"I don't know if I was a fish in my last life, and I became a fish idiot in this life. For as long as I can remember, I've been in love with fish: catching, raising, eating, painting, and I've been with fish ever since. Zhang Chuanbin, the founder of Chinese painting at Ocean World and a professor at Nanjing Normal University, often said this.
Author: Zhang Chuanbin (Founder of Chinese Painting in Ocean World)
Title of work: "Jinsen"
Size: 34cmx138cm
As we all know, the expressive themes of Chinese painting have formed three categories since ancient times: figures, landscapes, flowers, birds, and animals, which are all landscapes and creatures on land, even if there are fish and shrimp in the water in the paintings of flowers and birds, they are still part of the land themes, and no painter has ever taken the fish in the depths of the ocean as the main image of his artistic creation. With his imagination, wisdom and talent, Zhang Chuanbin boldly stepped into the inner world of the ocean and created many little-known artistic images of underwater fish......
Obsessed with the underwater world and "fish".
The story of Zhang Chuanbin and "fish" has to start from his childhood.
Zhang Chuanbin loved to swim in the water when he was a child, he was interested in raising tropical fish, and he was also a loyal viewer of "Animal World" hosted by Zhao Zhongxiang. His parents saw his obsession with painting and were very supportive, taking him to visit many famous teachers in the society. Before the university entrance examination, Zhang Chuanbin entered the Xiaguan Cultural Center, and the Gulou District Cultural Center conducted more formal training. Later, Zhang Chuanbin entered the fine arts major of Nanjing University of the Arts with the first overall score, and since then he has embarked on the road of systematic Xi and painting.
Author: Zhang Chuanbin (Founder of Chinese Painting in Ocean World)
Title: "Six-six Shun Anglerfish Picture"
Size: 34cmx138cm
For more than 40 years, Zhang Chuanbin has been fascinated by the magnificence of the seabed, which is rich in materials, including more than 30,000 species of marine fish, corals, anemones, algae and plankton, as well as crabs, shrimps and shells. It can be said that the primitive, mysterious, vast and rich nature of the ocean has given him infinite inspiration and inspiration for creation. In the process of creation, he has also been personally exploring the blue country, leaving traces of "East China Sea fisherman" in many seas of the world, and becoming a famous "fisherman" in the circle.
Broaden your horizons with traditional Chinese painting themes
"In the past, painters used to depict landscapes, people, flowers and birds, and even if they painted fish, they rarely depicted water, but they all depicted things above the surface of the water. I wanted to blend well with the underwater environment and the fish, and express the vastness, mystery, and light and shadow effects of the sea. Zhang Chuanbin said that the theme of the underwater world lacks precedent in ancient works, which requires more exploration and thinking. At the same time, the paintings of the ancients were mainly based on fish in rivers and lakes, so he needed to rely more on the collection of modern scientific data in the study of marine fish.
Author: Zhang Chuanbin (Founder of Chinese Painting in Ocean World)
Title: "Fish Playing Between Lotus Leaves"
Size: 45cmx45cm
How to deeply explore and practice the new way of creating the underwater world and form his own creative concept is the breakthrough direction of Zhang Chuanbin. Zhang Chuanbin introduced, first, in the business position of painting. It not only uses the scattered perspective commonly used in Chinese painting, but also adopts the focal perspective, which can express the artistic conception of the scene space on the seabed. The bold use of compositions such as looking up and looking up can better show the agility of the fish, and the viewer has a sense of immersion. Drawing on the design principle of plane composition, the picture is full of contemporary characteristics and satisfies the aesthetic trend of the viewer. Second, in terms of color, the color is the mainstay, and the ink is appropriately added, which innovates the creative way of traditional painting that pays attention to "ink and wash as the mainstay", and boldly absorbs the light source color and complementary color of Western Impressionism, and the heavy color of Fauvism and Expressionism. The third is the brush and ink technique, in order to express the decent structure and black and white aesthetics of ink and line, such as in the outline of fish and seascape, the treatment of lines is contrary to the aesthetic standard of traditional painting "force through the back of the paper", the brushwork is tough and powerful, has been smooth and elastic, sharp and fast, so as to form the texture of fish, but also make the luster of water more bright.
Author: Zhang Chuanbin (Founder of Chinese Painting in Ocean World)
Title: "Blue Sea and Blue Sky"
Artwork size: 69cmx69cm
Zhang Chuanbin said frankly that "painting fish" is an important part of traditional mainland painting, which is famous in the world for its long history and unique style, and is well-known in the world painting circle for its high artistic value and cultural connotation. "There is no inheritance, things are not good-looking, and there is no Chinese style. Without innovation, the ancients had it, and what use do they want you. To sum up, a painter should not paint the paintings of the ancients, do not paint the paintings of others, but paint his own paintings, but without losing the inheritance. ”
In 2015, Zhang Chuanbin compiled his understanding of marine fish into a book and painted the book "Ocean Fish Painting", in which the picture of 100 fish is selected from more than 30,000 kinds of marine fish in the world's oceans, and the fish with beautiful shapes and rich colors are included in the painting, such as "angelfish", "birthday fish" and "lucky fish". The publication of this book fills the gap in the history of marine fish painting at home and abroad.
Pursuing the "soul" of the ocean with the language of painting
From Zhang Chuanbin's paintings, the audience can appreciate the connection between people and the underwater world, such as "Sea Maiden Scattered Flowers", "Love of the Sea", "Kiss Fish", "Flying in the Sea" and so on - from the names of these works, people can feel that he is thinking about the relationship between people, underwater animals and the underwater world. On the one hand, he calls on human beings to love the ocean, the environment, and animals, and on the other hand, he calls on humanity and benevolence, so that human beings can face themselves and the environment with a kind attitude.
Author: Zhang Chuanbin (Founder of Chinese Painting in Ocean World)
Title of work: "Life"
Artwork size: 69cmx69cm
The handscroll of "Zodiac Fish of the Ocean" is a new height of Zhang Chuanbin's creation in recent years. Coincidentally, it was Zhang Chuanbin who accidentally learned that there are 12 zodiac signs in the ocean when he was painting and compiling "Ocean Fish Painting". The discovery of this "secret" gave him a long time to settle and think. How to make the original Chinese zodiac not fade color, but also make the ocean fish zodiac have its own cultural heritage, which is also the main clue of Zhang Chuanbin's creation. The zodiac is one of the important parts of the traditional culture of the mainland, and it first appeared in the first collection of poetry in the mainland, the Book of Songs. In the creative form of "Ocean Zodiac", the twelve paintings are all circular sizes with a diameter of 32 cm, each painting a zodiac fish, and referring to the Xi of each zodiac fish, with the background of the picture, the title of seven characters, which contains the attributes of the zodiac and the characteristics of the fish, as well as the seal of the zodiac fish. He also asked Mr. Yan Gongda, vice chairman of the Chinese Calligraphy Association, to inscribe the introduction of the "Zodiac of the Ocean" and frame a handscroll with a length of 8.18 meters. It is understood that Zhang Chuanbin is working with relevant artists and writers to conceive a novel about the 12 zodiac signs of the ocean......
Author: Zhang Chuanbin (Founder of Chinese Painting in Ocean World)
Title: Ocean Miles
Artwork size: 69cmx69cm
Size: 22m*0.34m about 75 square feet
Creative content: Professor Zhang Chuanbin spent three years creating a masterpiece that presents the scenery of 18,000 kilometers of China's coastline.
"I have spent more than 40 years collecting information on marine fish and researching how to use Chinese brush and ink to express the 'life' of marine fish, the vastness and mystery of the sea, and the sparkling of the sun in the seawater. Now, Zhang Chuanbin has devoted his energy to the creation of "Ocean Miles". Zhang Chuanbin said: "Ten Thousand Miles of the Ocean" is a long scroll of scenery, using the brush and ink of Chinese painting to show the scenery of the morning light on the motherland's frontier, from the Yalu River on the Liaodong Peninsula at the northernmost tip of the coast to the dark sand of Zengmu in the southernmost Nansha Islands, spanning the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea. Zhang Chuanbin hopes that through his works, he can spread marine culture to people, arouse the public's awareness of protecting the ocean, treating the ocean well, and respecting the ocean, so that our children and grandchildren can see this blue ocean and these beautiful fish.
Zhang Chuanbin
Founder of Chinese Painting in Ocean World
Director of the Institute of International Maritime Culture and Art Communication, Nanjing Normal University
Vice President of Jiangsu Academy of Painting and Calligraphy
He is a member of the Chinese Artists Association
Master's tutor and professor of Nanjing Normal University
Zhang Chuanbin, the founder of Chinese painting in the ocean world, with the stage name "East China Sea Fisherman", is the director of the International Institute of Marine Culture and Art Communication of Nanjing Normal University, the vice president of Jiangsu Academy of Painting and Calligraphy, a member of the Chinese Artists Association, and a master's tutor and professor of Nanjing Normal University.
Professor Zhang Chuanbin's works have been collected by the United Nations Headquarters, the International Olympic Committee, the Party School of the Central Committee, the Organization Department of the Central Committee, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee, the Ministry of Education, the General Political Department, art museums, art institutions, etc., and has been invited to France, Italy, Russia, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other places to participate in academic exchanges and hold art exhibitions.
Zhang Chuanbin, the founder of Chinese painting in Ocean World, taught the 10-meter Chinese painting scroll of "Bailing Opera Sea Chart". The Bailing in this painting is selected from more than 30,000 kinds of marine fish The name of the hundred fish has meaning and beautiful shape, rich color into the painting, with the ocean "zodiac" as the main, angelfish, anglerfish, birthday fish, lucky fish, mother fish, flying fish, clownfish, Arowana, kissing fish, etc., supplemented by the use of strong ink and color artistic language, showing the spring, summer, autumn and winter in the depths of the ocean, with romantic feelings and realism techniques, depicting the vast deep sea fish, chasing the magnificent picture of the sun of the shallow bay.