Taste life with painting

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Text ｜ "Well -off" · China Well -off reporter Liu Yanhua

Zhang Shaojie was born in Tongzhou, Beijing, and liked to paint from an early age. In 1987, he was admitted to the major of oil painting at the Fine Arts Department of Beijing Normal University. In 1999, he graduated from the Graduate Class of the Department of Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 2008, he graduated from the Department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University. Today, he is a professor and taught at the Foreign Language and Cultural Institute of Beijing Materials Academy.

Zhang Shaojie's "Loess Plateau"

The days passed on the way to pursue artistic dreams. In the blink of an eye, it was 2022, and painting has already become his lifestyle. When the works were displayed in front of him, he seemed to see the footprint of his life. In order to draw, he often came alone, and a person was in front of the canvas alone. From the perspective of ordinary people, such a monotonous, lonely, and boring life is not like a painter life full of poetic and painted. In fact, the life of a real artist is like the lives of workers and farmers who are honest and honest. It is simply and fulfilling every day. This state is naturally formed. Zhang Shaojie said, "Painting itself is an individual labor that combines brain power and physical strength. Only by alone can you have your own private space, so that the life body can stay away from the" rivers and lakes' of the flow of people. Talk to yourself and think independently. "In this state," in this state Next, people can find the true self, just like the swimming fish in the water, freedom, letting thoughts and emotions walk in the heart, and enjoy the experience and feelings staying in the deep memory. He said, "Painting makes me happy and fulfilling, it is solid, diligent, and not compared with others. I taste life in the way of painting, life is happy, and it has gained the freedom of the soul."

The painting records Zhang Shao's growth experience and artistic concept, and is a true expression of his life, emotion, creative experience and aesthetic concept. In the early days, he was often attracted by realistic and painted realistic skills. He naively believed that painting skills were art, and later gradually understood that art creation was not all skills, wisdom and feeling. "It feels like a direct reflection caused by the individual nature of objective things on human senses. It needs to exclude all interference, carefully observe and think independently before you can deeply understand it. When you feel sublimated to emotional feelings, the deep -level life experience will be It will cause people to create an impulse, which is inspiration. "Zhang Shaojie said," Inspiration requires the accumulation of artists' usual aesthetic interest and humanistic literacy, it also needs to support the support of profound thoughts and forward -looking artistic concepts. "

The landscape works with soul -style souls not only bring artistic enjoyment, but also touch and think of viewers. The upper left in the figure is the "Great Wall Beacon Terrace" created in 2011. The upper right is the "Scenery No. 16" created in 2019. The lower left is the "Yellow River Family" created in 1997. Scenery No. 2 ". Photo confession in this group/Zhang Shaojie

His creation takes the Loess Plateau as the theme, the purpose of expressing the relationship between man and nature, from expressing natural beauty to focusing on the ecological environment, to metaphorical living space, from complexity to simplicity. In this process, Zhang Shaojie tried to handle the form structure of the picture with more direct means, so as not to so far, just use a pen color to subtract the image to make the picture more plane and decoration. The artistic style presented by the picture is the materialization of his concentration of exploring creative laws, simple and not simple aesthetic concepts, and a concentrated manifestation of personal emotions and artistic thoughts after observing life and life experience. His works are not symphony, but folk songs. They are traveling, which is easy to understand and intriguing. The works use oil painting materials and realistic skills, absorb the cultural and nutrition of the nation, and use the "blank" and lines of Chinese painting to present a unique and personalized spiritual pattern. "Landscape works with soul not only bring artistic enjoyment, but also touched and thought about viewers. This is the meaning and value of their existence, and the original intention of my artistic creation." Zhang Shaojie said.

In his opinion, the person who paints is to continue to paint, paint, explore his own subconscious, improve his perception, and find the inner image between the "virtual image" and "real statue", create your own art of art, create your own art of art space. The people who paint are full of spiritual people, and "inherit the civilization and spirit of human beings with art" is Zhang Shaojie's unchanged pursuit.

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This article was published in "Well -off" in late August 2022

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