Zhang Guiming's creative style.

Zhang Guiming's paintings are still. Appreciating his paintings also requires a quiet mind, just like tasting tea, savoring it slowly. His paintings seem to pay little attention to the integrity of a single image, but pay great attention to the beauty of the overall shape, often consisting of several or dozens of extremely simple monomers to form a rigorous and perfect picture. If half a leaf is removed from the painting, the aesthetic feeling of the picture will be destroyed; If you want to add a few strokes, it will make people feel bloated and heavy. The aesthetic taste of this composition is very similar to that of modern abstract painting, that is, lobules (points), branches (lines), flowers or fruits (surfaces) form a balanced and changeable picture. The criss-crossing trunk is divided into pieces of blanks of various shapes, and the flowers, leaves, fruits and birds dotted in the blanks are enough for people to ponder repeatedly. Birds in the Woods is particularly wonderful in this respect: in a square frame, flowers and birds occupy the lower part of the frame, and the ingenious combination of "point", "line" and "face" creates a tortuous and comfortable visual aesthetic feeling. The inscription on the right side connects the upper blank with the picture below from top to bottom. This kind of composition is extremely rare in Chinese painting.

In addition to the usual center, Zhang Guiming's lines use more sides, sides and even scattered fronts. He said: "China's calligraphy has the best and richest lines." Indeed, in his works, we can see the traditional so-called leakage marks, broken hair, "Wu Dai is the wind", "falling rocks from the mountain" and "a grass emerges from the water". He painted flowers, and the first one was magnolia, which was deeply inspired by Qi Baishi's efforts to cut complicated and simplified lines. No wonder Master Cheng Shifa said to him, "It was you who painted the two personal influence." One of the two men is from Badashan Mountain, and the other is Qi Baishi. Zhang Gui Ming painted with calligraphy lines, and sometimes he had excellent works. The thread used in Magnolia in Blue Bottle, from rough to thirsty, seems to be broken and connected, with toughness and meaning in the chisel; Colorful Bottle Flowers is bold and swift, and its bold lines highlight the painter's original intention of being close to nature, loving life, enjoying flowers and pleasing people with beauty.

Zhang Guiming likes to use strong colors and primary colors. In his works, color is penetrating and appealing. He changed "color with the class" to "color at will", and he was not afraid of red, green, blue and purple. The colors used are so harmonious, vivid and bright, which gives people a strong visual impact. "Gourd series" contains dark blue fruits with yellow and red, and this blue color becomes an hangover agent; The lotus flowers in the colorful summer pond are red, yellow, blue, white and green. Instead of feeling strange, I feel a long-lost gorgeous beauty that comes from life and is higher than life, which is in line with the aesthetic taste of modern urbanites.

Most of Zhang Guiming's works are full in composition, with a small gap in high density, just like countless streams flowing from all directions to the whole work, forming a rhythm and rhythm in which you have me and I have you. Some works are scattered around with their own independent chapters, which are in harmony with each other, keeping a certain distance and running through a main line. This treatment is called "playing hard to get". Twelve Scenes of Lotus is a heavyweight work in Zhang Guiming Lotus Series, which can be independently mapped or combined into a masterpiece. The lines are clear, like seals, lines and grass. The picture is red, yellow, blue, green, purple and white, which is dazzling. He combined the visual tension of modern painting with the festive style of China folk art, and his natural charm awakened the aesthetic feeling of the appreciator.