Impression Zhichao
I met the painter Mr. Zhichao, it was the National Day of 2018, when I was responsible for organizing painters from all over the country to come to Qianyang Ancient City to sketch. The day before the National Day, Mr. Zhichao set off from Guangzhou to Qianyang Ancient City, when he arrived at Qianyang Ancient City, it was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon, the first time I saw him, I saw that he was full of spirits, full of energy, without the slightest sense of exhaustion after a long journey, so his first impression of me was: This person is full of infinite vitality!
Street Corner Downtown, 80x100cm oil painting, 2021
In just a few days together, I found him to be really a very interesting person. He has different characteristics from this group of painters, and at any time, his face is always full of smiles, and he looks very energetic under the background of the duck-tongue hat. He dragged the oil painting box and did not look like a long-distance painter, but like a traveler looking for natural scenery. Compared with other painters, he prefers to find a different angle, paint different landscapes of others, and in the process of painting, he can always attract the attention of tourists, whether it is the elderly or children, can gather around him and watch him paint.
In the days when I was organizing sketching, in addition to connecting my friends with their daily lives, I would also participate in painting Chinese paintings together, and in my free time, I also liked to watch Mr. Zhichao paint. In Mr. Zhichao's pen, you can always see beautiful scenery.
"People on the Yellow River", 80x100cm oil painting 2020
In the short time I met him, I learned that he was a person who had loved to draw since he was a child, and he also belonged to the kind of talented people. He is more sensitive to natural light and shadow, and in his works, whether it is from the shape, the expression of disintegration, or the layout of the whole picture, it shows his skillful use of oil painting techniques. He walked in the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, had a unique feeling for nature, and expressed the beauty of real life. In his pen, whether it is a small street scene or an idyllic scenery, it conveys a simple beauty that makes you feel that the natural world is incomparably beautiful. Therefore, the people or scenes he paints are eye-catching. Make people feel that creation is derived from the aesthetic needs and improvement of life.
Street Corner, 60X90Cm oil painting 2020
Every sketcher, he is a lover of nature. He likes the mountains and rivers, grass and trees in nature, cherishes every life, and people who have this emotion, he loves life. In Mr. Zhichao's pen, we see a colorful world. Even though he sometimes uses some gray tones, he condenses infinite warmth in the picture. Therefore, in his works, the gray tone is a kind of accentuation, like people's faint life. But in the bland and pleasing, the hazy light and shadow and the figurative writing reflect his keen insight, which is the characteristic of a good painter.
I believe he will continue to move forward, keep exploring, and have a bright future.
Writer, calligrapher and painter - Zhou Liaoling
"Prajna" 120X160Cm oil painting 2020
Light and shadow are pure and simple, and the memory should be the true feelings of the pictogram painting
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Contemporary oil painter Mr. Zhi Chao is extremely exquisite in the illusion of natural light and shadow, after a long period of training, oil painting techniques are professional and mellow, so that he can make sense of the scenery, the simple charm of the freehand scenery, let us when watching these oil paintings, if you encounter the flow of time, the beauty is infinite. Small scenes in the streets, rocking boats in the waves, and the golden splendor of some works are all beautiful scenes that we can anchor in and remember. Therefore, his painting style realm is simple and his style is pure. He uses a paintbrush to construct our minds to draw back the miaomiao memories of the haiku, and when our memories meet the scenes of the picture, they will blend into the emotional feelings of artistic appreciation. The art of oil painting requires exquisite honing and extraordinary talent.
Yihe Courtyard, 80X100cm oil painting, 2020
Mr. Zhichao likes to paint since childhood, is talented, and has paid attention to the cultivation of the art of painting to explore and seek the truth, so his oil painting techniques are skillful in terms of light and shadow transformation, color laying, perspective proportions, structural arrangement, etc., so that he can be in the forest of contemporary oil painting art such as Xiumu Linfeng, which is a very respected oil painting strength school. His oil paintings have both the figurative shaping of classicism and the impressionist light and shadow wind society, and there is abstraction in the figurative, abstracting the imagery that is later attributed to the oriental aesthetic. The brush laying out is very smooth, it is definitely not a lawless confusion, avoiding the mess of landscape oil painting, writing through the shape and charm of natural objects under light and shadow, and integrating personal feelings about natural objects with the drive of pen and color, so that each brush stroke carries the flow of consciousness of the heart of nature, and the cool tone can flow with warm feelings. Watching the seaside scenery, that old boat, always in the swaying low fishing song, cottage residential style, jagged old houses guarding the green meaning of the roadside, blue clouds, quiet and bustling impressions are fascinating, you can't help but sigh, such a brush freehand scene, there is such a fascinating, do not think about the shaping of the time. Therefore, Mr. Zhichao's oil painting is not just a repetition of objects, but a mental flow through the re-brewing of thoughts and emotions, and the sense of communication and situation of the picture is particularly distinct. The scene of the old street is the base point of our travel with our dreams, and it is also the bridge of the soul that we dream of embracing, and in our dreams, but also in his paintings, which is the artistic achievement of Xingsheng who is diligent in sketching, good at excavation, and expressive.
Night Market Street Stalls, 80x100Cm oil painting
Light and shadow are simple and simple, and the true feelings of the objects and pictograms are the characteristics accumulated by the sketching experience of the objects and pictograms, but they are never plastic, but they use the pastoral style he has experienced to create a hometown warmth that can be stationed in the hearts of the people who are busy in the contemporary era, and the artistic language of painting because of the feelings is precisely the extremely scarce spiritual connotation of contemporary oil painting. The moment he was obsessed with sketching, he was obsessed with sketching, which was to continuously dedicate the masterpieces that touched the soul to the progress of people's aesthetic life. The significance of this powerful artist who is mainly realistic and abstract in the contemporary painting world is that his art can serve the public aesthetic and is a witness that oil painting is not separated from real life!
Famous calligraphy and painting critic Shi Feng
Appreciation of oil paintings
Under the Rocks of the Mountains, 80x120cm oil painting, 2021
"Dream Back to the Village"
"Polder Flow", 120X160Cm oil painting 2020
"Demolition and Construction of Dangerous Houses", 120X160cm oil painting 2019
"Township Farmers's Trade", 120X160Cm Oil Painting 2020
"Anti-epidemic Action", 120X160cm oil painting 2020
"Cheering for Patients", 120X160Cm oil painting 2020
"Retrograde" 80 x 100cm Oil Painting 2020
"Boatman", 80X100cm oil painting 2019
"Family Language", 100X100Cm oil painting 2020
"House Yang", 80X.120cm oil painting 2020
"Tofu on the Street", 120X160cm oil painting 2020
Zhi Chao (formerly known as Zhou Chaoqiang) male Han Chinese, a celebrity from Mao, Guangdong Province, studied at the Beijing Academy of Painting and studied under Mr. Bai Yuping.