Zhang Qingtao, a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu, studied under Xu Shaoqing in 1970 and became a disciple of Meijing Library. In 1982 (Wu Hufan Teacher and Student Joint Exhibition), 3 works were selected (Shanghai Exhibition Center), in 1988 (Chinese Contemporary Famous Artists Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition), Fengqiao Yebo won the gold medal (Hong Kong) National Calligraphy and Painting Award, Huanfei Cup won the gold medal, in 1991, the first national landscape painting invitational exhibition, the works of Songgulan River are long, and in 2002, the work won the bronze medal at the International Chinese Painting Exhibition for the Protection of World Heritage (sponsored by the China Art Association), and is now the honorary president of Suzhou Jiangnan Painting Institute, and the vice president of Suzhou Lulang Painting and Calligraphy Institute, who is good at landscapes, Jiangnan scenery and writing flowers and birds. The painting style is beautiful and plump, fresh and elegant, the bone method is brushed, the color is deep and misty, the spring stone is washed, especially the molten ink and green color in one furnace.
Mr. Shi Ren's poem said: "Passing the lamp Meijing is another protégé, and Daoji Shitian has been cultivated for ten years." Close to the green pine and sparse grass, the peak cloud externalization machine. Mr. Shi Ren also wrote in a poem: "Zhang Qingtao's Linshi Shi Weng landscape scroll is a midsummer painting thing to be able to climb day by day, and it is difficult to start Handan." Studying the ancient branch of the river, will understand the source of the sea ring. Dong Ju's legacy is indifferent, and Ishida points to the recklessness. Concentrate on the smoke and clouds in the end, and look at the mountains in the painting. "
