The painstakingly painted life of the non-inheritor Van Fuan
On November 16, 2023, in Huangshan City, Anhui Province, full of culture and history, Fan Fuan Huizhou Paint Art Museum was officially opened. Leaders, artists, paint enthusiasts and representatives of cultural institutions from all over the country gathered together to witness this artistic event. Fan Fuan Huizhou Paint Art Museum integrates art creation, display, research and practice, and leisure tourism. Under the background of the integrated development of culture and tourism, it has opened up a new construction and operation mode of intangible cultural heritage Museum, which not only provides a platform for paint art lovers to appreciate and learn traditional paint art, but also attracts tourists from all over the country to visit.
The painting works exhibited in the museum are wonderful, some are thick and colorful, graceful and beautiful, some are simple and elegant, graceful and smooth, there are landscapes with artistic conception and distant, and there are characters with both divine form and exquisite color and brushwork. There are magnificent large paintings, but also small, delicate, unique handicrafts. Each piece of work reflects Fan Fuan's love for lacquer and exquisite skills.
Mr. Fan Fuan is a leading figure in Chinese contemporary lacquer art. He was born in Huangshan City, Anhui Province in 1964. Now he is the provincial representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage project Huizhou Decoration technology, Vice chairman of the National Arts and Crafts Industry Council, member of the National Art Fund Expert Committee, master tutor of Jilin University of the Arts, and the first resident artist of the Sino-Italian Cultural Center of Tongji University.
Mr. Fan Fuan has a unique cognition and understanding of traditional lacquer painting experience and perception that is different from others. He graduated from Anhui Normal College oil painting major, also deeply influenced by the hometown of Xin 'an craft, Xin 'an culture, Xin 'an deep lacquer painting process, he believes that any art has its own language expression, lacquer painting is also the same. If you want to integrate different kinds of artistic languages and techniques of lacquer art together, first of all, you should not only treat lacquer painting as a limited regional culture, you must have a world pattern, the sea embraces all rivers, and the lacquer painting is integrated into the world elements to form an international language symbol. In the process of exchange between Chinese and Western cultures, you can understand the stories behind each culture, go out and introduce it. To achieve the integration of the essence of different cultures. If you want to express the essence of Chinese painting and oil painting with lacquer elements, you must grasp the cultural context behind Chinese and Western painting, rather than blindly copying. He combines traditional Chinese culture with Western and European art concepts, takes traditional Chinese culture as the foundation and Western art concept as the framework, integrates professional oil painting skills with traditional lacquer art and techniques to create modern lacquer painting, elevates paint art to the height of modern painting art, and makes Huizhou paint art go to China and Chinese paint art go to the world. It occupies a place in the history of lacquer art in the world.
Fan Fuan's works reflect the diversity of the development of Chinese lacquer art, whether it is the combination of colors in the picture, the gestalt of the composition, the rendering of Oriental meanings and the pursuit of modern sense, etc., there are wonderful performances. With the mission consciousness of a modern lacquer painter, he made Huizhou's ancient lacquer painting skills glow with new vitality by developing innovative artistic practices. His modern lacquer paintings show both the skill of painting and the ability to control the performance of different materials; It also infuses modern painting elements and modern art concepts. He used painterly to enrich the craftsmanship of lacquer painting, so that the ancient art style of lacquer painting could be reinterpreted from the perspective of painting. The form of his works is novel, a collection of many kinds of great beauty in one, there is the gorgeous color of oil painting, there is the simple beauty of printmaking, there is the profound artistic conception of Chinese painting, and there is the simple and gentle gouache. It shows the artistic thinking and exploration of a new lacquer painter with modern artistic accomplishment, is also a bold innovation and breakthrough of the lacquer culture with a long history, and is a successful exploration of inheriting and developing intangible cultural heritage and carrying forward excellent traditional culture.
In 2015, the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Denmark, Fan Fuan accepted the invitation of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, the Danish ambassador to China and the Danish Royal Family to create "Portrait of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark" and "Portrait of Prince Henric of Denmark". Lacquer painting creation is a "laborious bones and bones, painstaking" arduous process, after receiving the task, Fan Fuan is almost busy day and night, because of excessive fatigue with the eyes, resulting in retinal detachment, after emergency rescue treatment and long-term recovery, vision gradually improved. After the painting was completed, the Chinese government presented the two lacquered portraits to the Queen and the Prince as a state gift, and the Danish Royal Family held a grand unveiling ceremony, attended by the Queen and the Prince themselves, and took a photo with Van Fuan. These two works are gorgeous in shape, rhyme and color, and adopt the artistic concept of the integration of western realism and Eastern expression and freehand, depicting the characters vividly and vividly. The Queen and her wife are very fond of portraits, and their works are treasured by the Danish royal family forever.
Mr. Fan Fuan is also a scholar artist, as a non-genetic inheritor, in addition to artistic creation, but also devoted to cultivating high-level inheritors for the art of lacquer. Since 2015, he has taught by words and deeds, personally cultivating graduate students of Jilin University of the Arts, and has so far brought out several groups of students.
Fan Fuan believes that art has no borders, paint art has a history of 7,000 years, Huizhou paint art reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty, as a contemporary paint artist, he is to learn from ancient and modern China and abroad, add luster to paint, combine traditional ancient techniques with today's art, combine eastern and Western art, let the soul and reality spark. Create works suitable for today's aesthetic needs, and let China's lacquer art shine out of the country.