Mr. Zhang Song's painting "Spring Water Sail Shadow"
Mr. Zhang Song's paintings on the theme of "Anhui Mountain Emblem Water" not only have the emotional attention of the painter based on the unique natural and humanistic architecture of the landscape in his hometown, but also the painter's eclectic strengths, both Chinese and Western, and the smooth brush and ink, and the ink rhyme, bringing a distinct style of picture meaning connotation excavation. For example, the paintings "Spring Water Sail Shadow" and "Water and Sky Color" published by "Western Successful Calligraphers and Painters" this time are the best picture reflections, not only have thick accumulation and forging, but also have pen and ink reconstructions that fit the natural objects, often the brushwork is both Chinese and Western, ancient and modern, as long as it is suitable for the expression of objective objects, it can be easily grasped, and then highlight the natural weather of ink overflowing. Therefore, on the whole, Mr. Zhang Song's "Huiwan" theme landscape is to choose and develop in the inheritance, integrating the vigorous and warm weather of the times and the rich and stirring emotions of the individual into the pen and ink, and the purple sprinkling can naturally be dazzling and full of charm.
The painter of "Spring Water Sail Shadow" uses ink-colored and thick brush lines that are both rigid and easy to brush, densely intertwined, mottled and dense, and then outlines the solid shape of the mountain stone and the rugged bone of the mountain body' bare texture; especially the sharp contrast between the center and the sharp edge with the pen, the sudden setback hook shape that makes the transformation change, and the full mountain body shape that resembles the surface and the flank rubbing and dyeing, forming a sharp contrast and staggered, which adds to the charm of the picture. There is also the blending and use of ink and color, and the grass and trees brought by the interlacing of ink colors and the cascading of moisturizing, the lake light and sail shadow also give the picture more vitality. There are also the sail shadows dotted on the rivers and lakes, the birds in the sky, and the Huipai buildings on the thick peaks, so that Mr. Zhang Song has more of the spirit of the times different from the ancients and more "fireworks" based on social life in the focus of the object natural reality of the "Anhui Mountain Emblem Water". Paintings that are so close to the grounding of life are just as the Northern Song Dynasty painter Guo Xi said: "There are feasible people in landscapes, there are people who can hope, there are people who can swim, and there are people who can live." Paintings are all wonderful. But what is feasible is not as good as what can be lived and traveled...".
Mr. Zhang Song's painting "Water and Sky are Colorful"
In "Water and Sky", the pen line is clumsy and the ink is mellow to form a majestic image of the rocky saga on the shore of the waterfront. In particular, the thriving life scene of the distant boats and boats, busy and abnormal, shuttling through the gaps in the beach and the lake and the river, not only sees the painter fully mobilize the contradictions of the picture art, deal with the profound pen and ink connotation of the conflict of the picture language, and create a picture artistic conception of thick and dry, large and small, far and near reality, and black and white contrast. It is also not lost in the hometown between the lakes and mountains, the daily life of fishing and boating, the portrayal of ordinary scenes, bringing elegant and customary appreciation and heart-warming. In this way, the composition of the picture of "water and sky is one color" is not only more worthy of tasting and pondering, but also sees the neutralization beauty of Mr. Zhang Song's artistic creation in the unity of "pen and ink at the time" and deep academic connotation.
Reading these two works of Mr. Zhang Song, the author, as always, believes that from the subtleties of his landscape creation, we taste the beautiful and endless natural atmosphere of Huizhou Water Town, and feel the painter's simple, calm, or harmonious and joyful emotional flow. Originating from the artistic creation of a mature painter, in his artistic thinking and exploration of the theme of Huiwan culture, Xin'an landscape tradition and Jiangnan charm of Pengbai, the painter's "eternal lyrical love of homesickness and impulse to love art" is the source of living water.
(Feng Yiyu, calligraphy and painting art critic of Chenggong Art Museum)
Painter Profile: Zhang Song, lord of Shishan Hall in Luzhou, born in 1952, a native of Wuhu, whose ancestral home is Tongcheng. He graduated from the Department of Art of Anhui Education College majoring in Chinese Painting and the graduate class of the Academy of Fine Arts of Anhui Normal University. He has been engaged in art creation and organization for a long time. He is currently the sixth, seventh and eighth director of the China Artists Association, a member of the Chinese Painting Art Committee of the China Artists Association, a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, a founding executive director of the Chinese Painting Society, a researcher of the Calligraphy and Painting Institute of the Central Museum of Culture and History, the vice chairman of the China Federation of Commerce and the National Art Market Alliance, the vice president of the Chinese Painting Creation Research Institute, the vice president of the China Friendship Painting Academy, the vice president of the China Beijing Century Celebrity International Calligraphy and Painting Institute, the vice chairman of the Fifth Presidium of the Anhui Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the honorary chairman of the Anhui Artists Association, the chairman of the Anhui Provincial Chinese Painting Society, Director of the Chinese Painting Art Committee of the Anhui Provincial Artists Association, Honorary Chairman of the Anhui Young Artists Association, Professor of the School of Fine Arts of Anhui Normal University, Master Tutor, Professor of the School of Fine Arts of Anhui Normal University, Professor of the School of Art of Hefei Normal University, Vice President of the Calligraphy and Painting Institute of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of Anhui Province, President of the Sibao Calligraphy and Painting Institute of Anhui Province, Vice President of the Huangshan Painting Association, President of the Anhui Provincial Calligraphy and Painting Institute of the Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party, Honorary President of the Anhui Branch of the Zhonglian Guoxing Calligraphy and Painting Institute, Librarian of the Anhui Provincial Museum of Literature and History, and National First-class Artist.