(Text/Li Xianting)
In the 90s, director Chen Yifei created the myth of the film and television industry, and his calligraphy and painting works became the first artist in China to sell more than one million. In fact, there are many people in the film and television industry and actors involved in calligraphy and painting, such as Liu Xiaoqing, Wang Zhongjun, Wu Yujuan, Wang Gang, Zhang Jinling, Zhao Benshan, etc. However, there are not many directors who paint.
Zhang Binghan, a painter and director in the United States, graduated from Beijing Film Academy and studied film production and art design production at USC, USA, and obtained a doctorate. In 2011, he received paintings, sculptures and woodblock prints under the guidance of Master Huang Yongyu. In 2012 and 2019, he won two joint exhibitions of calligraphy and painting at the Louvre Museum in France. In 2024, a solo exhibition of calligraphy and painting calling for world peace will be held in the United Nations Hall.
Founded Xiaozhongtian Vocational Art School and Tsinghua University School of Continuing Education, teaching Chinese painting, oil painting, and directing courses, graduating nearly 40,000 students. He is currently a member of the China Film Association, a member of the Beijing Film Association, the vice chairman of the European Oil Painting Association, the vice chairman of the World Outstanding Artists Association, the chairman of the Wuzhou International Film Festival, and a member of the 9th and 10th CPPCC of Qiqihar City.
He has directed many award-winning films, among which "Crazy Kidnapping" has been shortlisted for 13 international film festivals. won a total of 4 small "golden man" trophies for Best International Film, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor.
Zhang Binghan's calligraphy and painting have won a number of domestic and foreign awards, in the 4th Alexander Luch Painting Award in the United States, "Sky" stood out from more than 300 participating artists with its pure and simple new subjectivist paintings, and won the highest award, and the Chinese painting "Pigeon Flying Over the Lotus Pond" and "Bloom" have won the gold medal of the "International Salon of the Art Revival Center" and the gold medal of the "International Artist Award".
His paintings have their own ideological expression, interpretation and techniques, the picture is beautiful, the composition is ingenious, the style is strong, the thick brush is bold and rough, the fine brush is beautiful and gentle, and in the use of ink, he obtains the artistic effect of water halo ink and color. Especially in the relationship between light and shadow, color tone, and space, combined with the creation of film pictures, even Chinese painting, also contains the colorful Western romanticism. In terms of inheritance, it is innovative, and Eastern and Western aesthetics and aesthetics are integrated. His dragon vein flowers and birds freehand series have both form and spirit, pointing to the highest state of Chinese painting art, "great beauty is true".
His dragon vein landscape, the color is hidden in the ink and not stagnant, the pure color is thick and vulgar, it can be less than enough, high and wide; or to break through the danger and win by surprise; or criss-crossed, wide open and closed; Or see the big from the small, and be ingenious. Have the courage to create intricate contradictions and seek a reasonable balance. Momentum, whiteness, density, virtuality and reality, primary and secondary, echoing, interspersed, can be described as ever-changing, and the correspondence and coordination of painting language are the highest ideals. In particular, the mineral pigments cinnabar, rouge, limestone, stone green, garcinia cambogia and ink are fused on gold leaf paper to splash rhyme, which is also the reason why a painting can be preserved and collected.
He prefers to work and write, so every picture of his dragon vein flower and bird series is like a movie picture, with the expression of the spatial relationship between the virtual and the real, especially in the picture language and painting language, there are not only neat and meticulous courtyard painting style, but also bold expression and creation of the vigorous Huazi, vigorous and reckless, majestic personal style, his painting structure is rigorous, forming a sparse contrast, the object sometimes breaks through the picture, breaking the traditional painting composition tips, seeking ethereal with fullness, and seeking breakthrough with ethereal. The brush is tight and abductive, the posture is clumsy and ingenious, and the contrast of local blanks is used to seek the charm of the lines, which is not limited to the traditional composition rules. The clumsiness of the composition of the painting can best reflect the artist's mind and courage, knowledge and talent, brushwork skills and depth of conception.
What's more worth mentioning is that he applied the lens language of the film picture composition to his paintings, such as far, full, middle, near, and close-up, so that his dragon vein flower and bird paintings are perfectly integrated with philosophy, literature, and film in the language and context of brush and ink, and highlight its unique artistic charm rich in profound cultural connotation. In particular, his dragon vein lotus - and Lotus beauty series, not only the dragon vein lotus tsundere and auspicious and noble different reflections on the paper, but also bold secondary creation, and by the influence of Mr. Huang Yongyu's paintings, showing Zhang Binghan's distinctive and unique temperament, The characteristic painting performance, unlike most painters, is that he can correctly grasp the mood of the work, that is, he can integrate the film story into the painting, the intention is elegant, the atmosphere is vivid, the pen is sophisticated, the picture is expressive, the color is bold and harmonious, the composition is reasonable, the payment is concise and there is a story, the seal is exquisite, and the mounting is also very refined, which gives Zhang Binghan's written works a certain distinctiveness, artistic height and collection value.
I have seen Zhang Binghan's Chinese paintings, oil paintings, wood carvings, and calligraphy works, which have a certain style of the times.
In addition, it has both public aesthetics and forward-looking artistic expression, which will inevitably become the greatest possibility for the collection and value-added of Zhang Binghan's artworks. For example, in the 2018 Sotheby's Spring Auction and the 2019 Guardian Spring Auction, Zhang Binghan's painting was auctioned to 50,000 square feet. As a young artist, it is already commendable.
Zhang Binghan's artworks are not only highly innovative and unique in form, but also full of profound thinking and insight in content. You can feel the strong impact of thinking, the human nature and humanistic care. This perfect fit between the individual and society has made his work highly regarded and praised in the art world.
In particular, he painted movie scenes, and after the release of these movies, Zhang Binghan's paintings will definitely increase in value.
The ancients said: "Painting with books is the same origin of calligraphy and painting". Zhang Binghan's calligraphy is inherited, personal and interesting. Calligraphy works must have characteristics, and if everyone writes according to the methods of the ancients, they will be the same, and there will be no collectibility.
I once asked him: Why are the dragon vein landscapes, dragon vein flowers and birds, and dragon vein lotus? Later, I learned that the scenes of the four films he prepared all had Tibetan elements, dragon veins, and Jiangnan elements. What could be a better painting than bringing a dragon vein into your home?
Famous director Wang Baoqiang
Famous actor Lei Jiayin
Famous actor Huang Bo
On the right is Lu Sen, executive chairman of the French Artists Association, and on the left is Michel King, president of the French Artists Association.
Zhang Binghan's works became part of the Louvre Collection: Flowers and Birds of the Lotus and American Dragon Veins, 68cm x 68cm.
Zhang Binghan Dragon Vein Flowers and Birds "Harmony and Beauty" series: 69cm X 69cm
Zhang Binghan Dragon Vein Landscape: 69cm X 69cm
ZHANG BINGHAN DRAGON VEIN LANDSCAPE: 50CM X 198CM
Zhang Binghan Dragon Vein Landscape: 69cm X 69cm
Zhang Binghan Dragon Vein Lotus Gold Foil Full Paper "Harmony and Beauty" Series: 69cm X 138cm
Zhang Binghan Dragon Vein Flowers and Birds: 69cm X 69c
张冰寒书法72cm X 200cm
张冰寒书法50cm x 130cm
Zhang Binghan's calligraphy and carving on wood 300cm x 300cm
Zhang Binghan's calligraphy and carving on wood are 80cm x 13,500cm
Zhang Binghan's film collection team shot more than 50,000 pieces of materials for the sacred lake of Shenshan Mountain
Zhang Binghan's film collection team shot more than 50,000 pieces of Longmai landscape scene materials
List of directors and exhibitions
2006电影《I Love you》
2006 movie "The Forbidden City is Surrounded by Courtyard Houses"
2008 movie "Fighting Violence with Violence"
2009 "Singing the Motherland" MV "Landscape Meng" MV
2010 "The Unspoken Rules of a Good Daughter-in-law"
2011 "Roaring Proud Rivers and Lakes"
2012 Louvre Museum Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition, France
2013 Director's China Arts Festival
2014 movie "The Legend of Jeet Kune Do" Dubai Chinese New Year is like a spring breeze calligraphy and painting exhibition
In 2015, he directed the Songzhuang Art Festival and the Songzhuang film "Songzhuang Songzhuang", and planned the Songzhuang Calligraphy and Painting Art Exhibition
2016 "Overseas Situation" Yangming Cultural Festival, the first entrepreneur to conscience forum, New York calligraphy and painting exhibition
The 2017 film "Crazy Kidnapping" was shortlisted for awards, won 13 international film festivals, and won 4 statuettes
2018 Director's Live Performance "Sunrise in the East"
2019 movie "Riverdance"
2019 Louvre Museum Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition, France
2020 movie "Study Hard"
2021 Curated "Poseidon Mazu"
2022策划《青春 青春》
2023 Performance Art "Awakening" Documentary "49" Film "Awakening a Brave New World"
2024 United Nations Solo Exhibition of Peaceful Colors of Calligraphy and Painting
Film Finalists and Awards:
The film "Big Hero" was shortlisted for the 4th Beijing International Film Festival;
The film "Black & White" was shortlisted for the 2012 FIRST Youth Film Festival
The film "The Woman of the Daur Tribe" was nominated for the 2012 Film Association Cup