Look before you leap.
——Wang Shenghua's flower and bird paintings
In the context of contemporary culture, Wang Shenghua's flower and bird paintings are a special text. He uses his own loneliness and contemplation to plan his paintings, and his works are the creation of mature thinking, therefore, Wang Shenghua's flower and bird paintings are the painter's direct communication with nature, the creation of self-emergent machines, and the integration of various forms of language. Therefore, Wang Shenghua's flower and bird paintings, their aesthetic characteristics, choice of forms, and use of techniques are all reflected in a sense of modernity and modern significance. This makes Wang Shenghua and his paintings show an extraordinary meaning and exploratory revelation in their maverick and creative passion.
Autumn River Wandering Mandarin 138cm 69cm 2022.
Wang Shenghua's flower and bird paintings are a product of the "transformation" era, a new flower in the diversified art landscape, which makes people appreciate the charming charm of contemporary art with its fresh and vivid style and atmosphere.
For traditional painting, Wang Shenghua's exploration of flower and bird painting is a subversive change. From a visual point of view, his works win with schema because he uses new schemas, new techniques, and new artistic contexts to convey modern feelings, so that his exploration embodies the meaning of the "text" level.
Lotus Blossom 69cm 46cm 2022.
Interpreting the texts of Wang Shenghua's flower and bird paintings, it can be seen that the imagery symbols in the painter's brushstrokes come from his feelings and cognition of nature, which is a process of upgrading from objects to images. The richness of nature in all its forms was summarized, summarized, and refined by the painter into exquisite, concise, and even simple images of flowers and birds. Because they incorporate modern meanings and real-life feelings, these images are presented as vivid charm, vigorous vitality, rhythm of life and intuitive expression. Importantly, as a modern painter, Wang Shenghua avoids the mechanical imitation of symbolic imagery taught orally in traditional painting, but confronts real life with his own vision, directly expresses it with his own personal experience, and creates a perceptual and vivid form and content through his own independent thinking.
Auspicious Celebration and Blessings, 138cm, 69cm, 2022.
From this point of view, the most important artistic feature of Wang Shenghua's flower and bird painting lies in his efforts to solve the shortcomings of traditional flower and bird painting on color research. With his own artistic practice, Wang Shenghua has transcended the misunderstanding of "ink and wash first" in traditional painting, and while not giving up the traditional experience and the selection of positive factors, he has carried out experiments and creations of new forms, new languages and aesthetics in the context of increasingly colorful and diversified aesthetic needs of reality.
Pointillism freehand flower and bird painting is the result of the painter's tireless exploration, experimentation and creation for many years, and its overall academic appearance and significance have a unique textual value and the necessity of analyzing its structural characteristics.
Flowers Like Brocade, 69cm, 46cm, 2022.
Interpreting Wang Shenghua's pointillism freehand flower and bird paintings, we find that his works do not abandon the traditional concept of "imagery" in terms of expression. Emphasizing the sense of distance from the concreteness of real objects, away from the materialized concepts and means of realistic imitation and reproduction, and transforming and rising to the level of expression based on "meaning", to express a certain experience, feeling and abstraction obtained by "freehand", so that in his brushwork, "a flower does not have to be a certain flower, and a bird may not necessarily be a certain bird", so that the image in his pen becomes the medium and carrier of conveying feelings, so the "flower and a bird" in the painter's works does not seek its true resemblance, but takes "unsimilar resemblance" as the "truth" of art. This "truth" tends to be more metaphysical spirituality, so in fact, the so-called "truth" in the painter's works refers to the combination of the essence of life and the essence of beauty.
Red Fruit Fruit 69cm 46cm 2022.
According to the principle of color separation provided by modern science and technology, the enlightenment of red, yellow, blue and black dot overprinting in printing, as well as the research on the rich changes of color in Western impressionist painting, on the basis of observation and sketching of nature, in-depth research and analysis of the relationship between light and color, light and shadow and color warmth and coldness, color and light spots, pointillism and hue, color and ink and its changes, the painter emphasizes the contrast and harmony of color in simplicity and simplicity, and emphasizes the capture of color feeling in intuitive impressions. The contrasting colors or similar colors penetrate and merge with each other according to the differences in hue and brightness, resulting in rich color changes, smart jumps and colorful color effects in unity.
It is still a line to form the shape and structure of the picture, which is used to reflect the personal style and characteristics of the work. Wang Shenghua's flower and bird paintings not only pay attention to the expression of the shape and quality of different objects, but also pay attention to the expression of the painter's emotions in the loosening. The lines of different forms and qualities appear to be spontaneous and agile in the rhythm and rhythm of light or heavy, sharp or slow, or closed or released. The technique of breaking the line with water and color adds the moist and dense effect of ink to his works, resulting in the charm and beauty of dots, lines, ink and color.
Cuckoo Blue Magpie 69cm 46cm 2022.
Wang Shenghua's pointillism flower and bird painting focuses on the use of color, and on the basis of the outline, the traditional dotting method is used to lay out and superimpose colors, so that the work shows a modern and refreshing sense of form and artistic style. The decorative sense and flat space treatment of his works also give people an elegant or strong visual feeling and a distinct and fresh artistic appeal.
While engaged in the research and creation of pointillism flower and bird painting, Wang Shenghua also often creates some freehand flower and bird painting sketches based on ink painting, and his appearance absorbs the characteristics of art masters such as Bada and Baishi, and at the same time, he has formed his own smart and simple artistic style in long-term practice. What is particularly rare is that the artistic conception of many of his works can always reflect the artist's perception and reflection on social life, so that these works carry more humanistic philosophy and modern consciousness within the framework of the traditional literati brush and ink form, which is either fresh and timeless to read, or witty and lovely, which undoubtedly reflects the author's wisdom and thinking. In this regard, his paintings of flowers and birds are enough to complement his pointillism.
The True Colors of Heroes in the Sea 69cm 138cm 2022.
In the context of contemporary culture, painters cannot avoid the fact that they are in an era of holistic thinking, and the development of the times requires that painters and their art cannot remain the same. They must assume their responsibilities in the new era, and they must think independently, persist and make a difference, rather than responding to the voice and following the crowd.
As the result of thinking, research and exploration, Wang Shenghua's flower and bird paintings are the crystallization of his self-challenge, self-transcendence, creative thinking and practice. He immersed himself in the rich real life, with creation as his teacher and spiritual perception as the foundation, established his own starting point and observation method, and perfected and matured his unique painting form and artistic language.
The Legend of Love, 69cm, 46cm, 2022.
In our opinion, it is important to find out what distinguishes one painter from another. In an era that opens people's minds, it should be a test of the painter's sensitivity, ability and belief to break through the old artistic horizon, to deeply understand the essence of nature and art, to add new factors to the history of art, and to pursue the vitality and meaning of nature and life with creative passion. It is precisely in this point that Wang Shenghua's works embody the value and significance of art, because he artistically interprets the world with the experience of modern people.
(Wen Liang Wenbo, Director of the Chinese Painting Figure Painting Art Committee of Shandong Artists Association, Vice President of the Painting and Calligraphy Institute of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Professor and Master Tutor of Shandong University of the Arts.) ）
Work appreciation
Jade Rabbit Autumn 69cm 46cm 2022.
White Pheasant Camellia 69cm 46cm 2022.
Spring and Jingming" 69cm 46cm 2022.
Lutang Bar-headed Goose, 69cm, 46cm, 2022.
Everything is Happy" 69cm 46cm 2022.
Standing Heron on the Water, 69cm, 46cm, 2022.
Little Buddy" 69cm 46cm 2022.
The Sound of the Goose Calling 69cm 69cm 2021.
Durian Garden Autumn Depth" 138cm 69cm 2021.
Duofu Daji" 96cmx69cm 2021.
The Stream is Clear and Clear, 138cm, 69cm, 2021.
*: Painting and calligraphy Shandong).
Artist Profile
Wang ShenghuaHe is a member of the Chinese Artists Association, a senior painter of the Shandong Painting Academy, a consultant of the Flower and Bird Painting Art Committee of the Shandong Artists Association, a consultant of the Shandong Chinese Painting Association, a consultant of the Shandong Artists Society (calligraphy and painting), an academic member of the Shandong Painting and Calligraphy Society, a professor of Shandong Institute of Design and Art, a painter of the Painting and Calligraphy Institute of the Shandong Political Consultative Conference, and a consultant of the Flower and Bird Painting Art Committee of the Shandong Artists Association.