Among contemporary landscape painters, Master Cheng Zhenguo is well-known in the painting world with his majestic brush and ink style. He learned to paint since he was a child, and successively studied with Liang Shunian, Guo Beiluan, Bai Xueshi and other famous masters, and was the disciple of Mr. Liang Shunian and the closed disciple of Mr. Wang Xuetao. He is the seventh director of the China Artists Association, the fourth vice chairman of the Beijing Artists Association, the vice president of the Chinese Painting Society, the visiting researcher of the Institute of Chinese Painting Law of the Forbidden City Research Institute, the researcher of the Calligraphy and Painting Institute of the Central Research Museum of Literature and History, and the special tutor of the Rongbaozhai Painting Institute.
Since 1997, he has begun to create works for the government, embassies abroad, and the Institute of Foreign Affairs, and on the first anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, ten painters from the Ministry of Culture created huge landscapes, and President Jiang Zemin also wrote "Splendid China" in this work and donated the paintings to the Hong Kong SAR government. On the first anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland, Beijing meixiang also created a huge scroll of the Yangtze River, and President Jiang Zemin also wrote an inscription for this painting "Ten Thousand Miles of Jiangshan" and donated it to the Macao government.
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. Cheng Zhenguo's 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.
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 beauty of the painting comes from life is also higher than life, Cheng Zhenguo's 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, elevate the beauty of nature that he dreams of to the beauty of brush and ink above nature and establish his own style.
Cheng Zhenguo always kept in mind the ancient adage of "reading thousands of books and walking thousands of miles" when creating, he explored the ever-changing nature and expressed the vitality and vitality of nature. He depicts the vast atmosphere of mountains and rivers with a simple and simple expression technique, blending nature with the breath of life, showing not only the momentum of paintings, but also thinking about the development path of Chinese painting. Cheng Zhenguo has 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.