Mr. Zhang Jianwu, a contemporary artist, was hired as a fellow of the Royal Victorian College of Art in Canada
Royal Victorian College of Art, Canada
The Royal Academy of Arts of Victoria, Canada is located in Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, Canada, and was founded by Mr. Daniel from Canada, located at the southern end of Vancouver Island, the largest city and seaport on Vancouver Island. Influenced by the British Queen's era, the city is full of British style, the city is beautiful and quiet, flowers are blooming, green grass in all seasons, leafy, known as the "garden city". As an international sister city of Suzhou, a beautiful water town in China, Victoria City and Suzhou Municipal Government have maintained continuous contacts and exchanges in the fields of culture, art and technology.
Since its establishment, the college has gradually become a base for artists' creation and exchange, supported by the Chinese Consulate General in Vancouver, the China Overseas Chinese Foundation, the China-Canada Cultural Exchange Association, and the Victorian Municipal Government. Starting from 2021, the Royal Victorian Academy of Art in Canada, in cooperation with the China Oriental Art Research Center, intends to hire chinese calligraphy and painting masters as honorary academicians and visiting professors of the academy, with the aim of taking a new step in the promotion of Asian culture and art. The Future College uses Various methods such as Cultural and Artistic Exchanges, Academic Visits, Art Exhibitions, Academic Seminars, and Aerial Lecture Halls at home and abroad to continuously promote cultural infiltration and mutual assistance between China and Canada, improve the mutual prosperity of art and culture of the two countries, and make world art more powerfully disseminated and developed in many fields between the two countries.
——The research direction of the school is free painting, contemporary materials, public art, modern sculpture, modern installation, multimedia digital art, Chinese calligraphy and text, Chinese oil painting, Chinese murals, Chinese stone carvings, etc.
Artist: Zhang Jianwu
Zhang Jianwu, a member of the China Artists Association, a member of the China Collectors Association, the vice chairman of the China Artists Association (Hong Kong), the president of the Yellow River Xiaolangdi Calligraphy and Painting Institute, 100 Chinese paintings with the most academic value and appreciation potential in contemporary times, and the deputy editor-in-chief of Chinese Painting Auction Magazine.
He adopts the combination of realism and romanticism, using extravagant and not hypocritical, gorgeous and lawful brushwork, rich colors, vivid luck, so that the hometown in his pen illusion of ten thousand styles, leading people to a rich image, subtle emotions, full of brilliance and divine realm. Creatively branding the traditional simple and pure Chinese paintings with the imprint of the times with modern aesthetic taste, it has a unique style and artistic charm. Embodying the humanistic feelings of the painter's realism, his pen and ink is a warm brush and ink, with a sincere care for the countryside, the countryside, the villagers, which is very valuable in today's impetuous and indifferent era.
At the same time, Zhang Jianwu's golden and heavy color lotus flower works are even more from the traditional Chinese ink freehand writing to write paintings, and at the same time, they also incorporate the expression techniques of Western painting, color is not ink, ink is not color, color and ink blend, ink is colorful. While carrying the spirit of traditional Chinese freehand painting and the realm of ink painting, it also shows the visual impact of western oil painting elements. It can really be danqing ink, xingyun flowing water, fa shu dedu, Zhang Chi between the orange yellow green, such as impartiality, thousands of shapes, can be described as a stroke of a scene, a shape of the same. Walking the silky line is always through, it is the best quality in the painting, and the splendid embroidery is unlimited!
Representative works include: "Autumn Goes to Autumn and Back", "Harmony is Precious", "Beixiang Dream", "Beixiang Singing Evening" and so on. In 2006, it was selected by the readers of China Painting Auction magazine as one of the 100 Chinese paintings with the most academic value and appreciation potential in contemporary times.
His works have been exhibited and collected in the Military Museum, China Agricultural Exhibition Hall, Beihai Park, Beijing Temple of Heaven, Shenzhen Art Museum, Dingxi Art Museum, Dongguan Keyuan and other places. He is a professional painter who lives in Beijing.
One of the Symphony of Destiny group paintings
（74cmx44cm）
Lotus Song group painting Golden and heavy color
Hymn of life
（110cmx44cm）
Golden Light Buddha Shadow Golden And Colorful
（180cmx45cm）
Dream Lotus Is golden and colorful
（135cmx68cm）
Enjoy the group painting of life
（137cmx35cm）
The light of life is golden and colorful
（240cmx74cm）
The Realm of Heavenly Dependence: Golden and Heavy Color Screen
（180cmx74cm）
Eileen said golden and colorful
（278cmx74cm）
Lotus Ode Is golden and colorful
（138cmx34cm）
The cry of life is golden and colorful
（180cmx96cm）
The courtyard is green and dust-free, and the duckweed is clear. The water bottle leans over and invites whom to drink. Birds chirping and lotus, lotus green cicadas flying. Purple swallow in the air, painting The Lotus Marvel, yes and no. So, all right!
——Cao Hongzhi
Autumn goes to autumn and back to gold and blue
（68cmx68cm）
The quiet place of the small courtyard is golden and colorful
（90cmx90cm）
Peach Blossom Origin Memories Golden and Heavy Colors
（180cmx180cm）
Apricot blossom spring rain Fu Niu Shan ink on paper
（132cmx132cm）
Yellow River Ancient Road Love Ink on paper
（408cmx69cm）
Golden Mountains, Silver water map volume, gold and blue
（360cmx90cm）
Xin Ugly Spring Moon to see Jianwu Brother Lotus Song series masterpieces, ink flying, swallowing Chinese and Western, not only de Kooning's perceptual and spontaneous spilling, but also see Mondrian's rational and calm management, and at the same time take Oriental philosophy as the ideological root, adhere to the bottom line of traditional Chinese painting pen and ink, watch its works as if into the illusion, as if the flower picker laughs, and trance Beethoven's fate symphony, people are excited, lamenting the ups and downs of life, the preciousness of time, the beauty of the moment, the Jianwu brother is full of emotion, independent language, precious, the future can be expected!
--Zhang Pingzi