liliesintheoilpaintingsofMr.WeimingLI(黎伟明作品)

Fall in Love with a Lily

//LiLe (Macao)

Part One

Once upon the time, the famous Chinese poet LU You has made the poem: "The fragrant orchids have been planted everywhere on the hill, maybe some hosta plantaginea can be planted in the rest place.

But I prefer to have several sweet lilies. I’m seventy years old but I still have the childlike innocence."

Naturally, I start to think about that transcendent, subtle and modest lily on the north windowsill.

In the spring, orioles sing and swallows dart, the birds’ twittering is crisp and attractive.

People don’t have to get indulged in the yellowed pages of the old poetry and literature books, nor get into the excursion.

They just need to slow down their pace, forget the daily life, stop hunting after fame and fortune, and wear a baggy blouse to admire the beauty of the blossom with a happy mood.

Mr. Weiming LI has already prepared for you a beautiful love story with lilies presented by his oil paintings.

Lily itself should be an affectionate story. If it falls in love deeply, will it flower for someone just once? If love is fated to part, will the blooms fade just once?

In April, lily will open. In the late autumn of November, lily will flower again. But who knows, for whom the lily will bloom?

Each blossom is a dream, and each flower fades for a dream too. The flowers will bloom then fade away.

No matter how fancy a dream is, a sense of desolation will follow after. After all, beautiful flowers can bloom again, but only once people can live young.

Perhaps, at this time, lily is weeping in the wind. But when the tears are dried, the history of lily will spread still.

Therefore, every cycle of life is like the circle of flowers: to bloom and to fade.

The process of appreciating a painting is nothing but a reunion with the dull pain hiding in some tiny fraction of life.

At this point, the wind become a perfect stranger, it blows in people’s faces softly but with an obvious sense of distance.

Lily, so proud and dignified, collects the former travelers’ footsteps, from far and near, with no complaints, sorrows nor joys.

" This bouquet of fragrant lilies have a very long florescence, the pink color of flowers has crawled all over the flower stand.

How interesting is it that an old man like me becomes so happy and forgets completely his actual poor situation. " Lily, name of a plant, is lovely and full of joys.

In the West, there are some romantic records about lily. In the Bible, lily is said to be made of tears of Eve, it is a pure gift and a symbol of purity.

In the East, lily symbolizes the independence and the economic prosperity of a Nation. This point of view is based on the macro perspective of a state and its economy.

From a point of view microscopic, lily symbolizes the best wish for a happy marriage; besides, lily is like a fairy who is so pure and so innocent; lastly, the word of lily might be the abbreviation of “working together of hundreds of men”, it can represent the cohesion and the wisdom of running a country.

This is the fundamental love, and the greatest love too. This love contains lots of meanings.

The East and the West have their own sense of beauty.

According to Ben Cao Jing Shu: Lily gets the spiritual quality of clay and gold and absorbs the peace and harmony of the universe, so it tastes sweet and flat, and it should be micro-cold and non-toxic.

In Chinese numerology, lily has the greater Yang and Yang, but at the same time, it has the lesser Yin. This kind of combination is really rare in the flowers varieties.

Lily indicates a love affair too!

Lily is micro-poisonous, but its petals can be used as medicine.

According to Physique Type of Traditional Chinese Medicine, those have a medium-level cold physique constitution should not take lily as nutrition, not to mention those who have a highlevel cold physique constitution.

Lily is delicate and pretty, and it smells good, “late at night, the room is full of a pleasant fragrance, it makes wonder if it’s the time to sober up.”

Maybe, lily itself is irresistibly seductive. It’s pretty but poisonous and addictive.

Outside the window, the sun is soft and warm. Lilies embrace together, they have the deepest longings and their own little secrets.

Or they are just drowned into the slight warmth and hang around with the idea of a chilly joy. Lily is tactful and thoughtful.

In this garden, there are not noises of the city, nor the troubles of the world. All the worries have gone and the masque of life has been taken off.

Wondering in the dense mist and between the buildings and the nature, we find out that the blossoms of lilies indicate not only the silence but also the falling down.

Finally one day, time crisscrossing the courtyard, the heart will rest in peace with a thorough understanding of life: only the soft gurgling sound can be heard and only the beautiful flowers and dancing butterflies can be seen.

People should learn from the lily that no matter how things change, just go one’s own way, and there is no need to cling to the past or one single thing.

Life is simply made of sorrows and joys, so the past time and the troubling world are just waiting for the easy moment in the end, just like waiting for a lily to bloom and to fade away indifferently.

Most of the good things in the world are normally micro-poisonous and addictive. The love of Mr.

Weiming LI for his lily is an affection obsessive that cannot be given up, same as people’s the addiction to the alcohol and to the tobacco.

Part Two

Very frequently, lily becomes the theme of frescos. It flowers on the wall and symbolizes the purity and the good luck.

Often, it is the subject of paintings too. It blooms in the dream, with the flowing imagination that is as beautiful as flowers.

In his paintings, Mr. Weiming LI uses the image of the edge line and the contour line to deal with the theme of light and shade.

He blends the Western philosophy with the Eastern aesthetics that are usually expressed by the abstract languages.

Between the like of realism and the unlike of Eastern ideology, the artistic image of lily is attached with the realistic beauty and the freehand method and charm.

Lily is so vibrant, and it blooms with overwhelming passion in defiance of everything else. The lily has obviously forgotten everything, but it is immersed in a positive spirit of itself.

The lily of Mr LI is irresistibly sexy and charming, like a woman who is wearing a white dress with a lily in her hand. This metaphor represents the noblesse and the purity.

The graceful lily sends forth a delicate fragrance that smells like the intoxicating scent of a beautiful woman.

It sways in the breeze, just like a pretty, charming and innocent lady who does not care about the troubling world and who can only be admired at a distance.

He integrates the soft color into his paintings in a very delicate way, so the paintings have unified lights, shades and harmonious color tones.

The layout is based on the oriental ideology and is concentrated on the softness and exquisite of the surface, and its style changes like a dream.

The styles of lilies stretch out of the outer lip, like a butterfly's antennae, dancing with the feeling of love, very adorable.

Such color and picture composition creat a great effect that the lily in his paintings bloom in different seasons, in different regions and in different wilderness.

It blooms in an artificial world, swaying its beautiful and passionate life. To be honest, few people can have such delicate thought of life.

Lily blooms generously, and its relaxed attitude washes away the dust left in the heart. Sometimes, time stills, and sometimes, time floats really fast, but time is always beautiful and silent.

The lily behaves in accordance with its simple heart, and it admires its own inner beauty.

It will shine everywhere, no matter in a fresco or in an oil painting.

Together with people, lily listens to the footsteps of time farther away, and people leave one part of the heart in the longing for a lily.

The thoughts spread with no limits, and the lily blooms under the veil of time or in the beautiful painting.

A slight halo can be seen just in front of us, and it touches the softness at the bottom of the heart.

Walking aimlessly indicates the freedom that leads no purpose. After all, it’s just for a random meet with no appointment.

Lily dances lively in the paintings. Mr Weiming LI has enlightened the past with a little bit sunshine.

Walking along the path, we raise our head by chance and find out that the lily is blooming in the sun, so peaceful and joyful!

Mr. Weiming LI enjoys his solitary happiness with an unpretentious attitude. He has the unique expression of this world.

So, come on! Please forgive such a quiet lily! Well, let’s keep silent together. The bloom of a flower can make a loud sound, but the lily doesn’t like to express itself in a flamboyant way.

So just let it be itself. For those who understand, the lily prefers the love. Let’s just be the quiet and proud listeners and listen to the endless love story about a lily.

Le LI, Pavilion of Simple Words April 3th, 2014