Chapter 42 To Li Fan

When a skill becomes an art, the artist will fall into embarrassment. It is like having Lei Feng, and everyone hopes that Lei Feng will always do good deeds. It is like watching a football match. .We—you do calligraphy, I do literature—fortunately or unfortunately, we have become artists. What is our dignity from then on?I am afraid that the only word is creation.On the Weihe River beach in winter, it is the season for dogs to chase rabbits, so let the rabbits run as hard as they can. The painting you gave me was forcibly confiscated by a fellow villager on March 25.Today, deposit interest rates are falling, he has money but will not invest in other industries, and wants to make money with money, so he has collected quite a lot of calligraphy and paintings.I looked through his collection cabinet, but there was nothing decent. I advised him to burn it quickly. These things and bugs don't look down on them. Don't think that any calligraphy and painting can make money.He asked me who should I collect, and I said Li Fan, but he didn't know whether Li Fan was an ancient person or a modern person, so I asked for a long time.I told him: Li Juan is not a famous artist-the ghost knows how many famous artists become famous-but Li Juan is formidable in strength, he is a man of temperament, and he has a natural feeling for brushes. Just wait and see, he will become famous in the future There will be a big climate.So I took out the work you gave me and explained that Li Juan did not belong to Shen Xiong, but that the streets were paved with stones, autumn leaves fell to the ground, and there was heroism in Xiao Ye, and boundlessness in the elegance.In today's calligraphy world, the style of promoting Jiangnan is more important than form, and it is too weak. Although there are many oppositions from northerners, the works are full of quackery and lack of integrity.Li Juan is from the north and the prime minister of the south, and the two are combined into one. It is rare that he is not stained with banditry, and he is not beautiful when he rises in the morning.I'm promoting it for you, and that piece of calligraphy was forcibly taken away by him.

It doesn't matter if I take it away, I think Li Huang might give me another one.Li Juan doesn't value money very much. Even if he does, money should be scattered rather than gathered. Furthermore, the reason why I let my fellow villagers take that work is that there is something about that work that I am not satisfied with. After all, it is something from a few years ago.At the beginning of the year, I went to a friend’s house and saw a recent work of yours hanging in the living room of his house. Asked for it back.A true artist must have the tenacity for long-distance competition and the explosive power to show off, and among them, age is important.The one you gave me is good, but it's hard to read. It's like seeing beauties on the street, all of them are amazing. When you marry a wife and become a wife, you often pay attention to her shortcomings.This is also like my articles, I wrote less in my early years, fresh and beautiful, but now at the age of knowing my destiny, my articles are out of order and smeared indiscriminately. Gained from experience in life, few works are learned from other people's works.The spirit of art is embodied in consciousness, which comes from the experience of life, or Shenxiong, or ethereal, not intentional.The word "beautiful" may come from the description of the lantern. The reason why the lantern is beautiful lies in the light transmission, but the light transmission is not a matter of the lantern, but the candles in the cage.

The one you gave me was too ruthless in form, which is one of the reasons why I reluctantly gave up my love to my fellow villagers.You are a talented person, but your taste often makes you overflow with talent.Li Bai is confident that he is a great talent, so he "laughs up to the sky and goes out", regardless of trivial matters.Have you ever seen a bonsai decorated on a mountain?If you have a long robe, perhaps made of green cloth, would you use a piece of silk to make lace for the sake of beauty?The House of Dafang naturally starts from being generous. If it is too interesting, it will eventually become a small tool.The reason why I saw your work hanging in other people’s living room and dared to give it to my fellow villagers is that I believe you will give me new works, and the new works are much more mature than the old ones, for me to read for a long time.

If you want to send me another piece of work, I hope it is your cursive script. You are good at brushwork, but I am more happy to let you wipe it with bald hooks. I will hang it in my study.Such works may not please common eyes. In today's fashionable world, this is suitable for me who is lonely and desolate, and it is also suitable for maintaining my momentum in loneliness and desolation.