Wen Hu Jianjun.
Art is incomparably mysterious to the world, but for the artist, it is the whole of life, the artist's wholehearted devotion and desperate courage and enthusiasm.
Mr. Zhang Hui has an elegant personality, gentle as jade, and has the style of a humble gentleman. He has been immersed in calligraphy and painting for many years, and has dabbled in landscape figures, and his main focus is on the creation of flower and bird paintings. His works of flowers and birds pay special attention to the expression of temperament between brush and ink, and repeatedly find the dialogue of the soul in the sloppy brushwork. In his pen, every flower, grass, branch and leaf is filled with the rhythm of life. After years of tireless work, his works have gradually taken on their own style and become a family.
Bathed in the sunshine of the new era, the artist began to move from outward exploration to self-reflection, opening the way to return to the cultural spirit. More and more painters have begun to dig deep into the soil of traditional culture and re-find the essence of Chinese cultural spirit. Mr. Zhang Hui is a leader in the pursuit and inheritance of traditional Chinese flower and bird painting.
Freehand flower and bird painting, summarizing the objects in the painting and reducing the brush and ink, so as to write and convey emotions more clearly. Although more attention is paid to subjective feelings, it is gratifying that Mr. Zhang Hui's creative pen presents a variety of styles and technical characteristics. In his creative practice, Mr. Zhang Hui gradually formed his own way of expression and brush and ink form, so that his works gradually have a subtle, moist and fresh charm. His painting style is elegant, true and straightforward, which is the same as his character, and the combination of character and painting adds the meaning of personality beauty to his works, making his paintings shine with spiritual brilliance.
Zhu Xi said: "Exhaustive study of the truth of things leads to the ultimate intellectual accessibility", and one of the major characteristics of Mr. Zhang Hui's works is that he embeds the spirit of "Gewu" into his works. Its birds and insects are lovely, its lotus pen and ink are dripping, its flowers are light and elegant, and the pen is old and spicy and concise, and there are eight winds. He can accurately grasp the flowers and birds in the dynamics, and can reflect the fleeting interest in the blending of scenes, and the portrayal is nuanced, vivid and colorful, vivid and lovely, and full of interest. The combination of virtual and real in the painting method creates a fresh and subtle, elegant and vulgar distinctive style.
Another characteristic of Mr. Zhang Hui's paintings is that his brushwork is very interesting. Often swaying vertically and horizontally, not carving, but full of charm, which stems from his profound skills, between the dots of his hands, the horizontal branches, the ink into moss, in the creation of the work is not far away. Do whatever you want but don't exceed the rules, the heart and pen are one, and you can do it in one go.
In the works such as "Male Vision", "Fruitful Fruit", "Spring Dawn", "Autumn Appreciation", "Everything Goes Smoothly", etc., the concept is exquisite, the shape is like a god, fresh and beautiful, and full of pen and ink interest. In terms of creation, he advocates "learning from the law to create and express one's feelings, integrating things and me, learning from the ancestors for my use, and constantly innovating". As for the density, gathering and dispersion, movement and static, virtual and real, etc., they all have a role in enriching the main effect. Each painting must be arranged first, the main and auxiliary virtual and real echo to deal with the comparison, the specific image with the pen for it, but the pen and pen are made for the center, the chapter is natural and harmonious and perfect. Painting is a silent poem, to show the rhyme and sentiment beyond the image, Zhang Hui's painting makes people not only enjoy the beauty of flowers, birds, fish and insects, but also forget the sound of nature. This is the third characteristic of his works: the form is outside the image. It is very difficult to do this, without the understanding and spirituality outside of kung fu, without the cultivation of inner mind and the pursuit of the character of beautiful things, how can we place our affection on the grass and trees, and communicate with the flowers and birds?
In other words, Mr. Zhang Hui's painting pays attention to the spiritual appeal of humanistic care. He often places flowers and birds in an ethereal background, in an atmospheric ecological environment, and in the artistic conception created in his heart, so that flowers and birds move and breathe together with heaven and earth, so that they have a majestic beauty. The environment it creates is both the realm of nature and the realm of the mind;It is not only a realm of painting, but also a realm of poetry.
Zhang Hui's Art Profile:
Zhang Hui (formerly known as Zhang Maocai), male, born in 1965, is a native of Suzhou, Anhui Province, and a national first-class artist. He is a member of the Chinese Artists Association, a member of the China Gongbi Painting Association, an executive director of the Anhui Gongbi Painting Association, a vice chairman of the Artists Association, a vice chairman of the Haidian District Artists Association, the chairman of the Huanghuai Haigong Painting Association, the vice president of the Suzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Party, the vice president of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Painting and Calligraphy Institute, a member of the Suzhou CPPCC, the vice president of the Shiyaxuan Painting Institute, and a visiting professor of Suzhou University in Anhui Province. In 2010, he studied in the advanced research class of the Modern Gongbi Painting Institute of the Ministry of Culture.
His works have participated in more than ten national exhibitions held by the Chinese Artists Association and won awards. Excellence Award of Anhui Exhibition Area of the 8th National Art Exhibition;In 1987, his work "Autumn" won the silver medal of Anhui District of the National Calligraphy, Painting and Painting ExhibitionIn 1999, his work "Return" won the Excellence Award of the National Chinese Painting ExhibitionFrom 2003 to 2006, his works were collected by ** TV station for 3 consecutive yearsIn 2013, he was awarded the gold medal at the National Gongbi Painting Masters Invitational ExhibitionIn 2018, his work "Zhaohui" won the highest award of the 3rd National Biennale;In the 2020 Sino-Korean Calligraphy and Painting Masters Joint Exhibition, the flower and bird work "Spring to Jiangnan" won the first prize, and the work was permanently collected by the Cheongnam-do Art Museum in South Korea. His works have been collected by the ** TV Painting and Calligraphy Institute for many times. Some of his works have been collected by the Chinese Artists Association, the Ministry of Culture, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, collectors associations, museums, painting and calligraphy institutes and entrepreneurs.