Mirror of Daily Life: Analyze for Luo Min’s paint.
HUANG Du
罗敏 石榴系列 布面油画 120×140cm
Who is Luo Min? She is a honorable soldier, even a hard-working female painter. There is a big attraction in Luo Min’s painting because of her personal expression about life experience and art experience. She portrays the philosophy which behind the subjects by highly skill and beautiful color. Luo Min has a wide selection, she always choose those simple and plain subjects as her target. It was range from rich and colorful still to individual figure, from strict troops life to pure lovely childhood. All of these reappear the emotion and spirit which was weave by artist herself.
Different from the traditional troop’s artist who has strong hero complex; different from the popular and commercial painting, Luo Min insists on her own appreciation of the beauty and art pursuit. She prefers to examine the tiniest things, at the base of resections, she express her personalities and consciousness. She gets the beauty of form by casual painting and strict image. She never intends to restore the objective world but create the world she knew and analyze this world. In fact, her paintings was the filter and depart of the daily life, it is sublimation about metaphysics. Luo Min expresses her rich inner world by the daily life and analyzes the meaning between existing and time. In the series pot plant, although she paints the static state of plants, there is a hint about time and existence exist. However, the bloom and wither symbolized another analyze way. In such a blurred and chaos world, although has the bloom and wither move in circle, she change the reconstruction but add more cold and solemn atmosphere subjectively. This mix of emotion is a calibration of metaphysics, there is no time lost and no time for founding but only time has no before and future. It is means that painting create the time itself
In the artwork Red Pomegranate and Blue Pomegranate, Luo Min transferred photography and movie elements into something symbolize and hint. She finds an equivocal way between painting, photography and movies, she intends to extend the area of painting especially the simplex red and blue, they hint the personalities. Maybe the information artist wants to express is at opposite side of spectators, because spectators usually gets the violence of human beings which hint the violence of human being and also shows the beauty of subject itself. But their own style brings more hints about violence which has a philosophy analyze. There are three arrangements about violence: one is aggressive, one is soft violence of admonish and consolation, another is the media violence with picture and information.
In Luo Min’s paintings, no matter the firm of cactus, and the lovely of kafir lily, and even the fascinating of weeds, she transferred the state of these plants into personal subjects, we can see the beauty of life in these form. Her painting I Can Hear the Heartbeat When Silent Comes, she emphasis the relation between emotion and Chinese traditional culture, and she integrates traditional elegant and aesthetics of Zen which experience the life state of those plants. The mix image of green and wither gives a feeling about life confusing. In this artwork, she transferred the oil paintings way to traditional handwriting way which was nature and frank. This image brings person to daily life, it is the relation between Chinese people and plants. Because there are a lot of people insist on this traditional culture. People usually connect the plant and their own life style. Raise flowers becomes a way for longevity preservation which also can decorate the nature and give vision enjoyment, even strong the personal interests and add health and knowledge.
As a female painter, Luo Min expresses her mother love. Her painting is a independence land which pass though family life, work and female physiology. She portrays the gesture and facial expression during her observation of child life and she puts them into blue swimming pool. Color, space and body composed her emotion logic. She cuts down those parts unnecessary to shape a clear and simply language. The body of child was limited in a space seclude from the world, but the freedom of their body express the unconscious of flee. The background of whole image built a kind of tension with body. Artists express the reason with poem language and give a metaphor about sex in painting.
The soldier life of Luo Min transferred her understanding about art to the display about daily life. She has a more exquisite understanding about the inner heart of female soldier. The life of soldier was not boring and dull like we thought but rich and vivid. In the painting Little Girl Barracks, she choose the line up of female soldier as subject, catch the same green military uniform, same short hairstyle like boys, wet hair, pink face, green bath towel or the moment of glance. This is a unique view, she use those daily cosmetic and color bravely and strong the vivid atmosphere. She portrays those female soldiers with freedom and sincere.
Different from the popular painting, Luo Min refuse the dogma but regard the daily life image as her paint center and try to find the vivid and original freedom of paint itself. In this way, it is not hard to understand the transformation from huge historical recount to a trivial and ordinary daily life for an artist. Luo Min simplexes daily life, there is no clearly huge gesture but has rational thinking and analyze. Behind these tracks, she shows various kinds of daily cosmetics of symbols—memory of community, personalities, meaning of life, appreciation of beauty, fashion, lifestyle and personal interest. In Luo Min’s view, the paintings today will never follow the linear logic, she never drift with the tide but care the inner of paint itself. She regards painting as the carding about the life order, as vision philosophy, as the movement of solidify, as the analyze of spirit, as the release of imagination. So, Luo Min use the way of photography and movie at the foundation of realism. She brings the conversation with life, the intention of connection with life. She built her own typical painting way and personal paint style by subjective analyze for daily life.
Wangjin. Beijing
31th July. 2011
