"Adventure Dragon Palace Lake" 96cm X 178cm, 2010
The love of "great wilderness" casts brilliance
This winter vacation, many places frequent epidemics, grounded at home, take this opportunity to read my enlightenment teacher Mr. Jiang Zhixin's "Overlooking Kunlun", "Shenchi Desert", "Yellow River" and other western soul-hunting series works and "poplar", "ocean", "Antarctica" and other major works with "poplar", "ocean", "Antarctica" as the main content of the performance, its amazing visual feeling and spirit of exploration, so that I was touched and infected again.
"Return of Sanya, Hainan" 142cm X 345cm, 2011
Each of Mr. Wang's works is a natural expression of true feelings, without the slightest deliberate fabrication, what is more valuable is that the tradition and modernity, nature and expression, content and form are very free, unique in spiritual connotation and formal language, constructing the visual impact of the "great wilderness" feeling, innovating and enriching the expressive themes and forms of Chinese landscape painting, and greatly enhancing the pride of national culture. The original techniques and the subject matter rarely expressed by the predecessors, the rich and broad and full of life passion of the picture appeal form Mr. Himself's own unique artistic characteristics.
"Red Fire", 300cm X 160cm, 1989
Mr. Li's series of works has a distinct personality, and his artistic style is atmospheric and unrestrained, with the shape of the gods, splashing ink and color, seeing the details in the thick, blending the water colors with each other, creating the environment with the heart, emphasizing the change of water color and spatial expression. Through pen and ink, shape, color, composition and other elements, the picture is full and full, elegant and calm, flexible and smooth, conveying Mr. Wang's profound sense of life and interpretation of beauty. Over the years, Mr. Li has boldly tried to actively explore, and has precipitated a complete theoretical system and distinctive artistic style of "Great Wilderness" landscape painting that can be free of mind, lyrical scenery, magnificent wildness and magnificent beauty, and created a "Great Wilderness" painting school that carries forward national culture. In the field of landscape painting, it is a new and independent painting school, which will certainly leave a heavy mark in the history of Chinese art development.
Poplar, 120cm X 246cm, 2004
As a senior Chinese landscape painter, Mr. Li is a very attractive person, his infinite love for life is directly reflected in his works of art, and his unique artistic experience and innovative expression language have been repeatedly sorted out and perfected to form a system, and have been taught and disseminated in many universities and art groups, and a large number of students have been trained. Under the personal teaching of Mr. Li, tens of thousands of followers from all over the country, especially in the west, are also obsessed with the creation of the "Great Wilderness", and the beneficiaries are mainly professional teachers in various schools, who can pass on the skills and creative passions they impart from generation to generation. In his works, he constantly pursues the rich spiritual elegance and innocent disposition of "Dahuang", emphasizing mature artistic thinking and sincere exploration such as original spirit and enthusiasm.
Poplar 120cm X 246cm
The painting art concept of the "Great Wilderness" school and the unique and beautiful painting form are inseparable from Mr. Wang's tireless release of the scene in western China. The terrain of western China is complex, with lofty mountains, thousands of ravines and plateaus, and contiguous deserts and gravel areas, open and broad, dignified and magnificent, rich and desolate. Here, every mountain beam, every stream of water, every bouquet of loess, every bush of grass and trees, are connected to the national bloodline and contain the national spirit.
Yellow River Flux, 96cm X 178cm, 2004
This profound accumulation of culture and history can more deeply understand the unique feelings and all-round interpretation of the "Great Wilderness" painting art. The development of Chinese painting requires not only the fine traditions of Chinese culture, but also the essence of foreign culture and art, and more importantly, it is necessary to continuously innovate and develop on this basis. In terms of aspects, the "Dahuang" school has accumulated rich successful experience and opened up a new way for us in the process of Chinese art inheritance and development, which is an influential new school of painting art.
Author: Li Gang
February 17, 2022
Loess Plateau, 96cm X 96cm, 1988
Wind to the Sea and Sky, 142cm X 365cm, 2000
Kunlun Cow, 138cmX68cm
Turbulent Currents, 120cmX2469cm, 2003
Wild Bull 100cmX143cm
Muztagh Peak, 246cmX480cm, 2006
Jiang Zhixin, the Great Wild Bull and Yuan He. Born in 1949 in Pingliang, Gansu. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Northwest Normal University in 1974, is a national first-class artist, a member of the Chinese Artists Association, a member of the French International Artists Association, a member of the Chinese Council of the Asian Calligraphers Federation, a director of the Chinese Painting Society, a member of the Hong Kong Calligraphers Association, and the founder of the Dahuang School. His works have been included in national large-scale painting collections such as "Complete Collection of Chinese Modern Art", "One Hundred Years of Chinese Painting", "Sixty Years of Chinese Art" and so on. His works take the original wildness and magnificence as the expressive style, high and majestic, passionate, magnificent, and simple, and are pioneering artists in the Chinese painting world who use books into paintings and express the ancient wilderness style with large freehand techniques.