I nominate her for women\’s paintings

The feeling of giving people unreality.

In 2021, the topic #The First Fragrant Hand Drawn Photo# became a popular search as the movie was released. The pictures are all in colorful ink paintings, and Zhang Ailing wrote the paper on the drunken and enchanting Shanghai Fengran paper. Some people who painted the painting seemed to have truly seen Zhang Ailing.

The first fragrant drama by Shu Mei.

As the \”painting person\”, the story of Rumei is reversed – the hand-painted 15-meter long volume \”Slow–The Republic of China\’s Western Style Beauty Picture\” was selected as the first comic exhibition in the country; the work was selected as the Italian Saint International exhibitions such as the Layon Double Annual Exhibition held a personal painting exhibition of \”Oriental Women\” in Italy; illustrations were made for the book \”Hundred Things One Day, Hong Kong 1935\” by the Hong Kong Cultural Museum.

In June 2022, she appeared in public vision again and held the \”Enjoy Free\” personal painting exhibition in the sand of Guangzhou, a place full of European style. The exhibition hall is full of people, half of the young and the elderly. They discussed 54 female ink paintings of cheongsams. Some said they saw the imagined literary life, some said that this was the spiritual reality of women, and some wanted to see beautiful pictures.

The information about her online is only about work, and the characters under her are all calm and comfortable, standing on the opposite side of the fast-paced society and trendy culture. So, what kind of person is Lumei? What do you want to express when you make a large number of cheongsam women? Da Jie couldn\’t guess.

A netizen even asked, is she a modern person? Not long ago, she talked with the New Weekly reporter for one morning.

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The producers of \”The First Fragrance\” also had similar ideas.

At the end of 2019, the film was about to be finished, and he read \”A Day of Hundred Things, Hong Kong 1935\”. The characters illustrated in the book \”Stop the Spirit and Architecture Details\” are very scented 100 years ago. The producer thought that the painting was from the Republic of China and was good at painting the old age. Later, he searched online and found that \”she is a modern person.\”

When Liumei held a painting exhibition at the Guangzhou Book Shopping Center, the producer flew from Shanghai. After the hand-drawn photo was finalized, Liu Mei asked to sit in the old house on the top of Gulangli Mountain, the shooting site. She was accustomed to this working style and had to slowly feel the atmosphere. She felt that one painting could be completed in half a day, and on the contrary, it would take only two or three months to produce one.

She mainly paints people, so she naturally has to feel people. When taking the bus, she would sit in the last row as much as possible, away from the crowd, and look at them from an outsider\’s perspective, capturing the expression of obsession, anxiety or joy.

Yun Mei loves to observe people, and then integrates them into the painting. /Picture provided by visitors

The paintings with the most detailed exhibitions in the \”Enjoyment\” painting exhibition are connected by space structures to connect various classic buildings in the sandy building group, including 100 modern people of all sizes, large and small, wearing cheongsams. Some people take selfies with their hands, some are holding computers and squatting in the scenic area while working, and some are taking wedding photos – nowhere, a woman with a snoring face is secretly staring at the groom.

Yu Mei laughed and said that another woman also loved the groom. The short stories in the painting are all written by Yue Mei, but the people who are watching it look familiar, which shows that the plot originates from life.

Yun Mei and her fans mainly communicated with her public text and works. She painted a new painting and posted it on her personal public account, and wrote a message to talk about the recent days. The cluttered things in life – the style of the incident is somewhat similar to that of Zhang Ailing; there are not many photos she stayed on the public platform, and the scenes are mostly in painting exhibitions; published two outstanding books about women\’s lives, \”Chema Fashion Scenery\” \” \”The Little Moon in the Clothes\”, also painted and illustrated by many novel works.

Apart from her works, Da Jie knows little about her real life. A fan once posted a guess that she was a cheongsam who never left, drank tea and sucked flowers every day, and deliberately kept a distance from the outside world, \”like a Taoist priest in the mountains.\”

The fact that she resisted taking money paintings deepened the impression she gave her. Her personal painting exhibition does not accept tickets for exhibitions, and she relies solely on art collections to achieve balance of income and expenditure. After she closed her company, the fund chain had an obstacle. A friend suggested that she charge for portraits. According to her fan base, she shouted \”Yu Mei wants to take on a job\”. She costs a few thousand yuan per portrait, and she will also be outside the door. Line up.

The reality is indeed the case, and the order was queued for half a year. But she soon regretted that because there were restrictions on Party A and B, \”If you have an order, you have to accept it, and you have to complete it within the specified time and accept the other party\’s urging. Even if it is just a few words that others seem to have, you have to go through With this connection, these books often require many versions. If you can’t draw them to satisfy them, you won’t be willing to submit them to others.”

Friends her, don\’t be firm, no paintingIt is necessary to draw for half a month or half a day, and customers are willing to collect the goods. She thought it was not possible, and she wanted to spend more time painting what she wanted.

Netizens think that she is really a \”life in the world\”. /Photo provided by the visitor

But those who have actually seen Rumei will know that she has a completely opposite impression to the public – she rarely wears cheongsams; many words, expressing desire to be ignited, especially emotions, If you can chat for three or four hours, you will put down your chopsticks and giggle when you eat it; instead of leaving the world, you will deal with firewood, rice, oil, salt and chicken hair every day.

When asked about \”why is I in conflict with my work?\”, she said that what was passed on in her paintings has always been the smoke in life today, such as the girl who emerged from the alley and just came from the market. When buying vegetables, I returned to the \”teacher\’s milk\” or a group of honey drinking morning tea in the Guangzhou winery, I did not deliberately exaggerate the feeling of floating.

But is the spiritual state of contemporary people like this calm and peaceful, with no anxiety? She wanted to find out the time she feasted, and finally wrote a sentence: \”Most people would paint \’what he had, what he observed\’, and I went to paint \’what I didn\’t have\’.\”

Yu Mei himself is not floating. / Visitor\’s pictures

By painting,

Transfer the tranquility pursued by modern people

We can understand what \”I don\’t have\” means through the experience of Lumei, and why we focus on women and cheongsams.

Yun Mei was born in Shanghai and laid the foundation for loving a refined life from an early age; she spent her elementary and middle school hours in Hunan; she filled out the Guangzhou Academy of Arts when she was studying for the college entrance examination.

Previous lifeThe trendy culture in Guangzhou in the 1990s was very prosperous. Because it was close to Hong Kong and Macau, most of the latest clothing and luxury goods there were first shipped to Guangzhou and then scattered to other cities in the mainland. Guangzhou and Hong Kong and Macau had no language barriers, and young people have underestimated TVB. TV dramas and Hong Kong style outfits.

The white T-shirts, denim pants and other items that were popular during the middle school period of Liumei were all purchased from Guangzhou. She wanted to integrate into this trendy atmosphere, so she not only applied for the Guangzhou Academy of Arts, but also chose the clothing design major. Many years later, she concluded the motivation of this choice to be \”Love Beauty\”.

\”Love beauty\” is not a bad word to her, because people, especially women, love beautiful things by nature. The so-called \”love beauty\” is actually a behavior that expresses desires or ideals. She mainly paints women, one is to enjoy the beautiful process of drawing, and the other is to determine the working nature of clothing design, and the other is to determine the working nature of her clothes and design, and she will live a long time among women. \”What is the woman thinking in her heart when she is thirty, forty or fifty years old, I will follow myself and observe all the way.”

After finishing her studies, she worked in industries related to women and fashion, and did not stay in fashion magazines. Over time, she grasped the word \”God\” of the figure. At the beginning of the 21st century, the lunar calendar was one of the main entertainment items for young people. The lunar calendar provided pictures to the lunar calendar club, which were all about women\’s topics, love, shopping, makeup, etc.

The woman under her pen drank tea in the teahouse. /Accessor\’s pictures

I have learned a lot. She has gradually discovered that women who were worried about 100 years ago are also worried about 100 years ago; women who were not open-minded in their hearts, but most of them are now Women are not completely open either; the fun activities 100 years ago, gathering and chatting, buying vegetables and making meals, listening to music, etc., are different now, but the tools are upgraded, \”even the mainstream topics today – living a colorful self New women already existed at that time. In reality, the causes behind them are very interesting and worth exploring.”

She began to frequently wear women who wore cheongsam styles during the Republic of China. Someone asked her if she wanted to use a cheongsam to show the process of awakening women\’s consciousness? Because some article points out that from the early 1920s to the present, women\’s clothing has experienced the process of loose robes to cheongsams with convex body curves, which is understood as the process of \”women are brave enough to pursue beauty and refined\”.

She thinks that cheongsams may contain female awakening culture, but they cannot be singleSymbolization. Cheongsams are more of a lifestyle evolution. The most powerful evidence is that women in the Republic of China did not pay attention to the body line. \”There were popular breasts around the 1930s. Among the antique cheongsams that were hidden, the smallest breasts were 60 cm, which was similar to the waist. Women at that time thought they were sexy. Not on the chest, but on the lower body.” In the past, cheongsam was a piece of clothing, one that could be worn to drink or buy vegetables.

According to this understanding, the cheongsam women who were in the Republic of China during the Republic of China did not conflict with the contemporary women that Ru Mei wanted to express.

Out out, buy vegetables, go back, and pull up the door. These are all daily behaviors, and cheongsams are also part of the daily life. /Photo provided by the visitor

But people have thousands of conditions, why do paintings have a vulgar and uncontested side? \”The multiple experiences of career, career and teaching career have made me more willing to see the good or positive side – no more anger, no sorrow, no complaints.\” Yue Mei said that she \”don\’t want to engrave the real nakedly\”.

She is painting “I don’t have it.”

Her emotions,

Anyone who reads paintings understands

Ru Mei wants to convey It is calm and can be received by the outside world.

Many young people took the initiative to enter her painting exhibition. Some time ago, a 19-year-old girl stood in front of a painting for a long time. In the painting, a graceful woman dances on the stage. The girl at the exhibition is an artist and a dancer. She said that she was immersed in painting and imagined that she would be able to look good when she compiled and arranged this dance.

In 2019, Lu Mei held the \”Oriental Women\” painting exhibition in Florence, Italy. A reporter from a local TV station came to take a photo, and as he patted, he looked bright and said that when he saw the painting full of peach blossoms, he remembered the land because there was a large sea of ​​flowers on the land. When she was a child, she often sat under the tree and read books. When the wind blew, the petals fell on the books, covering the text.

After the Roman exhibition ended, Liu Mei flipped out the message book and saw a showman write: \”I will dream with you.\” She remembered the words now. Because I feel the reaction from the outside world – the person who reads paintings can understand the anxiety in her calm picture, but she also uses the anxiety to cover up the anxiety and puts herself in it, \”I\’m sure that painting can be communicated.”.

There are many 10 visitors in the \”Enjoy Freedom\” painting exhibition. There are also children who love to imitate online Her paintings. /Pictures by the visitor

While Roma\’s exhibition, Ryumei also met a young man who was passionate about Chinese elements. After reading the painting, he felt that Chinese culture was expressing peace. The balanced lifestyle is very artistic. He said to Rumei that he wanted to save money to travel to China, and he regained the \”Great Wall\” several times.

She realized that we Chinese have a lot to Europe and the United States. Many beautiful fantasies. Similarly, there are quite a lot of European countries, who know little about Chinese culture and stay in the fantasy stage. Therefore, it is necessary to have meaning in cultural exchanges.

She doesn\’t want to \” Holding a cheongsam ink painting exhibition in foreign countries has risen to the height of cultural output. As many people tried to guide her to establish a basic concept of this behavior, \”Culture should be equally communicated and integrated with each other. The word \”output\” is a bit of the best party. Strong”.

In foreign countries, not many people know what cheongsam culture is, what ink painting is, not to mention symbols and value. In fact, the situation in China is the same. How many young people really love cheongsams nowadays ? People who read paintings also see life, mood and superficial beauty.

Zhang Xin, chairman of the Guangzhou Works Association, wrote in the preface of the painting exhibition \”Enjoy freedom\”:

In an era of fierce competition and pursuit of success, we have become accustomed to the rhythm of terror, the interaction of rough leaves, and the choice of quick success. The understanding of slowness and beauty is only on concept, but this is what Liu Mei and her painted The value lies. When you feel a different kind of slight wind and clear flow, believe me, that is what Teacher Liu Mei wants.

Please believe that pursuing the beauty in peace is the commonality of all kinds of life.