(Bi Kehu, Cui Chengsen) In the early days, I saw that Master Wang Chonggang's works were works of great weight at a national art exhibition, and later in some newspapers and magazines at home and abroad, especially when several large-scale and extravagant "Wang Chonggang Landscape Paintings" were published one after another, I was deeply moved by his works, and his brushes were exquisite, quite charming, and I did not feel sincere admiration.
A: People who have walked all over the green mountains are not old, and the scenery is unique.
Master Wang Chonggang was born at the foot of buqi Mountain in the western foothills of Laoshan Mountain, which was once the place where the master of classics Zheng Xuan taught scriptures and performed Zhou rituals, and he received the grace of traditional cultural luster from an early age and had a special love for the art of painting. He had been a soldier and had experienced the tempering of the melting pot of the army, which exercised his strong will and down-to-earth painting style. In recent years, he has also studied under su zhaohong, a well-known landscape painter in the island city, and under the guidance of the teacher, he has started from tradition and immersed himself in learning and studying Chinese landscape painting, and the level of painting has been continuously improved. He also took nature as a teacher, went deep into life, sketched scenes, accumulated rich painting materials, and laid a solid foundation for artistic creation.
Master Wang Chonggang is simple, modest and cautious, and his paintings have been quite influential in the local area for many years, but he never shows it, and always cultivates the fields in obscurity.
Carefully admiring Wang Chonggang's landscape paintings, the pursuit is a visual "flowing movement". He attaches great importance to dynamic beauty, emphasizes the dynamic elements, and often creates a magnificent and majestic momentum with a strong brushwork, coupled with the appropriate blank space and foil in the use of ink and color, so that the picture is rigid and soft, and the virtual reality is between each other, with a unique style. Admire his masterpiece "Taishan Clouds Rise", the majestic giant peaks rise from the sky, the cloud belt dances in the universe, the lush and vigorous ten thousand trees, pilgrimage surrounds the mountains, as if cheering and singing. The mountains and rocks in the close-up view are steep and steep, and the calm river surface, moored boats, babbling streams, and ancient wooden bridges make the picture exude a kind of calm, clear air, ancient atmosphere and literary atmosphere in the majestic and magnificent momentum. This painting, which skillfully blends the pen and ink techniques of the Northern and Southern schools, is like a moving symphony playing in the ears. Mr. Wang Chonggang's "People in the Mountains" is a recent work created against the background of "Ten Miles and Nine Waters, Ten Mile Gallery". The three scenes of this painting, far, medium and near, are depicted with a large amount of brush and ink, and although the scale of the painting is large, the pen is not slackened. In particular, the medium scene is more delicately portrayed. The grass is lush and the mountains are winding, and there is no sense of compulsion. The twists and turns of the mountain make the viewer feel as if he is in the painting, and it seems that he can reach the unknown place along the mountain path. The painting depicts pine trees in close up, the pine branches are emerald green, the branches have different postures, and the ink colors used in the pine leaves are deliberately distinguished, the ink colors are different, and the virtual reality is born, making the pine trees full of vitality. The treatment of the near-view mountain stone is vigorous with a pen, and the long cloak is loose and elegant. It can be seen that when he absorbed the methods of the ancients, he did not blindly copy them, but integrated them. Compared with the close-up view, the mountain in the middle view is more dangerous and heavy. In order to set off the dangerous trend of mountain stones, the painter deliberately interspersed waterfalls and mist in the mountains. The waterfall cascades down the river, hidden between the mountains and forests; Mist wafted in from afar, like a dragon. Although the work does not depict a figure, the house in the middle scene hints at the existence of the figure. The whole picture is majestic and steep, but it is not deserted. The pavilion in the mountain is like the residence of the owner of the mountain forest, and it is also like the pavilion of the literati tasting tea and talking freely, with a strong literary painting. The mountains become steeper as the scenery deepens, and the pines painted in thick ink become more and more luxuriant, making people feel the painter's love for life and reverence for nature.
Master Wang Chonggang is an artist with an innovative spirit, he has opened up a new style of his own landscape painting with a unique language, injected his own talent and creation into the model of nature, and established his position in the field of landscape painting, which has also brought him many honors and high reputations.
Over the years, Master Wang Chonggang has depicted the great rivers and mountains with colorful brushes with poet-like feelings. His works are majestic and atmospheric and Elegant with Qingyuan Elegance, and the glittering colors and exquisite ink of the pen are brilliant, and the graceful and simple and thick coexist. This is his grasp and pursuit of the times, and it is also his inheritance and transcendence of traditional brush and ink. "The people who have not aged in qingshan are good on this side of the scenery." All this marks that Master Wang Chonggang has completed the transformation from tradition to modernity, from life to art.
B: The aging of a pot of old wine, the fragrance of new tea.
Master Wang's landscape paintings not only inherit the traditional Chinese techniques and combine the painting methods of Western painting, but also more of their own experience in creative practice, thus forming a unique artistic style of splashing ink and splashing color integration and penetration - Hun Hou Huazi. "Hun" people, pen and ink full of paper, blended into one, virtual and real care, if the second is natural; "thick" people, pen and ink thick, rich in layers, full of power through the paper, the pen can carry the top; "Hua" is ink color, changeable, such as the multitude of fangs; "Zi" is ink blended, full of paper vitality, the so-called "ink is dripping wet".
In the specific creation, Master Wang uses minimalist and accurate brush and ink to express the object depicted, and strives to grasp the simple and beautiful side of the essential characteristics of the object, so that his works are not vulgar, not sweet, not flattering, not floating, magnificent, elegant, simple and thick, kind and natural, subtle and timeless, intriguing. He does not superficially and simply pursue a pen and ink interest, but naturally and harmoniously integrates the pen and ink taste and object image, as well as his own aesthetic concepts, into the work and vividly reveals it outside the painting.
Master Wang Chonggang's works of art are both magnificent and huge, but also good at small pieces of paper, and they are free to swing, arbitrarily vertical and horizontal, exquisite to the subtle, each doing its best. The large pen and ink are smooth and the temperament is magnificent; The sketches are small and big, with less than more, the pen and ink are refined, and the meaning is vivid. All this can show the painter's comprehensive skill and cultivation, and teach people to taste endlessly, just like the alcohol of old wine and the show of new tea.