Spirit of The Spirit -- Fang Xinquan Freehand Flower and Bird Painting This article is excerpted from: Hanjiang Xue's blog (Sina) Author: Hanjiang Xue

Fang Xinquan, formerly known as Fang Xinquan, was born in 1953 in Yiyuan, Shandong. He graduated from Qingdao Arts and Crafts School in 1977 and studied in the master's degree class of the China Academy of Arts in 1991, and is now a member of the China Artists Association, the president of the Beijing Jinghua Ink Painting Institute, and a national first-class artist. His works have won the first prize of the International Calligraphy and Painting Competition, the Bronze Medal Award of the Seventh National Art Exhibition and other awards, and won major awards such as "100 Masters of Chinese Painting". Fang Xinquan has the courage to innovate, with a novel and unique form of painting, rich and vivid texture effect for the attention of the art community, published "Ink Painting Technique New Exploration", "Fang Xinquan Painting Collection", "Fang Xinquan Freehand Flower and Bird Painting Collection" and other monographs, is one of the powerful painters in the Chinese painting world.

Fang Xinquan is a flower and bird painter with great influence in the Chinese art world, he combines the interest of Chinese flower and bird painting with modern aesthetics, takes the artistic conception of Tang poetry and Song Ci and the original spirit of freedom and freedom into the painting, and his flowers, birds, fish and insects, flexible and vivid, without any sense of carving, smooth and free, ethereal and natural, embodies the stretching, cheerfulness and openness of modern people, free and unrestrained relaxation and extension. The charm of Fang Xinquan's flower and bird paintings also lies in his ability to keenly capture the agile and spontaneous demeanor of birds and the family affection of interdependence in the modeling of the objects of expression, conveying a unique flower and bird painting that is full of humanity and human feelings. Looking at the flowers and birds paintings of Xinquan, the feeling of being fresh and full of vitality is vivid and full of vitality, giving people the "joy of language".