Not long ago, Wang Liuyun, a 56-year-old female cleaner who loves painting, became popular on the Internet. She found her love in the most ordinary life.
When Aunt Wang started to learn painting, she was already over 50 years old, and she made rapid progress in just a few years. She used a brush to paint the scenery in her heart, and many paintings aroused resonance and praise from netizens.
Today (18th) "Meeting You", let us approach her story together.
Self-taught oil painting in the year of destiny
Ecstasy into "Pain and Happiness"
This is a women's toilet located on the 15th floor of an office building on the Second Ring Road in Beijing. At first glance, it looks ordinary and nothing special, but unexpectedly, there is a pocket "studio" hidden in the tool room beside it.
In this small space that can barely accommodate one person, there are many colorful landscape paintings. Whenever there is time between work, Wang Liuyun will cat here, pick up a brush, and concentrate on painting the scenery in his heart.
Cleaner Wang Liuyun:
I paint for an hour in the morning before going to work, and then start to paint a little more after finishing the work, until 10 o'clock in the evening.
Wang Liuyun’s colleague Yang Yulin, the cleaner:
She draws very well and works very hard, but the cleaners still have this ability.
In the eyes of colleagues, Wang Liuyun is like an artist.
She is not tall, but has a cool appearance. She has her hair tied in a tuft at the back of her head and is shaved down to a square inch below her ears.
In the past two years since she came to Beijing to work, she has been cleaning and painting while doing daily work.
Wang Liuyun was born in the countryside of Xinhua, Hunan. She said that she had been homeless for the first half of her life, working in factories and restaurants all year round. She suffered domestic violence in her first marriage. Later, she remarried to Taizhou, Zhejiang with her daughter.
The ups and downs in life have sharpened her tenacious character and also cultivated her open-minded attitude.
Cleaner Wang Liuyun:
I can see everything.
For example, if I lose everything, it doesn't matter, it will come again, just like flowing water.
If you are too stingy, you may still end up with nothing.
After years of hard work, in 2017, Wang Liuyun, who was already suffering from heart disease, became seriously ill and was unable to engage in exhausting physical labor. Considering her future livelihood and future, she was tempted when she heard that Fujian had the opportunity to learn painting for free. up.
Coming to Fujian alone to study painting, Wang Liuyun seemed to have opened the door to his own world.
Relying on her talent and serious and persistent personality, within a short time, she went from painting indoor still lifes such as lanterns and hats to going out of the studio to sketching outdoors.
Wang Liuyun immerses herself in nature all day long. She feels that while she is painting, she has gone to the scenery and forgotten the troubles of life.
She couldn't finish painting her favorite scenery in one day, so she asked her daughter to buy herself a smartphone, take pictures and record them, and then go back and continue painting.
Cleaner Wang Liuyun:
I have been running around in the mountains, copying everywhere, and finally I drew the current style later.
Wang Liuyun's landscape paintings became better and better, gradually becoming famous among painting friends, and some netizens bought her paintings through WeChat, which also improved her life.
In 2018, eager to further improve her painting skills, she went to Shenzhen Oil Painting Village to observe and study.
This album "Western Landscapes in the 19th Century" is regarded as a treasure by Wang Liuyun.
Cleaner Wang Liuyun:
This book cost 400 yuan, which is something I am willing to spend. It is a European realistic book.
It is useful to learn about the application of light and color, layout and so on.
When painting, I understand a truth, what we paint must be something that Chinese people like.
Making foreign things serve China and pursuing realism are Wang Liuyun's painting style.
Under her brush, poultry frolicking, wild flowers blooming, and waves rolling, all reveal simplicity and freshness.
Talking about the techniques and details of painting, Wang Liuyun seemed to open up the conversation.
Cleaner Wang Liuyun:
The distant sea shows the three-dimensionality and the sense of power. When the sea tide rises, it is windy and produces a kind of fine waves that look like fog but not fog. It has various colors, gray, purple, blue, There is also lake blue, and white and light white in it. It is very difficult to express that kind of floating dynamic.
In order to show this sense of three-dimensionality and strength, it took Wang Liuyun more than 20 days to basically satisfy herself.
Even though she was in her fifties and just taught herself to draw, her energy was not lost to young people at all.
Cleaner Wang Liuyun:
Painting is also very painful, so I have to figure it out, forget everything to paint it, and never sleep.
Before dawn, I would go to the place where I want to paint, look at the scenery all day long, think about it, look at it, see how the color changes, and then come back and continue painting.
Wang Liuyun said that painting can be described as "painful and happy" for her. Through painting, she found a way of release and spiritual sustenance for herself.
Cleaner Wang Liuyun:
When I was studying, I forgot everything, and everything in my heart flowed out from there.
The reason why I am so happy when painting is that the underlying consciousness in my heart is expressed in color.
dream of being a writer
"Sculpting the soul" to illuminate others
Through the Internet, more and more people know about this cleaning lady who can paint, and some people come to buy her paintings, which makes Wang Liuyun very happy.
But painting is only one of Wang Liuyun's hidden skills. She also has an unknown dream that has been buried in her heart for many years.
Last year, Wang Liuyun specially entrusted someone to open a Weibo account.
Cleaner Wang Liuyun:
I have been looking for those young people for so many years, and I want them to help me start a Weibo or something, so I want to write.
But young people think mine is unnecessary, you can write whatever you want.
Facing the incomprehension of others, Wang Liuyun didn't care. At first it took her a month to learn to wrap words. Slowly, walking in this virtual space, she became more and more proficient and enjoyed it more and more.
Wang Liuyun likes to read books, especially classical literature. When he was in his twenties, he published articles in magazines in his hometown.
With a good foundation in literature, she often writes on Weibo and shares her prose poems with netizens.
Cleaner Wang Liuyun:
I always wanted to be a so-called writer and dreamed of that.
Originally, she only wanted to come to Beijing to work to support herself, but Wang Liuyun said that she was sober about her unexpected popularity.
Cleaner Wang Liuyun:
The so-called "hotness" and so-called celebrities that others think, the real state is that I went to Beijing to clean a toilet, got a salary, and I was able to support myself. I am already very satisfied.
This is a means of survival, I am very down-to-earth, people here are very kind to me, I thank Beijing again and again.
On Weibo, Wang Liuyun once wrote such a text: "The wind repeatedly blows and sculpts my soul, and I repair and repair my soul again and again, pretending to be a lamp, so as to illuminate you."
Facing the future, she harbors longings and dreams.
Cleaner Wang Liuyun: After
all these setbacks have polished my soul, I am like a solar energy, able to become a lamp that can illuminate others.
I hope to publish my proses and poems in a book within one or two years. There is no so-called sense of accomplishment, but the soul can illuminate others. I think it is the highest state of life.
Do it and love the ordinary and the extraordinary
Wang Liuyun said that among the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign painters, she admired Huang Gongwang the most, and admired his painting "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" the most.
Huang Gongwang's life was full of ups and downs, and his fate was ups and downs. However, he was devoted to mountains and rivers, and his works were full of brilliance and emptiness, expressing the ideal state of Chinese literati for thousands of years. She was inspired and encouraged by Huang Gongwang.
If Wang Liuyun's poems are used, it is Huang Gongwang who polished her soul, and she wants to use her paintings and words to polish the hearts of more people.
As long as a person finds the love and spiritual sustenance in life, he can support himself to move forward firmly; with dreams in mind and unremitting pursuit, even ordinary people can create extraordinary in the ordinary.
(CCTV news client headquarter CCTV reporter Li Jingjing Zhang Yu Chen Lei Ma Rongda)