Yesterday, the "Xishan Peach Blossom" Zhong Gang oil painting exhibition was launched at the Years and Years Art Museum, and it is reported that the exhibition will last from December 15 to December 28.
The newly completed Years Art Museum presents a scene of deep-frame Xishan and peach blossoms with more than 30 oil paintings by Zhong Gang, trying to emphasize the purity of Zhong Gang's paintings and the unique perception of beauty. He attaches great importance to the formal composition of painting, organically combining Chinese literati painting with the expression of modern painting: "Painting is a process of thinking, and when you are constantly vigilant about being controlled by technology, then you naturally rarely predict a possible visual effect in the process of re-painting." In addition, in this process, it is not only a kind of emotional communication, but also a kind of self-control, self-reflection. ”
"Actually really good landscape paintings come from the East. Chinese landscape painting has a lot to offer. In addition, China's landscape has now undergone some aesthetic transformations, and many beautiful landscapes are actually all around us. Enjoy the oriental scenery, after our environmental protection treatment and village transformation, in fact, are very beautiful, especially into the painting. Zhong Gang said that the organic combination of Chinese literati painting and Western painting is his latest research direction in recent years. There are a lot of lines in his paintings, and the transformation of these lines is what he focuses on studying and looking for, "I like to sort out some lines in some very complex environments, and this feeling and the process of creation make me very happy." ”
Zhong Gang's latest creation used Yang Liu. As a very traditional Chinese painting symbol, Yang Liu is difficult to use in oil painting. This folk and traditional object actually conveys a certain contemporary, avant-garde concept, and at the same time, the misalignment of cognition and understanding is also unforgettable. Zhong Gang said that he likes things with outstanding expressiveness, "Painting is mainly to express the latent subjective consciousness of the painter, and the creation is to vent a certain emotion of oneself." So in my creation, the object is just a simple basis, on top of which to project my own inner emotions and express it. In this process, the oriental elements are integrated, so that the oriental scenery, Chinese gardens, small bridges and flowing water have a completely different visual sense and expressiveness. ”
Extreme sensitivity to color makes Zhong Gang's peach blossom works carry a strong sense of personal color and visual collision. He often told his students that the color used in painting was" the best to be greater than it, at least equal to it, never less than it." "It is said that the color used in the creation should be directly expressed, the change of the pen in the hand should be used, and the magical effect and strong expressiveness of the picture should be pursued. Over the years, peach blossom works have become the main content of his creation, and peach blossoms are combined with flowers and birds, and then combined with landscapes. Zhong Gang's peach blossom series of paintings has not only been professionally affirmed, but also loved by ordinary audiences and even collectors. This phenomenon not only has the aesthetic accumulation of traditional culture, but also has a realistic psychological refraction, reflecting the aesthetic taste and consumer demand of the current public. Before his exhibition abroad, there was no gap between foreign audiences and collectors about his works, which made him more determined to walk through the Xishan Peach Forest.
In recent years, his creations have a theme called "Crossing the Peach Blossom Garden". He likes the word "crossing", from the decoration of the home to the layout on the screen, from the objects brought back from the trip to the collectible albums... Compatible with collision, precipitation and innovation, history and present, his creation began to carry a stronger subjective color, there are paintings in the painting, the peach shape of the image is the landscape in the middle, next to the peach blossom, or the peach blossom through the cloud landscape, "I use a line to express the crossing, it is a symbol, reminiscent." "This kind of creation has a strong stylistic nature, and he firmly uses lines on the picture to express this spiritual temperament." Patches of color, lines, dots, clear expressions in imagery, he carefully and relaxedly distinguishes the imaginative abstraction of natural landscapes in these works from the modern landscape painter's attempt to express the real and complete. This formed his unique painting language. For more than a decade, he has been going deeper and deeper, and the picture is getting simpler and simpler, and the process is painful and necessary, "I try to be accurate and typical in language, which is very important." ”
Chengdu Daily Jinguan News Reporter Lu Xingyu Courtesy of The Years Art Museum Editor Song Hexiao Proofreader Wang Jian