Editor Zhou Zhi, a member of the Yunnan Artists Association, a member of the Yunnan Calligraphers Association, the chairman of the 6th and 7th Chuxiong Artists Association, and the 8th honorary chairman of the Chuxiong Artists Association, is now the art director of the State Artists Association. His works have participated in many international and domestic exhibitions, won the silver medal of the first Chinese calligraphy artist exhibition, the special gold medal of the first national folk arts and crafts calligraphy exhibition, the excellent work award of the Chinese calligraphy and painting grand prix to welcome the return of Hong Kong, the silver medal of the Chinese soul calligraphy and painting exhibition, the silver medal of the "97 Qu Yuan Cup" International Celebrity Calligraphy and Painting Grand Prix, the gold medal of the Asia-Europe Cup Chinese calligraphy and painting exhibition, and was selected for the 4th and 7th National Landscape Painting Exhibition, the 6th Chinese Painting Exhibition of Yunnan Province, the Yunnan Mass Art Exhibition, the 60th Anniversary of the National Day of Yunnan Province Art Exhibition, the first of Yunnan Province, The Second Intangible Cultural Heritage Art Exhibition and the No.
The first, second, third, fourth, and fifth fan exhibitions, etc., his works have been collected by many units and individuals. 
Pine Springs 136x68cm
Yishan Gaoqiu, 136x68cm
Autumn Wind Blows Drunken Thousand Mountains 180x70cm
Lucid waters and lush mountains are gold and silver mountains 136x68cm
Small Bridge Flowing Water House 180x70cm
Mountain Village Farmhouse 136x68cm
Misty and misty Suojiang Village 136x68cm
After the rain, the clouds rise and half cover the peak 150x70cm
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Carol. But all the art must first apprentice, or a specialized school, or an apprentice, especially to learn to paint Chinese painting, without going through a specialized school or worship a master celebrity to learn painting, it is almost impossible to learn to paint Chinese painting well, if you still want to have attainments, it is even more difficult to be famous in a land. However, Zhou Zhi, the former chairman of the Artists Association of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, whom I know, is exactly such a person, who has never studied Xi in a vocational school, nor has he worshipped any master or celebrity as a teacher, and has relied on his own natural understanding and diligence to make himself accomplished in Chinese painting and become famous in one side. He is not only the chairman of the Chuxiong Prefecture Artists Association, but also a member of the Yunnan Provincial Artists Association, a member of the Calligraphy Association, the Central Plains Painting and Calligraphy Institute, and the China Friendship Painting and Calligraphy Institute.
Zhou Zhi, Han nationality, born in November 1947, a native of Muding, Yunnan Province, has been fond of art since childhood, although his artistic talent and academic Xi in school are very good, but for a variety of reasons, he failed to enter a vocational school for further study, and after graduating from junior high school, he went to build a road. Reservoir, worked as a coal miner and pastry master, in the early 70s worked in the Muding County Bureau of Commerce, because of his love for calligraphy and painting, he was inadvertently found in a unit that needed to show his skills, and in 1978 he was transferred to the county cultural center to engage in art work, and in less than 2 years, he became the deputy director and director of the county cultural bureau because of his outstanding work performance, and became the director of the county cultural bureau in early 1984. At the end of 1994, he was transferred to the Propaganda Department of the Chuxiong Prefecture Party Committee, and retired in 2007 as a deputy researcher. The busy administrative work delayed his artistic creation, but he never gave up, and still insisted on artistic creation after work, and achieved quite good results.
Zhou Zhi's Chinese paintings, landscapes, figures, flowers and birds are all long, especially landscape paintings. Most of his landscape paintings are based on Yunnan, especially the Jinsha River, Wumeng Mountain, Ailao Mountain and other local mountains and rivers in Chuxiong Prefecture, which are majestic and very atmospheric, and the painting style is delicate and unique. His figure paintings and flower and bird paintings are mainly based on the characters of the Yi nationality and the natural landscape of the Yi Mountains, which not only pay attention to the form, but also emphasize the gods, and deal with the virtual and the real very appropriately. Zhou Zhi's Chinese paintings also benefit from his calligraphy creation, Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is dignified and beautiful, the face is deep and stable, and the wild and agile Huaisu cursive script are all expressed in his paintings. Zhou Zhi's paintings, focusing on composition management, the appropriateness of the virtual and the real, and the hook and dye seem to be done in one go, with both the momentum of the big place and the subtlety of the small place, so that people have the feeling of watching his paintings and entering the realm.
His paintings are full of the fragrance of the earth and the aura of the earth. In a picture of "The First Snow of Ailao", the painter renders the scenery of Ailao Mountain after the snow, with cold trees, rugged mountains, hazy snow scenes, vigorous lines and powerful color blocks, outlining a rare beauty of Ailao Mountain after snow. In the close-up scene, the clusters of small trees, dotted with red leaves, deep canyons, rare but full of vitality, smart and vibrant, and the scenery of mourning are integrated. A painting "Autumn Wind Wumeng Wanmu Cold", with dense fog, clear streams, static rocks and mangroves, outlines the aura of the majestic Wumeng Mountain and the ancient charm contained in it, Wanmu still maintains the unique Wumeng wind bone in the cold wind, and the great beauty of heaven and earth implied by Wumeng Mountain in the autumn wind makes the viewer feel excited. The painting "Autumn Wind Remains" once again renders the same theme, using the continuous clear stream flowing in the mountains to metaphorize the endless life, the volley peaks, the tall evergreen trees mixed with the deciduous trees dyed red in autumn, and the changes in time to interpret the true meaning of life in the cycle of the four seasons with their own unique style, showing that he has a special love for nature. It can be said that this is the author's lifelong perception of his continuous pursuit for many years, and it is also a portrayal of his spirit of trekking and exploration. "Spring Rain Longchuan River" epitomizes this style. The spring rain is misty, the mountain village is quiet, and the trees are budding, which is the birth of life;The mountains stand, the rivers irrigate, and the rivers are rushing, which is the unrestrained life of life. Works such as "Autumn Dyeing and Mourning" and "Golden Sands in the Spring Morning" are also representative works of this theme, all of which are wild and ethereal, and are a tribute to the great beauty of nature and the endless life.
Zhou Zhi also draws nourishment from the long history and culture and the broad national culture, and integrates his perception of history, culture and spirituality, so that people can travel in the long time and space, indulge in the vast world he created, and have infinite reverie in his heart. "Mei Ge" is the creation epic of the Yi nationality, is the most valuable cultural heritage of the Yi Mountain, the author as the title, with the picture of three Yi old people pouring into Mei Ge, the broad Yi culture, the profound Yi philosophy and the open-minded spirit of the Yi people conveyed vividly and vividly. With the golden Baogu as the background, the unique style of musical instruments as the embellishment, and the wine culture closely related to the life of the Yi people to render, the unique customs of the Yi people on the thousands of miles of Yi Mountain leap onto the paper, and the whole picture is calm, deep and touching. The spring scenery outlined in "Early Spring in Yishan" reflects the liveliness of life in the mountains and wilderness, and in the season when everything welcomes spring, a cheerful mountain dog indicates the fun of rural lifeA girl full of longing, looking ahead, spring rippling in her eyes. The mountains are nostalgic for spring, longing for the liveliness of spring flowers;The girl is pregnant with spring and longs for happiness in life. This can't help but make people think of the content outside the picture, and can't help but remind people of "Brother who carries the moon qin comes to the love song competition, plays the strings and sings the song, and the sister opens the door". If "The Early Spring of Yi Mountain" is mainly moving, "Red Fruit" shows a quiet, the joy of harvest overflows the picture, the bright red fruit, the watchful girl, and the waiting mountain dog, showing the unrest in the calm is colorful and meaningful. His paintings with a strong atmosphere of life can read interesting and affectionate artistic conceptions, and can not only enjoy beauty, but also get the greatest emotional satisfaction.
Another type of painting by Zhou Zhi expresses the magic of nature. "Wind and Rain Flying to the Temple" shows the mystery of the Flying Temple. Dark clouds fill the sky, the wind blows the trees, the rain falls on the mountain wet, the Feilai Temple hangs on the half of the wall, the mountain road disappears from time to time, it seems that there is a magical power rushing here, the Feilai Temple is integrated into such a magical picture, quietly**, think carefully, all kinds of legends about the Feilai Temple will emerge in your heart, how about the wonderful scenery hidden in the Feilai Temple?It's so amazing to show things that seem to be very ordinary. In the painting "Golden Sands and Spring Rain", there is also a kind of charm everywhere. The Jinsha River is a line of sky, and thinking about it makes people yearn for it. The painter arranged several steep cliffs in the main position of the picture, and left a large river flow, strata rocks, stone patterns, drizzle, terraced fields, distant mountains, and near trees, the shades are distinct, and it seems that the magical power permeating the high cliffs is flowing down from the cliffs, echoing in the Jinsha River Gorge, enduring, making people have infinite reverie.
Most of Zhou Zhi's paintings can expand the expressive space of the subject matter, at first glance, I only feel the atmosphere and beauty, but a closer reading can find the deep content hidden behind, which is very chewy. His Chinese painting not only shows the ability to observe in detail, but also contains the ability to innovate in constant pursuitThere is not only the side of inheriting tradition, but also the side of reflecting individuality;There is not only the vigor and boldness of the northern landscape, but also the delicate soul of the southern landscape.
Zhou Zhi is a humble friend, easy to talk to, he is very receptive to other people's different opinions, and constantly denies himself in his creations in order to achieve greater achievements. He wrote in a poem "Partridge Heaven":
People are easy to grow old, and time is urgent.
A hundred years of life is like a dream.
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And send Danqing to me, let me write. It is a true portrayal of his lifelong forgetfulness of nature, exploration of art, and unremitting pursuit. He uses art to dialogue with the soul, with the heart and nature to communicate, life and life to integrate, and strive to explore the magic of the spiritual level, his Chinese paintings are filled with a tranquil and far-reaching, peaceful and dignified atmosphere, with a delicate and full, meaningful style.
*: Beijing Chuangrong Times Art Center.