Xiao Shunqian is not good at talking, but he is good at thinking and painting. I have the impression that he is always painting silently, every time we meet, he will hold out a stack of works, the undergraduate graduation of the creation of "Dream of the Old Garden" won the Morning Light Award and was selected for the "Qingwei" works exhibition, to the graduate school stage, Xiao Shunqian directly into the creation, to create to drive tradition and life, in the process of creation he continues to go deep into tradition and life, and constantly learn to study related art theories and new trends in the painting world. Therefore, he is bold and prolific in his creations. He dares to think, dare to paint, dare to try, and his works have many faces, mainly landscapes and landscapes, and are good at flowers and birds. From this point alone, Xiao Shunqian's future path of painting must be broad. What's more, he never stuck to one way in his creation, but constantly tried, from the subject matter to the form of exploration in many aspects. In terms of theme, he has both a large-scale thematic creation and a lyrical freehand pen and ink sketch, and he tries to express his work, freehand and materials. He actively participated in various forms of exhibitions, and he participated in exhibitions organized by national, provincial, municipal, colleges, institutions and other organizations, and achieved very good results. He constantly honed himself in practice and explored his creative direction. Slowly, Xiao Shunqian's creations have some of their own faces.
Metropolis, 180x97cm
In his hometown, Xiao Shunqian also studied landscape painting with the famous artist Chen Fanggui. For him, through the tuning of the Master, his modeling ability and pen and ink skills have been further developed, and he has cultivated a sensitivity to beauty.
"Family lives in Huangye Village, Jiangnan" 188x202cm
Xiao Shunqian especially likes to paint southern villages and garden themes, and expresses them in the way of part-time work and writing, and the sketches or large-scale creations all have a sense of purity and elegance. He uses the pen to outline the fine brushwork, the lines under the pen are relaxed and measured, although there is no taihang majesty, Taishan is strange, but it is subtle, elegant, and quiet. The morphological lines stand up to scrutiny and cannot be doubted. The use of stacking, vertical, mating, fighting, picking, pressing, hooking, hanging, bracing and other techniques creates a condensed "nature". He pays special attention to the performance of trees in the picture, and has his own set of unique techniques, starting from Song paintings, mostly based on brush strokes, double hooks and colors, and thousands of postures.
"Quiet Autumn" 180x96cm
A painting can even paint dozens of entangled trees, without repetition, and the picture is overall and vivid. This is an extremely testing process of patience and skill, and I think it is inseparable from his personality and attitude of learning. The roof corrugated roofs and the branches and leaves of pine trees in his paintings are generally heavier in ink, giving people a sense of weight with a hard texture. As if not, it is impossible to carry wind, frost, snow and rain and long years. In particular, pine needles, the roots are like iron, have the hardness of life, and the strong and martial atmosphere is compelling to the eyes. Xiao Shunqian's urban theme works are also worth mentioning, and they have a different appearance than the garden works he created. His urban landscape is more bold, affirmative and relaxed with his pen, with a thick brush and light ink, and the picture pursues the feeling of "yi pen and grass".
"Nanguo Zhengfangchun" 140x225cm
The lines of pen and ink in the urban landscape are unlocked and free, and it is precisely with this free line and unrestrained ink color that a free landscape urban situation is created. Xiao Shunqian also tried his best to organically integrate color, ink and water, expressed the wet and lush atmosphere of the city, and made a real paraphrase of a young artist's real life with his works.
"Song of The Golden Age", 180x230cm
Xiao Shunqian's creation is based on tradition, pays attention to the inheritance of cultural context, focuses on the exploration of aesthetic imagery of pen and ink, and at the same time pays attention to the experience of contemporary humanistic realm, and integrates life memory and survival perception into the distant weather. From the state of pen and ink to the structure of the picture, Xiao Shunqian's works present the quality of the ideal of pen and ink, the examination of reality, and the transcendence of self with the aesthetic concept of clear materialization.
Happy Home, 180x97cm
Xiao Shunqian's works have both the softness of the southern landscape and the rigidity of the northern landscape, and contain the charm of brush and ink and the feelings of the painter in the large structure. It is neither a pile of symbols nor an illustration of the subject matter, but a meaningful landscape. This is especially valuable for a young painter! Xiao Shunqian is an excellent student of Chinese painting, but also a very promising young painter.
"A little deep in the courtyard", 180x230cm
Xiao Shunqian feels the realm of mind and nature in the direction of Li Ge and Li Pin on the road of art, and constantly improves in the responsibility of works and society, and his landscape creation road will become broader and broader. Here's a wish he rides the wind and waves on the road of congyi, and hangs on the clouds and sails to the sea! (Hou Dikun, Associate Professor of the Department of Chinese Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Shandong Academy of Arts, Master Tutor, Member of China Artists Association, Member of China Women Calligraphers and Painters Association, Member of presidium of Shandong Women Calligraphers and Painters Association, Member of Shandong Provincial Democratic League.) ）
Xiao Shunqian, young artist