Published: 2016.01.18 news source: Changguangli - WeChat public number
Kangxi Coming, who has been there for twelve years, has recently taken it away. Look at the cold scholar Kevin Tsai in the last episode crying like a child, I feel lot of emotion. From the university to work, to get married, to have children, is more than a show, Kangxi is already a part of A Bo’s life. As an out and out pessimist, he actually understood Kevin Tsai's idea of saying "farewell in the most beautiful time”. There are too many things in the world, just because they care too much about the eternal, and finally forget the initial heart, changed the flavor, even memory can’t keep it!
Chen Hongwei | Dawn | 76X54cm | watercolor | 2016
So, for those who spend their whole lives doing one thing, A Bo always has the heart to admire. How much of the courage and love to be so attentive? Today, for example, Mr. Chen Hongwei, the painter, is probably one of those people.
Record the meaning of life, the ability to live
Looking at Mr. Chen Hongwei's paintings often reveals a deep sense of life. Chaozhou tea, Lao cake, charcoal stove, pot...... After resolving the "live", then he wants to focus on Chaozhou local scenery record.
Chen Hongwei | oil painting on canvas | still life theme | 90x70cm | 2015
And a closer look at his paintings, you will find another feature. In his works, there will be a graceful figure, or sit, or walk, busy with some of the trivial things in life, the same is a thick girl breath. This woman is his wife.
Chen Hongwei | weekend night | 116x150cm | watercolor painting
Chen Hongwei | outside and inside the wall | 190X70cm x2 │oil painting on canvas
Chen Hongwei | tea ·night | 156x108cm │oil painting on canvas
Listening to Mr. Chen Hongwei talk about his love history is a bit of a modern youth idol drama. They were classmate of the teachers' College, a monitor, a student union chairman, but he did not make any sparks. After graduation, Chen Hongwei went to Han Shi for further studies, and his wife, Lin Zhejie, became a primary school teacher. Because of the common liking for art, they came together. "As long as two classes are empty, she has to paint it." If waste time to gossip, she will lose her temper when she go home." Mr. Chen Hongwei said his wife's obsession with painting was far more than himself.
A painting by Chen Hongwei’s wife to her son
After teaching for more than ten years, for Chen Hongwei's encouragement finally left his wife to become a full-time painter. Follow the husband, sketching, playing pottery, painting peony, painting oil paintings, it seems that more than ten years of suppression of the desire to paint are released! "I told to her that if you want to make money, don't quit. If you quit, you don't want to paint to make money!" Chen Hongwei's care for his wife, I just have short contact, but also memorable.
Besides painting, Chen Hongwei loves to play off-road vehicles
Unlike his wife, Mr. Chen Hongwei has never left painting from reading to graduation. In his opinion, painting has become a part of his life. Many friends advised him to leave Chaozhou and seek greater development in the larger cities. He also had the opportunity to pursue further studies at the Central Academy of fine arts. In the end, he chose to give up. Painting doesn't seem like a career or a burden to him. It's more like life required, such as eating and sleeping. Painting well and living well are the same thing in his mind.
Fishing is also a part of life
Mr. Chen Hongwei said he would also like to draw on subjects such as Buddhism and Taoism. Perhaps it is easy to solve the "living ability", but to really understand and realize "the meaning of life", we must spend all our life practicing it. Hayao Miyazaki sticks to hand drawn animation, after reading his work "The Wind Rises", rarely in tears. "The Wind Rises" is translated from the French poet Valery’s a poem of "Waterfront Cemetery”, "风立ちぬ、いざ生きめやも"，translated as: As the wind blows, try hard to live". This faint remark, perhaps has done the truth of the world!
Chen Hongwei | oranges │ 160x98cm │oil painting on canvas