? Xiaoqin is lucky. Fortunately, she was born in a family of painters with fragrant calligraphy. Her father is Mr. Zhang Jixin, a famous flower and bird painter. Mr. Zhang Jixin is a disciple of Mr. Zhang Xinjia, a painter of Wumen. She grew up in the world of art. From childhood, I saw my father's hard work, and I was able to enjoy a large number of works collected at home, and I was personally influenced by my father's guidance. This inheritance is tangible. She has been exposed to it since she was a child. Mr. Zhang Jixin and Mr. Sha Manweng are family friends, and they are teachers of the famous painter Zhang Xinjia. She often sits in on her father's school, and she often sees his creative writing stroke by stroke. She often accompanies his father to hold various art exhibitions and is invited to visit various exhibitions. This inheritance is intangible. Mr. Zhang Jixin is diligent. When he was young, he knelt on the ground and painted. Even at the age of 8, he still insisted on getting up early to practice calligraphy for four hours every morning. Father treats others sincerely, content and grateful. These are all intangible influences. The so-called words and deeds. This reminds us of Yun Bing, a female painter in Qing Dynasty who was also good at drawing creative inspiration from flowers, insects and butterflies in front of and behind the house. As a descendant of Yun Nantian, one of the "Six Qing Dynasties", she devoted herself to the creation of flower-and-bird paintings, observed Yun Nantian's paintings in her home all day, and mastered the "boneless method" skillfully.
Around the age of 4, Zhang Xiaoqin began to learn painting systematically with his father, and first laid a solid foundation in basic skills. After the age of 5, Zhang Xiaoqin began to paint for three hours every day and persisted for more than ten years. My father also saw his daughter's efforts, but Zhang Lao didn't relax his demands because Xiaoqin was his own daughter. Learn to paint before you learn to be a man. Zhang Lao is very strict with his children's character. When Xiaoqin decided to devote himself to painting art, he often warned his daughter that artists should "look forward", not "look at money", not paint for making money, and not be reluctant to invest in painting for saving money. Although Zhang Lao lives frugally, he is quite "generous" in painting and is also very particular about painting equipment. He said: "Many people who study painting today are reluctant to buy good paper to paint. Even if they buy good paper, they are timid and cautious, so they can't draw well." She admits that the most diligent is the current two years. Now Zhang Xiaoqin has fallen in love with painting from the bottom of her heart. She often takes painting as her companion. She told the author that she would settle down as soon as she got the pen.
? Even so, she has passed the age of knowing her destiny, picked up a brush, and in just a few years, her painting has advanced by leaps and bounds, and her works can be called the best among the best painters. The works are more overflowing with a broad and strong masculinity, but there are also many gentle and graceful women, one rigid and one soft, showing a different painting style from Zhang Lao, and even more distinctive. Xiaoqin is good at flowers, birds, grass and insects, and has tasted dozens of kinds of plants and insects in Hanshan Mountain, all of which are vivid and interesting. It can also be loose and strange, and the pen is quite old, revealing a domineering attitude! Peony is colorful and elegant, with vivid verve, full of flowers and lovely Gu Zhuo. Based on women's delicate feelings and special preference for flowers and birds, they observe and describe flowers and birds that are common in daily life differently from men. In addition, compared with male painters, female painters pay more attention to natural color, composition form and life state, which is far more delicate, sensitive and sincere. What is even more commendable is that Xiaoqin is not a bit arrogant, she is peaceful and simple. Since serving as the executive deputy curator of Zhang Jixin Art Museum, her painting skills have advanced by leaps and bounds, and her reputation has risen sharply. She has delivered amazing satisfactory answers to several joint exhibitions of father and daughter! Artistic long-distance running never starts from the starting point. Fundamentally speaking, learning painting needs talent, mind and knowledge. Now, Zhang Xiaoqin has started to exert her strength in the midfield, and we are looking forward to witnessing together that she is brave and enterprising in this art long-distance race, running in a vast and free world.
There are three reasons why a painter paints. One is to make a living and have a utilitarian purpose. Second, entertainment is often perfunctory. The third is to feel it. Xiaoqin has passed the age of knowing her destiny. She doesn't make a living. Two generations spend time in series to polish a skill and inherit a dream. With his own intelligence and the influence of his father, he gradually learned the way of pen and ink and won the father's law. Zhang Xiaoqin's "Chen Xiang Pavilion recognizes its predecessor in the north" and his father's "Zhu Bo Bai Yu's Emergence" were selected as the "Excellent Flower and Bird Painting Exhibition in Jiangsu to commemorate the 7th anniversary of the victory of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the world anti-fascist war in 215". In 217, "Inheritance-Exhibition of Zhang Jixin Zhang Xiaoqin's Traditional Chinese Paintings" was held in Suzhou Daily. In the spring of 218, Xiaoqin went to Taiwan Province, Baodao to hold an art exhibition, and in the autumn of the same year, she was invited to Nagoya, Japan for cultural exchange between China and Japan, and the Japanese-Japanese exchange exhibition won high praise. Xiaoqin's paintings are atmospheric. In the year of knowing her destiny, she won a belated honor and shouldered the responsibility of carrying forward the flower-and-bird paintings of Mr. Zhang Jixin. She is a late bloomer and will do better. Autumn has come quietly before you know it. Many people go out of the house to feel the breath of autumn in nature, or stop to observe or take pictures as a souvenir, hoping to keep this time-limited beauty longer. The painters used a pen in their hands to write and draw, and preserved the scene in front of them. Zhang Xiaoqin, a painter, is like this. In the autumn of her life, with a special perspective of female painters, she is clear and oblique, and her brushwork is delicate and moving.
Chen: Why didn't you learn to draw before?
Xiao Qin: In my early years, I attended lectures with my father at work. Later, I stayed at school and was busy with my work and taking care of my family. It seems that there are endless things to do every day. I have no time to pick up the brush. Moreover, my father studied painting and felt that he was very hard, so he didn't want to study in the past.
Chen: Then why did you pick up the brush again?
Xiao Qin: My father is in seventy years of age. When the family is reunited, I will secretly sigh at him. He said that there are indeed a few good disciples who have accumulated and passed on the family for a lifetime, but how can their own family children be passed on? There are three brothers and sisters, the elder sister is responsible for taking care of his father, and the elder brother has his own career. Let me pick up the brush. My father has always said, be honest, be slick in painting, have spirit and spirit, which means you can't write. When I make a little progress, my father won't praise me in person. Sometimes when guests come home, he will naturally tell them that I painted it. Although people now say that my paintings have the feeling of my father, I feel that the composition is not in place, and I still need to work hard, just learning a little skill.
Chen: Tell us the story of Zhang Jiao's painting.
Xiao Qin: I grew up with my father because my mother went to the countryside. My father always takes me with him when he goes out. When he goes out to sketch, he always carries a military kettle and takes some cakes with him. I went out before dawn, walked from Jingde Road to Fengqiao, and then took a bus to wander around the mountains outside the city. Lion Mountain, Huashan Mountain, Tianping Mountain and Tianchi Mountain were painted all day. When my father was painting, I was playing with grass insects. Once I accidentally rolled down from the mountain. When my father pulled me out of the ravine, I had become a' little savage' covered with leaves and weeds!
My father paints very carefully. In order to draw grass insects well, he carefully studies the external dynamic image and internal structure. He can draw more than 1 different compositions of the same thing. When my father paints, I often watch, and sometimes I can't help but pick up the strokes and draw some pictures, which is considered as entertainment. In addition to going out to play with my father, Chinese caterpillar such as grasshopper cockscomb, which raises chickens at home, naturally became my childhood playmates. After playing much, I naturally became familiar with them. Over time, as soon as my father put pen to paper, I knew what he was going to draw! I love painting now, and to some extent, it is the seed that my father planted at that time.
The most beautiful thing in the world is "Late Qin"!