The Chinese Aesthetic Mood in Neoclassicism - Remembering the Famous Painter Zheng Lingjiang
Oil painting is based on classical realism, and after six hundred years of development, it has never departed from the aesthetic vision of the public. Although there is a disturbance of modernism, people have a distorted aesthetic preference for a period of time, but in the end it is necessary to return to the model of classical aesthetics. Because classical realism works can not only be "seen" but also "understood".
"Beyond the Strings" 90x123 cm
Mr. Zheng Lingjiang, a famous contemporary painter, uses profound and skillful realism techniques to bring the oriental aesthetic charm vividly in oil paintings, and has become a realistic stroke in the contemporary painting world. The neoclassical oil painting series he created, because of the excellent expression of Chinese aesthetic conception, not only intoxicated the public aesthetic vision, but also has a lofty standard of stunning painting!
Mountain Stream Morning Song 75x105 cm
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From the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries, the Renaissance movement originated in Italy, which was a reenactment of the ancient Greek and Roman art that was once highly prosperous. By the formation of the French classical trend of thought in the seventeenth century, classical painting represented by Poussin appeared, advocating the artistic concept of sublime, eternal and natural rationality. Zheng Lingjiang is engaged in oil painting creation and research, with strong practical ability and high theoretical level. He holographically studied the classicism of the seventeenth century and the innovative and perfect form of neoclassicism represented by Davit and Ingres in the eighteenth century, and pursued European painting before the nineteenth century, the concept of classicism runs through the whole process, and the works maintain an elegant, solemn, aesthetic and simple style as ever.
"Flowing Flower Lake" 148x580 cm
He greatly admired the ideas and principles of classical creation, which was the psychological basis for him to become a realist. The aesthetic principle upheld is to use ancient artistic ideals and norms to express the moral concept of reality, and to express the ideological theme of contemporary oil painting with typical realist scenes, which has the connotation of borrowing ancient metaphors from the present. He has created many elegant and considerable works, in the form of solemn and pure beauty, to generate a quiet and aesthetic aesthetic effect. In terms of technique, it fully inherits the sketching kung fu of classicism, and then blends into the implicit attributes of oriental aesthetics, which can paint a soft poetry, and the light and dark tones are like a small bridge flowing water listening to mountain springs, which is intoxicatingly beautiful. The beauty of ancient rhymes and the poetic wonders of Chinese culture are fused together to produce a neoclassical Chinese aesthetic mood.
"Drinking Spring" 130x165 cm
With the increasingly refined and clear development of creative techniques and art concepts, Zheng Lingjiang's neoclassical works have skillfully controlled new materials, which has generated a fresh language system for oil painting aesthetics. Textured light sense, spatial composition, color light and shade, line texture, brush stroke line blocks and other technical elements have become important carriers that can express the new era. Through his creation, neoclassical oil painting has become a witness to the times.
"Whispers of Spring" 76x124 cm
Zheng Lingjiang's paintings are the author's long-term exploration of traditional European painting forms and techniques, with aesthetic forms of expression, supplemented by multi-layer painting methods commonly used in classical techniques, layer by layer, virtual reality interlocking, and the subtle richness of the level of the work is reflected in the pursuit of conciseness and refinement. When you pursue rigorous styling with your pen, you will not lose your pen intentions. The colors come from the inside out, elegant and subtle. The theme takes contemporary women as the object of expression, implants Chinese cultural elements, or high mountains and flowing water, high mountains and long waters, or whispers of fuqin, or tea drinking spring thoughts, "Beyond the Strings", "Spring Whispers", "Chinese Porcelain", "Listening to Spring", "Drinking Spring Map", "Qingquan Dieyin" and so on all better convey the Chinese aesthetic mood.
"Listening Fountain" 80x120 cm
"Spring Breeze" 80x135 cm
His neoclassicism fully respects the aesthetic principles of ancient Greece and Rome, vigorously participates in the psychological theme of national aesthetics, and creates still, beautiful and positive works through cultural integration. The character painting technique is exquisite, the portrayal is in-depth, and each work expresses a wonderful charm through accurate shaping, so that the oil painting has the most wonderful music after localization.
Famous calligraphy and painting critic Shi Feng December 6, 2021
"Clear Spring Stacked Sound" 76x120 cm
Chinese Porcelain, 76x120 cm
"Morning Light" 90X140 cm
Poetic Splendor 100x123 cm
Portrait of Altove, 80x120 cm
"Man Portrait" 30X40 cm
"Juvenile Portrait" 30X40 cm