Daniel Zhang, Han ethnicity, born in February 1957, from Jinan, Shandong Province. Founder of brushless ink painting. He is currently an expert member of China National Art Network, a member of Beijing Xuanhe Art Research Institute, a standing director of Wuxi Shimei Calligraphy and Painting Institute in Wuxi, China, a signed artist of China Education Television's "Ink Danqing Column" and "Famous Lecture Hall", a standing director of Ink Danqing Calligraphy and Painting Institute, a visiting professor of Confucius Museum Training Center, a contracted artist of CCTV Calligraphy and Painting Channel, and a special consultant of Guoli Culture Network. He was awarded the honorary title of "National Treasure-level Art Master" and published in the semi-monthly journal of "Chinese Talents" at the central level.
Daniel Zhang works
Since childhood, he loved painting, and in 1974 he went to the countryside to work as a zhiqing in the Liu Fu Brigade of Dashu Commune, Zou County, returned to the city to work in 1976, and went to the sea in 1993. After years of experience and research, in 1998, "a method of making brushless ink painting" won the international invention patent, won the UNESCO International Invention Patent Technology Gold Medal, awarded medals and certificates, joined the Global Inventors Association in Geneva as a member, and won the Gold Medal of the World Invention Association of the United States. The works vary from small to large, and the works are endlessly varied.
In 2011, the waterproof and smoke-proof life-saving breathing apparatus and the oxygen air compressed gas cylinder device won the national invention patent, and the submersible was the first in the country. In 2003, the production method of brushless ink paintings was included in the People's Pictorial Newspaper, Republic Expert Exposition Album. He has published many books at home and abroad, and his works have been included in the national business card China Stamp Album, the American Stamp Album, and the Encyclopedia of Chinese Calligraphers and Painters.
Brushless ink painting and other paintings are completely different, it belongs to the art of natural painting, the work is ink, oil paint as the material, clear water color transformer oil to blend, the paper is made of cotton, thicker than rice paper, strong water absorption. The method replaces the brush, which can also be used for ink painting and color ink painting. The works are divided into abstract or freehand, strong three-dimensional sense, smooth lines, endless changes, all kinds of animals and stones in the work, mountain streams and flowing water, clouds and mist, fully embodying the grandeur of nature, the beauty of nature! Brushless ink art is both Chinese and worldly.
On February 19, 2020, he was awarded the 2nd World Cultural Exchange Great Contribution Award, the World Literary and Art Ambassador Medal, the 4th World Sacred Flame Literature and Art Great Painter Award, the 4th World Sacred Flame Literature and Art Great Inventor Award, the World Sacred Flame Literature and Art Medal, his personal recent photos, artistic biographies, and representative masterpieces were included in the large-scale Chinese-English bilingual version of the dictionary "Who's Who in the World".