It's easy for those who are interested in pen and ink, but it's difficult for those who are interested in mountains and rivers, and loyal and bright paintings are in between. If you put your heart into it, you will be a good painter someday. -Fan Ceng (in 1993)
In my opinion, Ji Zhongliang's artistic skill and accomplishment not only benefited from his diligence and persistence, but also benefited from his talent and understanding and his spiritual pursuit. It is precisely what our nation should advocate and encourage. -Guan Shanyue
In my opinion, Ji Zhongliang is an artist who is not satisfied with his achievements, has deep thinking and great ambitions. -Guan Shanyue
Ji Zhongliang had an extraordinary life experience, full of hardships, bumps, adventures and magical colors. He could have lived and worked comfortably in his hometown of Beijing, but he voluntarily gave up his public office and traveled at home and abroad for decades, eventually becoming an accomplished painter. -Shao dazhen
Ji Zhongliang is a "wizard", who dares to be "maverick", does not yield to external pressure, and rushes out his own life path through his own efforts. -Shao dazhen
Ji Zhongliang's painting skills are comprehensive, and he has made outstanding creations in ancient and modern figure paintings. -Shao dazhen
the works of Ji Zhongliang have the spirit of freehand brushwork, the spirit of Taoism, the expression of the soul ... the realm of the unity of scene and nature. -Shao dazhen
I appreciate Ji Zhongliang's creative mentality. He devoted himself to his creation with full emotion, and his paintings were totally indifferent. This is the most important quality and spirit of China freehand brushwork painters. -Shao dazhen
whenever he is faced with the idea of drawing paper, he is calm, rational and confident, but when he puts pen to paper, he is full of passion, improvises, and can't help but follow his own inspiration to capture the accidental factors in the picture and extend them. -Shao Dazhen
Mr. Zhong Liang is brilliant-Lien Chan's works with Zhong Liang's native place have a good artistic feeling, which expresses the improvisational characteristics of China's traditional freehand brushwork and reflects a painter's life experience and artistic practice for many years. It is this feeling that China's ink painting pays most attention to. -Lin Yong
Ji Zhongliang pioneered his own way, created a language, and showed his experience in figure painting, surpassing the ancients in many aspects. -Liu Zhongde
Ji Zhongliang painted a wide range of subjects, but he grasped the characters' modeling, especially the manner and inner world accurately and subtly. —— Liu Zhongde (in 25)
There are hundreds of characters' facial expressions and gestures in Ji Zhongliang's works. The author has seen Ji Zhongliang's paintings and photos and pictures over the years, such as exultation, slight joy, smile, laughter, charity, simplicity, grief, anger, sadness, meditation and thoughtfully. Thoughtful, contented, transcendent, close your eyes and enjoy yourself, look up, elegant and dignified, vulgar and spleen-like, rather elegant and elegant, wise and wise, bold and headstrong, classical make-up, western girls, etc., are never the same, but the gestures of varied, varied, different personalities and different expressions are the expression of the artistic ability of the native loyalty and brightness. —— Liu Zhongde (in 25)
For many painters, figure painting is just an object for entertainment or a carrier of pure pen and ink interest, while Ji Zhongliang is different. Entertainment and formal interest are directly related to his realm, knowledge and mastery of things through skillful skill and difficult modeling. This ability has been honed with great pains and great efforts. —— Liu Zhongde (in 25)
The calligraphy and painting of Zhong Liang's native place brought us to the ancient mountains and valleys to meet those reclusive scholars, who were full of sound and scenery and affectionate feelings. —— Liu Zhongde (in 25)
Ji Zhongliang was far away from the social entertainment society, only communicating with the ancients and blending with nature. However, his literati cultivation and social sensitivity also show a sense of the times and responsibility. -Liu Zhongde (in 25)
It is Ji Zhongliang's artistic pursuit. In order to achieve his goal, he has accumulated images and increased his memory reserves for many years. He has always done his best to observe, sketch, copy memories and study things. He once imitated the works of many famous artists, no matter who painted them, they could be confused, and even the imitated famous artists themselves could not tell the difference. —— Liu Zhongde (in 25)
New literati paintings, whose native place is loyal and bright, emphasizes the choice of subject matter and true description more than the literati painting school in the traditional sense, and his emotional expression is more free and unrestrained, which is close to catharsis. —— Liu Zhongde (in 25)
Among the techniques of characters born in Zhong Liang, the skill of dyeing is also a major feature. The use of simple and light dyeing method unifies lines, grains and points into a plane and body. -Liu Zhongde (in 25)
Born in Zhongliang, he was legendary for half his life, wandering in entertainment, and had a bumpy life experience, but he was ambitious, and his pursuit of art in his life was never relaxed, even almost crazy. -Liu Zhongde (in 25)
Ji Zhongliang's best paintings all come from deep-rooted passion. -Liu Zhongde (in 25)
I was surprised by the profound skill he showed in his works. Apart from the techniques of pen and ink, his talent was helped by the traditional accomplishment of poetry and calligraphy, and he had his free and unrestrained style. -Yang Renkai (in 1998)
I remember reading an article introducing him in Hong Kong's New Newspaper "Art Gallery" a few years ago. I think it is not excessive to describe Ji Zhongliang as a talented person in the north and a contemporary Tang Yin. As far as talent is concerned, he is more unique in rationality and understanding. -Yang Renkai (in 1998)
Do as the Romans do. Ji Zhongliang's paintings of figures, animals and landscapes have reached the level of harmony and originality. -Yang Renkai (in 1998)
Painting must also go through a leap from "having laws" to "not having laws" and from "not having me" to "having me". Ji Zhongliang made great efforts in the stage of "having the law" and "having no self". He never left his sketchbook in his early years and drew tens of thousands of sketches. He dissected the body and knew the skeleton and muscle structure of the human body like the back of his hand. There is not a day when he doesn't draw, ranging from more than ten hours to as few hours. -Yang Renkai (in 1998)
In his classical figure paintings, he emphasizes the likeness of spirit, and is not limited to the overly specific description of "shape". In the characterization, he keeps a sense of distance and uncertainty, which is his discretion in the characterization of classical freehand brushwork. Sometimes, with only a few strokes, he vividly depicts the character, connotation and personality of ancient literati. -Yang Renkai (in 1998)
Calligraphy and painting are of the same origin. Ji Zhongliang likes to leave long inscriptions, poems or articles in his ink figure paintings, which are mostly meaningful. Calligraphy is his picturesque free-style calligraphy. Books and paintings complement each other and are full of literary spirit and bookish spirit. -Yang Renkai (in 1998)
In recent years, Ji Zhongliang began to paint figure paintings with modern themes. Painting the ancients seems to depend entirely on the painter's understanding. No one has ever seen what Li Bai and Du Fu look like, but painting modern people is not. For people who are familiar with them, a little lack of skill will be self-defeating. In particular, without making a draft, without making changes, it is necessary for the painter to have superb modeling skills, pen and ink skills and control ability. -Yang Renkai (in 1998)