() Liu Yizhi studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in the 1990s. He is the favorite student of Tang Huiqin, the leading figure in Chinese painting circles. He started his painting career around the world in the 1990s with a drawing board, passing through the Middle East and reaching Europe. He lived in Paris, the world's art capital, for several years. During this period, he also visited Vienna, Study and research in many museums in Rome and other birthplaces of European art.
After more than ten years of dedicated research and painting, he finally became famous. Liu Yizhi's realistic oil paintings have continuously won awards and awards internationally, and are especially recognized by European artists and collectors. Especially in this year's Vienna Oil Painting Gold Medal, he defeated many famous European painters in one fell swoop. Toad Palace won the championship and shocked the entire European oil painting world with a realistic painting "The Train is Coming".
At that time, countless collectors were crazy about paying high prices to buy such a realistic oil painting with a surrealistic significance, but they were all rejected by Liu Yizhi. Because Liu Yizhi said that this painting was given to his mentor Tang Huiqin.
A few days ago, Liu Yizhi hurriedly returned to China with the grand prize. Although it was already 1 o'clock in the evening, he was still like an excited child, carrying his painting "The Train is Coming" and the Vienna Gold Medal. The little golden man hurriedly ran to Jian'an City where Tang Huiqin was located.
But it is a pity that although Tang Huiqin was very happy about Liu Yizhi's achievements, she also congratulated him. However, he refused to accept the award-winning work "The Train is Coming" no matter what.
Today, Tang Huiqin took the initiative to invite Liu Yizhi to his home. Liu Yizhi decided that no matter what, he must let the teacher accept his paintings today. Without the teachings given by my teacher, I would not be where I am today. Therefore, this painting "The Train is Coming" by Liu Yizhi must be given to his teacher Tang Huiqin.
Knocking on the door of teacher Tang Huiqin's house, he saw the smiling face of the teacher's lovely granddaughter Qin Yanran. Liu Yizhi also met Qin Yanran that day and admired Qin Yanran's artistic talent very much. At that time, she and her teacher Tang Huiqin encouraged Qin Yanran to enter the Zhongyang Academy of Fine Arts to study oil painting. However, the little girl had her own ideas. She was the top scorer in the college entrance examination this time. She had already made up her mind to apply for the financial economics major at Qingbei University.
"Hello Yanran! We meet again."
Looking at Qin Yanran's cute smiling face, Liu Yizhi also loved Qin Yanran as his junior, but it seemed that he was a little disappointed when Qin Yanran opened the door and saw that it was him.
"Uncle Liu, please... please come in and sit down..."
Qin Yanran was a little disappointed when she saw that it wasn't Su Lin who was here, but she still admired Liu Yizhi in front of her. The last time they chatted in the teahouse, she learned that this grandma's protégé once traveled thousands of kilometers on foot in order to paint an oil painting, and his footprints were found in various European countries. His realistic oil paintings have been recognized by the mainstream European painting circles, and famous European collectors are already vying to collect his paintings.
I heard that he won the Vienna Oil Painting Gold Medal in May this year. But he wanted to give the winning painting "The Train is Coming" to his grandmother. Qin Yanran had also seen that painting, and it was indeed very shocking.
"The Train Is Coming" was painted by the famous realist oil painter Liu Yizhi over a period of six months. The idea for the painting came from Liu Yizhi's hiking on a railway crossing golden wheat fields in Austria. The train came and hit a pair of children, a boy and a girl, who were playing on the railway track. The boy pushed the little girl beside him with all his strength. Liu Yizhi also witnessed this tragedy with his own eyes, including the horrified expressions of the adults harvesting wheat fields around him, the whine of the train, the crows flying in the sky, and the blood-like afterglow of the setting sun.
He fixed the camera on this moment, relying on memory and imagination. On the drawing board, I sketched a picture of "The Train is Coming". This painting was Liu Yizhi's painstaking work. In order to depict the bright red blood of the little boy who was hit by a train, Liu Yizhi mixed his own blood into the paint. It took six months to complete such a masterpiece of realistic oil painting.
And today, Liu Yizhi memorized this painting "The Train is Coming" again. Traveling with him was Yuan Hai, a famous domestic collector and painter. Yuan Hai also inquired about Liu Yizhi's return to China, so he used his connections to find out that Liu Yizhi came to the residence of his teacher Tang Huiqin in Jian'an City, so he shamelessly wanted to collect Liu Yizhi's "The Train is Coming".
However, when Liu Yizhi won the award abroad, he was not tempted by so many European collectors who offered prices of tens of millions of dollars. In other words, he simply ignored them. He would only sell this painting. Dedicated to his mentor. Naturally, Liu Yizhi politely refused Yuan Hai's request. However, Yuan Hai did not give up. He heard that Liu Yizhi was going to visit his teacher Tang Huiqin today, so he followed him. Just to see if there is any way to acquire such a painting from Tang Huiqin.
You know, just this one "The Train is Coming", because it won the Vienna Oil Painting Gold Medal, is already worth more than 10 million. In addition, Liu Yizhi later announced that this painting would not be sold and would only be given to his teacher Tang Huiqin. The value of "The Train is Coming" has increased several times in a row. Now, several internationally renowned collectors have offered more than US$50 million to purchase this sky-high price.
Things are rare and valuable, and this painting is what Liu Yizhi is most satisfied with. He also feels that he may never reach the pinnacle of such a painting in his lifetime. The so-called lie that the most satisfying work is always the next one is a lie to children. A person's artistic career is limited, and within this limited artistic career, there is a short period of time that is his golden period. .
Liu Yizhi feels that his golden period is now, and it seems to be about to pass. The most important thing in realist oil painting is the accumulation of real experience, going through the vicissitudes of the world, and finally integrating the emotions of the world into every bit of the oil painting. This is the secret of oil painting.
There is an old Chinese proverb that says, "Articles are made by nature, and a skillful hand finds them by chance." This applies to all arts. The same is true for paintings. A moment of inspiration and creativity, and the final work condensed into it, cannot be copied at all. Even if Liu Yizhi is given another six months or one year, I'm afraid he won't be able to paint another work like "The Train Is Coming". It can be said that the work "The Train is Coming" is already the highest achievement of Liu Yizhi's artistic career.
Many painters are very sad. Their paintings only became famous after their death. For example, Van Gogh, some of the most valuable paintings in the world were painted by him, but he looked impoverished during his lifetime. . The oil painting "Sunflower" reveals Van Gogh's struggle against fate and his pursuit of light as tenaciously as Sunflower, but in the end, he could only end his life in sorrow and regret.
I don’t know if Van Gogh will be able to see that he left such a strong mark on the history of world art after his death, but his life is indeed regrettable. Compared with Van Gogh, Liu Yizhi is much luckier. Although he has suffered a lot in pursuing art, it is already a great honor and luck to receive such a great honor in his thirties.
During the days when he won the award, Liu Yizhi felt like he was dreaming. Even he himself felt that life was so dreamy and unreal, but that was the fact. He succeeded and won this honor.
However, he attributes all this to his education during his college years. "If you have a dream, you should chase it, and you will have no regrets in your life." Therefore, he visited the teacher with excitement today and made sure to send this painting away.
"Yanran, are you really not considering learning art? Your artistic talent is very good, and with the guidance of your teacher, you have an unparalleled advantage over others... "
After entering, Liu Yizhi smiled and said to Qin Yanran. The collector painter Yuan Hai behind him is much more cautious. This is the home of Tang Lao, a leading figure in Chinese painting. It is said that Tang Lao stopped painting ten years ago. There are only a few paintings circulating in the outside world, and many more are collected in major museums in the country. Moreover, Mr. Tang’s greatest contribution was to bring out so many outstanding Chinese and Western painters in the country, and to fill the gaps in the theoretical knowledge of Western and Chinese painting textbooks in my country.
It is really not an exaggeration to say that Tang Huiqin is the founder of the domestic painting world. Without Tang Huiqin, the quantity and quality of domestic painters would have dropped by a whole level. During the more than thirty years of teaching and research at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, hundreds of students have gained knowledge and inspiration from Mr. Tang, and thousands of domestic first-class painters have been trained. Even a great painter like Liu Yizhi who is famous internationally.
"Even if I can't receive Liu Yizhi's "The Train is Coming" today, it would be great to be able to ask Mr. Tang for one or two final paintings."
With his own little thought in mind, Yuan Hai, a well-known domestic collector, carefully scanned the environment in the house, but at a glance he found a painting in the corner of the living room. The content of the painting could not be seen clearly, and it was covered with a white cloth. However, But it is very likely that it was Mr. Tang’s handiwork.
"Is it possible that this painting is Mr. Tang's true final work?"
The sharp-eyed collector Yuan Hai felt something in his heart, and he had already paid attention to that painting. He knew the value of Mr. Tang's real masterpiece. (To be continued.)