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Xideng Incense Burner Peak, South see the waterfall water.
Hanging three hundred zhang, spraying for tens of miles!
It was like a flying electricity, looming like a white rainbow.
Cheng Zhenguo's paintings are described in this way, he walks into nature, appreciates the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, sometimes majestic and expanding, sometimes idyllic and quiet, sometimes vigorous and steep, or ethereal, from which he experiences the artistic conception of creation and carefully speculates on the cultural connotations.
Cheng Zhenguo, born in 1946, is a native of Linqu, Shandong. He studied under the famous landscape masters Liang Shunian, Guo Beiluan and Mr. Bai Xueshi. He is the 7th director of the China Artists Association, the 4th vice chairman of the Beijing Artists Association, the vice president of the Chinese Painting Society, the researcher of the Calligraphy and Painting Institute of the Central Research Museum of Literature and History, and the researcher of the Institute of Chinese Painting Law of the Palace Museum. His works have participated in many large-scale exhibitions at home and abroad, and many painting collections have been published.
Cheng Zhenguo, after studying with Liang Shunian, Guo Beiluan and Bai Xueshi, he had a solid foundation in painting, and since 1997, he has begun to create works for the government, embassies, and the Institute of Foreign Affairs. On the first anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland, Beijing and the United States also created a huge scroll of the Yangtze River, and President Jiang Zemin also wrote "Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" in this painting and donated it to the Macao government.
After that, Cheng Zhenguo created more than ten huge works, and his works were also exhibited in the Great Hall of the People, the Embassy in Egypt, and the State Council in Zhongnanhai. His achievements are due to his understanding and inheritance of tradition, and he has a unique understanding of tradition, he believes that "tradition should become the driving force of artistic creation," art returns to tradition, not backwards, it is a forward, a development. Therefore, Chinese painting is not to seek change, let alone to eat the ancient, its change is never at the cost of denying his own tradition," that is, his understanding of tradition will make sufficient efforts to study for decades.
On the eve of the 16th and 17th National Congresses, they created huge landscapes "Range Rover Map of Jiangshan" and "Great Rivers and Mountains" at the main venues, and when they walked into the Great Hall of the People and the State Council, they would see huge paintings carefully created by Cheng Zhenguo, and his landscapes could always present a magnificent atmosphere and rise like the sun. Although his paintings are large, they are calm and steady, neither radical nor conservative, and the traditional painting methods reveal a modern atmosphere.
Landscape painting has developed different forms of expression in the long-term development process, and successive generations of landscape painters have also formed a unique form of expression for landscape painting. His interpretation of life and nature is: the mountains and rivers are upright, the forests are full of dyeing, where the water is turbulent and the clouds are steaming. Or idyllic and elegant green dripping, or thick Huazi spring rain early dawn. When he was creating, he always maintained a state of peace of mind like water, less impetuous in modern society, and just indifferently expressed the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.
When he created, he always kept in mind the ancient adage of "reading ten thousand books and walking thousands of miles", and reproduced the artistic concept of "longitudinal and horizontal swallowing, the rhythm of mountains and rivers; the intensity of yin and yang, the concentration of mountains and rivers; the gathering of water and clouds, the union of mountains and rivers; the crouching and jumping to the back, the journey of mountains and rivers to hide". He explores the ever-changing nature and expresses the vitality and vitality of nature. He painted the vast atmosphere of mountains and rivers with a simple and simple expression technique, blending nature with the breath of life, he showed not only the momentum of paintings, but also the thinking on the development path of Chinese painting, he created excellent works worthy of the great nation, he is not only an excellent painter of this era, but also an active explorer and disseminator of national culture in this era.
In the process of painting, he will carry out different orientations according to the different aesthetics of each thing, using methods such as dipping ink, accumulating ink, splashing ink, etc. to make the ink appear in different forms on the paper, and although the strength of the pen is affected by emotions when painting, there are also laws and regulations. His pen and ink have no fixed form, and he paints entirely according to his own feelings about landscapes. As he thinks: "To make the image in the painting different from the image of nature,...... The use of ink is thick and dry and wet to create a visual atmosphere, which is actually done by using an abstract process. ”
The soul of landscape painting is the artistic conception of landscape painting, Cheng Zhenguo uses a unique art form to write these different emotions with pen and ink, so when interpreting and appreciating, it is necessary to understand its pen skills. Chinese painting is about the three points of observability, operability and habitability, and if you want to do these three points, you must have the ability to create a realm, and combining the scenery you see with the imaginary scenery will produce a very beautiful structure.
The beauty of the painting comes from life and is higher than life, his perspective of observing nature is different from ordinary people, he finds the elements that suit him, he will cultivate his feelings with nature here, dialogue with nature, feel the infinite charm of nature, beautify the beauty of nature that haunts his soul into the beauty of brush and ink above nature and establish his own style.
He believes: "Purity is the nature of nature, only when the mind returns to peace can we get close to the authenticity of nature in peace, can we get rid of the restlessness in the heart, the state of mind is frank but self-explanatory, the heart is corresponding, the next stroke is smooth, go with the flow, quiet is easy to think, thinking is wise, wisdom finally makes the internal and external beauty into one, reaching the most beautiful, the artist's true enlightenment is to know himself, affirm himself, find himself, and complete the awakening of life." ”
When Cheng Zhenguo is creating, whether it is a large-scale or a small painting, he will have different observations of different scenes, and he will also combine tradition and modernity to constantly refine and purify his pen and ink language.
There are many ways of interpreting pen and ink, and Chinese painting is a silent way of interpretation, this way is also convenient to interpret the writer's thoughts, Cheng Zhenguo will be the feeling of life and natural elements of the fusion, refined into cultural elements, and the cultural elements with pen and ink way of embodiment, this is really a valuable creation, his paintings have an interpretation of culture, it is precisely because of these interpretations that have permanent vitality.