Zhang Peng (1918-2009) was born in Gaomi, Shandong, and was nurtured by his family since childhood, and loved painting and calligraphy. He is a member of the Chinese Artists Association, a professor of Shandong Textile Institute of Technology, the vice president of Qingdao Painting Academy, and the honorary president of Qingdao Painting Academy.
Zhang Peng is a painter with great personality and talent. Zhang Peng did not go to a formal university, he studied private school when he was a teenager, taught himself painting, and then worked as a primary school art teacher for most of his life. Zhang Peng is good at flowers and birds, landscapes, and characters, especially those who remain in the world with flowers and birds.
In his early years, Zhang's painting studied from Gao Nanfu in the Qing Dynasty and Zhang Shuqi in modern times, combining work and writing. After middle age, he moved to Qi Baishi, specializing in freehand all the way, and became a family of his own. His paintings, whether flowers, feathers, animals, landscapes, or people, are all vivid and simple, and they all have their own characteristics.
Every time Zhang paints a painting, almost all of them are extremely attentive, and the picture modeling strives to be concise and expressive, with no more strokes, no more strokes, otherworldly, full of paper and angry, giving people a taste to chew. It is not an exaggeration to say that Zhang's paintings are "similar to those who look like white stones, and Zhang Peng is a person".
Zhang Peng's life was simple and simple, his feelings were sincere, he focused on painting things, he was willing to be lonely, and his name was finally important to the world. I remember a writer once said: Only when the spirit is lonely can he have great art. Zhang Peng Zhengxing was said. When compiling the History of Modern Chinese Painting, Professor Chen Chuanxi of Nanjing listed Zhang Peng, Huang Qiuyuan, Chen Zizhuang, and Tao Bowu as the four masters of the "opposition school".
The late Chinese painting masters Li Keran and Mr. Wu Zuoren also spoke highly of Zhang Peng during their lifetimes, Mr. Li once said: Mr. Zhang Peng is too extraordinary, and Mr. Wu said: History will not bury Zhang Peng's painting art.