Zhou Guangjun. (Character Photography / Tian Fenghao)
Gentleman's Wind - Zhou Guangjun's pen and ink feelings
Text/Zhao Tao
Changsha, the hometown of Qujia.
More than 2,000 years ago, Jia Yi traveled from Luoyang, Henan, to Changsha, and crossed the Xiangshui River to compose "Hanging Qu Yuanfu". In the Qing Dynasty, Liu Xizai's "Introduction to Art" said: "Read Qu Jia Ci, do not ask and know that it is the work of a benevolent person", and also said that "the nature of the pen and ink are based on the disposition of his people", and put forward the famous thesis that "books are like his people".
Zhou Guangjun, a native of Qixian County, Henan Province, was admitted to the Department of Literature and Management of Changsha University of Political Science in 1996. He is a man of letters and spirits in the military, seeking from top to bottom, and is now serving in the Hunan Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature.
The sages are passed on, and the traces of the heart are passed on.
Long-term and timeless.
On December 19, 2021, the "Du Xing Zhi Yuan - Zhou Guangjun Calligraphy and Painting Art Exhibition" opened in Changsha. Li, grass, Kai, Xingjing show, birds, flowers, wood glow, washing simple and quiet, frank and elegant. Pen sex ink affection, gentleman's wind, just like its people.
Zhou Xinglian of the Qing Dynasty wrote in "Linchi Guan Zhi": "The calligraphy and painting book is self-co-authored, the characters are expensive to write, and the paintings are also expensive to write." Calligraphy penetrates into painting, and painting is all wonderful. Drawing is used to incorporate books, and books are all divine. ”
Zhou Guangjun learned from his family at the age of 5, joined the Chinese Calligraphers Association at the age of 19, joined the China Artists Association at the age of 28, and joined the Chinese Dramatists Association at the age of 40. His books "open their own faces according to the rules of the ancients", including Pu Xiu, Cursive Jinxiu, Kaishu Xiongxiu, and Xingshu Yixiu. His paintings mainly focus on flowers and birds, and the teachers Ren Bonian and Wu Changshuo write with part-time work belts, with bright colors and full of vitality. With books into paintings, paintings into books, rigidity and softness, self-innovation. Pen love ink, gentleman's wind, just like its people.
Song Dynasty "Xuanhe Painting Spectrum, Narrative of Flowers and Birds" Yun: "Therefore, the magic of painting is more interesting here, and it is in harmony with the poet." "Chinese flower and bird painting has been passed down for thousands of years, sketching, entertaining, conveying the gods, and reaching the spiritual dialogue between man and nature. Ren Bonian "learned from the ancient and changed, took the foreign and transformed", opened a new heaven of Chinese flower and bird painting, Xu Beihong praised him as "the first person in three hundred years". Wu Changshuo directly from the calligraphy of the painting method, said to himself that "calligraphy and painting seal carving, for a furnace smelting", advocating that "the unrestrained place does not deviate from the law, and the subtle place takes care of the courage." ”
"Zhongyong" said: "Therefore, the gentleman respects virtue and asks questions, so that he is vast and subtle, extremely wise and moderate." "Zhou Guangjun's calligraphy and paintings are mutually referenced, the nature of flowers and birds is painted, and the wind of a gentleman is written. Looking at its "Ling Frost Diagram", it is simple to delete complexity, high and clear, and people and bamboo are one. Pen love ink, gentleman's wind, just like its people.
Zhou Guangjun, a native of Qixian County, Henan. He is a member of the Chinese Artists Association, the Chinese Calligraphers Association, and the Chinese Dramatists Association. He is a creator of the Calligraphy and Painting Creation Institute of the Armed Police Force, the vice chairman of the Chinese National Painters Association, the director of the Hunan Provincial Artists Association, the president of the Beijing Oriental Imperial Capital Calligraphy and Painting Institute, and the vice president of the Capital Calligraphy and Painting Art Research Association. In 2000 and 2002, he was awarded "Top Ten Young Calligraphers in Hunan". He graduated from the School of Political Science of the National University of Defense Technology and studied in the Fine Arts Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts. The "Three Hundred Project" of literary and artistic talents in Hunan Province supports artists. Since childhood, he has been adhering to his family learning, and is good at calligraphy, Chinese painting and seal engraving. His works were included in the second, third, fourth and fifth calligraphy exhibitions of the whole army and won awards. He won the second prize of the second, third, fifth and sixth literary and art awards of the armed police. His works have been exhibited and awarded in more than 20 national calligraphy and painting exhibitions, such as the first youth exhibition and the Book Fair sponsored by the China Artists Association and the China Book Association, the "World Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Art Exhibition", "Zhongheng Cup", "Welcoming the Olympic Games", "The Glory of the West", "Grassland Love" and "Zodiac Week Cup". He has successfully held solo calligraphy and painting exhibitions in Beijing, Chongqing, Hunan, Guangdong, Sichuan, Shandong, Fujian, Hebei, Henan, Gansu, Xinjiang and other places. More than 60 news media, including CCTV, Hunan Satellite TV, Changsha Television, People's Liberation Army Daily, People's Liberation Army Life, People's Liberation Army Pictorial, People's Armed Forces Alarm, China Painting and Calligraphy Daily, Calligraphy Newspaper, Friends of Calligraphy, and Modern Calligraphy, have made special reports. He has published more than 700 calligraphy, paintings, and theoretical articles in newspapers, periodicals and magazines inside and outside the military. His calligraphy and painting works have been collected or carved in more than 10 museums, memorial halls, stele forests, etc. in Zhongnanhai, the Great Hall of the People, the Military Museum of the Chinese Revolution, the Hunan Provincial Museum, the Qi Baishi Memorial Hall, etc.; he has published many monographs such as "Collection of Flying Stone Calligraphy and Painting Prints", "Selected Works of Zhou Guangjun Calligraphy and Painting", "Selected Works of Zhou Guangjun Calligraphy and Painting", "New Works of Zhou Guangjun Calligraphy and Painting", "Zhou Guangjun Small Freehand Flowers and Birds" and so on. Successfully planned: "100 Generals, 100 Calligraphers, 100 Painters" Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition to Commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of the Long March of the Red Army; "Welcome to the Olympic Games" 30 Fine Chinese Painting Invitation Exhibition; "Ink Pioneer" First and Second National Powerful Painters Academic Invitation Exhibition; "Harmonious and Prosperous" Chinese Contemporary Calligraphy Masters Invitation Exhibition; "60 Years of New China" Contemporary Chinese Painting Invitation Exhibition and many other national large-scale activities. 2001 "Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei" Famous Calligraphers and Painters Invitation Exhibition; "30th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between China and South Korea" National Invitation Exhibition of Famous Calligraphers and Painters and many other large-scale national activities.
Appreciation of works
