Feng Dazhong's tiger inherits the predecessors and surpasses the predecessors, creating a style of its own, providing valuable experience for comprehensive innovation that can be used as a reference for art creation.
The painter Feng Dazhong has been a tiger through the ages and has walked alone in today's painting world.
His tiger inherits and surpasses its predecessors, creating its own style, providing valuable experience of comprehensive innovation that can be used as a reference for art creation.
Childhood/192×501 cm/Color on paper/2006
Artistic innovation is the aesthetic requirement of the times and a manifestation of a nation's vitality and creative spirit. In his creation with the theme of tiger, Feng Dazhong showed the wisdom and courage of artistic creation, and achieved enviable artistic achievements.
The mainland has a cultural tradition of advocating tigers. I'll call it "tiger culture." Tiger culture has rich and far-reaching considerations, penetrating into many aspects such as aesthetics and values. "Tiger tiger angry", "dragon leaping tiger leap", "tiger on the dragon disk", these words not only symbolize vitality and vitality, extraordinary style and temperament, but also represent a macro weather.
FrostLight/145×380 cm/Color on paper/1994
Painting and admiring tigers has become a habit in the past. In artistic creation, some people regard deep traditions as a burden of history and throw them away as fast, so they must be "anti-traditional". Feng Dazhong did not abandon but deeply rooted in traditional Chinese culture, made thorough research and analysis, discarded some things, and developed some things.
"White Dew"/215×452 cm/Color on paper/2007
As a painter of the times, Feng Dazhong must first break through the traditional tiger painting set and carry out new aesthetic thinking. From the perspective of environmental ecological aesthetics, from the accumulation of Chinese culture, but also from the in-depth observation of tigers, he opened up new themes, refined new themes, and created new techniques. His tiger is full of brave and powerful changes, swaying with mother-child affection, the joy of heaven, and even parting from love, he often adopts an anthropomorphic methods, borrowing tigers to express their aspirations and lyrics. His artistic creation, which is full of romantic spirit, strengthens and enriches the meaning and spiritual connotation of tiger painting, and opens up a new generation.
"Moon Full of Green Mountains" / 68× 138 cm / Color on paper / 1995
"Full Moon green mountain" is a masterpiece. The painter structures the painting from the aesthetic perspective of environmental ecological aesthetics, creating a pure land that is not polluted. When the moon is empty, the ravine is vast, the waterfall turns into a rushing and jumping stream, and a tiger couple drinks a clear spring. To celebrate the life and eternity of nature. Because too many "paradises" have been brutally destroyed. In a series of works by Feng Dazhong, there is a strong sense of calling for defending the earth's homeland and cherishing the ecological environment.
Cradle/62× 128 cm/Color on paper/1995
The painter inscribed in "Cradle": "The cradle is woven with wisps of motherly love, and it is full of selflessness and holiness, warmth and sweetness, hope and blessing." In particular, the little tiger used his mother's forearm as a pillow, and his hind feet were still naughtily stomping on his mother's mouth in his sleep. It shows the subtlety of the painter's observation of life.
Summer Dream/68×138 cm/Color on paper/1995
When painting a tiger, the subtlety of the dynamic expression is difficult to capture, and the spirit and interest of the tiger are particularly difficult to convey. Feng Dazhong's success is based on his in-depth understanding and speculation about life. In "Summer Dream", the three tigers sleep in different states, or sleep like drunk, or sleep with their eyes in their dreams. The painter injects beautiful dreams into the depictions, and the dreams are warm and rambunctious. All meaning is obtained from subtle artistic treatment. The vividness, charm and emotion of painting are the life of painting, and Feng Dazhong has made a successful artistic transmission in a series of works with his divine brush. These communications are based on solid modeling basics and newly created technical language. Feng Dazhong's tiger has bones, flesh, and gods, and its fur is colorful, and even the luster of the coat color is also expressed. His art is ingenious and ingenious, and there is no one in ancient and modern times.
"Frost Forest Drunk" / 96× 140 cm / Color on paper / 1988
Feng Dazhong is known for his tiger paintings, but in fact, his landscape paintings are also quite outstanding. The characteristics of his landscape painting are to pay attention to the overall effect and pursue the simplicity and depth of the painting. He is good at deleting big points, cutting but miscellaneous, and using all his strength to grasp the whole atmosphere, mood and weather of the picture. He put the creation of the realm first.
"Frost Forest Autumn Water" / 210× 620 cm / color on paper / 2008
In his pen, the realm of the vast wilderness, the realm of the long white snow moon, the realm of the intoxication of the Autumn Mountains, the realm of the dawn of the spring mountains, the realm of the morning of the reed flower frost, and the realm of the spring rain of the pear blossoms are all meaningful and touching. It is precisely because of his profound skills in landscape painting and good at creating a painting environment that he can "let the tiger return to the mountain", put the tiger in the specific atmosphere he created, make the tiger and the environment complement each other, and add endless artistic infectious power. (Xia Shuoqi, former editor-in-chief of Fine Arts Magazine)
Painter Profile
Feng Dazhong, born in 1949 in Liaoning, is the owner of Fuhu Caotang. He is a deputy to the 10th, 11th and 12th National People's Congress, the former president of the China Gongbi Painting Society, the deputy director of the Chinese Painting Art Committee of the China Artists Association, the vice president of the Chinese Painting Society, the director of the China Artists Association, the vice chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Artists Association, the national first-class artist, and an expert enjoying special allowances from the State Council.
Feng Dazhong's works "Awakening" and "Mother and Son" were selected into the "Complete Collection of Chinese Art"; his works "Awakening" and "Frightening Dream" were selected into the "China Centennial Painting Exhibition" and "China Centennial Painting Collection"; 18 works were collected by the National Art Museum of China, and dozens of works were collected by important art museums, professional institutions and collectors at home and abroad.