Dai Jun’s artistic pursuit

Over the years, Dai Jun has never given up exploring the language of pen and ink, sometimes unintentionally, sometimes intentionally. Therefore, intentionally or unintentionally, the taste of pen and ink and the new material naturally merge and collide beautifully. There is a picture of "Autumn Persimmon" which was painted by Dai Jun using oil brushes and acrylic paints. The color and brushwork have a unique charm. Although the tools and materials are different, they still express the artistic conception of traditional Chinese painting. Dai Jun has painted many figure paintings based on historical figures, such as Wen Tianxiang, Yan Zhenqing, Lu You, etc. In his painting of Wen Tianxiang, he used the technique of painting rocks to paint the characters' clothes to express the characters' rock-solid beliefs and noble integrity. The background is a tall torture rack and billowing smoke to set off the characters' awe-inspiring righteousness and high moral integrity; on the torture rack The seemingly chaotic and orderly lines also complement each other with the figures' clothes. The subject matter and expression techniques are perfectly combined. The whole work is permeated with the author's ingenuity. The author's profound writing skills and grasp of the spirit of historical figures also reflect It is fully displayed in this small frame. Hua Qing, a friend of Dai Jun and a well-known media person, once lamented: "As a contemporary calligrapher, painter and poet, Mr. Dai Jun's persistent pursuit and exploration of art are not deliberately produced, but the catharsis of inner emotions. The artistic conception of pen and ink and the taste of literati are naturally very different from that kind of simple production."

Zhang Wentao, a native of the Qing Dynasty, once wrote in a poem: The sound of nature sings and the nature is full of interest, but good poetry is nothing more than being close to human feelings. Although what he is talking about is poetry, the realm of art is always the same. The realm of Chinese painting and Chinese calligraphy that Dai Jun pursues is the realm where the sounds of nature sing and the world is full of joy. It is the kind of world where the world is vast and the world is the same as that of Lao and Zhuang. A state of beauty without words.