The painter Mr. Zeng Baogang's paintings of flowers and birds are quiet, fresh and elegant, with an otherworldly feeling, and his paintings are like clear tea, which makes people feel comfortable. Looking at his paintings, they are like prose, plain and meaningful, with a flowing pen, a refreshing use of ink, and the picture is plain and timeless.
Zeng Baogang's paintings are like just finished paintings, and there is a kind of beauty of freshness and hazy coexistence. Ink, color, water, according to the temperament, free to swing, but the rhythm is clear. In one stroke, the pen has three folds, a little ink, and five colors of ink, making his painting mood and charm jump on the paper and come to life.
Zeng Baogang was born in Chengdu in 1965. Graduated from Sichuan Provincial College of Education, majoring in art education. Studied under the famous flower and bird painter Mr. Qin Tianzhu. He is a member of the Sichuan Artists Association, a member of the Professional Committee of Flower and Bird Painting of the Calligraphy and Painting Research Institute of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Sichuan Gongbi Painting Society, and has graduated from the Calligraphy and Painting Seminar and Advanced Research Class of The Qin Tianzhu Studio of the Sichuan Poetry and Painting Academy.
Due to the influence of his father, under the influence of traditional culture, Zeng Baogang developed a strong interest in Chinese painting and calligraphy. Zeng Baogang said: "The first time I saw a book of Chinese painting was "Mustard Circle Painting Spectrum". Printing is black and white, can not see the change of pen and ink, can only draw the gourd, do not understand what is called penmanship and ink, now think of it is really a little interesting and lucky.
Because I have lived in Aba State for nearly two decades, I have a deep life experience and emotion for every plant and tree there. The red fruits on the branches, the thrushes playing in the jungle in the mountains, the pairs of bald birds in the forest, the grouse in the flocks, the autumn leaves on Mount Miaro, the fertile meadows of the red plains, the cedars of partridge Mountain, the moonlight of Jiang Weicheng, and the deep green water of Diexi Haizi have nurtured his simple character like a mountain, and also accumulated rich materials and emotional experiences for his later creations.
By chance, Zeng Baogang was transferred to Shuangliu Dongsheng No. 1 Middle School to teach fine arts, and later admitted to the Sichuan Institute of Education. During his time in school, he underwent strict training in the basic skills of painting and laid a solid foundation for modeling. Through the study of painting history and theory, his understanding of painting techniques was further improved, and he began his painting career since then.
During his further studies at the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Education, as his painting level continued to improve, he understood that Chinese painting is a kind of inheritance of painting teaching, and it is necessary to pay attention to the relationship between teachers and teachers, so after graduating from the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Education, he hopes that his painting creation can get the guidance of a famous calligrapher and painter with both virtue and art.
In 2007, at a painting exhibition in Chengdu, Zeng Baogang was attracted by the simple and ethereal paintings of flowers and birds by the famous painter Mr. Qin Tianzhu. By chance, after being introduced to Mr. Qin by a friend, he expressed his wishes to Mr. Qin Tianzhu - hoping to get the guidance of Teacher Qin and follow him to learn the creation of flower and bird paintings.
Coincidentally, Mr. Qin Tianzhu's flower and bird painting studio was open to enrollment all over the country, and Zeng Baogang had the honor of becoming his disciple with diligence and serious learning. As a famous domestic flower and bird painter, Qin Tianzhu has a profound foundation in traditional painting, and in addition, he can teach according to the characteristics of each person in teaching, so he has also made outstanding achievements in cultivating students and promoting later learning.
After studying under Mr. Qin Tianzhu, I felt the breadth and profundity of Chinese painting, and found that Chinese transmission painting is not only a plastic art, but how to highlight the theme, express the moving artistic conception, express the subjective interest of the painter, and pay attention to the fun outside the image and the meaning outside the painting in art, in order to arouse infinite reverie, to achieve a fascinating and endless effect.
In addition, Chinese painting also needs to inherit the tradition, and it is necessary to take an eclectic approach to a new path in order to make the innovation of Chinese painting more abundant and more fresh and full of vitality. Whether it is from the understanding of pen and ink, the coordination of the composition relationship, the personality of the picture has been greatly improved. At the same time, under the influence and teaching of Teacher Qin's outlook on life and outlook on life, I had a deep understanding of the lives of Chinese painters and Chinese painters.
In the few years that Zeng Baogang studied painting with Mr. Qin Tianzhu, he guided his artistic exploration with the artistic ideas of elephant seeking taoism and subtle truth, and the level of calligraphy and painting creation reached the first peak.
While paying attention to the traditional pen and ink learning, intentionally and unintentionally combining the shape of Western painting with the characteristics of the erotic mood of Chinese painting ink painting, he was inspired by the true feeling of life, in his favorite subject, he had been out early and returned late for three consecutive months, stopped at the side of the lotus pond sketching, practiced a lot of sketching homework, white painting and ink "lotus" theme works, insisted on going to the bird market every Saturday to watch birds, memorize the dynamics, and understand the posture, demeanor, spirituality, etc. of the birds, even if they do not use sketches in the creation of calligraphy and painting, With solid modeling ability, you can also present the dynamics of the bird on the raw rice paper where the pen and ink are freely played, and play with the vividness and spirituality of the pen bird.
In Zeng Baogang's works of flowers and birds, the freehand part of the background object image pays attention to the relationship between the change of thickness and wetness and water, whether it is bamboo branches, chrysanthemums, dead vines or lotus flowers, etc., they are all wet and moist, the atmosphere is vivid, the ink, color, and water are free, but the rhythm is clear, so that the artistic conception and charm of the picture jump on the rice paper and come to life.
In addition, Zeng Baogang's paintings of flowers and birds are dense and dense, the depths are compatible, whether in posture or demeanor, all objects and images have a feeling of mutual, interdependence, connection, and mutual tacit understanding, although all objects intersect, intersperse, overlap and integrate into one, but the layers are clear, and the whole picture is very vivid.
In this regard, in the eyes of the famous painter Mr. Qin Tianzhu: "Zeng Baogang is a deep-rooted and persistent painter, on the basis of inheriting the tradition, his brush bird adds elements of Western painting sketches, which appears accurate, intriguing and unique. ”