The picture book of the Three Kingdoms is a picture book of the Three Kingdoms. Xiao Ye Kangfu traveled more than 10,000 kilometers, looking for traces of the Three Kingdoms in China. So of these 83 paintings, half are today's scenery, and the other half are the Three Kingdoms that are stirring in Anyo's mind. An Ye is an artist who connects East and West. His works Wonderland, Movement of Heaven and Travel Picture Book all have obvious cultural fusion styles. Different from his usual fine lines and elegant and fresh painting style with pigments, the painting style of The Picture Book of Three Kingdoms is more a fusion of China traditional Chinese painting and Japanese painting. In the picture books of the Three Kingdoms, the style integration of landscape painting is particularly obvious. The picture emphasizes plane and artistic conception, but weakens the elements of light and shadow and perspective, and has a strong oriental charm. Anye's composition and pictures are all from China, and colors and details can also be seen in the projection of Japanese paintings. For example, the misty and rainy West Lake in Anye's works, the purulent and blank space in the distant mountains are typical Chinese painting styles, and the use of blue to express the fog transpiration on the lake gives people a sense of freshness. The picture of Quyuan River Waterfall is Chinese-style, while the drawing method of lines outlined by water flow is closer to Yamato painting. In the description style of historical stories, it is closer to Japanese painting, focusing on the description of stories and the creation of atmosphere. The five senses of the characters in Anye's works have been diluted, and the atmosphere is created through the layout of the picture and the posture of the characters. Chinese painting generally draws the main characters big and eye-catching, with clear facial features.
Painting the Yellow River with the clay of the Yellow River is spontaneous, and most of the words are based on feelings. Half of the words in the Picture Book of the Three Kingdoms are his thoughts on the history of the Three Kingdoms, and the other half is his thoughts on the journey. Compared with painting, writing is plain at first glance, which is also the place I wanted to pass at first, but the more I look at it, the more I can appreciate the sincerity of Anye. People's thoughts can't be completely divorced from their past experiences, so Anya must have a different perspective from ours in the process of looking at the history of the Three Kingdoms. Anyo's thinking is not limited to comparing the annals of the Three Kingdoms with Japanese history and humanities. Facing the history that happened in this land, he often has his own thoughts. He compared the superstition of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty with witch hunting in Europe, and linked Liu Bei with the modern concession by borrowing Jingzhou, questioning that Sun Quan's sister was strong-willed but willing to be a political victim in history books. Anyo's keen insight, active curiosity, sincere and rich heart all resort to paper and pencil word by word.
In Anye's writing, there are both macro thinking about history and many personal feelings. The three kingdoms he saw were not only magnificent mountains and rivers, but also people struggling to survive in the cracks of history books, as well as the tyrannical and cruel side of human nature From the Three Kingdoms to the modern times, Anye unreservedly expressed his reflection on history and worries about the fragile balance between good and evil in human nature. In addition to the magnificent and magnificent history in the history books, he also saw the silent side of history.
Knowing that Mr. Anye died in 19 and 12, I can't help sighing that I met his works too late. As a reader, I also hope to respond sincerely to Anye's sincerity.
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