Currently, he is a member of the Chinese Artists Association, a member of the Anhui Artists Association, the honorary president of the Anhui Xin'an Painting Academy and the China Laozi Painting Academy, an academician of the Beijing Century Celebrities International Calligraphy and Painting Academy, and a consultant of the Jianghuai Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting Research Institute. Since the early 1970s, he has been serving in Anhui provincial and municipal party and government agencies, and was deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Anhui Provincial People's Congress. In his spare time, he insisted on studying Chinese painting, focusing on ink and bamboo. He studied landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting at the China Academy of Art and the Central Academy of Fine Arts training classes under Lu Kunfeng, Cheng Dali, Song Yugui, Wang Bomin and Zhang Lichen. Looking at the bamboos in his paintings, they are close to life, honest and simple, natural and lifelike; the soul is in the painting, the charm is dynamic, and the wit is natural; the appearance is like aspiration, expressing one's heart directly, and the personality is obvious. In the 2005 National Ren Bonian Traditional Chinese Painting Competition, the painting "A Hundred Years of Vicissitudes" he submitted won the first prize in the competition, with its pure ink wash, hearty and free expression. In the 2008 Chinese painting competition held by the National People's Congress Delegates and Entrepreneurs Association, the painting he submitted, "Vibrant and Vibrant," highlighted the writing pen, with the rod like iron and leaves like arrows, full of energy, jade leaves touching the wind, and lifelike. Feng won the silver medal in the competition. His works have been featured by national news media many times, and some experts and people hailed him as the "descendant of Banqiao". In recent years, he has published 3 volumes of "Zhang Chunsheng's Ink Bamboo Art". His biography has been included in many dictionaries such as "Dictionary of Celebrities of Modern Chinese Artists", "Archives of Cultural Celebrities of the Ministry of Culture of China", "Dictionary of World Famous Painters and Calligraphers". In 2011, "Focus on Chinese Art Masters" compiled by the China Cultural Information Association and published by China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing House - the eight most influential contemporary Chinese art masters and their masterpieces, including many works by Chunsheng Mozhu.
"Media Report"——
Zhang Chunsheng: "Half a Life of Bamboo" and a Bright Life Guo Xiaopu (Media Art Critic)
Everything is complacent, only Bamboo sees humility;
A humble and gentlemanly style, every step is ethereal.
——Inscription
Bamboo painters have existed since ancient times. Wen Tong, Shi Tao, Zhu Da, Zheng Xie, etc. are all top students in the Mozhu world. However, today's Zhang Chunsheng has taken the strengths of all the schools and used unique techniques to write their form and spirit. He writes ink bamboo, watching it move with suspicion in the wind.
Zhang Chunsheng has been fond of bamboo since he was a child and has a deep connection with it. He said that bamboo, because of its loyalty and integrity, surpasses all flowers, making people respect, chant, praise and imitate it for thousands of years.
Speaking of his association with ink bamboo art, Zhang Chunsheng quickly flashed back to his student days - at an art exhibition, young Zhang Chunsheng accidentally saw several ink bamboo works. The bamboos in the paintings are strong and soft. The combination, perseverance and uprightness left a deep impression on him, and he decided to paint bamboo from there. He successively bought "Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual" and several bamboo manuals by famous artists. Whenever he had free time, he would draw a few strokes and began his life of bamboo painting.
Since then, Zhang Chunsheng has relied on his rich literary, aesthetic, calligraphy and painting skills, as well as his understanding of the spirit of bamboo and his copying and understanding of ancient ink bamboo paintings. Painting lasts for decades.
In the 1990s, faced with the busy government affairs and rising social reputation, Zhang Chunsheng's bamboo roots buried deep in his life hit his heart like a tide. The luxuriant bamboo shoots in spring and the elegant ink bamboo paintings with long meaning and elegant shape left by the sages and masters are constantly appearing in front of our eyes. For a time, the feelings were uncontrollable and unstoppable. In order to improve his bamboo ink skills, he traveled north and south several times to apprentice with Lu Kunfeng and Zhang Lichen. This painting took another twenty years.
“Academics are the public servants of the world.” Zhang Chunsheng, who is seventy years old, still remembers the teachings of Lu Kunfeng, a professor at the China Academy of Art, by the West Lake. He has always maintained this rigorous attitude towards art.
Therefore, Zhang Chunsheng's ink bamboos, whether exquisite or majestic, can always enter the realm of a philosopher who respects and cares for nature, and always reveals a calmness, loftiness, and even heroism.
Ink bamboo began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Yuan Dynasty. "Mozhu Narrative" says: "There are those who use light ink to sweep and slant, and are not specialized in shape, but are unique in the outside of the image. These are often not from the history of painting, but mostly from the work of the poet Mo Qing. "Zhang Chunsheng said that literati and elegant people are happy to paint bamboo, express their emotions through bamboo, and have unique taste. When talking about his experience in painting bamboo, he said that he never slacks off.
And he has specialized in black bamboo for many years, which shows his perseverance and perseverance. For decades, he has always used thick and light brushwork to depict the quiet and elegant charm of bamboo, and highlight the whirling shadows of bamboo.
Taste the character of bamboo, appreciate the integrity of bamboo, and immerse yourself in the ethereal artistic conception created by bamboo, and the noisy world gradually fades away.
There are different varieties of bamboo in his courtyard. On many sunsets, mornings and frosty and snowy nights, he discovered their spirit and captured their expressions with an artistic vision. Therefore, Zhang Chunsheng's ink bamboo can always show the style of the four seasons, such as spring bamboo, lush summer bamboo, autumn bamboo, tall winter bamboo, or swaying bamboo in the wind, and shining snow bamboo.
Informed people say that Zhang Chunsheng’s teaching tradition has brought out new ideas, and he has learned from others and grown into a family. The paper is full of awe-inspiring and harmonious throughout. The virtual and the real complement each other and are both complex and simple. Movement and stillness have no beginning but are ever-changing. Whether it is the elegant wind bamboo, the flute or rain bamboo, or the rustling snow bamboo, they can all show their character and charm.
As a result, when he painted bamboo, he could often make the picture coherent, gentle and Confucian, with a noble and interesting artistic conception, and a concise and soulful use of ink.
Bamboo is not only Zhang Chunsheng’s favorite, but also a symbol of his spiritual character.
In September 2013, Zhang Chunsheng became the chairman of the Tao Xingzhi Education Foundation amid widespread public support. On October 18, 2013, on the occasion of the 122nd anniversary of Tao Xingzhi's birth, he affectionately wrote an article "Why We Commemorate Tao Xingzhi Today" in Guangming Daily, which attracted widespread attention from the society.
Now, in his latest ink bamboo works, the theme of spring is also more prominent. Perhaps, he has wrapped Mr. Xingzhi's noble character of "coming with a heart in his hands and leaving without a blade of grass" into his writing, keeping it in his mind and writing it down.
Spring is beautiful. In countless springs, he watched bamboo in the morning and painted ink in the evening. The cold and heat were not easy, both physically and mentally, to understand and stick to the "half-life bamboo" and "lifetime bright festival" that belonged to his spiritual home...