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Chinese Art in Yoshinken |
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Yoshinken |
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I am fortunate
in having the privilege to train with all the wonderful people in
the Stockholm Yoshinken group.
Thanks to Sensei Marshall McDonagh we are members with skills from
several different Martial Arts. Yoshinken is an art that cultivates
and encourages existing knowledge from our members in Karate found
in Kyokushinkai, Goju-ryu, and Shotokan), including as well Ju-jutsu,
Aikido, Tai-chi, Pa Kua, Judo, Kendo, and boxing with Taikiken as
the basic foundation for lifetime study and development.
One of our members being Anders Öfverström who has a background
in Budo/Wushu also as an artist in traditional Chinese art and calligraphy.
The more I learn from Anders and his art the more I understand that
art is an important part of genuine Budo/Wushu. This gives us an
understanding and an explanation why some great Budoka/Wushu Sensei/Masters
are skilled artists also in painting, calligraphy or poetry. With
Anders talents this helps us to get another dimension into the internal
system of the martial arts.
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To do the presentation of Anders I asked him to write a short history
about his Budo/ Wushu experiences and let a well-known art professor
and a good friend of Anders from China do the presentation of Anders
as an artist.
Anders is one of the Kenpoka in the Stockholm Yoshinkengroup that
makes me aware that I am training in the worlds most interesting
Budogroup.
Åke Wall
Yoshinken Stockholm
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Anders by Huangshan mountain |
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Anders explains
I Started to train wushu for Sifu Louis Linn for 4 years and after
that Shotokan karate for Sensei Yoshi Yukawa. At this time I also
took term courses in Changquan (long fist) Nanquan (south fist),
Taiji and sunfeather wich was all form training. The Chairman of
honor at Master Louise Lins wushu institute was an eighty year old
calligrapher whos name was Dr.Tien Lung for whom I later studied
calligraphy, though he’s courses was more of a lecture in
chinese patiance and in mastering the brush. In 1990 I enrolled
at the Zhejiang academy of fine arts where I studied flower and
bird painting under the instruction of varios masters, the first
year I also studied sword forms for a teacher from Hangzou wushu
academy. 1993 I had my graduation exhebition at the acadamy before
I went home. In 2001 I was invited to two collective exhebitions
one in pujiang and one at Shanghai museum of fine arts. 2005 I had
a one man exhebition at the yellow crane pagodas art institute in
Wuhan. 2007 I shall have a one man exhebition in Nanchangs institute
of fine arts where I shall exhebit 100 paintings.
In addition to Shotokan and Wushu I allso trained Kyukushinkai karate
at Oyama karate kai where I came in contact with Yoshinken which
I now practise.
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Anders and his art
Text by Jiang Baolin 2005 08 16 Beijing
(prof.Jiang Baolin is a master of Chinese painting and is seen as
one of three most famous Chinese artist now living)
Anders born in 1970 sweden.
In 1991 he enrolled at Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art, Department
of Chinese Painting, Class of Flowers and Birds. Under the instruction
of Lu Kongfeng, Xu Jiachang, He Jialin and Tian Yuan and other teachers.
He studied the Chinese freehand brushwork systematically. At that
time he preliminary understood the main spirit and national characters
of Chinese paintings and made remarkable progress in both calligraphy
and freehand brushwork. Anders is my friend and has been my frequent
visitor at home.
His sincerelity, honesty and sense of humour left a deep impression
on me. Especially his growing feelings about China and his diligent
desire of progress touched me deeply. We talked about everything,
about life, about China, about the future and about the interesting
happenings in life. All these had been a great opportunity for him
and me as well to add our knowledge and open our minds. That's why,
as he said himself, "The great inspiration, instruction and
encouragement which I've got and which formed me as a person and
as an artist has been the time I've spent together with Mr Jiang
Baolin". His job in Sweden has nothing to do with Chinese painting
but he has never given up the great love and pursue for Chinese
art. He usually sent me some pictures about his paintings to ask
for instructions.
2001 he was invited to take part in the "International Chinese
Ink paintings Exhibition" at Shanghai museum of fine art. There
are two patterns in Anders brush and ink paintings. One is the inherit
of Chinese freehand brushwork, with intension of Chinese culture
history and national characters. It's an extension of great expressionism
from the beginning of twenty centuries. The other one is to use
the Chinese brush and ink to express the Western abstract ideal,
creating his own style which is the result of using Chinese art
technique in Western motive. Anders had made appraisable progress
in both patterns. Anders is nature-talented and highly understanding.
He paints very extraordinary, with a spiritual brush, free and good
manner, spontaneously, good taste,good accomplishment, delicious
from vigorous,
naivety from simplicity. All these are fine and unusual moral characters
in Chinese painting, especially for a person with another culture
background.
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