Chapter 9 Transcript of Huang Yongyu Yuelu Academy Speech 3

River embankment finishing development of art Art has an iron foundation, and it must be made with human wisdom and craftsmanship.What about natural beauty? Objective things also need people to affirm, without people, there is no support for the existence of beauty. People are constantly exploring new frontiers of beauty, and beauty is becoming richer and wider. As mentioned earlier, Yangshao in the past only had clay pots and nothing more, but now of course there are more, including paintings, plastic arts, everything. When I was young, I listened to Tan Chinese Opera, Gaoqiang Opera, and then Beijing Opera and Han Opera. Now I don’t know how many kinds of things you young people have listened to. You have places to go day and night.

The art world at that time was not as broad as it is now. Of course, I can still listen to the current stuff, but sometimes I can't stand it. There is only one kind of objection, that is, the uneducated kind, the lyrics are not well written, the first sentence is wrong and the last sentence is wrong. Simply put, I don't like the kind of songs sung in Hong Kong. (applause) I like foreign modern songs, and I like Chinese (mainland) songs from ancient times to the present.I am not afraid of noise, I am not afraid of kissing, I am afraid of being uneducated. (applause) Art is like the Hercules mountain god in Greek mythology, no one is more powerful than him.

But the mountain god was afraid of leaving Shangdi, and it would be over if he left. In the end, his enemies picked him up and strangled him to death. Art cannot be separated from the land and the people. It is connected with the people's life and the land. The industrial revolution in the 18th century was the catalyst for modern art and the "midwife" of modern art. The steam engine appeared, and the strength of the hands and feet increased by a hundred thousand, a million times. Steel has made the world three-dimensional. With high-quality steel and cement, there are high-rise buildings, time and speed, and cars.

People have more time and more freedom.Because people have the idea of ​​development, the desolate frontier in the previous world has become the source of prosperity. Like Africa, like Arabia, there was no strong point in the past, but now the transportation is developed, with modern equipment, and a large amount of oil has been developed. New high-rise buildings in new cities rise one after another, and new concepts, new systems, and new habits of new cities are gradually formed. In this case, a group of young people began to appear in 1875. These young painters have doubts about the previous world. Was our previous world all bronzed?Because the previous paintings were all in bronze.

Where did the sun go?Why doesn't the sun come into the painting?So they gang began to paint the effect of sunlight on everything. In the eyes of traditional old painters at that time, such an invention felt outrageous, so they were not allowed to be exhibited in the exhibition hall. So they had no choice but to build a shed outside the exhibition hall and hold an exhibition. Those adults and gentlemen scolded them after seeing these paintings, saying what kind of painting is this, it is simply impressionism!So the term Impressionism was coined. At the time, the term was derogatory.Twenty-five years later, a scholar saw the paintings of the painter Monet (C. Monet, 1840-1926).

There are three of them, all of which are paintings of the same church doorway, one of morning, one of noon, and one of evening, all with the same composition. The painting is misty in the morning, strong sunlight at noon, and a reflection of the setting sun in the red evening at night. The old gentleman had once opposed them, passing the church door one morning after seeing a Monet, I was shocked to find that the scene by the door was exactly like Monet's painting. It turns out that the world is still so beautiful, it can still be painted like this, and beauty can still be expressed like this.

Monet opened up people's concept of beauty to a new world, opened their eyes and awakened them. Later, the Impressionists made new developments in terms of performance and subject matter. Therefore, the reason why all paintings have changed so much after the 19th century is because of the developed transportation and the enrichment of material life. An early 19th century painter Manet (E. Manet, 1832-1883) painted a painting called "Luncheon on the Grass", The picture is the Black Forest near Paris, a group of gentlemen having lunch with some naked girls. Adults and gentlemen think this is outrageous, how can they be with some naked girls? !

After scolding for a while, my brain also opened up, and it turns out that the subject matter can be captured in this way. The Impressionist painter below is even more powerful, named Gauguin (P. Gauguin, 1848-1903), he went to an island in the Pacific Ocean, Living with the natives, I participated in life myself. I brought back a lot of good paintings and brought back a lot of original artistic sculptures, which made people realize the beauty of original local art. Gauguin believed that what to paint was not important, but how to paint, and he emphasized painting for painting's sake.Just as Chinese painters emphasize brushwork and ink color, he emphasizes comparison.

At that time, color film had not yet been invented, but his theory of color ran ahead of color film.He said that the combination of blue and yellow is green, If the blue dots and yellow dots are clicked together, instead of being combined, they are clicked separately. From a distance, the green color will move and jump up. Together it's weaker. Later, there was a painter Cézanne, who was the last great painter of Impressionism.In the way of painting, he talked about his own beauty. He believes that shapes are piled up piece by piece, so it is possible to use piece by piece colors to enhance the sense of volume, and to paint plane by plane.

After that claim was made and some wonderful pictures were made, people like Picasso came along. Based on his foundation, Picasso carried out more exaggerated, more vivid, and more ingenious expressions, and drew some weird paintings. From today's point of view, those paintings show the beauty of pure painting, not ordinary realistic paintings or historical paintings. This brings us back to our Bada Shanren, and back to Qi Baishi's paintings in the future. The area of ​​the Art Taxi is not large, but the art keeps making circles, the more circles the higher, and there are only a few fixed points.

But the height is different, it is rising in this way. After cities appeared in large numbers, people concentrated in modern cities and became slaves of modern cities.The city is as majestic as the mountains of nature. The change of light and color in the morning and evening has become a hotbed of new art. The Dvařák of music at that time—the Czech, the first dean of the American Academy of Music, His symphony "To the New World" broke the previous essentials of classical music. "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris" by the first American symphonist Gatswain also played the sound of the new century. With a city and a new life, this kind of music, this kind of painting, and this kind of fine art will appear, and new art will be created. New arts are developed from generation to generation and become more and more prosperous, not a kind of progress. I went to a university in the United States, where the art gentlemen and professors were going to teach visiting Chinese people, There are only two people in our art delegation, one is Hua Junwu and the other is me. We joked that we take turns as the head of the delegation. (laugh) Those people are going to give us lessons, and the things they talk about are very childish. They want to tell us about modern art, the main meaning is that our art is progressive and your art is backward. I told them that art has no problem of backwardness and progress, only prosperity, it is not like science, I said that there are some things that you don’t understand, and I told you, but on the other hand, I told them for two hours, and there were many listeners. (applause) Later, a person said that you Chinese do not understand space, and another American professor scolded him again, What do you know, space comes from China. (applause) The same thing happened in Italy. When I held an art exhibition, I usually didn’t draw much orchids. That day I drew a six-foot piece with a few orchid leaves. It was more abstract, and they liked it very much. How much does this painting sell for? I told him that the Chinese method is how much a foot is. He just said that money is needed for places without paintings? I said you just cut out the unpainted parts, and just buy the painted ones. (applause, roar)