"Useless things, just things that don't pull up, it's better to have you than not you." The fierce wife scolded Kong Longzhen, who was sitting on the edge of the bed.
That's right, he is the well-known painter Kong Longzhen, a big man in the art world, whose works are comparable to Qi Baishi, and was praised by CCTV as one of the "ten Chinese with dreams".
But when he was scolded by his wife, he was not a painter, but what his wife called a "useless thing", and he was scolded like this for ten years, but there was a reason for scolding him.
A driver doesn't want to drive, always thinks about painting, to realize his ideals, the family's life depends on the money earned by his wife to open a restaurant, in this case it is hell not to quarrel.
Kong Longzhen made a promise to his wife that in ten years, he would definitely become a painter, let his wife become the wife of a painter, and live a good life.
A promise, Kong Longzhen did it.
From a truck driver to a painter comparable to Qi Baishi, how did Kong Longzhen do it?
Chasing dreams is a bumpy road
In 1982, this truck driver with the dream of being a painter was born in the small village of Taikang, Henan Province, and he is Kong Longzhen.
Kong Longzhen was very naughty when he was a child, he didn't like school, and he didn't like to go to school, which laid the fate of his future truck drive.
Kong Longzhen chose to go to school under the coercion and temptation of his family and school, and he was not interested in the knowledge and thinking of the teacher in class, but the illustrations in the textbook deeply attracted him.
As a result, a semester passed, he didn't take any notes, and the books were drawn by him as ghost drawings, but his painting skills did improve, and many people in the school praised him for his good drawing.
Kong Longzhen's work: "Lonely Life"
Kong Longzhen later wrote on Weibo that he often boasted about himself, and when he was six years old, he told others that he was a talent for painting.
But in a small village, the ideal thing is the most useless, people have to think more about life, go to school, get a good school, get a good job, these are more practical.
Source: The Paper
Kong Longzhen's father was very opposed to him painting, thinking that this was what a woman should do, and it was useless, and even because of the painting, his father beat him a lot.
When Kong Longzhen was 15 years old, the father and son had a fierce quarrel because of their studies, and Kong Longzhen quit directly in a fit of anger, messed around at home, and chose to go out to work when he became an adult.
Kong Longzhen has no education, so he can only do some hard and tiring work at the bottom, he has been a waiter, has been to the construction site, has run a rental, and his job has been changing, but his dream of painting has not changed.
In 2005, after Kong Longzhen got married, he borrowed money to buy a truck, and he began to run long distances to pull goods, and his job was stable.
Over the years, no matter what work Kong Longzhen did, he never gave up painting, and what really made him decide to become an artist was because of an accident.
Once Kong Longzhen received a batch of fruit orders, and he had an accident on the road from Zhengzhou to Xiamen for delivery.
At that time, when Kong Longzhen drove through a section of road with many curves, he found that the brakes failed, and when he was dying, he saw a warning sign saying that there was a safe haven lane two kilometers ahead.
With excellent technology, Kong Longzhen successfully survived the "two kilometers of death", the car crashed into the evacuation lane, and the person was fine, but the truck was scrapped.
That was the closest Kong Longzhen came to death, and only when people are close to death can they understand what they want most in their hearts. At that moment, Kong Longzhen was full of thoughts, and if he did it all over again, he would definitely be an artist and paint well.
Kong Longzhen's works
Work hard for your dreams
Kong Longzhen didn't die, he understood what he wanted, but the money he owed when he bought the car was not paid off, and the car was gone, so he had to become a truck driver and help others drive to pay off debts.
After experiencing life and death, Kong Longzhen was more obsessed with painting.
When he drove past the bazaar, he would buy some old picture albums, and whenever he had free time, he would paint everything in the cab, and the scenery along the way, the people or things he met, this became his only pastime.
But the materials for painting are also a lot of expenses, and the wife does not understand it, after all, the family still owes debts, and life is very poor, and now the husband spends so much money to do these meaningless things.
Source: Sina Finance
The two quarreled a lot because of this matter, and once Kong Longzhen said to his wife: "Do you want to be the driver's wife or the painter's wife?" ”
The wife replied, "Painter." Kong Longzhen said categorically, ten years, give me ten years, I will definitely make you the painter's wife.
Although Kong Longzhen said so, this is no different from "painting cakes", his wife often scolds Kong Longzhen for this matter, but never said that Kong Longzhen was forced to give up painting.
After unremitting efforts, Kong Longzhen's painting path ushered in a turning point, and in 2012 he exhibited his paintings on the beach in Xiamen.
This exhibition attracted a lot of media attention, and many tourists also bought his paintings, which was the first exhibition in his life.
Later, Kong Longzhen participated in several other art exhibitions one after another, and with some income, he officially embarked on the road of becoming an artist.
In 2014, Kong Longzhen studied under the Swedish-Chinese artist Mr. Wang Tong, and from here on, Kong Longzhen began to study painting in a formal and systematic manner.
Kong Longzhen also gradually signed contracts with some galleries and became an official contracted painter, with a stable income, and finally realized his dream and his promise to his wife.
Reach more people
Kong Longzhen's story from a truck driver to a painter has received widespread media attention.
In 2015, Kong Longzhen was invited to participate in CCTV News 13 sets of "Chinese's Living Methods", telling his own story in the program, and he was named one of the "ten Chinese with dreams" by CCTV.
2015 was a very meaningful year for Kong Longzhen, he was invited to participate in the Danish Connor Festival, what concept?
Before Kong Longzhen, only four Chinese painters were invited, namely Ye Qianyu, Xu Beihong, He Tianjian and Qi Baishi, and Kong Longzhen was the fifth.
In other words, Kong Longzhen's paintings are almost comparable to the works of the painting master Qi Baishi.
After Kong Longzhen became famous, he participated in many activities, in which he used his story to encourage those who have dreams to be brave enough to pursue their dreams.
Source: Phoenix News
Many people who have seen Kong Longzhen's art exhibition and heard his story have expressed their admiration for him, and his story has also given courage to those who once had dreams but did not dare to realize them.
Whether a thing is meaningful or not is not defined by what others say, but by what one's heart thinks.
In 2019, Kong Longzhen also participated in the establishment of the Shanghai Overseas Chinese Development Foundation Art Special Fund, which was originally intended to provide public welfare support and funding for art education for urban and rural children in mainland China.
Kong Longzhen's childhood painting ideals did not go well, so he hopes to do his part to help those children who have dreams, and the road to realizing their dreams is not as difficult as his.
It's called being raining yourself, so you want to hold an umbrella for someone else.
Life is different, I believe that everyone who comes to the world brings some skills, tries more, and experiences different lives, which may bring more excitement to your life.
It's like drawing, if you want to, all you need is a thought and a pen.
Information sources:
Phoenix News: "Kong Longzhen Returns to His Hometown to Hold an Art Exhibition and Tells His Experience in Painting for Children"2023-07-20 15:28:51
Sina Finance: "Artist Kong Longzhen: Let Art Flow to Remote Mountainous Areas with Traffic Arteries"2020-09-29 05:10
The Paper: "Kong Longzhen, a "wild artist" who drives a truck: silently influencing children, is more important than learning skills"2019-11-15 10:01
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