? Chen Wei was born in a mountain village in Ninghai, the hometown of the master of Chinese painting Pan Tianshou, who told me that he had never seen his grandmother, who passed away before he was born due to illness. His parents went to work every day, and when he was a child, he stayed with his grandfather, who often carried him on his back as he skipped along the mountain paths near his home, yelling, "Big Ears, Big Ears ......" as he wandered around, and later, people in the village also called him "Big Ears", at that time he really understood that he had lost his hearing, he could no longer hear the sound of music ......
The Bible says: "When God closes this door, he will surely open another for you. when God closes this door, he will surely open another door for you." People are not always smooth sailing, if a person wants to be successful, God will be "suffering his mind, laboring other muscles and bones, starving his body and skin, empty their bodies. In distress and hardship, in order to hone a person's tenacity and perseverance, growth of his values and beliefs, and then make him "not to things, not to their own sadness", calm and persistent, honor and disgrace, such as the mountains like towering, such as the river like the flow of the river.
In 2004, Chen Wei graduated from the Department of Decorative Arts of Zhejiang Radio and Television University, and majored in Bird and Flower Painting at China Academy of Art, under the tutelage of Zhu Yingren, Han Lu and other professors. Chen Wei, a young and promising artist, is dedicated to the art of painting, and his works have been published in many magazines and edited by Art Newspaper, Zhejiang Daily, New Perspective Art Works Collection of Zhejiang Province, The 12th Art Works Exhibition of Zhejiang Province, The 6th Youth Art Works Exhibition of Zhejiang Province, and Ink and Bamboo Paintings Exhibition of Zhejiang Province, etc, which have all been inked by him. His works have been invited to participate in Sweden, Finland, and collected by many art organizations at home and abroad. 2002, he was invited to the Hong Kong No Boundaries Art Exchange Exhibition; in 2004, he went abroad to Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway and other countries for art exchange exhibitions.
Secondly, the flowers bloomed on the street, and the townspeople came slowly
? In this Ninghai Shen irrigation organized by the township of the General Assembly, Chen Wei was invited to come. 80 years later, he was clear-eyed and elegant. When I interviewed him, he was just chatting with me slowly, calmly, quietly and introspectively. If he wasn't wearing a hearing aid, you would never have thought that he was so sunny, so optimistic, and with such a bright smile, but he grew up in a silent world.
When he and the secretary of the town of deep irrigation slowly unfolded that blooming magnolia works, the whole audience rang a warm applause, that burst of applause in the beautiful surprise, there is a deep admiration. Next to a square rock, countless branches of varying lengths of magnolias were sparsely shaded, filled with the tension of life, vibrant and spring. Each branch is full of bright red flowers, blossoming with the poetry of the millennium, gorgeous with the joy of spring, that is the color of Chen Wei's art, that is the sound of blossoms in Chen Wei's silent world.
? Standing on the stage, he was overwhelmed with emotion: "In these twenty years, although I have countless awards, countless times on the stage, but this time back to my hometown, in the face of the countless familiar and friendly faces on the stage, excited and enthusiastic eyes, I am y moved. Some of them are proud of my friends and relatives, some of them have helped me teachers and teachers, and some of them have pinned high hopes on me. This is one of the most exciting times for me to go on stage and exhibit my paintings."
? Third, he was a permanent pain in his parents' hearts
? As a child, Chen Wei was overdosed with medication after a serious illness and was left deaf for life. His parents sent him to Ninghai Dizhi School in despair and sadness, where he was nurtured by his teachers in every possible way, and Chen Wei gradually understood the meaning of the word "hard work". The parents, who were also teachers, found that their son, though deaf, was intellectually gifted, especially in calligraphy and painting. In a national youth calligraphy and painting competition, he won a silver medal, which y inspired him. Interests, hobbies, and an innate talent for drawing and painting have made him increasingly outstanding. Recommended by Principal Su Weiguo of Dizhi School, Chen Wei came to Guangqiang Secondary Vocational School, the only vocational secondary school for the disabled in Zhejiang Province, and it was then that he first saw the long-lost smiles on his parents' faces, which were "smiles with tears". He remembers his mother saying to him, "Son, take the road you like!" He understands the love contained in his mother's words, and he understands his mother's high hopes. Chen Wei said, his mother is the first leader in his life, his mother often warned him to be honest, painting should be heart, painting as a person, a good person, painting can be good.
In the vocational school, Chen Wei, in addition to studying hard, painting excellent, but also served as class president, vice president of the student union and other work. After several years of continuous efforts, he was admitted to the Zhejiang Radio and Television University College of Special Education, Department of Decorative Arts, which makes him once again know the meaning of the word "hard", and later, he entered the China Academy of Art to further study in the Chinese painting bird and flower specialties.
"Painting with life, writing beautiful words", this is his original intention, will also be his life's work. Character frank Chen Wei smiled and said to me, others sound when the painter is very easy, not just graffiti? Can also travel to the mountains and play in the water, in fact, who can know we engage in the hard work of art, forget to eat, sometimes even the money for food is not, is also a common thing. Sometimes for a good piece of work, painted and changed, changed and painted, drawing paper torn and torn, even the money to buy paper, is also a common occurrence. It's not easy to win an award for creative work! As I can not hear the sound of my ears, the art of the road is even more arduous, in addition to the heart to do, if you want to communicate with ordinary people, seminars, very difficult. I remember during his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, many of his academic notes were taken by his classmates, some of which he copied from his classmates after class, and to understand the essence of the teacher's lectures was even more difficult for him. But God will not disappoint those who have the heart, the pursuit of art, as long as the effort, as long as the heart to draw, will be able to draw good, Chen Wei finally did.
Fourth, painting for the heart of the pen with feelings
Road, people walk out. Painting the road of art, for Chen Wei, is the life of manna and sunshine, intoxicated by it, he felt that God is not thin on him. Chen Wei specializes in painting flowers and birds, his paintings, pen love wanton, not constitute the law, Cang Jin round show, escape, chapters do not seek to complete and leave white, his work is the pursuit of the aesthetic mood, painting outside the sound, painting outside the mood, the style is fresh, unrestrained, seems to have the legacy of the Bada Shanren. His birds are very dynamic, with soft and plump wings, and they are full of vigor; the flowers and plants are sparse and dense, and the water color is transparent, which makes the viewers feel as if they heard the birds' voices and smelled the fragrance of the flowers. The mountains, rivers and trees under his brush are easy to stretch, light and elegant but not thin, full of innocence, frankness, peace and openness of poetry.
Painting is the voice of the heart. During his studies at the China Academy of Art, Chen Wei created a boneless painting titled "Autumn Grass", which was highly praised by his class teacher, Mr. Han Lu. "At that moment, I thought, the teacher understands me, the reason why I chose to 'Autumn Grass' as the title, because in my eyes, Autumn Grass is the world's smallest life, humble but not yielding, I'm like that, but I can also be a silent seed, grow into a big tree standing proudly. "
? Weizi has studios in Hangzhou and Ningbo, and when he has time, he dives into his art hall. His studio is a kind of ochre-red color tone, a side of the coffee table, a few pieces of wooden couch, soft light, the mood is simple and elegant, filled with a literati atmosphere. On the wall of his studio, I saw a painting titled "Blooming Flowers", in the green and black layers of heavy brushwork, wantonly and wantonly with the dense branches and leaves, the depth of the degree of green and black, black and white interstices, stretching a cluster of crimson begonias, elegant, quiet. Begonia has no fragrance, and the lofty son has no voice. Everything in nature can not be perfect, flowers and people are very similar, but even if there is no fragrance, even if there is no sound, can not be stifled the value of its life. "Born to be useful". Break through the heavy resistance of fate, in order to proudly bloom self, blooming flowers finally bloom! The whole painting is full of rich feelings of sorrow and joy, with deep meaning. How is this flower not like Chen Wei himself? Chen Wei's heart has always been able to hear the sound of flowers blooming.
In Wei's brush, landscape has feelings, flowers and birds have voices. He draws experience from tradition but is not bound by it, and paints with his heart and mind. In addition to ink on paper, he also paints on ceramics, Zisha pots, and sometimes wall paintings, presenting art in different media. Art needs to be unconventional, art needs to be innovative, and Chen Wei understands that "there is a long way to go". He said: "I am still touched, touched by the pursuit of art and the deep meaning of the painting, for the novelty of the art form and the unity of the expression of ideas and moved."
? Chen Wei's paintings express the thoughts and aesthetic pursuits of modern people in the form of new paintings, and show the pursuit of the soul, which is the accumulation of years, but also the unfolding of the scroll of life inadvertently. When you open one of his scrolls, what comes to you is scenery, natural beauty, hardship, persistence, youthful fervor and passion of life. We have to ask what is art? Art is a kind of ideology to test the basic feelings and experiences of human beings, it is to discover oneself and express oneself in the name of art, so as to understand the world in the eyes of the artist, to reflect oneself and to verify one's spiritual perception. For an artist, the "vision" of the mind is much more important than the vision of the eyes, and only with a profound vision of the heart and the insight of the mind is it possible to produce an aesthetic state of deeper significance. Chen Wei constantly admonishes himself to learn to "listen to the sound of blossoms". "Because I think creation and appreciation, is a life quietly listening to another life, that is the sense of life, is the root of human nature care. Painting is the most important part of my life, it is like a child, pain, and love it, a day does not paint, it hurts, even a little time, must paint one, two can be."
? Fifth, the bloom of the flowers finally have a voice
? When he was a child, his mother once told him, "You are a special child sent by God, you have to listen to the world with all your heart, when one day you can hear the sound of flowers blooming, you will be able to hear the sound of the whole world." So Chen Wei went to listen to the sound of blossoms and flowers whenever he had time, and without realizing it, he fell in love with the world of flowers and birds, and fell in love with painting flowers and birds. This listening to a painting is decades, now, thirty-seven years old, he sat watching the flowers bloom and fall in front of the garden, laughing at the sky clouds rolled, calm, honor and disgrace, in the overflow of sunshine in the sincere smile, let us see his perseverance, success and self-confidence.
? On December 28, 2017, Chen Wei, Gai Chunbao, Yu Jiajun three people *** with the "quiet years" Chinese painting works joint exhibition Zouping station in the Chinese Art Museum opened successfully. Zouping is the first stop of this joint exhibition, the next, the iron triangle brothers will be in Yiwu, Ningbo, Beijing, Xi'an, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and other cities in succession.
The three of them are good friends, known as the "Iron Triangle" brothers, they are often sketching together, together with the exchange of painting skills, exchange of experience, they have a lot of **** the same point: similar age, are 80 years later; the understanding of painting is very close to the style of painting also have the legacy of the Song and Yuan style; personality and temperament of the same, generous, treating others Enthusiasm ...... In addition, they are all people who can't hear voices, which means they have very similar life experiences and experiences, which makes the three of them even more soulful and sympathetic. In the second half of the year, Chen Wei is ready to run a personal painting exhibition in Ninghai, in order to return to the folks who gave him high hopes.
? " I can't hear the insects, can't hear the birds, but I can use my eyes to find beauty, use my heart, to perceive the goodness and love, use my hands, to create the most beautiful pictures. I love the cause of painting, and I thank God for opening this door for me, so that I can wander in the world of beauty and offer beautiful works to the world, and in the years to come, I will use better works to share with the people I love, and who love me. I feel that everyone, born like a seed, pursues sunshine and warmth throughout their lives, and no matter where the roots are planted, growing without fear or favor is the lifelong mission of every seed."
"? We are a silent seed, but we can grow from a silent seed into a proudly standing tree. We can't change the reality that we can't speak, but we can change the kernel of our life, which is to make it ever stronger! Get stronger! Get stronger! Deepen its roots into the soil and always keep smiling, defying a big joke that fate has played on me!"
? Often, it is never the tangible shackles that confine us, but the cowardice that comes from within us, and the fear of the unknown. When you have a strong faith, you will have a fearless soul, guiding you to the other side of the good, to become a better version of yourself.
Redemption of one's destiny depends on oneself. The art world, accompanied Chen Wei out of the shackles of fate.