Chinese Artistic Character Yan Zhongzhu

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Carry forward the art of Chinese painting and calligraphy, carry forward the Chinese spirit, present the image of Chinese painting and calligraphy to the world, and show the dialogue and exchanges between Chinese artists and international culture.

In order to allow foreign art lovers and collectors to have a deeper understanding of Chinese traditional culture and art, New Media has specially planned this art topic, which is pided into two versions in Chinese and English. This event was recommended by the Singapore Academy of Arts and Singapore Lianhe Zaobao. I believe this special topic will make Chinese painting and calligraphy a wave of art overseas!

Yan Zhongzhu was born in 1945. College culture, graduated from Chinese Academy of Arts Chinese painting advanced research class. He is a member of Chinese Artists Association, a national artist and a national calligrapher. Honorary president of Shandong Province Chinese Painting Academy, honorary chairman of Shandong Jiaozhou Artists Association, honorary president of Jiaozhou Painting Academy, consultant of Jiaozhou Literary Federation. Honorary president of Beijing Olympic Painting and Calligraphy Academy, Honorary President of Chinese Sinology Society, honorary president of Beijing Chinese Masters Painting and Calligraphy Academy, art director of Beijing Songzhuang Art Network, President of Chinese Poetry and Calligraphy Publishing House, honorary editor-in-chief of Art Outlook magazine. He has won many awards in previous national exhibitions. He was awarded "New Century Excellent Talent" "Contemporary Chinese painting outstanding talent" "2007 Chinese Painting and calligraphy Of the Year" by the National Personnel Commission. He has won the Gold Award for Art in the Category of Culture and Art of the Award for Contribution to Humanity, the Special Contribution Award for Chinese Poetry and the Gold Award for Lifetime Achievement in Chinese Poetry sponsored by UNESCO.

"Jin Ying Yu Lu" 70×240cm

His works were exhibited in the International Art Exhibition "Art makes The Olympics more Beautiful" sponsored by the International Olympic Committee. "The 7th Chinese Culture and Art Government Award -- Wenhua Award" awarded by the Sino-Foreign Cultural Exchange Center of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China; He has held exhibitions in Fujian, Tianjin, Tai 'an, Xiamen, Chongqing, Wuhan, Beijing, Hong Kong and other places

``Cold Fragrance Picture'' 71×93cm

"Flower Creek Xiaolu" 70×180cm

Vertical pen and ink to write the spirit

——Famous art critic Qiu Zhenliang

In the early 1990s, I got a book titled "The Collection of Yan Zhongzhu's Paintings" by the famous calligrapher and painter Wang Xuezhong. Although the number of works published by the artist is not large, the artist's pungent style and unique flower and bird modeling gave me Leave a deep impression. Years later, when I once again appreciated a group of recent works by Mr. Zhongzhu, I was once again strongly shocked. Apart from joy, there are a few personal feelings that made me feel better.

"There are cranes in the cold" 96×180cm

The painting is based on the realm, and landscape painting is like this, and the same is true for flower and bird painting. Huawu painting uses flowers and birds as endorsements, expressing emotions and aspirations. The artist's creation is to give the human character and new time and space to the world of flowers and birds, which originally had different postures and temperaments, so that his creation has the function of reflecting the truth, goodness and beauty and purifying the human soul. Mr. Zhongzhu’s flower and bird paintings are good at creating a sensible virtual image outside the painting through the realistic and real scenes that can be seen on the screen. The virtual and reality complement each other and blend into a beautiful and poetic artistic conception, fascinating and alluring. Xingfa.

"Mei Kai Wu Fu Si Ji Bao Chun" 70×180cm

As a traditional freehand flower and bird painting, from Qingteng to Bada, from Shitao to Buji, in terms of aesthetic sentiment and creative realm, it should be said that it mainly reflects the literati's appreciation of pen and ink and expressing grievances in the old age, and it expresses a kind of leisure after dinner. This kind of aesthetic ideal and artistic interest is far from the fast-developing society and the spirit of the times, and the standards of art criticism are returning to the spirit of the times and the aesthetic needs of modern people. At this point, Mr. Zhongzhu’s flower-and-bird paintings attach great importance to the conformity and integration with modern society and the aesthetics of modern people [keyword filtering]. He strives to break away from the microscopic thinking of depicting a flower and a bird expressing personal feelings. Paying attention to the pen-and-ink formula and aesthetic interest of traditional freehand flower-and-bird painting shows his unique creativity and transcendence of his own artistic style.

"Lotus Pond Over the Rain" 96×180cm

His flowers and birds are exaggerated and bold, but they are not strange to salivation. The pen and ink are agitated and indulgent but the method is orderly. It can be said that he has found an artistic language and expressive method that adapts to his own emotional expression, and smooths the way to lyrically pursue a specific artistic mood. . In the current atmosphere of persified artistic creation and full freedom of creative environment, it is common for some people to regard erratic, unbridled, and wild sway as the high level of freehand painting. Some people even slap and whistle in the crowd’s cheers. Feibiwu and random smearing are regarded as the work of great painters, or that this is the essence of freehand painting. In fact, this is a misunderstanding of freehand painting. Any kind of mature art form must have its own laws. If the ideas and artistic conception are obtained without the laws, there is no intention to talk about it. The freedom and wildness in the creative process must be controlled in a certain degree, otherwise it will Become a plain walker, easy to let go and hard to stop, out of control. Therefore, the purpose of intention essays can only be achieved by letting it go, and there is intention in the random.

``Water and Lotus Wind with Dew Fragrance'' 70×240cm

Mr. Zhongzhu’s freehand brushwork is precisely in the appropriate grasp of release and retraction, randomness and intention, freedom and law, forming his distinctive artistic style, and at the same time, it provides a guarantee for his creation of the specific artistic conception of flower and bird painting. Therefore, we see that the world of flowers and birds in his works, no matter simple or complex, has a thriving vigor, allowing the audience to feel a fresh, simple and elegant poetry. Mr. Zhongzhu's flower-and-bird paintings are also good at bringing strong impact to the audience. The use of momentum in his works is mainly reflected in two aspects: On the one hand, he combined the composition method of Huawu painting with some successful management methods of landscape painting. The structure is complicated, the scope is wide, and the momentum is grand. Fullness and fullness are the characteristics, but fullness is never congested, full and flexible, which reflects his exploration trend in pursuing the macroscopic thinking and spatial beauty of flower and bird painting.

"Xianzi Jade Spring Comes" 126×240cm

Compared with traditional flower-and-bird paintings, his flower-and-bird paintings are less ancient and self-contained, slender and shallow, and have more positive and full and fresh aesthetic intentions. From a general perspective, Mr. Zhongzhu's flower and bird paintings have formed a great contrast with the freehand flower and bird paintings of traditional literati, showing a simple and healthy spirit of the times. On the other hand, Mr. Zhongzhu's works can grasp and shape the inner power of the art object itself. The jagged branches, scattered flowers, live birds, as well as the flexible supplementary scenery, all show the inherent growth patterns and movement expressions contained in the scenery itself. The expression of this inner power strengthens the agility and vitality of the artistic image, and the static picture contains the subtle spiritual power, permeated with the beauty of active vitality.

"The Wind Brings Bamboo From Xiao Xiao" 81×225cm

There is one more thing that needs to be mentioned. This is the decorative meaning reflected in Mr. Zhongzhu's works, which should also be an important part of his artistic style. The refined and concise flower shape and the elegant and clear color blending often form a contrasting and rhythmic pen-and-ink color sonata on the screen. The appropriate modification and the use of idealized colors are both a rhythmic change. It is also the use of traditional Chinese decorative style in freehand flower and bird paintings. It is carved but not sluggish, prominent but not isolated, and is very harmonious and harmonious in the picture.

"Mei Kai Wu Fu Early Spring Festival" 137×69cm

Mr. Zhongzhu is also good at using elegant intermediate tones to connect and connect different objects and images, creating a rich artistic conception space of images outside the image in the changes of virtual and reality. This technique also enhances the overall general aura of the picture. This aura is the image space and atmosphere created by the painter through the color effect of pen and ink. The construction and rendering of the aura may be a virtual processed tangible image, or it may be completely unconventional. The invisible and invisible virtual image that changes and is hazy, but it can arouse the imagination and imagination of the audience in the contrast and integration with the real scene of the picture, and make the artistic conception of the work refreshing and open to the eyes.

``Good fortune in every year'' 68×136cm

As early as ten years ago, Huang Junxian, a predecessor in the art world, wrote a poem, which is fascinating for Mr. Zhongzhu's work. The poem says: The suffering of Zen has passed away, and the pen and ink are left in the world. Seeing Yan Jun's paintings today, there is a true story of hardship. The goshawk gazes swiftly, stumbling across the flowers and trees. The heroic wind is admired and passed down forever. Here I borrow a word from my predecessors, wishing Mr. Zhongzhu's art will last forever.

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