The first time I saw Tong Dazhuang's work, it felt like a cartoon, a pop,000 piece of high-saturation color that floated on the surface of the sense of form. However, he was attracted by one of his paintings of Tang Monk, and saw Tang Monk standing on the surface of the earth still shining with Buddha's light, as if he was still alive in this world, he could still use chatter as a weapon to conquer the current human beings. After carefully tasting other world series works, discover the loneliness of human beings under the dark night sky, the rational thinking behind loneliness.
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"The works of the "World Series" are not only to tell the eternal loneliness of human beings, but also to present the rational temperament of reflection and introspection that human beings have behind human loneliness. What I want to present is my desire to re-recognize the concepts of 'world' and 'humanity' themselves. ”
--- Tong dazhuang
World Series 44 Acrylic on canvas 100cmx120cm 2015
World Series 44-45 Duplex Acrylic on canvas 100cmx120cmx2 2015
Hilarity makes people blindly follow, only when lonely is suitable for thinking, loneliness is the soil that can make rationality grow. Tong Dazhuang's world does not go with the flow, so he can depict the cosmic background with a sense of withdrawal in the world series. The earth and human beings are the same size, and they are incomparably small relative to the universe.
Tu Meng Series No. 7 - Inner Confusion 120cmx120cm Acrylic on Cloth 2012
Tu Meng Series No. 8 - Red Childhood 60cmx180cm Acrylic on Cloth 2012
Perhaps every artist will use his rich imagination to construct a palace in his mind, but Tong Dazhuang describes the world, expressing the abstract concept of the world in his mind through figurative painting. Before the World Series, Tong Dazhuang also tried Pop. In this era of image sensitivity, Pop is a special depiction. For a discussion of viewing styles, he has a series of works from the Suspense & Lace series. "Retreating to watch" is the first discussion of Tong Dazhuang's search for viewing methods.
Lace Series No. 3 Far From the World Acrylic on Canvas 120cmx120cm 2013
Hanging wire series no. 5 landscape with tower oil on canvas acrylic 100cmx120cm 2013
"The twists and changes in thinking are subtle, not sudden, so they can't happen exactly when. Every change is a mood, the context has changed, but I myself feel as if I am slowly moving forward. ”
World Series (1-4 Quadruple) Acrylic on canvas 20cmx30cmx4 2015
World Series (9-11 Triptych) Acrylic on canvas 20cmx30cmx3 2015
His works are a group of 2 to 4 small works. On this point, Tong Dazhuang said that this is in the form of a film split lens, with several paintings with internal order placed together to tell the story. Of course, it is not exempt from vulgarity, but also a need for a sense of form.
World Series 41 Acrylic on canvas 30cmx40 2015
Most of tong dazhuang's works do not have facial features. "Journey to the West" is a novel that Tong Dazhuang loves very much, even after the 83rd edition of the TV series "Journey to the West" was broadcast, the public despised the profundity of these four masterpieces, but Tong Dazhuang always felt that in the "Journey to the West" that looked like a fairy tale, there were more meaningful things that had not been discovered.
Just like his world.