Zhang Xianbo
Zhang Xianbo, born in 1960, is from Yaozhou, Shaanxi. He is currently a senior traditional Chinese painter at the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Research Center, a member of the China Shaanxi Artists Association, a director of the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Association, a director of the Shaanxi Landscape Painting Research Institute, the vice president of the Shaanxi Sanqin Painting Academy, and a director of the Tongchuan Artists Association.
Chinese name: Zhang Xianbo
Birthplace: Yaozhou, Shaanxi
Occupation: Painter
Main achievements: Senior Chinese Painter of the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Research Center , member of China Shaanxi Artists Association
Representative works: "Ode to Autumn Colors", "Soul of Yaozhou", etc.
Position: Vice President of Shaanxi Sanqin Painting Academy
Characters Biography
Zhang Xianbo was born in a painting family and has been passionate about calligraphy and painting since childhood. In the 1970s, he studied under the tutelage of famous traditional Chinese painting masters Liu Wenxi, Wang Ziwu, Cui Zhenkuan, Liang Yun and Yang Junzheng. He devoted himself to studying Shi Lu and Huang Binhong. Until now, his traditional Chinese paintings emphasize sketching, artistic accomplishment, and innovation. His works are ethereal and grand. He is a powerful painter.
The hot land of Yaozhou where Zhang Xianbo lived has a very profound and rich cultural heritage. Liu Gongquan, a great calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty in the history of Chinese calligraphy, also appeared here, an unprecedented Northern Song Dynasty landscape painter Fan. Kuan, there are a large number of famous Chinese Wei steles on Yaowang Mountain in the east of the city, which provided him with good learning conditions for studying Northern Wei calligraphy. He has developed the habit of painting during the day and studying famous calligraphy at night. Calligraphy and painting have the same origin. "Putting calligraphy into painting and using breath into brushwork" means that the power behind the brush is strong and vigorous.
Learning from nature has always been a way for Zhang Xianbo to pursue art and devote himself to creation. It is also the source of his artistic inspiration. For decades, he has been close to the mountains and rivers, integrating the world with the Weibei Plateau as the axis. He went to the Qinling Mountains, Northern Shaanxi, Zhaojin, Hukou, and then to Huashan, Qinghai, Taishan, Lijiang in Yunnan, and the Xinjiang Gobi to sketch, "living in the mountains and forests, sitting in danger all day long." No matter the scorching sun or severe cold, he sketched a lot, "silent and magical" The artistic landscapes blended with his passion are very similar to Master Shi Tao's "painting is influenced by ink, ink is influenced by the brush, the brush is influenced by the chest, and the chest is influenced by the heart, just like the creation of heaven and earth, and the creation of earth." "It can be said that "the beauty of heaven and earth cannot be expressed".
Achievements and Honors
His painting style is rigorous and he attaches great importance to the combination of tradition and innovation. The work is in the painting, and the meaning is Outside the painting, the vividness and vividness of the works all reflect the pulse of the times, and each work is permeated with personalized emotions and contemplation. When nature is injected into his perspective, the brushwork and ink are bold and vigorous, especially the artistic conception of landscapes and plum blossoms. He has participated in many art exhibitions at home and abroad and won awards. His works have been collected by celebrities in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macao and other countries and regions. His works have been included in various groups such as "Collection of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting" and "Expo of Masterpieces of Chinese Art and Calligraphy Celebrities". As a professional painter, Zhang Xianbo is more about self-realization and "getting from the heart". The studios of Cui Zhenkuan and Liang Yun, the leaders of the Chang'an landscape painting school, are the places where he often goes, and he also receives the teachings of the master Chun Chun, but Zhang Xianbo It is more about self-cultivation, absorbing nutrients from the masterpieces from Fan Kuan to Huang Binhong, and getting their inner workings. As a painter, the joy of life, philosophy and aesthetic process is hidden in his works, and he follows the principle of "getting the source of the heart". The works he created that are both ecological and spiritual, such as "Sunny Sky", "Symphony of Life", "Ode to Autumn Colors", "Yaozhou Soul", etc., are all ups and downs, majestic and breathtaking that make people unable to let go. The works are full of emotion, and the pen and ink express the true feelings of the unity of nature and human life in natural art and ordinary life. Zhang Xianbo's sketches mostly use burnt ink, and the paintings depict landscapes or streams splashing, or mountain village courtyards, or cave dwellings. Houses, or dead trees and miscellaneous trees, have formed their own areas of expertise in subject matter, and have achieved their own unique styles in art. Looking at their works, emotions, reason, intention, energy, rhyme, law, and all kinds of thoughts are all transformed into the heart. Yuan's brush, in the process of chaffing, rubbing, dotting, dyeing, outlining, drawing, smearing and smearing, splashes out thousands of images in his mind on the rice paper, concentrating the natural spirituality and splashing the feelings of the landscape.
He boldly integrates strong Western colors into his works, giving people a kind of perspective impact and enjoyment. It is his creative efforts to integrate Eastern and Western art and the source of human spirituality. "The Cradle", "The Path", "The Lonely Years", "The Magnificent Wind" and other unique imagery works.
The biographies of the works are briefly included in the "Collection of Chinese Paintings" and "Expo of Masterpieces by Celebrities in Chinese Art and Calligraphy" , "China New Western Magazine", "Shaanxi Pictorial", "China Traditional Chinese Medicine News" published. Dozens of works have been collected by Mu Shaofeng, chairman of the Artists Association of Hong Kong, Australia, Japan and South Korea, as well as dignitaries such as the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
The huge work "Meandering along the Han River" has been exhibited in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanxi, Shandong and other places, and was collected by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
In 1987, the work was published in the People's Army Daily.
In 1991, he won the second prize in the "Shaanxi Provincial Art Works Exhibition for the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the Party".
In 1994, he held a personal exhibition in his hometown of Tongchuan.
In 1997, he won the Outstanding Work Award in the "97 National Spring Capital Cup Domestic and Overseas Calligraphy and Painting Competition".
In 2003, he was selected as the third prize in the National "Stars Cup Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition".
In 2007, he won the silver medal in the "2007 Olympic Message 2008 National Painting and Calligraphy Competition".
Won the first prize in the 2007 "National China Cup Painting and Calligraphy Invitational Competition".
Won the second prize in the 2008 "Provincial Art Cadres Professional Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition on the 30th Anniversary of Shaanxi Reform and Opening Up".
Social Evaluation
Fan Hua (Dean of Shaanxi Traditional Chinese Painting Academy, famous painter): After Zhang Xianbo was born into a famous family, his father was a professional painter, but he was low-key in everything he did, but he treated his friends well. Enthusiastic and cheerful, yet humorous, he combines art and life to form a poetic space, transforming an energy that transforms loneliness into holiness. This energy artistically flows through the inner demeanor. , in terms of spiritual thickness, ideological height, and cultural depth.
Thousands of hills, thousands of ravines, thousands of lights and shadows, the vast landscape of mountains and rivers, are presented in Zhang Xianbo’s album. There are so many things to say at this time that cannot be expressed in words. I just feel that this The precipitation and weight in the album make him like a man who is like the sun rising slowly on the horizon, a man who carries the belief in art and the height of his spirit in his heart. He is continuing to walk higher and further ahead. . Together we cheer and call for this powerful painter.
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