Zhang Zechuan's calligraphy stamps selected by the US State Post Bureau are based on this cursive script "Three Characters of a Movie". Ink and wash landscape painting stamps are based on works such as Dream Colorado Canyon and Grand Canyon in the Sun. There are 5 stamps issued this time, including calligraphy works 1 stamp and 4 ink-wash landscape paintings, each of which costs 46 cents.
In the creation of the ink and wash landscape painting Colorado Grand Canyon, Mr. Zhang Zechuan used the techniques of emphasizing color and freehand brushwork. The so-called heavy color freehand brushwork is to inherit and carry forward the freehand brushwork spirit of Chinese painting with more colorful modern color concepts on the basis of continuing the traditional colors of Chinese painting, thus creating a new style of Chinese painting. Although the overall appearance is novel and modern, the traditional spirit of Chinese painting and the broad feelings of Chinese children are revealed everywhere in the bones.
Mr. Zhang Zechuan skillfully combines the realistic style of western art with the traditional characteristics of China, which emphasizes color and freehand brushwork. It is both traditional and innovative, thus forming a unique painting style of "heavy makeup", which makes this group of "Colorado Grand Canyon" created by him full of vitality, brings strong visual impact to the audience, and gives the works strong vitality, which makes people unforgettable, and is therefore deeply loved and welcomed by art lovers in the United States and even the world.
Zhang Zechuan's works selected for the US Post Office this time include 20-meter huge cursive script, ink and wash landscape painting, dreamy Colorado Canyon, and Grand Canyon under the sun. Many western abstract painting techniques have been integrated into the creation of the Grand Canyon. On the occasion of Spring Festival in year of the snake, they are issued as stamps, so that westerners can get in touch with more traditional and modern China arts. Eagle, often regarded as a totem since ancient times, is regarded as a spiritual belief or cultural symbol of a nation and society. Painting eagles, there are many famous artists since ancient times; From Song Huizong, Li Di, Lin Liang, Lv Ji and Badashan people in ancient times to Xu Beihong, Qi Baishi, Pan Tianshou and Li Kuchan in modern times, they are all masters of eagle painting. Mr. Zhang Zechuan, a young painter living in the United States, absorbed the essence of China traditional art in his long-term painting practice, and promoted the eagle's performance to a new height with solid pen and ink skills in his paintings.
Zhang Zechuan's eagle image is vivid, with both form and spirit; Sometimes Pengcheng Wan Li seems to fight the sky; Sometimes naive, but now a little naughty. Wherever the brush goes, it is incisive and vigorous. Under his brush, emotion and scenery blend, art and nature complement each other, and man and nature live in harmony; In his works, the human spirit is integrated with the existence of all things, which is manifested and sublimated in all natural things, and the broad feelings of Chinese children are vividly reflected in it.
Wild grass, which belongs to the most indulgent cursive script, has strokes connected and rounded, and the font is wild and changeable. On the basis of this grass, it is linked to form a "book", which is in the same strain as this grass in composition.
Zhang Zechuan, a young artist living in the United States, who is known as "contemporary Zhang Xu", created a 900-word, 20-meter-long huge scroll "The Classic of the Three Characters of the Movie", with continuous brushwork, vigorous brushwork, vigorous skill, euphemistic, vigorous, dignified and powerful brushwork, and free and easy natural charm. Like a dancing golden snake and a tiger sitting on a dragon plate, it gives people a lot of imagination and a strong sense of the times. The limited edition of this work is collected by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Chapman Film Academy. For this, Zhang Zechuan won special awards from US Congressman Judy Chu, California Congressman MIKE ENG and Los Angeles County Governor Michael Antonovic. This is a high honor for Chinese artists in the American art world.
1967 In September, Zhang Zechuan was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province. His grandfather went into business in his early years and his family was rich. When he was young, he lived with his grandfather. The house is built on a steep hillside by the sea, with red tiles and green trees. It can not only overlook the blue sea and blue sky, but also overlook the coastal city of Qingdao, adjacent to the former residence of Wang Tongzhao, a famous writer in the new literature period. As a respected Confucian businessman, his grandfather was good at poetry, knew how to manage and master calligraphy and painting, and collected famous calligraphy and painting and ancient books at home, which gave Zhang Zechuan a good cultural influence in his early years. At the age of five, he was able to recite long ancient prose such as A Dream of Red Mansions and Preface to Wang Tengting. At the age of 7, he began to write the handwriting of Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan and Zhao Mengfu. At the age of 65,438+08, he has mastered various brushstrokes of Zhong Ding, Xiao Zhuan, Li Shu, Weibei and regular script. After nearly forty years of exploration and research, Zhang Zechuan has formed a "wild grass" style in calligraphy art, with vigorous and dignified brushwork, ups and downs, vigorous and powerful, free and easy natural charm.
China's cursive script itself is an abstract expression in calligraphy. Although it is still tangible, there is an abstract spirit inside. In addition, Picasso gave Zhang Daqian a lot of advice, so Zhang Daqian began to splash ink after seeing abstract paintings in the United States, and there were few concrete works in Zhang Daqian's later period.
65438-0994 Mr. Zhang Zechuan immigrated to the United States. Influenced by western realistic art, he skillfully integrated the creative ideas of China traditional art and western modern art, and further promoted China's national quintessence in the United States. Especially in the creation of cursive script, Zhang Ze Chuanshi Fa China "Cao Sheng" Zhang Xu, with a brush stroke, added abstract elements of western painting art, and formed his own unique and wild "wild grass" style, known as "contemporary Zhang Xu".
Calligraphy is a mysterious art, especially weeds. Authors are often full of passion and are in a state of excitement. Readers can feel the author's passion from the ink. Zhang Zechuan's Wild Grass is vigorous and has a strong sense of the times. On the basis of inheriting Wang Xizhi's peaceful and natural cursive brushwork, euphemistic and subtle, graceful and graceful, after more than forty years of exploration and research, he boldly and exaggeratedly used his "childlike skill of calligraphy" to create his own "wild grass" style. His Wild Grass has an unexpected effect, turning China's profound Chinese characters into dragons. Finger painting is also called finger painting. In the process of painting, it belongs to the category of China's ink painting to use fingers instead of brushes to complete the modeling and coloring of all the scenery and objects in the painting.
Mr. Zhang Zechuan is proficient in poetry and prose, and is good at weeds, especially ink painting. In the creation of finger ink painting, Zhang Zechuan is full of gas field. When he was a child, he began to create bamboo figures on paper with his fingertips. Later, he systematically studied the techniques of ancient finger painting, the painting style of Pan Tianshou, a master of modern finger painting, followed the works of Gao, a famous finger painter in Qing Dynasty, and used his solid brush painting skills to form his own finger painting style. Zhang Zechuan smeared ink by pointing, rubbing, hooking and pressing. , so that the ink is like a finger and the finger is satisfied. His jade rib prints, leakage marks and other fingers touch the ink, which makes his works have a dignified and ancient Mo Yun meaning, and achieves the effect of being full of interest and dripping with Mo Yun. In the second year after he immigrated to the United States, Mr. Zhang Zechuan was influenced and edified by western realistic art for a long time, and skillfully integrated China traditional art with western modern art creation ideas, exploring his own unique abstract style of emphasizing color and freehand brushwork.
In an interview with People's Daily Online, Zhang Zechuan believed that to study the road of American cultural development, we should first talk about American cultural thought. The experience of studying and studying China's calligraphy and painting in his early years made Zhang Zechuan realize that the external art form of any country or culture actually contains specific philosophical thoughts. The mainstream culture in the United States is only 200 years old. Puritans who came to the United States from the European continent brought the tradition of pursuing freedom, making liberalism the core of American politics, thought and culture, and individualism came with liberalism. Americans believe that individuals can and should maximize their pursuit of personal freedom, including the pursuit of profits, without disturbing society and others.
Mr. Zhang Zechuan took Gao, Liu Haisu, Xu Beihong, Lin Fengmian and other older artists who studied in Japan, Europe and the United States as models, and skillfully integrated the realism of western art and the creative ideas of western modern art with China traditional painting, so that Chinese painting art was integrated into the melody of the times. Appreciating Zhang Zechuan's works of art is like entering a wonderful art palace, which gives people an illusion. From the color point of view, the color is bright and transparent, like oil painting, but there is no trace of ink. It's called Chinese painting, but it's bold and imaginative. This is the uniqueness of Zhang Zechuan's abstract school of Chinese painting. The traditional brushwork of Chinese painting is sometimes flickering and sometimes incisive.
Zhang Zechuan devoted himself to studying the experience of artists in China in past dynasties, and combined China traditional ink painting with western oil painting, and embarked on a new road of reform and innovation, which made China traditional ink painting glow with new vitality and played a positive role in China's art going global.