Director’s Interpretation of <Painting Worker of Love>

Fond of artistic creation, seeking of innovation in art and longing for inheritingof his own experience and techniques, all of which are the mirror of the old Lu Decai,the leading role of this film. Since the name of this film is called Painting Worker ofLove, how do we understand the “love”? The Old Lu’s love wassimple, nomagnificent reasons, just simple. Because his love in painting, he had no regrets toartistic creation. He has been in the work of artistic creation from10years old topresent68years old. Simple painting tools, tatty studio and austere style, all what headopted has created three-dimensional landscape of great beauty. The Old Lu said, hewas not a painter, so we called him a painting worker for the moment.Documentary of figures has the core focus of people. This film recordedcharacters objectively and factually to show some social appearance in order to arouseresonance around people. The director of this film gave interviews to Old Lu duringthe Spring Festival in2013. After days of contacts, the director deeply understood OldLu’s life and creation, then chose valuable materials and compiled them into this film.From this film, we can feel some elements it contains: persistence, indifferenceto fame, simplicity, happiness, love, aspiration, Chinese painting and Internet.Here we should talk about the Internet and the new media. Though not set theinfluence of new media to Old Lu as a main part, it was a significant section that OldLu wanted to establish a website to recruit students. Questions to Old Lu about newmedia could be counted as a splendid section.We could find that the enormous influence by new media and Internet topeople’s life. Not only fashionable young people, but also old artists knew onlineshopping, Baidu and the meaning of buzzwords like “粉丝(fans)”. The emerge ofnetwork new media was a great benefit to Old Lu to achieve his desire. At the end ofthe film, Old Lu’s website was established, which means new hope.