Life
is like the sea, twists and turns are inevitable,
but strokes the water
of three thousand,
withstand the baptism of great waves, can rise directly to a high position.
Facing ups and downs of
life, with ordinary heart,
idle boast the strong
pass,dare to step forward from the beginning, is a true hero.
1996 is Changan painter and calligrapher
Zhou Baolin’s life turning key year, that year
he sent his son to Guangzhou to go to school, finished his son's tuition,
only 2000 Yuan in his pocket.
Was it going back to Xi'an or stay in
Guangzhou?! Zhou Baolin finally chose to stay in Guangzhou.
"First, I can take care of my son,
and secondly, we can start another career in Guangzhou. After all, this is the
frontier of reform and opening up."
With this 2000 Yuan, Zhou Baolin and his
son want living in Guangzhou, it’s not easy! But for the sake of their favorite
painting and calligraphy art, Zhou Baolin settled in Guangzhou, began in
Guangzhou's dream trip.
They rented a small house in
Fangcun Guangzhou, even without toilet, with his little money to buy
a piece of wood, picked up four bricks from the outside, this is the studio and
bedroom, Zhou Baolin painted during the day, that wood became their common bed
at night.
In this way, Zhou Baolin painted in the
hut during the day, when he felt sleepy and tired, wiped with sweat towel, and
felt hungry to eat a lunch box as few meals.
Zhou
Baolin | lotus of interest | 2007
It was easy to create a great sense of
loss when the superior life suddenly fell into difficulties. To cross the line,
must have superhuman perseverance and willpower,
while Zhou Baolin is relying on the art of perseverance and faith in life,
though the difficulties.
Two months later, Zhou Baolin
consignment paintings in the Wende Road finally sold two pieces of paintings,
the boss told him to take the money, he was very excited. Two paintings for 400
Yuan, Zhou Baolin can only take a half, although 200 Yuan for some people is
insignificant, but in that time to Zhou Baolin is very precious.
This was the first money he had ever
taken since he came to Guangzhou. It was timely, which strengthened
his confidence.
Three months later, the owner of the
painting said that someone wanted to buy one hundred paintings of Zhou Baolin at
one-time.
Hard to pay, and
finally paid off, one-time one
hundred orders, this is another person's affirmation of Zhou Baolin's artistic
value, but also his art and life opened a new page of the beginning.
Zhou Baolin |
lotus of interest | 2009
Walk into the China Painting Academy
president office, Zhou Baolin composed, can have Chinese Painting Academy
today, not half an evening, this is the crystallization of Zhou Baolin in Guangzhou for ten years.
In the past few years, Zhou Baolin has
made great efforts and reaped fruitful results.
But Zhou Baolin is not satisfied with
this achievement, he first thought of the Chinese calligraphy and painting art
to carry forward, how to combine and develop the north and south painting and
calligraphy genre? Such as foreign artists in Guangzhou can have a platform for
exchange and development, it will be the painting and calligraphy art
community's relief. Driven by this idea, Zhou Baolin running around, looking
for funding, solve problems, heaven pays off, in a year of hard
preparation, Zhou Baolin has raised about 4000000 funds, carefully planned,
created a large Chinese painting academy area of 5000 square meters. Even more
gratifying is that, in Zhou Baolin's meticulous management, the Great Chinese
Academy of painting has become more and more famous, the art studio as a medium
of artistic exchanges more and more, which is with the creation of the great
Chinese Painting Academy Zhou Baolin original intention.
At present, the Great Chinese Academy of
painting has been recognized by many experts and has gradually become one of
the most influential academy in southern China. The Great Chinese Academy of
Painting and Calligraphy "to promote painting and calligraphy art of great
China, at this stage, Zhou Baolin also come to fruition in Guangzhou for ten years.
Take Zhou Baolin's own words, in
Guangzhou, the biggest harvest has been learned to face reality, and truly
learned how to be a man. In a word, be a man first, then draw a picture. If a
pople can't do it well, how can draw a good work? In Guangzhou, Zhou Baolin met
a lot of like-minded friends in art circles,
and his painting and calligraphy career began to expand and sublimate from here.
When it comes to meeting
friends in Guangzhou, Zhou Baolin is full of emotion.
"Came in Guangzhou, ten years of sword, though all the art of bitter,
spicy, sour and sweet, but by numerous friends’ inspiration and enlightenment
and laugh, make me full of confidence in painting and calligraphy creation. If
without the supports of many friends, I am sure that in this secular society, my artistic nerves will become numb
and go into the secular world.
Zhou Baolin |
lotus pond fun | 2007
In the ten years since his arrival in
Guangzhou, Zhou Baolin often misses his deceased parents.
In an alien land for ten years, his parents also buried in Xi'an, it was a
heart disease for Zhou Baolin that his parents loved each other before their
death, and they were buried in two places after their death. "Thinking of
Xi'an, and missing parents, his biggest wish is to move the mother's ashes to
Xi'an martyrs cemetery, with his father's casket
buried together. The wish finally came true two years ago, and it was a piece
of my mind. Big love in filial piety, the great China
display of individual, the heart can be obviously manifest, the bearing can be
through the world. A man can do that, so it is extraordinary talent!
Without the hardship
and urgency of life,
it is difficult to improve art and spirituality. It
is precisely because of hardship, twists and turns that there is a new
discovery and creation. This is the true portrayal of Zhou Baolin's artistic creation. The strong and persistent
pursuit of the belief of life changed Zhou Baolin's artistic thinking, and made
him have a completely new understanding of the painting and calligraphy in his
hand. This kind of understanding is the connection between artistic life
and realistic existence, and also the acquisition of a painter's professional
way.
In the face of twists and turns, the key
is that artists can dare to face the bleak life. Zhou Baolin to find
harmony between high and beautiful calligraphy and painting artistic conception
and hardships in the process of painting creation, thus formed and
produced his mighty vigorous style.
Zhou Baolin |
rich and honored, being in full flower | circular fun
Life is like art, art is like life, a
person to write a word, reflecting a person's personality, calligrapher’s
calligraphy works reflecting a calligrapher's life character, I am in the
picture, "draw me in the picture". As Wang Guowei's "human
words" of the conception of with me and without me, the art into life,
into the self, art can
reach the acme of perfection.
The reputation of the "Lotus
Prince" Zhou Baolin, he painted the "Lotus" is a true portrayal
of his life. The withered lotus meeting the spring, reflected in the hardships
and twists and turns of the tenacious vitality, like
spring wind after the wildfire again.
Dutch gentleman, the silt but don't dye,
such as the charge of the ups and downs of life is impermanent, health interest
rate, cold hit, the life of seeds buried in the earth, when they rushed out of
the mud and salutary influence of education, life in full bloom. This is a
portrait of the art of life.
In 2007, Zhou Baolin invested hundreds
of thousands of paintings in the center of Guangzhou City, Wende Jinde building
4 floor founded "covers an area of 260 square China Kim Art Gallery",
in the past year, double harvest Zhou Baolin social benefits and economic
benefits.
Zhou Baolin |
"plum blossoms, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum" | four screen
|134x16cmx4 | painting on paper | 2005
In March 2008, Zhou Baolin invested
hundreds of thousands in Guangzhou Zhongshan Road 4 Yuming Xuan collection
trading center of the second floor founded which covers an area of 300 square
“The Great China Painting Academy Yumingxuan painting exhibition hall".
Zhou Baolin is so fond of tossing and turning, in his own
words, he came from difficult days, he wanted to build more painting and
calligraphy trading platform, really for the painters to do some good things
and practical things. Finally, Zhou Baolin sent the language of encouragement:
"a successful painter only love of nature and passion is never enough,
must pursue their own painting language. Only do not lose tradition, persist in taking the road, create their own style, with
the life, with the enthusiasm, and explore at all costs.
You can feel the artistic value of life. Art is a kind of extreme
private labor, and its realm lies in unremittingly going down and
offering the whole life. "