"The era of dreaming better" - Zhang Fan: Calligraphy and painting creation should be better integrated with the development of wine culture

Suqian Network News (reporter Li Shangcheng Gu Yuanyuan Yang Qin) In the deep winter, walking into the Santaishan National Forest Park, the tall trees, the dead yellow leaves swing with the wind, and the sunlight passes through the leaves and falls on the bluestone road. After crossing the winding paths, we arrived at Zhang Fan's studio. Zhang Fan is the president of Suqian Painting Academy. Push the door in, pale yellow like millet spring flowers, the aroma comes to the face. In the air full of flowers and ink, listen to Zhang Fan's story and his understanding of Suqian wine culture.

I recall my first impression of calligraphy and painting when I was a child. Zhang Fan said: "I was born in Chaobu Village, Miaotou Town, Shuyang County, and when I was a child, I was very envious of watching others go to school. When I was 6 years old, I started drawing all kinds of things with my pen, and I was painting all morning. After going to school at the age of 7, I came into contact with a lot of comic strips, so I began to draw characters in books, and teachers and classmates praised the similarity. Since then, he has formed an indissoluble relationship with painting, going to Shanghai to study, holding a painting exhibition in Nanjing, and studying in Beijing... He traveled from place to place, on the road of pursuing the beauty of Chinese painting and calligraphy, and worked hard with affection and hard work to paint countless works with far-reaching ideas.

"In the aesthetics of Chinese painting, the artistic conception has always been defined as the soul of Chinese painting, and a painting without artistic conception and without brush and ink is definitely not a good Chinese painting." Zhang Fan said that the artistic effect of the artistic conception in Chinese painting belongs to the "intention" of the subjective category and the "realm" of the objective category, which is rich in content and far-reaching in meaning. This kind of great beauty of virtual reality and stimulating the rhythm of life has infinite charm and poetic leaping, and the viewer is like the spring sunshine, such as smelling the fragrance of trees and flowers, which is the beauty of the artistic conception of Chinese painting.

On the table in front of him, there were Zhang Fan's works. His paintings give people a sense of tranquility, and the landscapes and rivers he paints have a unique charm, a real experience and a personal feeling. In such an environment and scene, people can find an ordinary mentality, an ordinary heart, to look at the world, to look at the life around them, to look at nature and to see themselves.

"I like to walk into the famous mountains and rivers of my motherland and feel the charm of nature. Wandering in the mountains, while walking and painting, whether it is a porter in the mountain, a farmer under the mountain, a field after harvest, a small farm yard full of smoke, lush grass, and rugged rocks, it will become a flexible image in my paintings. Zhang Fan said.

Speaking of alcohol, it has a long history in the mainland, and drinking has become a culture in everyone's life. "The sages of ancient times were lonely, but the drinker kept his name." Zhang Fan said that people drink when they are happy to celebrate, and drink when they are sad to eliminate worries, and throughout many famous paintings, there are many themes related to wine.

In recent years, the Suqian Municipal Academy of Painting has organized nationwide wind collection activities for many times, inviting famous artists from the field of calligraphy and painting to come to Suqian, enter the Santaishan National Forest Park, Vicuña Lake and other scenic spots, and collect style and write. Among these activities, there is one activity that everyone likes, that is, they will go deep into yanghe distillery, approach the beauty spring and other places, skillfully integrate the aroma of wine culture and ink culture, and create a lot of calligraphy and painting works related to Suqian wine culture. Among them, many works are exhibited in suqian city museum.

"A strong brand, a strong enterprise, but also achieved a unique culture." Suqian to create a wine culture, just in time! Zhang Fan said that the development of Suqian wine culture has also driven the development of the local economy. In the future, Suqian Painting Institute will, as always, create more calligraphy and painting works related to Suqian wine culture, exhibit them to the whole country, and promote Suqian; at the same time, Suqian Painting Institute will also invite famous calligraphers and painters from all over the country to Suqian to "taste" the charm of Suqian wine culture on the ground, create more good wine culture works for Suqian, and contribute a cultural force to Suqian's economic and social development.