Looking ahead and looking for allusions from the long river of history, we must learn to use allusions. "allusion" is a common expression in classical poetry, and it is also a technique often used by an excellent artist. He can make some old things get new life through some artistic transformation. Liu Xie's interpretation of "allusions" in Wen Xin Diao Long is "based on facts, based on ancient evidence". The purpose of allusions is to compare the past with the present, prove the present with the past, and express one's feelings through the past. The so-called allusions refer to "real cases", specifically, including historical myths and legends, historical stories, folk anecdotes, fables and sentences handed down from ancient books. Generally speaking, allusions have clear sources. The use of allusions can not only refine the language of poetry, but also increase the richness of content, increase the vividness and implicitness of expression, get concise, memorable and intriguing effects, and enhance the expressiveness and appeal of works. In this respect, Mao Zedong, a great modern poet in China, is a master. From the perspective of the homology of poetry, calligraphy and painting, the painter Xue Linxing seems to have realized the beauty of "allusion". He is good at using the classical "source" to achieve his "meaning" and applying novel painting language to his works, which has received unexpected artistic effects. This has a good performance in Drunk Imperial Lady, Mazu's Sailing Chart, Oriental Beauty, Seven Fairys, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Shan Gui and other works. In some ways, this is related to the painter Xue Linxing's acceptance speech in Paris, which is the knowledge of "the height and breadth of nature, society and life": Bo Gu talks about the present and integrates it. "Know, coincides with mine.
At the same time, to some extent, allusion is also a means to realize "art is subtraction". A clever artist is determined to create more imagination space in the narrow and expressive space of his works of art, and he must "do whatever it takes" to re-crush, grind and combine some common artistic characteristics, so that * * * can be organically integrated with personality. This is an alchemical process. For example, when the painter Xue Linxing visited him, on a whim, he drew a picture of a beautiful woman named "Little Red Singing on the Moon" for me. The lady who walked out of ancient poetry, though simple, was full of interest and left a good feeling for the examiner. The micro-side face and drooping curly hair give people nothingness and sorrow, pain and sorrow, or low thoughts, which aroused the audience's lyric interest and historical experience and won applause from the guests. Just as we understand a very excellent work of art, it often activates our life experience hidden in the body for many years, making us feel inexplicable pleasure instantly.
Looking back, to create a dream of the world from now to the future, we must seek the width from the increasingly integrated trend and communication in the world. He also asked us to learn, absorb and digest western history and culture accurately. In order to better absorb the essence of western painting, painter Xue Linxing once traveled to Japan. Here, he deeply feels that Japan is the window of world art, and many works of ancient and modern European and American painting masters are exhibited in Japan, and are constantly influenced by western master art. After absorption, digestion and innovation, his paintings have experienced the quality comparison of female beauty between the East and the West, and he has found his own unique artistic language expression from the vertical inheritance of Eastern history and the horizontal absorption of the West. The ladies' paintings he created have beautiful figures and far-reaching artistic conception, and have the oriental charm and charm beyond oil painting. I think this is one of the important reasons why his painting "Drunkenness of the Imperial concubine" vividly interprets the beauty of the imperial concubine in the Tang Dynasty with the poetic beauty of the East, and shows the shocking expression of China's beauty romantically and realistically. In 2005, it won a special prize in the Louvre "French National Salon Exhibition" which attracted westerners. It is no wonder that Ms. Denise, director of the French salon exhibition, praised the picture of The Drunkenness of the Imperial Lady and expressed such feelings: "It is of great significance for the Imperial Lady with oriental charm to meet Venus, the great Greek beauty god, in the Louvre."
Other works with the same quality as The Drunk Princess, such as Shan Gui in Li Sao, Twelve Golden Hairpins in A Dream of Red Mansions, The Legend of the White Snake and Chang 'e, also have different experiences and different emotions. He used various gestures to express these feelings, whether with low eyebrows, slim figure or closed eyes, although he used many western painting techniques to enhance the three-dimensional sense and gaze of the depicted objects. I think the "various poses" of the ladies in his paintings are due to his clever use of lines. As we know, line is an important quality in China's traditional painting. Technically speaking, it is a basic line, but from the overall composition of the picture, the line momentum is a virtual dynamic performance. Constrained by the traditional culture of China, traditional ladies' paintings take an evasive attitude towards women's physical beauty and curvaceous beauty, mainly showing a spirit. From the perspective of modern people, blindly following the ancient law can no longer meet the aesthetic needs of modern people. Drawing lessons from the experience of the ancients and the western methods of expression, the lines in Xue Linxing's works are now more flexible, especially the parabola and S-shaped lines, which are composed by spirals, increasing the dynamics of the works. The line mentioned here is no longer a line in the pure technical field, but a line that shows the overall trend and dynamics of the characters in the picture after fusion. For example, there are excellent performances in Goddess of Mending the Sky, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Yue Bai, The Story Of Diu Sim, Mirror, etc. From this point of view, he has surpassed many domestic painting masters.