With the rapid development of new media and the increasing popularity of painting art, the public's perception of art is no longer the same as that of others, but has a distinct personal aesthetic attitude, they only applaud the wonderful art, and those smash hit, but very mediocre artists will be ruthlessly abandoned, and mediocre artworks will also be thrown into the basil.
Zhang Yuanda is a painter who lives in a remote corner, but also a painter who seeks the distance in a quiet and far-reaching way. Living in a corner, you are far away from the bustling, there is no sound in your ears, and you can calm down and chase the sublime.
Zhang Yuanda, born in Wenshan, Yunnan Province in 1942, graduated from Minzu University of China in his early years.
It must be the genes of traditional culture that flow in the blood, and it must also be nourished in the environment of Wuhua Tianbao and Zhong Lingyuxiu, painting the smoke and clouds of southern Yunnan, painting the magic of the spring city, painting the beautiful scenery of Dianchi Lake, painting the mountains and ......, Zhang Yuanda has an endless subject matter, has an inexhaustible energy, into the body, into the heart, into the love, he is tired of it, and he never stops. Whenever the surging true feelings are poured into the pen, Zhang Yuanda follows the aesthetic ideal of "what is seen, what is watched, what is petted and raised", raises the banner of spirit, establishes a spiritual home, integrates heaven and earth, mountains and rivers, grass and trees, smoke and rain into emotions, paints natural scenery, poetry and painting, paints mood and feelings, expresses, lyrical, and expressive, expresses the splendor of ink and wash of the modern humanistic spirit, and sings the beautiful scenery of green mountains and green waters.
"Green Mountain Plains Eternal Heroes" "Colorful Brocade Out of the Strong Township"
Painting is not only an ability for Zhang Yuanda, but also a realm, he is proficient in painting theory, intoxicated with color and ink, and is better at the integration of southern and northern landscapes; His painting path is wide, his vision is also very broad, and he can create his own ingenuity and creative self; His traditional brushwork skills are profound, and he also draws on the elements of artistic expression in the new era to touch on the similarities, and has his own landscape style. Over the past few decades, from the early years of systematic study of painting to the occasion of the general meeting, Zhang Yuanda "opened his own life with the rules of the ancients", interpreted his artistic cultivation with vivid brushstrokes, expressed his life state with beautiful artistic rhythm, and interpreted his spiritual pursuit with the artistic conception of mountains and rivers that warmed his soul. Even if it is in a corner, it stands out.
From the recorded Sui and Tang landscape painters Zhan Ziqian and Li Sixun to the Song Dynasty's "Jing, Guan, Dong, Ju", "Liu, Li, Ma, Xia", "Yuan Four Families", "Qing Four Monks" and then to modern Huang Binhong, Fu Baoshi, Li Keran and other famous artists, all of them have made breakthroughs and innovations in the artistic transformation of "learning from the ancients, creating and coming out of the heart", and realized the sublimation of art.
Zhang Yuanda, like many artists, likes traditional culture since childhood, especially like painting, admires the masterpieces of the past dynasties, intoxicated, obsessed, sucks the artistic essence of the mainstream vein, explores the past and knows the present, sharpens the technique, concentrates on academics, the masters of the past dynasties, and the famous masters of the recent French eraOf course, all of Zhang Yuanda's artistic expressions are based on the local culture of Yunnan, through the way of "cage the world in the form, frustrate all things in the end of the brush", between the traditional style of brush and ink and the artistic aesthetics of the new era, to realize the process of creating natural landscapes, so that the brush and ink change due to the changes of the times, so that the landscape painting "quality along the ancient meaning, art changes the present, and the times".
Looking at Zhang Yuanda's landscapes, it can be found that he has a deep traditional brush and ink kung fu. In Zhang Yuanda's brushwork, there are the majesty of Jing and Guan, the vastness of Dong and Ju, the clarity of the "Yuan Four Families", the brightness of the Wumen School, the solidity of the "Four Kings of the Qing Dynasty", the unbridled nature of Shi Tao, and the light and shadow of Huang Binhong's Huazi and Li Keran, but Zhang Yuanda is not the traditional stylized art language of the portrayal, nor is it the appropriation of the characteristics of a certain school of techniques in modern times, but the refinement and rejection of "entering the tradition with the greatest skill" and "playing the tradition with the greatest courage", and the brush and ink techniques are integrated with the ancient method. The art form breaks through the ancient method and paints its own wonderful landscape style.
"Xiongshan Xiu Watercolor Yunnan" "Xiongxiu Yunling"
Because the calligraphy is well written, intentionally or unintentionally, in Zhang Yuanda's landscape paintings, there is always a hidden way of expression of "calligraphy into painting". For example, for the shaping of the mountain, Zhang Yuanda likes to outline the trend of the mountain range and the structure of the mountain stone with a compact and condensed brush, and the line of brushwork is like a flowing cloud to express the light and shade of the mountain and stone, and write the rolling mountain, so that the mountain is rich in regional characteristics, and also makes the mountain in the ups and downs of the line, full of rhythm and rhythm.
Of course, in the blessing of lines, Zhang Yuanda also has a skillful expressiveness in the relationship between pen and ink, ink and color. The pen shuttles in the ink, the blend of ink and color, lines, brushwork, brushwork, changeable, with the kind of hair, hearty and dripping, rubbing, pointing, dyeing expression of unpredictable clouds and smoke, as well as the handover between the mountain and the clouds, at the same time, in the colorful ink, color and ink blending, Zhang Yuanda through the color and ink dry, wet, thick, light, and focal to form an echoing relationship, in a variety of color fusion and alternating ways, so that color and ink penetrate each other, according to the situation, to create a natural color and ink rhyme, muddy, The ever-changing brushwork grows with the change of the mind, unbridled, bold, straightforward, free to sway, but the charm is natural; In the subtleties, the color is gently rubbed, the ink rhyme can be squeezed out, and the mountain stone also highlights the hard texture in the color and ink rhyme, and the texture that can be reached jumps on the paper, reflecting the agility of the lines, and highlighting the subtle changes in color and brushwork, and the picture also gives people a kind of reality in the face of nature, and renders the artistic conception space of the desolate fugue, which reflects the efforts made by the artistic expression techniques such as modeling, light and shadow, and perspective when he was young, and also highlights the free realm after "calligraphy and painting are old".
"Dianchi Range Rover", "Smoke and Rain in Southern Yunnan", "Streams and Mountains Accumulate Cui", "Dianchi Lake New Scene" and other works, Zhang Yuanda always uses tangible and invisible brushes, gathers the essence of rivers, gathers the aura of heaven and earth, smoke, rain and water vapor present a cloudy landscape, deep valleys and huge ravines are built into the magnificence of peaks and mountains, ancient cypress and dense forests depict the form of dripping cui, as far as the eye can see, in an instant, as if I forgot about things, the mood is extremely leisurely, and the elegant reverie arises spontaneously, as if in the wonderful land to nourish the spirit, in the tranquility of enlightenment.
"Autumn Rhyme", "Spring Liang Yuantong Mountain", "Auspicious Elephant Shows the Harmony of All Things" and other works, the things of spring are as pleasant as a smile, the scenery of summer is green as a drop, the autumn is as clear as makeup, and the winter is cold and sleepy, the picture always gives people a kind of poetic space that is self-satisfied, and there is a majestic momentum of wandering the heart too mysterious, obviously, this benefits from the accumulation of immersion in traditional culture, and also benefits from the creation of the perennial wandering mountain scenic spots. Over the years, every time in the face of natural mountains and rivers, Zhang Yuanda can't help but feel the painting, he takes the emotion of relaxation between the vast world and the world, to perceive the magnificence of nature, he reveries in the mountains and clouds, to give birth to the hills and ravines in the chest, when the mood fluctuates with the transformation of time and space, his emotions also fluctuate with the changes of nature, when the surging connotation is full of surging power, when the reverie is conceived in the unrestrained emotion, the beauty of nature is brewed in the chest, and the world in the eyes and the world in the heart are also blended into exquisiteness. The landscape paintings are also continuously expressed, or majestic, or beautiful, majestic, with the southern landscape of the smoke forest clear, beautiful, and with the northern landscape of the muddy and thick, depicting the wandering heart of the literati, but also painting the transcendent wind god, warming the viewer, but also taking care of the self.
"Birdsong Stream" Wang Weishi "Playing the Piano" Liu Changqing poem
For decades, I have never seen Zhang Yuanda publicize and hype himself, and I have never seen him "raise his arms and shout, claiming that he can, and be appalled", he has always been indifferent, silently abiding by his art, but he has done his work in his life, he is in the landscape, indulge in emotion, in the pen and ink, settle the soul, especially in the last ten years, he looks at Chinese and foreign art, lying in the world, he ignores the philosophy of Lao Zhuang, the way of Confucius and Mencius, he is clear poetry, wonderful words, he uses the instrument of art and the way of art to complement each other, deep into the essence of art, with the mountain, The artistic style of the big water and the big world to interpret the empty and peaceful mood and emotion, to interpret the life state of the unity of heaven and man, his natural style of creation and beauty, the artistic conception space of the wonderful nature, and the vast and rich humanistic artistic conception, such as the movement jumping with cheerful notes, write the artistic charm and the brilliance of life.
Today, Zhang Yuanda is more than 80 years old, but he is not limited by age to keep quiet, but like a young man full of vitality, still eager to paint, eager to express, the brushstrokes are full of irrepressible excitement, the hills and ravines, grass, rivers, clouds and smoke in the blend of color and ink, also seem to be full of vigorous vitality, showing a vibrant scene, no bit of malaise, not a little decadent, the unrestrained color, strong block, charming artistic conception, like reality, like a dream, Dreams contain reality, and the feelings in reality return to dreams, which is the great beauty of nature, and also the sublime expression of the true meaning of life, the state of life, and the cultivation of art.
(Text/Sanggan)
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