His paintings are based on Wu Changshuo, Pan Tianshou and Huang. He studied under Shang Jingcheng, the great-grandfather and flower-and-bird painter of Pan Tianshou, and studied Pan Tianshou's composition and inscriptions. In calligraphy, he studied Erwang and Wang Duo, as well as Yu Youren, Lai Chusheng, Pan Tianshou and bamboo slips of Han and Wei Dynasties. Tang people copied Buddhist scriptures by hand; In creation, like Wu Changshuo, he helped the book into a painting, and combined the painting with the inscription, which strengthened a bookish spirit. Inscription or flexible use of allusions, or lyrical borrowing, sometimes evaluating painting theory, and sometimes criticizing the secular, showing a literati spirit. In his paintings, flowers and birds are not the main purpose, nor the object and meaning in the traditional sense, but the elements he constitutes, the carrier of emotion and the symbol of thought. What he expects is to objectify subjective ideas, rather than reproduce objects with his own unique eyes. In addition, in dealing with the relationship between black and white, virtual and real, subject and background, the previous primary and secondary relationship has been changed into an interactive relationship between yin and yang, which has promoted the status of negative and foil elements and given positive significance to the original negative elements.
Zhang Hao's painting has reached a very high level-the stage of free and natural artistic creation. His paintings, regardless of conception, composition, brush and ink, and color, all present a profound and serene, deliberate and natural, rigorous and casual, calm and chic, vigorous and fresh, magnificent and elegant, old and moist, noble and elegant but not refined artistic realm. Zhang Hao's paintings absorb some things from western paintings in composition and color, but they are deeply rooted in traditional culture, striving for the traditional characteristics of artistic creation, and at the same time creating a unique painting style under the guidance of the spirit of the times.
Paying attention to the creation of artistic conception is an important feature of Zhang Hao's traditional Chinese painting. He pays great attention to the density of picture composition and the rigorous treatment of reality and reality, and pays attention to the simplicity and change of pen; Use ink and color, and pay attention to the differences in artistic conception, season and scenery characteristics. , and apply different inks and colors to achieve correctness and perfection. His mature color matching and color matching skills have improved the artistry of his traditional Chinese painting.