Reporter Guo Jianguang
Zhang Feng, deputy director of the Cultural Center of Qishan County, chairman of the Qishan County Artists Association, member of the Henan Provincial Artists Association, member of the Henan Calligraphers Association, and his paintings have participated in provincial and municipal exhibitions many times.
When Zhang Feng was very young, he remembered that he followed his father Zhang Ximing, who was a painter at the Qishan County Cultural Center, to sketch again and again, on the top of the gully stream, a large bottle of boiled water was half a day's "food", until a stroke of the pen depicted the magnificent mountains and rivers and trees reflected on the painting paper, Xiao Zhang Feng was hungry and followed his father and walked in the direction of home.
Many years later, when Zhang Feng became a professional painter, he still vaguely saw his father's sweaty back and a kind face under a worn-out straw hat in his dreams again and again.
10 years ago, his father died of illness, and in the middle of the night, Zhang Feng came from it. Zhang Feng was also thinking about his father's life, his majestic to haggard back, but he always had a fiery fire burning in his heart, a raging flame for art.
After retiring from the army, the young Zhang Feng entered the cultural system and took over his father's brush. Zhang Feng, who does not like to talk, can only pour down with a thousand words when facing the painting paper, and every line of the picture is from the traditional pen and ink, and every smoke cloud is the biggest thought and expression in the heart.
At the entrance of the exhibition hall of the Zhugou Revolution Memorial Hall, a huge oil painting depicts the scene of the Zhugou riot in Qishan, and the main author is the painter Zhang Feng.
At the beginning of 2020, the Jingyu Hometown Art Troupe of Qishan County once again received an invitation from the Propaganda Department of the Jingyu County Party Committee in the Northeast to participate in the 100th anniversary of the martyrdom of General Yang Jingyu held in Baishan City, Jingyu County. Everyone was encouraged and immediately prepared, but due to the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the original live performance was cancelled and replaced by an online performance. The literary and artistic teams of Qishan and Jingyu counties worked together and devoted themselves to making the online performance a great success.
Subsequently, in order to celebrate the success of the performance, the Propaganda Department of the Jingyu County CPC Committee specially sent a plaque to the Propaganda Department of the Qingshan County CPC Committee and the Jingyu Hometown Art Troupe of Guoshan County. The main body of the picture is a scene of local men and women wearing brightly colored costumes with words such as "Jingyu, Brotherhood of The Mountains" and "Red Bloodline Family Relatives" singing and dancing, and the background is the soldiers of the First Route Army of the Anti-Japanese League who are struggling to advance in the vast forest and sea snowfield, flanked by the Old Leshan Mountain Gate of The Queshan Mountains and the Monument to General Yang Jingyu of Jingyu County.
How to express the deep friendship of the people of Qishan To the villagers and elders of Jingyu County, who are far away from thousands of mountains and rivers? Zhang Feng, a famous painter from Qishan, immediately painted a large freehand painting, the main body of which is a bust of General Yang Jingyu, in front of the statue is a crowd of people playing dragons and lions, and behind the statue are the green mountains and green waters of the Central Plains and the black water of the White Mountains in the northeast, expressing the deep friendship of the masses of the two places.
Again and again, he writes the vivid story of the red land under his feet with a paintbrush, and depicts the hometown in his heart with colors and lines.
Today, Zhang Feng leads a group of calligraphy and painting lovers between green mountains and rivers, pursuing the artistic conception of Chinese painting, under his careful teaching, they climb the Sagae Mountain sketching, run free painting classes in the cultural center, and then one by one works are born from the hearts of these calligraphy and painting lovers. It continues the traditional pen and ink under the ancient Langling City, and keeps the innovation under the insistence of generations of literati and inkers.