Among his calligraphy and painting seals, there are seals with "fine print" and "",which means that he admires eight painters in history, such as Sun Long, Bada, Shi Tao, Ren, Wu Changshuo, Huang and Qi Baishi, ranking behind them, so he is called.
Throughout his works, flowers and birds are born out of the marks of the Eighth National Congress, Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi, among which peony and plum blossom are taken from Changshuo (plum blossom also learns from Jin Dongxin), birds are mostly connected with Badashan people in breath, and fruits and vegetables are taken from Baishi; Landscape painting is more influenced by Shi Tao and Hong Bin. The artistic style of Chen Zizhuang's paintings can be summarized as "simple and naive, with simple and far-reaching traces". His works depict Bashu mountains and rivers, rural scenery, farmhouses, flowers, fruits and vegetables, birds and animals, etc., which have a strong flavor of life and a realistic spirit of sketching changes. Throughout Chen Zizhuang's paintings, no matter landscapes or flowers and birds, they all pursue simple brushwork and brushwork, and their composition, images and brushwork are unpretentious.
Chen Zizhuang attaches great importance to the use of calligraphy pen in painting, which is the key to ensure the quality of lines. Throughout Chen Zizhuang's paintings, landscapes, flowers, birds and figures are all represented by extremely simple lines, which are fluent, relaxed and extremely flexible, and the images are all vivid and accurate, reaching a familiar level. This is the realm that can only be achieved through decades of hard work and hard training. In Chen Zizhuang's works, there are some works with almost the same content and composition, but not exactly the same. These works may be produced by his usual practice. This is essentially different from the existing painters who blindly repeat their works, like printing presses, for the purpose of selling paintings.
In Chen Zizhuang's paintings, we also attach importance to the use of dots, which often represent flowers, grass, trees, rocks, moss spots and other objects. Color is also very particular, rich and varied, elegant and concise style. Chenwangchao
Zhuang attached great importance to calligraphy. He said that it took him 30 years to complete the engraving of Sangong Mountain Monument, Wuri God Monument and Imperial Letters. He once asked his disciples: "Write hard. People who draw pictures write more than people who specialize in writing. " Throughout the inscription and postscript of Chen Zizhuang's paintings, the calligraphy styles used in different works are very different, and there are all kinds of calligraphy, among which the inscription and postscript of running script and seal script are the most common. In different works, the titles of the same book style have both similar styles and different styles. Chen Zizhuang's calligraphy can be described as simple and frank, which is similar to his painting style. His calligraphy, mostly written casually, pays attention to change. Although judging from a single word, it looks rough in shape and pen, but the overall charm has a different flavor.
Chen Zizhuang also has profound attainments in seal cutting. He believes that painting and engraving are interlinked, "painting and engraving are interlinked, and the artistic principle is the same". He not only seals calligraphy and painting himself, but also often seals for friends and disciples.