Mr. Zhang Daqian, a master of modern Chinese painting, is even more "crazy about lotus". His lotus works are numerous. He often said, "Appreciating and painting lotus flowers will never get tired of it!" Zhang Daqian lived in Suzhou when he was young. The lotus pond in the yard became a good place for him to sketch. When he was 33 years old, he began to live in the Summer Palace in Beijing for five years. The plump lotus flowers in the Summer Palace pond made him more and more interested in painting lotus flowers. Because of his long-term relationship with lotus, he has a special preference for lotus. Zhang Daqian's love for lotus flowers shows that he never sticks to the mud, graceful Tingting floats from the water, and lotus leaves and elegant lotus roots often come into his picture. He thinks that the most difficult part of lotus is not the flower, but the stem, because once it is written, there is no turning back, and it will not be painted again. Zhang Daqian often sketches the lotus, but there are also many spectacular large-scale lotus works, such as the six-screen giant lotus he exhibited in the United States in 1963. When painting, these six ink lotus flowers have to be completely decided by Datong Studio. When mounting in Japan, the painting shop had to go through the workshop to mount the painting. These six lotus screens, usually 12 feet long and 24 feet wide, are made of
Most of Zhang Daqian's flower paintings are lotus flowers. Among other reasons, he likes painting lotus flowers. He believes that "Chinese painting focuses on pen and ink, and painting lotus is the basic skill of using pen and ink." Others believe that painting lotus is closely related to calligraphy. Therefore, Zhang Daqian's lotus paintings are not only available every year, but also constantly bring forth new ideas. Form a famous "big lotus" at home and abroad. Jin Ping Mei, which he wrote at the age of 35, was bought by the French government. Xu Beihong once said: "Zhang Daqian's lotus flowers add color to the faces of China people." In Zhang Daqian's artistic career of several decades, through continuous exploration and efforts, "Daqianhe" has a special position in the history of China fine arts. Especially after splash-ink painting in his later years, the painted lotus not only surpassed the attributes of flowers, but also extended the scope of literati flowers to another situation. He loves not only painting lotus flowers, but also planting them. By living with the lotus flower day and night, he captures the characteristics and instantaneous dynamics of the lotus flower for a long time with keen observation and highly democratic generalization, and then refines and exaggerates it with his own aesthetic sense and artistic interest, making it meaningful and full of vitality!