Mr. Luo Furong graduated from Xi Academy of Fine Arts in his early years. He is good at Chinese painting, landscape freehand brushwork, meticulous figures and so on, and has created many exquisite works. The famous Freehand Scroll of Restoring Eighteen Tombs in the Tang Dynasty and Story Map of the Battle of the Six Armies in Zhaoling were collected by the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau to participate in the world tour of unearthed cultural relics in Shaanxi Province, and exhibited in Japan, South Korea, the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan Province Province and other countries or regions. After liberation, Mr. Sun Chi met Mr. Luo Furong. At first, they all worked in the county cultural center. Later, they were criticized together, entered the cadre school, went to the countryside to work, transferred Zhaoling to excavate the tombs buried with the dead, set up a cultural management office, studied Zhaoling cultural relics and established Zhaoling Museum. After retirement, he devoted himself to the popularization of Liquan calligraphy and painting and the cultivation of talents. We have worked together for more than 50 years and have never blushed or stuttered. There is an ink pastel landscape painting hanging in Mr Luo Furong's room, which is objectively praised by the visiting guests. Yes, some details made him think, so I wrote this short message, with more than 400 words. Wen Yue:
I have a friend in his seventies. He has never talked about others in his life and has never been proud of himself. Although it is a wonderful hand of Dan Qing, it is still poor and lonely. In my living room, he hung a pair of pale ink landscape paintings, which surprised many guests from other places. But when they asked about the painter's work, I named the painter and shook my head again and again and said, "I haven't heard of it." Therefore, "Wang Gu talks about him from left to right", and he also disdains this painting.
When my old friend learned about this situation, he laughed it off and still refused to take an active part in those "grand prix" activities. For several years, he still painted silently. I can't figure out whether his initial attitude is good or bad. If it is a traditional virtue, it seems too inappropriate; If you say that you are not good at self-promotion, you seem to admit that those painters are right. In confusion, I gradually wonder if the world is a bit distorted. At present, calligraphy and painting works are accepted by people, but there are still too few people who really understand the art of calligraphy and painting. Most people only listen to fame, but in fact it is very famous. People are not necessarily people with high artistic level of painting and calligraphy, and people with high artistic level of painting and calligraphy are not necessarily famous. There are not three or two folk artists like my old friend, but quite a few. Unfortunately, neither the social atmosphere nor the news media are aware of this distorted phenomenon.
In fact, Mr. Sun Chi is also such a person. He was poor and lonely all his life, never boasted about others, never boasted about his own strengths, never deliberately pursued fame, never greedily pursued money and things, painted in obscurity and tirelessly cultivated new people. He is not good at hype and propaganda, and he will not flatter himself. He rarely participated in exhibitions such as "Grand Prix" and "Masterpieces Exhibition", and never held a large-scale personal painting and calligraphy exhibition. Mr. Wang also won some honors and awards in calligraphy and painting exhibitions before his death, but most of them were "invited" to participate. Some cultural or collection units collect his works, and they also admire "society". Most of his calligraphy works or calligraphy research articles published in People's China, Cultural Relics, Archaeology, Calligraphy, Calligraphy Research and Japanese newspapers and periodicals are "manuscripts". A large number of calligraphy works and poems written in calligraphy are scattered in the halls and bedrooms of ordinary people in his hometown and hung in the organs of cities and counties, which can really be described as "collecting books from the people." Looking back at Mr. Sun Chi's paintings and calligraphy works, they are all excellent. Little known because little known. However, Mr. Wang has transcended the secular life and enjoyed a dull life. He wrote a poem "Praise the Cow": "Forgetting the ups and downs surprised this old habit. Indulge in poetry, calligraphy and painting, and talk about soothing the emotional soul. Seek truth, goodness and beauty and cultivate spirit. If you don't seek fame and fortune, then heaven and earth are not guilty. " He said so and did the same. Although far from fame and fortune, he really achieved "a man without conscience".
In order to make up for Mr. Sun Chi's lack of publicity in painting and calligraphy during his lifetime, we compiled the past materials of Mr. Sun Chi's painting and calligraphy exhibition into a book for calligraphy and painting lovers to circulate to each other as a souvenir.