Dong Xianzhou, born in 1954 in Liaoning, studied at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 1982, studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1989, and graduated from the Contemporary Art Creation Research Class of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University. He is currently an oil painter at the Beijing Jin Zhengde Academy of Calligraphy and Painting and a director of the China Oil Painting Research Association.
He is an outstanding representative of the third generation of Chinese oil painters, engaged in oil painting creation and research for nearly thirty years, he is good at oil painting of various themes, especially good at landscape and lotus pond, from the "Sketch Landscape" we see his skillful brush color skills, many people regard oil painting as a pure modeling tool, painting works mechanical and lack of agility. Dong Xianzhou regards oil painting as a painting language and medium, and through emotional expression and unique pictorial expression, the work is expressed naturally and freely, timeless and elegant. He has been invited to participate in major exhibitions at home and abroad for many times, and has won many awards in international art fairs. Many works are collected by domestic and international celebrities and institutions. His works have been published in well-known domestic art publications such as "Grand View of Fine Arts", "Art Circle", "Calligraphy and Painting Collection", "Art and Auction", "Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Report" and so on.
Unlike the introvertedness of many artists, Dong Xianzhou is a person who is good at expressing humor and humor, with the unique cheerfulness of northerners, and his works also have a strong visual impact, which is a kind of vitality, and seemingly inadvertent details are exquisitely crafted and rough. It not only follows the realism of traditional works, but also the painter's own understanding of this era and the emotions he wants to reflect. What is needed is the inner skill of the painter, and artistic accomplishment and cultural precipitation are indispensable. The backbone of contemporary Chinese oil painting creation needs to have a unique personality, watchIng Dong Xianzhou's works, each theme has its own feelings, his works, thick and depressed, shake people's hearts, those layers of mountains have gone through vicissitudes, silently towering to watch the tragedies and joys of the world.
Landscape painting is eternal visual beauty. How to firmly guard the eternity of this aesthetic into the persistence of creation is not an easy task. Because the painting world is more impetuous and restless, the trend is fickle, some painters will lose the original intention of oil painting and beauty in the process of chasing the wind, and the classical beauty of abandoning the landscape will happen inadvertently. Therefore, the classicist oil painting landscape in the contemporary painting world has gradually become precious, and the famous painter Dong Xianzhou is the watchman and creator of this precious artistic personality. His oil paintings are still willing to indulge in the portrayal of landscape imagery, and match his fairly pure state of mind with a fairly pure landscape, which is a kind of quietness for Mr. Dong Xianzhou's artistic state of mind. For the creation of the work, it is the source of the leisurely and quiet style. There is dust in the years, and it is inevitable that people's hearts will be covered. The vulgar dust of the human heart is easy to cause the vulgarity of the brush, so the purity of the mind is the psychological condition that guarantees the purity of the picture quality.
Mr. Dong Xianzhou's pure heart comes from his cultivation that is not disturbed by fame and fortune, likes to be quiet, to be kind to beauty, to communicate with nature, and to regard the name of nothingness as nothing, these psychological qualities are probably the noble food that constitutes his pure heart. So he can pick up the oil paint brush, in the shaping of looking up at the sky, pursue and show the purity that is not tainted by time and the dust of the world, paint the landscape so beautifully, paint the landscape so quietly, the wind comes to the clouds, the spring comes to the grass, his brush points to the landscape, intoxicated is the human heart, full of emotion, picturesque.
Dong Xianzhou is good at using light but not dazzling light and shadow to shape the vitality of the landscape, which can sweep away the haze and make the heavens and the earth happy! The wind of the South China Sea, the boats of the end of the world, the hillside houses, the forest paths, these ordinary things are melted into the thoughts on the canvas by Mr. Dong Xianzhouping's poetic feelings. Painting for the meaning of the painting, meaning into the heart, in the oil painting can lyrically express, Dong Xianzhou embarked on a path of breakthrough, so look at his paintings, absolutely different, you can feel the temperature of the thoughts flowing in the heart! Mr. Dong Xianzhou's landscape oil painting, the professional foundation is very solid, the pen is bold, the laying is soft, in the performance of rigidity and softness, the portrayal of landscape details is refined, not to stop writing, the gods are happy. It can also be understood that he is an artist who paints oil paintings with the emotional cultivation of contemporary Chinese literati, so to compose a mountain or a sea, not only to complete the polishing of the block surface at the professional level, but also to make these objects born from nature generate very distinct humanistic images, whether it is color or picture meaning, it is a breakthrough towards the new atmosphere.
Mr. Dong Xianzhou's oil paintings have a strong visual impact, not only comply with traditional realistic figuration, but also implant modern cultural emotions, based on the life of the times, with the power of flying life, forming their own spiritual totem. The wings that stretch out freely, the hot and far-reaching thoughts, the wind of the moon, the waves returning to the snow, are forging their own wind bones in this era. A work, from visual aesthetics to the spiritual world, needs a painter's inner cultivation, knowledge, literacy, as well as cultural precipitation and accumulation in all aspects. This is also the best wealth of a good oil painter.
Editor of this article/Liu Qingli