In early April, in Tunisia, the spring breeze began to rain and jasmine was fragrant. The world tour exhibition of China's famous painter Zhang Jianfeng's works was held in Sophie Spock Gallery in the ancient coastal city of Carthage. Chargé d 'affaires of the Embassy of China in Tunisia, Cultural Counselor, Director of the General Office of the Ministry of Culture of Tunisia, Director of the Department of Art and International Cooperation, Chairman of the Tunisia Federation of Plastic Arts, famous painter, Russian, Cuban, Dutch, Brazilian and Australian ambassadors to Tunisia, etc. Nearly 100 guests were invited to attend the opening ceremony and visit the exhibition.
As a disciple of the famous painter Lou Shibai, Zhang Jianfeng is the third generation descendant of Qi Baishi, a great China painter, and became the first China painter in China to hold a solo exhibition in Africa.
Zhang Jianfeng brought more than 40 masterpieces of colorful Chinese ink paintings, including flowers, plants, fish, insects, birds and landscape figures. Every painting is a treasure, which has opened the eyes of many visitors who see Chinese painting for the first time and amazed well-informed artists.
Tunisia's famous painter Comaci Sadoc has held exhibitions jointly with China painters in Paris Gallery for many times, and set foot in China painting. He is 75 years old. He said that by watching Zhang Jianfeng's paintings, he could feel the painter's profound insight and expressive power towards nature. Painters express their enthusiasm, enthusiasm, high spirits, affinity, harmony, friendliness, inspiration and struggle with lines, characters, pen and ink and colors. Compared with western oil painting, which can be painted repeatedly, Chinese painting pays more attention to the vividness and foundation of each line, as well as the calmness and calmness of each stroke. Sadoc appreciates the painting "The Crown in the Crown" exhibited by Zhang Jianfeng most, and thinks that the work is in harmony with the vitality of roosters, the vigorous vitality of crown plants and the shades of red, yellow and black, showing a strong, positive and uplifting ideological realm. For this reason, Sadoc sketched a handsome and elegant horse's head in the guest book as an appreciation of the exhibition.
Barker Benfeld, a famous painter and chairman of Tunisia Plastic Arts Federation, was invited to visit China to sketch, and he highly praised the artistic expression of Chinese painting. After watching Zhang Jianfeng's paintings, he commented that the painter perfectly integrated China traditional cultural symbols such as mountains and rivers, red sun, pine and cypress, lychee, magpie, rooster and even cattle and sheep into his pen and ink, which not only constituted a natural, harmonious and magnificent atmosphere, but also implied vivid, appropriate, beautiful and festive meanings, reflecting the characteristics of China's current social development and the progress of the times. Therefore, his works have a distinct appeal and strong inspiration to the audience.
What is particularly gratifying is that many guests and ambassadors spoke highly of the exhibition after carefully watching it, and unanimously expressed their desire to buy live paintings. This not only indicates the success of the exhibition, but also fully shows that ink painting is not only the national quintessence of China, but also a treasure of the world. As one of the carriers, it will spread the Chinese dream to the world.
After watching the exhibition, the director of the General Office of the Ministry of Culture of Tunisia wrote an inscription on the guest book: On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between and China, the holding of the exhibition will further strengthen the long-term friendly relations between the two countries and the friendship and cultural exchanges between the people.
Zhang Jianfeng was born in Bazhong, Sichuan, and grew up in a land of abundance. Under the nourishment and edification of mountains, rivers, fields and outstanding figures, he likes painting and poetry books since he was a child, showing his natural affinity and aura for art and literature. He accepted the direct biography of the master of Chinese painting from his childhood, became the third generation inheritor of the painting style of the Qi school, and gained the reputation of "the magic power at the bottom of the wrist, the Danxia is like ink". At the same time, Zhang Jianfeng is also a writer and writer who is good at poetry, calligraphy and writing articles, and vigorously eulogizes "positive energy". His poems such as China in Spring, My Life Belongs to the People, The Ups and Downs of a Happy Life and Mountains and Seas are My Soul have been popular since the 1980s, and have been widely circulated among readers.
The exhibition, sponsored by the Ministries of Culture of China and Turkey, is part of a series of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Tunisia. It will be exhibited in Carthage, Tunisia from April 6th to April 4th, 438. Five days later, the painting will be moved to Mamat, another famous coastal city in Tunisia, and the roving exhibition will go to France and Spain in the first half of April.