This morning, Li Xiang of Haiming Studio sent me an unfortunate message link: the famous painter Ye Ruikun has left.
When I saw this title, I was instantly sure that I knew Teacher Ye Ruikun, but there was still a little luck in my heart, whether it was another teacher Ye Ruikun, the landscape painter I knew at the Chengdu Academy of Painting - Teacher Ye Ruikun, is a very good person, a person who has feelings for me, he will not leave this world so soon.
I opened WeChat, and WeChat showed the face of the teacher Ye Ruikun I knew, and this unfortunate fact was placed in front of me, and I was able to complete the fluke of my denial.
Teacher Ye old Chengdu people, this year 68 years old, he is not tall and short, the body size is square, including his local head, neck, chest and waist, eyebrows, nose and mouth have wheels and angles, no ambiguity, no bending, the whole body leans forward, the road to give people a kind, afraid that someone catches up with him, he speaks a word by word pronunciation, each word jumps out of the mouth as if it is made by the throat tube with springs, it is particularly clear, clear, beautiful, because he reads the study room under the window for a long time, it is less than the sun torture, the skin is white, And his half-inch white hair, coupled with the summer and like to wear white shirts, the weather gives people a kind of white quiet and idle half-immortal.
I opened the WeChat link, teacher Ye in black and white photos, sideways smile, this smile seems to say to me: You Ran Chongjun still amused me when I left, people will eventually go this fate, I Rui Kun just went to another space to build a studio, and then re-mentioned the strokes.
Teacher Ye's bland and optimistic life is well known to everyone, he is very representative of the way of life of the old Chengdu people, not anxious, not impatient, orderly, slow to do everything, do things well. For example, Teacher Ye's landscape paintings, even in a large blank painting, a corner paints a few trees, a house under the tree, a small boat on the bank of the riverside of the house, a rocking old man in the boat, Teacher Ye may have to paint for a few days, or January, this time is his thinking on the layout of the painting, this time to rub mahjong, this time and the same people drink tea in the old teahouse, this time to socialize with various exhibitions, this time to guide students to learn to paint, do public welfare cultural undertakings, these do not affect his paintings, will not be shoddily made, His paintings also did not occupy his life working hours. In short, he can separate family life, social activities, and painting careers, and can be adjusted together, and people who understand him in depth can taste his extraordinary taste.
I have known Teacher Ye for almost 16 years, I know him through the director of a certain state of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Chengdu, gathered several artists in Chengdu Wuhou Temple to chat about art, met teacher Ye said to me: I already know you, I have seen your works from other places, very good, easy to draw...
In the past ten years in Chengdu, I have held many solo exhibitions and carried out many activities, and I have invited Teacher Ye to participate, and he will come to the scene in addition to the important things in the painting institute.
Every time he came, I asked the host to arrange for him to speak. In every speech he made, he could not do without the usual sentence: Ran Chongjun's paintings are relaxed, very relaxed, and people who watch his works are also relaxed, which is very ...
Teacher Ye is gone, my future solo exhibitions and activities in Chengdu, he can not participate, without him to participate, is my solo exhibition activities a pity, but I will recall his common saying in the activities.
Teacher Ye is gone, for me it is a loss, for Chengdu is a loss, for the society is a loss.
May Teacher Ye go all the way.
