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Zhou Sicong: I like children’s paintings

2024-08-08

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Zhou Sicong's Mountain Village Scene

I like children's paintings

I think poetry, calligraphy and painting should be the natural expression of true feelings. It should not have a predetermined route, but should flow along the inevitable route. Just like a stream, not an artificial canal. I like to read children's paintings very much. They have no worries about being liked or afraid of being laughed at, and they express their feelings wholeheartedly. It is sincere and must be cute, even if it has a runny nose and open crotch pants. However, there are too many traces of carving and too many rules and regulations on my own paintings, which prevent me from expressing freely.


Zhou Sicong's Summer Vacation


Zhou Sicong reading picture

Stick to your own path

The path I have walked has made me who I am. It is impossible for me to keep up with the trend of young people. I lack that kind of factors and qualities. Our generation has received that kind of education. After so many years of confinement, people who have bound their feet cannot walk like "natural feet" once they untie their feet. Our special experience has created a kind of trait that young people cannot have. It should be said that everyone has their own strengths.


Zhou Sicong Lotus Girl


Zhou Sicong Herding Donkeys

My characteristics

People often say that my paintings show a sense of depression and melancholy, and even now there is still a faint sadness. This is not something I intend to express. It is related to my personal experience. In the years when I was ill, I wanted to avoid some annoying things, so the paintings naturally have a sense of transcendence.


Zhou Sicong, The First Lesson of Earthquake Resistance in Primary School, Color on Paper, 1976, Collection of Beijing Art Academy

When I was in middle school, some people said that I always liked to see the dark side. I learned this from other people's criticism of me. It's the same with my paintings. Maybe it's because of my reading. I like tragedy and works that reveal the suffering of life. Maybe this is a kind of "trait".


Zhou Sicong Mo He


Zhou Sicong Morning Mist

I like to let nature take its course

The lotus itself gives people a sense of tranquility. It is not as graceful as the peony, nor as lively as the wild flowers. Especially one or two lotus flowers, the dead branches and leaves are more in line with my mood. I am a person who prefers to let nature take its course. The same is true at home, even the cat, it can come to the table if it wants. Don't have to follow a certain model, everything should be left to nature, and the same is true for a country. Man-made things are not good. Nature is a law that no one can transcend. At that time, letting nature take its course was not laissez-faire. Laissez-faire was actually not in line with the law.


Zhou Sicong He Undated Collection of Beijing Art Academy


Zhou Sicong Xia He


Zhou Sicong Lotus


Zhou Sicong Lotus


Zhou Sicong Lotus Pond


Zhou Sicong Lotus Pond


Zhou Sicong Mo He


Zhou Sicong sketching while climbing Baie Ridge


Zhou Sicong Ciguang Pavilion


Zhou Sicong on the top of Mount Emei


Zhou Sicong Emei Foot Water Purification Commune


Zhou Sicong: Twin Pines in the Sea of ​​Clouds


Zhou Sicong Drunken Rock


Zhou Sicong Waiting for Food


Zhou Sicong takes a nap


Zhou Sicong's Autumn Sketch


Zhou Sicong Autumn Wind


Zhou Sicong, The Old Man Selling Toys, 1981