Cui Qiang was born in Tianjin in 1963. He is now a member of the Chinese Calligraphers and Painters Association. In his early years, he studied Chinese painting landscape in the Chinese painting class sponsored by the Tianjin Civil Revolution, benefited from the guidance of Tianjin calligraphy and painting, and the educator Mr. Yan Liufu gave guidance, and then followed Yan Lao's student Hou Chunlin to learn traditional landscape painting, and graduated from Tianjin Amateur Painting and Calligraphy College.
Take the natural creation from the outside and realize the elegance of the forest and spring inside - remember the famous painter Cui Qiang
Looking back on the classics, the freehand creation of each traditional Chinese painting has always been based on the painter's understanding of nature, as the so-called foreign teacher creates nature, and the heart is the source, if there is no Yu in the current process of understanding, then even if the painter's brush and ink skills are profound, the works he paints must be inseparable from the craftsmanship and vulgarity. Looking at the current painting world inside and outside, Mr. Cui Qiang is undoubtedly a Danqing master with great freehand feelings, especially in landscape painting attainments are unique, sketching is well versed in the true meaning of searching for Qifeng to make drafts, in the process of the heart with the pen and take the image is not confused, always abide by the traditional Danqing freehand right way, diligent self-cultivation, calm. The pen and ink are more able to take the meaning of the chest, in the search for the wonderful creation of the truth in the imagination of the wonderful, in the unconcealed temperament of the self-opening scriptures, this is really said to use the rules of the ancients, without the ancients Qiu Gully path!
In the painting, the shape and meaning of the landscape is no longer to reproduce the simple natural state, but can be pursued in the blending of ink and wash in a sense of "Yiyi grass brush", just as the sages of Qi Baishi said, the beauty of painting lies between the similar and the unlike, too similar to kitsch, not like to deceive the world. Today, Mr. Cui Qiang's landscape paintings are obviously the strength of this argument confirmers, therefore, whether it is a landscape or a forest, or a cloud and smoke path, flowing water and waterfalls, it can be formed under Mr. Cui Qiang's pen to appreciate the unity of aesthetics, kung fu everywhere, the same way, when the magic is clear, the work is the same!
Secondly, thanks to the profound literati thinking, Mr. Cui Qiang can also show a strong sense of extra-painting in his paintings, and the poetic landscape and freehand feelings are blended with each other, so that the landscape can not only show the real world of reading things and thinking, but also establish an elegant style of cultivating sentiment. Pen and ink freehand standing bones, not flattering the wind, with the class endowed with color, more free from dazzling, the weather sometimes cold and easy atmosphere contained in it, sometimes clear view of the Tao penetrating, standing outside the painting, in the heart of the painting, so temperament revealed, is really rhyme from the victory, and why not in the wonderland! Therefore, when the viewer looks at the picture, it can also make people think of living when they see the secluded mountain guests, and think about traveling when they see the rocks and springs!
Take the natural creation from the outside, and realize the nobility of the forest and spring inside. Since ancient times, the painters of landscapes are laborious, the ancients often live in seclusion in the forest and spring and seek nature, just to be able to endow the true traces of the landscape on the end of the painting, just as the ancients said, measure the situation of the mountains and rivers, the breadth of the land, the sparseness of the peaks and mountains, and the taste of the clouds. This is the only way for painters to create by foreign teachers! And today, Mr. Cui Qiang is also the same, concentrating on Danqing for more than ten years, getting a famous teacher to teach the Tao and establish pen and ink skills, traveling thousands of mountains and rivers and containing literati elegance, a piece of landscape works, is to go to the water poor, sit and watch the clouds rise when the pursuit of the mind, but also pick chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely see the comfortable positioning of Nanshan! Objects and fugues, both hearts and hands, with scenery and love, painting out of the dust!
Famous calligraphy and painting art critic Luo Yang January 3, 2023