Biography
Zhang Xiaodong, Han ethnicity, born on December 10, 1974, origin: Inner Mongolia Wumeng Liangcheng current residence: Beijing, good at portrait comics, is [China News Cartoon Network] online painter. From 1994 to 1996, he studied arts and crafts at Hohhot Institute of Education. After graduation, he worked at the Inner Mongolia Exhibition Center. In 1997, he began to create "character portrait comics" and has published a large number of works in newspapers and periodicals such as "Chinese Comics", "Comic Information", "Comic Monthly", "Comedy World", and "The King of Humor" in the past few years. In January 2002, the book "Celebrity Portraits" was published by the Inner Mongolia University Press. In May 2002, the comic works won the silver medal in the Hohhot Fine Arts Photography Creation Exhibition. In 2003, his work "Keith Richards" was selected for China. The Jiaxing International Comics Exhibition is collected by Puhua Art Museum. "Picasso" was selected for the "Exhibition of The Great Men of the World" in Romania. In 2004, the international webcomic organized by the Shanghai Free Comics Alliance, the portrait group "Picasso" won the highest honor award. Hitchcock was selected for the album of the 9th International Comic Salon Competition at ZEMUN, Republic of Montenegro. "Zi Kai Cup" Chinese Comic Contest works "Tyson" and "Kurosawa Akira" won the Excellence Award (3 works included in the album) In the same year, 15 works were included in the third volume of "Chinese Comics Conquering the World" 2005 "Chinese and Foreign Celebrity Cartoons" Zhang Xiaodong's Works Selection (Color Works Collection) Released TV Interview 1: CCTV 5 Sets of Sports Channels 2, China Education Television's Third Program CETV-3 2017 Work "Mo Yan" was selected in the private collection 5 works in 2018 were selected for the first International Portrait Comic Festival in Beijing in 2018 Moonwalk won the Excellence Award. At the same time, it was also selected as the cover work of the International Portrait Comic Book. Personal art topics have been on [Today's Headlines] (mobile version) In 2019, [Art China] was appreciated one by one by one, and again on [Today's Headlines] In the same year, 25 works were included in the Dongguan Library Database for long-term use and published in various forms. At the same time, the work "Spike . Li" is in the permanent collection of Dongguan Library. In 2020, he created a work of great significance in his life, "A Hundred Birds and a Phoenix", in 2021, Zhang Xiaodong's personal introduction and three of his works were included in "Chinese Modern comic artists" This book has certain historical significance and value in the Chinese comic industry.
The artistic path of the ascetic Zhang Xiaodong
The association between the author Huai Yu and the portrait comics first began with zhang Xiaodong and his works ten years ago. At that time, he had black hair and flowing hair, strong physique, and was in the midst of his youth, but when I carefully appreciated the large number of celebrity portraits he had published in many newspapers and magazines in China, I immediately felt respect for the young man who stood in front of me, who seemed to be plain and taciturn on the surface, but was actually a portrait cartoonist with a good painting style and great personal artistic characteristics. To this day, ten years have passed suddenly, and when I look at Zhang Xiaodong's works again, my heart fluctuates, my feelings are infinite, and I always want to write something for him, with my lifelong regrets.
▲ "Dalí"
Personality characteristics are the vitality of works of art, and the works that shine with personality are all from those excellent artists who create with feeling and understanding, I think that Zhang Xiaodong is one of them, and the creative ideas of many of his works are produced in a flash of inspiration, and they are completed with feelings in the state of passion. To this end, in each of his works, the reader can understand the personality traits and creative styles that are unique to him. Winter's Notice? Me: No matter who I paint, the first thing I have to do is to find the feeling through repeated observation and careful understanding, and if there is no feeling, I would rather give up than write. Spanish Surrealist painter Salvador . Dali is one of Zhang Xiaodong's favorite artists, he has created three portraits for him, and each creation is in the case of a particularly strong new inspiration impulse, so although the three works are exaggerated, cold and warm tones have different, but the artist Dali's image characteristics and spiritual temperament have a unique charm, each shines.
▲The Father of Chinese Rock
The success of the three works is the result of the continuous sublimation and spiritualization of the painter Zhang Xiaodong's feelings about the Dali-shaped gods. Therefore, while we appreciate these three works, we also appreciate the author's wild and exquisite artistic personality and creative style. Zhang Xiaodong always breaks through the conventional common sense, because people set colors, with the help of the power of color to set off and interpret the character's personality, emotions and ideological tendencies. The comic portrait works he created for Cui Jian, the father of Chinese rock, the whole picture is brilliant and dreamlike, rendering the obsessive intoxication and wanton wild demeanor of the player to the fullest. The characters and backgrounds of his new work, Ali the King of Fighters, are in a cool blue tone, and a pair of red gloves hanging on the shoulders are particularly striking. The boxer in the picture is tall and tall, standing in the air, his eyes are shining proudly ahead, and the creativity of the work is exciting: although the Siren has passed away, he is still arrogant and domineering, and the cold blue throughout the text, while giving the reader a strong visual impact, also reproduces the strong and cold personality of the boxer.
▲ "King of Fighters Ali"
"Comics" is a special artistic language in portrait comics, which gives creators unlimited imagination and creative space. Exaggeration is also one of the important ways and means of expression of comics, and the purpose of exaggeration is not for the simple superficial variation of the character image, nor is it for the pursuit of a shallow level of inexplicable humor. In the truly high-level and tasteful exaggeration, what emerges is a kind of creative humor with a high artistic content and rich in philosophical charm, and through exaggeration, the work highlights the artistic character image and the most authentic thing in the inner world. In Zhang Xiaodong's works, what we see is: exaggerated without losing the sense of agility and beauty, after mutation, it shows the subtle connotation of the deep soul of the characters, and the ingenuity of Xiao and Man's handling is unique and exquisite.
▲"The Birth of a Genius"
The Birth of a Genius is a portrait caricature created by Zhang Xiaodong for the Spanish painter Picasso, the father of Cubist painting. The author's thinking is unique, the imagination is wonderful, the character in the picture is completely a fusion of an old man and a child, the infant is wrapped in the swaddling of the old Picasso, a pair of childlike eyes staring at the strange new world in front of him, and the brush in his hand hints to people: Since then, an artistic genius has been born, and began his amazing artistic career of shocking colors and strange colors... This work highlights an intriguing creative humor and philosophical charm, while also fully demonstrating to the reader the exaggerated charm of the painter's pen and the brilliant bloom of artistic inspiration in "Xiao" and "Man".
▲"Zhang Yimou"
Zhang Xiaodong began to create celebrity portrait cartoons in 1997, and has been traveling for twenty-five spring and autumn seasons so far, during which time he has suffered a lot of hardships and sweat, only he himself knows. It is most appropriate to summarize his creative experience and heart path in the past twenty-five years with "seemingly ordinary and strange, as easy as it is really hard". Only in this way, Zhang Xiaodong jokingly called himself an ascetic in the portrait comic industry, and solemnly told me that he was a happy ascetic who dedicated himself to the art of portrait comics. At this point, I finally found the reason why Zhang Xiaodong had been obsessed with it for twenty-five years and painted a stroke to the end. At the same time, I also truly felt the trajectory of this ascetic artist's painting soul all the way through its cultivation, and I would seek up and down...
Manga works appreciation
▲ "Feather Knot String"
▲Artist Ye Fang
▲"Mr. Yang Zhongbai"
▲"Xu Ke"
▲"Seiji Ozawa"
Hitchcock
▲"Wu Dajing"
▲The King
▲"The Joy of Heaven"
▲ Spike . Lee》
▲Stallone
▲ "Steven . Gold》
▲"Mr. Ran"
▲ "King of Fighters Tyson"
▲ "Scream"
▲"Mo Yan"
▲ Morgan . Freeman
▲"Bruce Lee"
▲ "Soul of Le Saint"
▲"Giacometti"
Clint . Eastwood
▲ "Kobe Bryant . Bryant
▲ "Pavarotti"
▲"Lingzi"
▲Guitarist and Red Rose
▲ "Akira Kurosawa"
▲ "Mr. Bean"
▲Ken Takakura
▲"Wind Bone"
▲ Bruce . Willis
▲ Bob . Dylan
▲"Rhyme"
▲ "Einstein"
▲ "Ashan"
▲ "Cool Boy Barbie"
▲"A Hundred Birds and a Phoenix"