Feng Zikai's main works

Modern painter, writer and art educator. I studied painting and music with Li Shutong in my early years and was deeply influenced by his Buddhist thoughts. After the May 4th Movement, he began to create cartoons. Early comic works are mostly based on realistic themes, with "warmth and irony". Later, they often made ancient poems and new paintings, especially children's themes. His cartoon style is unpretentious, and the artistic conception is meaningful and implicit, which is a bridge between literature and painting. When Feng Zikai was born, his mother had given birth to six daughters. He was the eldest son of the family. Because my father has only one sister, he is the hope of Feng Jia fireworks and is cherished by people. His father named him "Ciyu". In the eyes of his family, he is really a treasure. His grandmother dotes on him, his parents and aunts love him, his sisters love him, and even the guys in the dye house like him. Feng Zikai was surrounded by warmth since he was a child, which later accompanied him all his life and soaked his character, making him always look at things with a gentle and compassionate heart; Divergent in his pen, it has become a plain style of writing and a pure style of benevolence and righteousness.

The fragments of Falling in Love with England all contain human feelings. -Yu Pingbo Comments on Feng Zikai As early as the 1920s, he organized and launched the "China Aesthetic Education Association". Founded the magazine Aesthetic Education. Established the first art normal school in the history of education in China, including pictures, music and handicrafts-Shanghai Higher Normal School. His published works include Introduction to Art, Introduction to Music, and Tour of Famous Western Paintings. He published 180 books in his life. He ended his teaching career from 1943, specializing in painting and writing. Popular books for primary and middle school students and ordinary music lovers, such as Music Common Sense, Introduction to Music, Top Ten Musicians in Modern Times and Children's Music, have been translated and published one after another, which has done a lot of useful work for the popularization of modern music knowledge. After liberation, he served as vice chairman of Shanghai Artists Association, vice chairman of Shanghai Foreign Culture Association and president of Shanghai Painting Academy. His paintings and articles have maintained a consistent style in the vicissitudes of decades: graceful and quiet, and his cartoons are even more popular. Mr. Feng's works are widely circulated, and many of them are scattered. Even more than 50 albums published in the album have mostly disappeared from the market, which brings great regret to readers.

Feng Zikai's prose also has a great influence in the history of China's new literature. His main works include Yuan Yuantang's Essays, Yuan Yuantang's Rewriting, Twenty Essays, Sweet Memories, Artistic Interest, Frank Collection, etc. Except for some artistic comments, most of these works describe his own personal experience and daily contact with people, showing a strong interest in life. Eight articles, Finger, White Goose, Bamboo Shadow, Sheltering from Rain in the Mountain, For My Children, Yellow Pine, Yun Ni and Passing the Examination, are selected as key texts, elective courses and skimming texts in primary schools, junior high schools and senior high schools, which are rare among China literary writers. Calligraphy has human touch. Ceng Yun, an ancient man, said, "How can you smell the partridges without going into the mountains?" To appreciate Mr. Feng Zikai's calligraphy, we should pay attention to the original, the original, the enlightenment and the enlightenment. If you make a hasty decision only from printed matter, you will inevitably miss a thousand miles. Judging from the writing style of Mr. Feng Zikai's calligraphy, he did not deliberately show grandeur, let alone deliberately set out to be sharp, bold, simple and even rude.

Compared with those fake, big and empty calligraphy, he pays more attention to smallness, cleverness, precision, beauty and clumsiness, showing the true feelings and real interests in calligraphy creation, if he is as naive and natural as a child. The treatment of words such as "reputation, virtue and benevolence" in the works is both naive and lively, without losing the ancient method. He brought the classic calligraphy of the Six Dynasties and the epitaph calligraphy of the Northern Wei Dynasty to life. His brushwork is permeated with running script and cursive script, especially the natural expression of Cao Zhang's brushwork, which makes the brushwork with obvious tendency open, simple, simple and lively, full of musical rhythm, like a beating clockwork, which is amazing.

Mr. Feng Zikai is famous for his cartoons, but his concern and self-esteem for calligraphy are far above cartoons. He once said: "Calligraphy is the highest art ... One of the main principles of art is to accept it through feeling. The purest feelings are eyes and ears. Nothing is purer than calligraphy in the art of attracting eyes, and nothing is purer than music in the art of attracting ears. So calligraphy and music occupy the highest position in all arts. " Mr. Feng Zikai is a thoughtful artist. His calligraphy is a kind of thoughtful calligraphy. Its grandeur is contained in the distance, and its brilliant temperament is revealed in the modeling. His calligraphy originated in the Northern Wei Dynasty and also covered Cao Zhang. The formation of style is not only because of the influence of teachers, but also because of the perception of the real world. First of all, Mr Li Shutong has a great influence on his calligraphy. According to Mr. Feng Zikai's records in the article, during his school days, under the guidance of Mr. Li Shutong, he carefully copied the calligraphy of inscriptions such as Zhang Menglong Tablet, Longmen 20 Products and Wei Qi Statue. Secondly, when Mr. Feng Zikai was young, he was also very obedient to Ma Yifu's running script. According to records, once Mr. Feng Zikai came home by boat, and the canvas hanging on the bow had Mr. Ma Yifu's handwriting, which was very handsome and charming. He loved it very much, or he thought of taking off the Tibetan. Ma Yifu's calligraphy is a model of the combination of Weibei and Erwang's calligraphy, and the trend of Feng Zikai's later calligraphy is also closely related to it. Mr. Zhu Guangqian, a contemporary aesthetician of Mr. Feng Zikai, once said: "Calligraphy and painting have the same roots in China. Kai Zi spent a long time on calligraphy. He recently told me that he is studying Cao Zhang, and whenever he is stagnant in painting, he writes. After writing for a while, he left it to painting and found that painting was growing. Everyone who speaks calligraphy knows that brushwork must undergo some hard training to be calm and steady, pen and ink can be put into paper, and words can be vivid and solid when hung up. Moreover, as far as the overall layout and content of Mr. Feng Zikai's cartoons are concerned, without the cooperation of the Book of Painting and the wonderful sentences of painting, there would never be the achievements recognized by everyone today. After reading Mr. Feng Zikai's cartoons and inscriptions, we all admire his calligraphy style and the harmony and harmony of cartoons. We might as well compare his calligraphy and comics to a mother's twin brother.

The book style is "quality-oriented" and "respect for everything". Calligraphy, roughly divided, has two styles, one is "respecting quality" and the other is "worshiping beauty". The former pursues simple and natural beauty and is full of "clumsy" interest, while the latter pursues beautiful and charming beauty and is full of "easy" interest. Under the right army, Shang Yan is the mainstay. In Qing dynasty, stele study was advocated, and the wind of respecting quality quietly rose. In fact, quality and beauty, like a man and a beautiful woman, are different beauties. People who study should follow their own temperament and guide their own temperament to pursue. Mr. Feng Zikai's calligraphy conforms to his own temperament and relaxes his own temperament, so it tastes meaningful and has no affectation. "Quality" is not wild, fierce, rough and tough; Yan is not kitsch, frivolous, sweet with evil and delicate. Although the style of calligraphy is divided into quality and beauty, big strokes often have quality or beauty, not a single quality or beauty, just as "a real man may not have no tenderness." However, Mr. Feng Zikai's calligraphy is elegant, and Shu Wei is the quality, so he is calm; Take the beauty of the grass, so it is more interesting. Mr. Shen Ding 'an, president of Shaoxing Lanting Book Club, once wrote an article expressing his opinion: "Mr. Feng's calligraphy, like his cartoons and words, is unique and creative. Try to combine Mr. Feng's words with others' words so that readers can recognize Mr. Feng's true colors without going into details. " Mr. Shen Ding 'an clarified the characteristics and status of Mr. Feng Zikai's calligraphy in Shen Feng. During the ten-year catastrophe, Feng Zikai was brutally persecuted by Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and his body and mind were devastated. 1970 was seriously ill at the beginning and was ill for half a year. After his recovery, he persisted in painting and engaged in translation despite the persecution of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four. However, due to long-term suffering, he suffered from lung cancer. 1September, 975 15, Feng Zikai died with a bitter heart under the cover of the sun.

1On June 28th, 979, a grand ceremony for laying ashes was held in the lobby of Shanghai Longhua Cemetery. Leading comrades in Shanghai pointed out in their eulogy at the ceremony of placing ashes: Feng Zikai hated the reactionary rule in the old society and expressed his sense of justice and fighting spirit with artistic creation; After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he made selfless contributions to the cause of socialist literature and art, and enthusiastically eulogized China's * * * production party and socialism. Read out the decision of Shanghai Municipal Committee to completely rehabilitate Feng Zikai.