Zhang Xiujia
Zhang Xiujia is currently a director of Tangshan Artists Association, vice chairman and secretary-general of Zunhua Artists Association, and a member of Chinese Traditional Painters Association.
Chinese name: Zhang Xiujia
Nationality: Chinese
Birthplace: Zunhua, Hebei
Occupation: Painter
Main achievements: Exhibited in the "Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of the Long March" art exhibition and won the second prize
Representative work: "Selected Works of Zhang Jun from the Chinese Landscape Painting Training Institute"
Personal Resume
Zhang Jun·Zhang Xiujia, a native of Zunhua, Hebei Province, is currently a member of the Hebei Artists Association, a director of the Tangshan Artists Association, the vice chairman and secretary-general of the Zunhua Artists Association, and a member of the Chinese Traditional Painters Association. I have been fond of calligraphy and painting since I was a child. I was taught by famous calligraphers and painters such as Xu Zhenshi, Jia Baomin, Zhou Fengjun, and Wang Luxiang. I studied at the Chinese Landscape Painting Training Institute of the Chinese Culture Institute. I studied calligraphy with Mr. Shen Peng, landscapes with Mr. Wang Zhongnian, and flowers and birds with Mr. Xu Zhan. After graduation, I was Specially appointed as a painter of the academy. He has held many art exhibitions in Beijing, Fujian, Henan, Gansu, Tangshan, Hebei and other places, and his works have been well received by traditional Chinese painting enthusiasts. Many works have been published in professional art newspapers and magazines such as "Chinese Calligraphy and Painting News", "Art Grand View", "Oriental Art"; some works have been published by CCTV, Embassy of Belarus in China, State Administration of Customs, Central Institute of Socialism, Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, Fujian Chongerzhai Art Museum and other institutions and personal collections.
Main Works
The work "Heart Towards the Deep Cloud Mountains" was selected into the "China, Japan and Korea International Asia and Asia Calligraphy and Painting Biennale".
The work "Landscape and People" won the award in the "National Youth Painting and Calligraphy Biennial Exhibition" organized by the China Artists Association in 2006 and was exhibited at the National Art Museum of China.
The work "Red Memory" was exhibited in the "Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of the Long March" exhibition and won the second prize.
The work "Mountain Streams and Clear Springs" was selected into the National Landscape Painting Sketching Creation Selection.
The work "Mountains and Flowing Waters" was selected into the first "Red Star Cup" National Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition hosted by the China Artists Association.
Main works
"Selected Works of Zhang Jun from China Landscape Painting Research Institute" published by People's Fine Arts Publishing House.
"Selected Sketches of Zhang Jun" was published by People's Fine Arts Publishing House.
Character evaluation
Related art comments: Zhang Jun studied under Mr. Wang Zhongnian, a famous landscape painter, and was Mr. Wang's disciple. He has received rigorous modeling foundation and professional training in Western painting techniques. His painting style changes from the north to the south. His brushwork is both hard and soft, simple, majestic and agile. His works are inspired by emotion and life. Their beauty lies in the success of pen and ink, and they are based on tradition and innovation. His artistic practice "reaches out to tradition with one hand and life with the other". He spends a large amount of time every year visiting famous mountains and beautiful waters and sketching the scenery on the spot. He insists on being deeply involved in life and never stops sketching, which makes his works have a lively, natural and vivid spirit and infinitely changing charm that ordinary people cannot match. This is more advanced and more moving than those conceptual landscape patterns that are locked in a spacious and comfortable studio and meditate, arbitrarily "creating mountains and beautiful waters". His works are broad and profound, simple and smooth, with sincere emotions, without any coyness and sourness. His writing style is firm and vigorous, with abundant masculinity.