| True feelings are the origins and motivations of all art creations,which should be involved into the whole procedure of art creation.At the same time,it is also the important criteria to evaluate all the art works being successful or not.Feng Zikai’s art works,showing the children’s mental world and childhood happiness,are praised and appreciated by generations of people.And the basic reason is because he created with true feelings and regarded them as soul.He used to his painting brushes to poeticize children’s inner world,making the naivety,trueness,and beauty that are specially bestowed on children painting brushes and inks.He proved that the naivety of children has a great emphasis on the importance of art creation by using his great artistic charms.His paintings are full of childhood happiness and they are the reflections of childlike innocence in naivety and enthusiasm.“The heart of children” is not only very significant to Zikai’s art creation,but also laying great and incomparable emphasis on all the art forms that hardworking painters and people who are longing for.As a beginner of the young generation to learn drawing,we have not only to learn the perfectness to draw from the master,but also to learn their spiritual world,trying to understand their special devotions to arts.Feng zikai is always loyal to children whom he thinks are the real painters.Children draw with their emotions and try their best to depict the colorful world in their hearts.When children draw,they do not care whether the lines are beautiful or smooth,the shape is in style or not,what they care is the straightforwardness of expressing their inner world by a cross-technology methods.Adults will always be captured and moved by the genuineness coming out of the arts done by children when they are appreciating the children’s paintings.It is right in the children’s artworks that Feng Zikai got inspired,painting the world in children’s eyes by borrowing their angles and expressing this wonderful feeling of naivety and purity into his artworks by drawing them down on his papers.In his early works,he spared no efforts to praise and advocate the gradually gone-by childhood of us,which not only shows Feng’s beloved heart to children,what’s more,also depicts the true emotion arousing from the adulthood.This is exactly where Feng Zikai’s artworks move his audiences including me.Feng Zikai,the versatile artist in contemporary China,he touched a broad scope of arts including drawing,literature,music,translation and art education etc.This paper only discusses the children’s hearts in his artworks.The heart of children the author of this paper mainly discusses develops around the ideology of art creation and aesthetic concept,and it will not be about the questions on children’s painting and philosophy itself.The heart of children and childhood happiness,being two different concepts,is co-related with each other but differ in some aspect as well.The heart of children is the mood that the artists have when they are creating artworks,however,the childhood happiness is the feeling and ambience spreading out from the artworks,it is the enlightenment and attractive artistic effects from the artwork inside.Feng Zikai’s artworks is full of beauty of childhood happiness,creating a brand new spiritual world for us.This paper deeply explores and discusses the importance of “heart of children” and “childhood happiness” in the art creation to improve the understanding to art creation and it will instruct author’s art performance and future to study. |
