The Lesson Before I Quit Chapter 16

All paintings involve "levels" (including "pure abstraction"), and the water stains after transfer are rich in levels; all paintings (even "pure abstractions") refer to "shape" and "image" (color gamut). , area, texture), the water stains themselves present numerous suspicious and sometimes extremely lifelike "images" --- trees, rocks, mountains --- How to adjust the wet transfer effect, test your imagination Power and control, transfer painting is the process of directing water stains to where they are and where they will stop.

So chic. The author's methods and techniques are subtle and almost non-artificial. It is easy to get started, but to achieve good results, the artist's knowledge and skills must be within the painting, and beyond the painting. To borrow a cliché: "Kung Fu lies outside the painting" --- "outside the painting" What? To borrow Michael Mu's expression, transfer paintings "present art while retiring the artist".

As far as I can tell, Max Ernst, a German-French and surrealist painter before World War II, has produced several transfer works, which are completely different from most of his own oil paintings. They are relatively unpopular at this stage. Several of Michael Mu's small paintings bear striking resemblance to Ernst.

It is impossible for him to have seen Ernst's paintings, nor to talk about the great masters of Surrealist painting: Dali, Magritte, Chirico... I guess he doesn't know who Ernst is. Except for French nineteenth-century paintings, he was not concerned with post-Renaissance paintings from Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain.

Michael Mu's transfer paintings are divided into two periods. The early paintings were made secretly after he was released from prison at the end of the "Cultural Revolution", hiding in his apartment in Hongkou District ("I am a slave during the day, and a prince at night". At that time, not to mention Ernst, all the picture albums he had collected in his early years were confiscated) . The later period was painted between 1999 and 2009, when he was 72 to 82 years old, with a total of more than 200 paintings. According to the memory of Dai Wei, a youth from Wuzhen, the 83-year-old Michael Mu still painted from time to time. In 2010, two New York filmmakers filmed his paintings and work in Wuzhen.