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“Man and Sword Becomes One” in Art
Singing Palette2016-05-30 15:25
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Why my works can’t be successful?

Why I can’t be famous?
These are questions troubling many painters while the answers are often a simple sentence.

After the classical painting of all schools in the Middle Ages, there is a common feature of famous modern paintings, that is, the audiences can understand the painters’ inner world or the mental state of the main character at that time.

We often hear many people saying that they “don’t understand it” before a piece of painting and console themselves with soothing remarks that this is because “I don’t know art.” However, in fact, in many occasions when the audiences don’t understand the painting, it is not because they don’t understand art or their levels are low, but the painters (who cannot be called a painter so far) themselves don’t truly understand art and their levels are low.

Any artist can be successful only when he/she can combine two elements of art in complete harmony within his/her works, that is, spirit and skills.
If one possesses mature skills without spirit, he/she can only mechanically copy works. But when you have the spirit but don’t know how to express it skillfully or you have both spirit and skill but don’t know how to put them in harmony, it would result in the fault of spiritual world and physical reality. Of course, works created under these situations can never be successful. Neither can the “painter” be famous unless it is a blind luck that someone offers a high price, which often occurs in the early 21st century.

However, high price does not mean successful.
It is shallow to be pleased with oneself only because several works or series of works are sold at high prices.

Success is to apply suitable skills maturely to express your spirit so that the audiences can understand and your own style and state in a period of time is settled. Bing famous is the co-product of being successful. Sometimes you can get both, sometimes not.
This is “Man and sword becomes one” in Chinese martial arts. “Man” refers to the spirit of the artist while “sword” means his skills to convey his spirit.

Picture: Aunt Gongsun's Sword Dance by Guan Shanyue

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