,000 annually and $400,000 in 2016. "now i can eat on fishermen's paintings."
He didn't stop the pursuit of art. I'm going to re-examine the earlier works, and some of them don't meet their requirements." i'm going to kick all these unsatisfactory paintings. The wife finds it a pity, but i don't think these paintings are an expression of my understanding of art. They're useless. They can't be taken out.”
I'm the son of the sea
The painting of fishermen by chiang deye not only reflects the colourful features of traditional fishermen, but also creates a unique style of the ocean series. His work, not only does art-loving people like to collect it, but even less educated fishermen like to reward it。
While the fishermen draw from the private sector, chiang de ye believes that they must have a solid basis for drawing, which can be expressed in abstraction, ink, oil, etc., but the fishermen have their own characteristics, so that the group of fishers cannot be seen, and only with their approval will they be able to do so, and “only if they move their own work can they move more people.”
Spring draws big yellow fish, autumn and winter, and chiang deye's creations are taken in conjunction with fish. His paintings not only showed the charms of marine culture, the beauty of traditional fishing areas and the hard work of their people, but also focused on the current decline of marine resources and pollution of the marine environment. In the painting " the festival of egging of fish " , he wanted to stimulate reflection and discussion, with a net of big eggs and small fish not yet grown up. Looking at this picture, let's consider why the current decline in fisheries resources has been so severe that we have been able to fish sustainably?”
Chiang deye said that he was the son of the sea, that he drew his beautiful home by drawing a pen, and that he had a hard-working and courageous fisherman brother. He recorded the greatness of the canoe fishing grounds with a pen, looked at the hot-hot production scene on the scene, and seemed to hear the brightest fisherman; he recreated with a pen the image of 30 people pulling out a large net, awakening the memory of many old fishermen..
Today, in addition to painting and painting, the jiang deye lectured students at local institutions and taught them in their own studios to draw and entertain fishermen of all walks of life. The sea nourishes the prosperity of the canoes and islands, as well as the paintings of the canoes, which are imaginable and lively. These seaside artists will also continue to sing labour, celebrate life, wave the sea's inspiration and depict its charm with full enthusiasm。
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