Introduction to art
Han Ensheng, born in 1969, is a native of Yinan, Linyi, Shandong Province. He is currently a member of China Artists Association, China Museum Association, China Sun Tzu Research Association, Xinhua News Agency contracted painter, executive director of Shandong Cartoonists Association, vice chairman of Linyi Cartoonists Association, member of the Presidium of Linyi Calligraphy and Painting Artists Association, deputy secretary-general of Linyi Art Association, and full-time painter of Linyi Art Museum. His works have been selected or awarded more than 100 times in various exhibitions across the country, and more than 10,000 works have been published in Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily, China Pictorial and Calligraphy News, China Youth Daily and other newspapers and periodicals. His works have been collected by Shandong Provincial Art Museum, Jiaxing Art Museum, Weihai Art Museum, Kyoto in Japan, Daejeon in Korea, Heitmann in Belgium and other professional departments. Many works have been auctioned in Xiling Seal Society Auction Co., Ltd. and other professional institutions, and in 2013, he participated in the shooting of the CCTV documentary "5,000 Years of Chinese Calligraphy".
"Ending the Old Years in the Sound of Firecrackers" 138cm×35cm
Writing God Pictures for Things, Opening Up a New Realm, Breaking New Faces, Comic Life
——Han Ensheng's painting appreciation is impressive
Text/An Tao
Figure painting is a major painting discipline of traditional Chinese painting, with the image of the person as the main body, which is roughly divided into Taoist interpretation painting, lady painting, portrait painting, genre painting, historical story painting, etc. Tang Zhangyanyuan's "Records of Famous Paintings of the Past Dynasties" quotes Lu Ji Yuyun as "Surviving the form is not good at painting"; Quoting Cao Zhiyun "the picture of the appraiser is also preserved", and the painting that exists to describe and exist in the precept is exactly the figure painting. The prosperity of figure painting must also precede landscape, flowers and birds. Character painting strives to portray the personality of the characters realistically, with vivid charm and both form and spirit, and often puts the expression of the character's character in the environment, atmosphere, body and dynamic rendering. Famous figures of the past dynasties have painted the "Luoshen Futu" volume by Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the "Han Xizai Night Banquet Map" in the Southern Tang Gu Hong of the Five Dynasties, the "Vimal Statue" by Li Gonglin of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the "Cai Wei Tu" by Li Tang of the Southern Song Dynasty. The character paintings represented by Yan Liben, Wu Daozi and Zhang Xuan have their own merits.
"Nianfeng Farmhouse Children's Fun Facts" 138cm×35cm
Both Chinese and foreign, in the history of the development of early painting, figure painting was the mainstay, and all served religion or politics. From the ancient paintings or murals that continue to be excavated, you can see the faces of ancient emperors, heroes, sages or literati, character paintings have strong political and religious functions, and there are also Buddhas, bodhisattvas, arhats and other interpretive figures believed by the ancients, and even earlier myths and legends, full of mysterious religious colors, you can still see genre paintings that describe the variety of real life, paintings of ladies showing the aesthetic interest of the court and character story paintings in opera, etc., all kinds of character paintings of different forms and themes, there are detailed emotional descriptions and vivid image portrayals. It brings a deep sense of beauty to the viewer.
"Ice Vertical and Horizontal Chart" 138cm×35cm
Looking at ancient Chinese figure painting, the technique of expression can be roughly divided into three categories, one is the white drawing method. The second is the Gongbi heavy color painting method. The third is freehand drawing (stick figure method). Figure painting has gone through the development of Wei and Jin for thousands of years, the peak of the Tang and Song dynasties, the literati orientation of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and then to the Republic of China to learn from the west and the east, new trends of thought and new ideas, represented by Xu Beihong to raise the banner of improving Chinese painting, based on the shape of Western painting to improve Chinese painting, especially figure painting, with the teaching mode of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Xu Jiang system to combine realism with Chinese painting freehand, indeed has an unprecedented qualitative leap, constituting the teaching mode of modern art. Han Ensheng is an excellent figure painter who grew up in such an art environment, his paintings, to be precise, are based on traditional Chinese ink painting, literati painting as the main style, drawing on the shape, color and perspective light and shadow of Western painting, combining character sketching with comic-style composition and brushstrokes, giving life nostalgia and portraits of the city, the elegance and poetry of literati, and the leisure and self-satisfaction of children, expressing a positive and unrealistic paradise in the hearts of literati painters. It interprets the new realm and meaning of Chinese literati freehand painting.
"Step by Step" 138cm×35cm
Throughout Han Ensheng's paintings, the character modeling is accurate, not a portrait but a freehand spirit, with the Chinese national pen and ink into the book and the historical allusions and life scenes in the painting, his characters are all with comic patterns, vivid images, free expressions, joy overflowing. His works can be summarized into Tong Chao Tianlun series, Gao Shi Yahuai series, Zhong Kui character series, opera character series and large scene series, and have seen occasional Spring Festival series, although it draws on the silhouette of contemporary painters, but the author believes that there is a blue magic pen, which is more endurable and pleasing to read. Coats and children are the most representative characteristics of Han Ensheng's painting language, he was personally loved by Li Xueming in Quancheng in his early years, and the famous teacher pointed out, as if his own, and the blue is better than the blue, on the basis of which he expanded more painting themes and creative directions, "Baizi Xingle Tu", "Watching Movies", "Striving for the Top" and other works are unique patterns and magnificent scenes, fascinating, and have a unique personal style among contemporary young and middle-aged painters. His works are full of innocence and innocence, and he can also see Coats elders teaching children, discussing Taoism, appreciating paintings, talking about poetry, and enjoying the world. There is Tao Yuanming's hidden feeling of leisurely seeing Nanshan, meeting friends with literature, the group of wise people, benevolent people happy mountains, wise people happy water, Lord Yake often comes, bliss and worry-free. Life has such a bosom, you can not be comfortable in the pen and ink!
"Marriage Drawing" 138cm×35cm
The term manga was introduced to China from Japan. Comics use exaggeration, metaphor, symbolism and other expression techniques and concise brushwork to directly express the essence and characteristics of things. It is not limited by time and space, and is convenient for creation. It has strong irony, praise, lyricism, entertainment and other functions, and is good at expressing the author's views on the world and human feelings, especially irony and humor. The term comic is first known in China in the inscription of Chen Shizeng's painting "Over the Wall" in 1909, and Feng Zikai also called Chen Shizeng's stick figure drawings "the beginning of Chinese comics". In the early 20th century, Chinese newspapers already had "comics on current affairs", and in May 1925, Literature Weekly serialized Feng Zikai's paintings, and the editor Zheng Zhenduo marked them as "comics", and since then, the concept of comics has gradually been recognized.
"Watching a movie" 138cm×35cm
But in fact, comics appeared in ancient China, such as the "A Ball of Harmony Qi" by Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen of the Palace Museum. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, comics developed into an independent genre. At that time, it was called caricature, harmonic painting, burlesque, etc., and there was no unified name. By the appearance of "Zikai Comics", the name was unified and still used today. In the late 20th century, due to the witty and humorous characteristics of comics, it became a popular popular art in various countries. Since 1984, China has listed comics as one of the categories of national art exhibitions, the China Artists Association has set up a comic art committee, comic newspapers and exhibitions are also very active, and comics have increasingly become a favorite genre of the masses. Representatives of modern Chinese cartoonists include Feng Zikai, Ye Qianyu, Hua Junwu, Fang Cheng, etc., leading the academic frontier. Han Ensheng's paintings have unique characteristics of comics, and have pure Chinese painting language, he is a representative painter of contemporary freehand figure painting, rooted in tradition, refined in ink method, concise summary with pen, accurate image, as in the six laws of Sheikh: vivid charm.
"There is True Meaning Here" 138cm×35cm
Zhong Kui, a Taoist secular god, was born as a scholar, specializing in fighting ghosts and driving away evil spirits, and the allusion and legend of "Zhong Kui catching ghosts" is widely spread among the people. Civility and martial arts, leopard head and eyes, iron face, strange appearance, full of meridians, upright, not afraid of evil, honest and upright, honest to others, liver and gallbladder, avoid evil and demon.
"Huixian Chart" 138cm×35cm
His Zhong Kui and God of Wealth series are full of life atmosphere, bringing folk tales to life, no longer fierce and evil, but positive and peaceful scenes where people, ghosts and gods live in harmony and unity. Zhong Kui is an expert in folklore to catch demons and eliminate grievances, and is also a scholar of the rich and five-car jinshi, and his Zhong Kui's literary and martial arts especially focus on interpreting and portraying this perfect image from the literary and artistic aspects, or playing drums and music, or drunken singing, sometimes catching ghosts, driving away ghosts, training ghosts with an iron face, and sometimes dancing with ghosts, and seeing life as if life friends hand in hand. Draw your sword and look around, and all the ghosts and spirits surrender; The article is out, and all demons and monsters are the only way to follow. The painter, the voice of the heart, too. Han Ensheng integrates life into painting with the heart of a literati, the spirit of a gentleman and the style of a scholar, he expresses optimistic feelings and open-minded life, the pen and ink are dry and wet and colorful, and he can see that the character, learning, talent, and thought of Chinese literati painting are all combined, and his works are full of strong literary popularity and bookish atmosphere.
"Striving for the Top" 138cm×35cm
"Xiqu painting", which is also referred to as "opera painting" in contemporary times, is also called "opera painting", in short, it refers to the content of paintings related to the art of opera. The early and mid-20th century was a glorious period of opera, and many opera painters emerged at that time, such as Guan Liang and Gao Made who painted ink paintings of opera characters, and Ye Qianyu, who painted stage sketches of opera, and contemporary opera painters Han Yu and Ding Liren are representative. Han Ensheng's dramas will inevitably learn from the methods of the predecessors, and have made new breakthroughs in inheriting the creation and schema. His "God of Wealth", "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", etc., with a horizontal roll open composition, vivid character forms, echoing Gu Pan, accurate pen use, color coordination, refreshing. He is good at sketching, writing about God because of things, can learn from tradition, open up new realms, has a unique style, is unique, and comics life with a positive and benevolent attitude.
"Looking at the Fragrance of Bean Blossoms with Four Highs" 138cm×35cm
Han Ensheng has a very solid modeling foundation and original motivation, and decades of accumulation and tempering have led to such fruitful results. He has worked in the cultural system for many years, is well versed in aesthetic art, has a broad vision, and is an inexhaustible source of creation for his writing, his works have been selected or awarded more than 100 times in various exhibitions across the country, and nearly 10,000 works have been published in professional newspapers and periodicals, which shows that his diligent creation and outstanding achievements in the profession. Chinese painting emphasizes the same origin of calligraphy and painting, with books like pictures, his calligraphy is based on the eight major foundations, and the pen is mostly used in italics into painting, if you come to the pond again, dabbling in Jinwen stone drums, Wei Jin stele plates, Song and Yuan families, with fence brushwork or cursive brush intentions into painting, or another realm.
"Leisurely" 138cm×35cm
Chinese painting is a progressive relationship between technique and Tao, law and realm. In addition to superb techniques, he seeks various subjects other than painting, widely knowledgeable, read, travel, travels all over the clouds and mountains, and reflects the value of life and the height of art from life practice. He has a strong creative style, how to find his own creative direction from the footsteps of traditional and former sages, not to fall behind, boldly innovate, and form a new language style realm of Chinese painting in the style of comics, which can be expected in the future.
"Receiving the God of Wealth" 50cm×50cm
"Wucai Shen Guan Gong" 50cm×50cm
"Heaven and Earth Righteousness" 138cm×69cm
"Zhong Kui Xingle Tu" 138cm×69cm
"Zhengda Qi" 138cm×69cm
"Only Fishing for River Fish, Not Fishing for Names" 138cm×69cm
"Heavenly Music" 138cm×69cm
"Alpine Elevation" 138cm×69cm
"Happy and Carefree" 138cm×69cm