He appeals to his perception of art and nature into his brushwork, and integrates his natural wisdom and rich feelings into ink painting. He, Zhu Weidong, and his teacher Chen Dayu called him a "painting idiot". From his paintings, we can feel the charm of nature and taste the temperature of life.
Zhu Weidong is a local painter, he has loved painting since he was a child, and after joining the army in 1968, he has been engaged in art work in the army, and has published works in "People's Liberation Army Daily" and "People's Front Daily" many times. In 1983, he was admitted to Nanjing University of the Arts, where he studied flower and bird painting and landscape painting under Chen Dayu, Yu Jigao, Cheng Dali and other famous calligraphers and painters. Because of his hard work and diligence, Mr. Chen Dayu once encouraged him with his own inscriptions "Painting Idiot" and "Boundless Art". After graduation, he returned to his hometown and engaged in art work in the County Workers' Cultural Palace, and embarked on the road of professional painter as he wished.
Throughout his paintings, we can see his straightforward character and humanistic nature of loving nature. He uses the traditional brush and ink of Chinese painting to create lifelike landscapes, figures, flowers and birds. It is not difficult to see his deep understanding of Chinese painting and his inheritance and attachment to traditional Chinese culture.
Zhu Weidong is a creative painter, he often walks in the famous mountains and rivers of the motherland, shuttles through the mountains and forests, and recklessly plains; He often walked in villages and markets. He takes the mountain as the gain, the water as the inner cultivation consciousness, the people-oriented, the object as the scenery of the heart source exploration, whether it is the artistic conception, style, charm and the perfect combination of the pursuit of tone, to give people the classical and innovative natural beauty. The landscape paintings he pursued were mainly based on natural scenery, emphasizing the perfection of all things in nature and the spiritual realm of the unity of nature and man. In addition to the traditional themes, the figure paintings he created are also based on the theme of ordinary people and things around him, which is full of a strong atmosphere of life and the times. His bird paintings want to live in harmony with nature, both fine brushwork and freehand, vivid and fresh, full of interest.
Most of Zhu Weidong's works are based on landscapes, whether they are beautiful peaks in the south of the Yangtze River or mountains in the north, they can be expressed with skillful brushwork and ink. His chest is full of fascination for mountains and rivers, love for nature, from the quiet and elegant mountains, forests and valleys, seeking a comfortable and quiet humanistic world, the motherland's famous mountains and rivers, ravines and forests and springs under his brush, giving people a beautiful feeling. He placed his affection on the mountains and rivers, using traditional painting techniques, outlining and depicting, rubbing and dyeing, meticulous and indulgent and uninhibited combination of mountains, clouds, woods, waterfalls, and ravines, so that the majestic and heavy mountains and rivers, the delicate and tranquil small bridges and flowing water, and the kindness and habitability of the village people are all vividly and freely displayed from his pen and ink, which makes people all amazed.
In the noisy world, as a painter, he can meditate and dive, no matter the hot summer or the harsh winter, he often hikes in the mountains and alleys, carefully observes the natural scenery and fireworks in the world, and sketches with a rigorous attitude. Every mountain, every river, every grass and every tree in nature, every city, one place, one person and one thing in the human world, as his creative materials, he can depict them meticulously. Flowers, plants, and animals give people a leisurely and agile atmosphere in his pen and ink language; In his pen and ink language, villages and small courtyards give people a natural, quiet and fresh feeling. The painter uses his personal experience and perception to express the true feelings of harmony between man and nature in his paintings, giving people inspiration and strength.
Zhu Weidong is past his age, and his works are becoming more and more mature and complete. Over the years, he has used the delicate brushes of traditional Chinese painting and the changeable colors of ink to vividly express the outline, light and shade, and texture of objects, and express his own emotional world in the outline of dot dyeing, fast and slow virtual reality, and shade and density. Zhu Weidong's paintings cover a wide range of subjects, ranging from landscapes, figures, flowers and birds to villages, markets, and ......All of them are involved, which shows his rich cultural accumulation and solid sketching skills.
In his many years of artistic career, Zhu Weidong has gained a lot, and his works have been selected for national, provincial, municipal and county art exhibitions and won awards. In 2001, he won the first prize of the Chinese painting "Green Pine Introduces Rare Birds" and "National Soul and Land Conditions National Calligraphy and Painting Grand Prix"; In 2002, the first prize of the National Chinese Painting Exhibition commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army was commemorated by the Chinese painting "Fisherman's Pleasure"; In 2010, the silver medal of the Chinese painting "Ben Xiaokang" "Peasant Painting Era Painting Peasants - National Peasant Painting Exhibition"; In 2010, he won the gold medal of the Chinese painting "Farmhouse" and "Peasant Painting Era Painting Peasants - National Peasant Painting Exhibition"; In 2015, the first prize of the 2015 National Chinese Painting Exhibition of the Chinese painting "Ginkgo Garden" ......
Zhu Weidong is an artist who is both virtuous and artistic, and he has won wide acclaim for his helpfulness and enthusiasm for public welfare. In 2021, all the proceeds of his paintings were auctioned at Lianshui Middle School and Chinese schools outside the county to motivate outstanding students, excellent teachers, and subsidize students in need. Not long ago, Zhu Weidong was named the "Good Person of Lianshui" in the third quarter of 2023 because of his practice of compassion and good deeds over the years.
Over the years, Zhu Weidong has been devoting himself to painting with full enthusiasm and abundant energy, learning from the teacher, seeking the source of his heart, pursuing a higher level of artistic creation, diligently pursuing, and never changing.