As we all know, pen painting is a category of Western painting, introduced into China for a hundred years, pen painting in China belongs to a new kind of painting, only a few decades of history, China in the thirties of the last century has also been popular pen painting, after the fifties, the art of pen painting has declined, but there are still some of the largest number of pen paintings published at that time.
However, due to the simplicity and ease of mastering the tools used, the black and white lines drawn can maintain the original appearance of the original work after being printed on a zinc plate, so it is widely used by painters in sketches, comics, illustrations, and decorative paintings.
This is not only because the materials and tools are very simple, the picture is clear and clear, and it is not easy to blur and smudge like pencils and charcoal pens, and it is not easy to preserve. What's more, after printing, it can basically maintain the clear, bright, smooth and lively original appearance of the original, and has become the favorite of the majority of professional and amateur artists.
A piece of paper, a pen, can create a wonderful world, this is the charm of the art of pen drawing.
Nowadays, pen painting has gradually developed into an independent painting in China, is a kind of painting art with unique expressiveness, it includes the use of a variety of tough and tough pen dipped in ink on the paper to draw the painting, so it is also called "hard stroke", and from the painting tools to distinguish from pencils and brushes.
At the beginning of the nineties of the last century, many people began to see Mr. Guo Hang's pen landscape paintings from the **, which gave us a new understanding of pen paintings, and at the same time had a new understanding of him.
Guo Hang is the founder of Chinese pen landscape painting, a national first-class artist, and an international professional portrait photographer. He has successively joined the China International Calligraphy and Painters Association, the China Hard Pen Calligraphy and Painting Association, the China Calligraphy and Painting Art Development Research Association, the China News Calligraphy and Painting Art Academy, the China Art Masters Association, the Zhejiang Press Photography Society, the Chinese Portrait Photography Society, the China Photography Art Association, and the China Entrepreneur Photography Association. He is currently the president of Hangzhou Ancient Yun Painting and Calligraphy Institute, the vice president of the Art Research Institute of Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy and Painters Network, and the senior calligrapher and painter of the column of China Hundred Culture Network.
Personal Feature Report:
On April 28, 1992, Zhejiang Radio and Television Weekly reported on personal pen landscape painting.
On October 5, 1992, Hangzhou ** personal pen landscape painting report.
On January 4, 1993, Hangzhou ** personal pen landscape painting report.
On July 9, 1993, Hangzhou ** personal pen landscape painting report.
On January 6, 1994, Hangzhou ** personal pen landscape painting report.
On March 11, 1994, the Chinese and foreign businessmen reported on his personal fountain pen landscape painting.
On April 29, 1994, Zhejiang Education Newspaper reported on personal pen landscape painting.
1994-05-03 China Consumer Daily personal pen landscape painting report.
On August 5, 1994, Hangzhou ** personal pen landscape painting report.
On June 1, 1996, Hangzhou ** afternoon edition of personal pen landscape painting report.
1996-02-03 Education Times personal pen landscape painting report.
On March 10, 1996, China City Appearance Daily reported on personal pen landscape painting.
On August 21, 1996, the afternoon edition of Hangzhou's ** personal pen landscape painting report.
1997-01-08 Urban and Rural Market Newspaper personal pen landscape painting report.
On July 17, 1997, Zhejiang Economic News reported on personal art.
On November 15, 1997, Zhejiang Education News reported on personal art.
On October 30, 2009, Zhejiang ** personal art special report.
On January 30, 2010, China Culture Daily reported on personal art.
On April 27, 2010, Hangzhou ** personal pen landscape painting special report.
On February 21, 2011, Hangzhou ** personal pen landscape painting special report.
On June 26, 2011, the City Express reported on personal fountain pen landscape painting.
On July 7, 2011, Zhejiang City Radio and Television News "The Founder of Chinese Pen Landscape Painting" personal special report.
On July 17, 2011, ** TV international channel "All over China" personal special report.
In May 2012, he edited the book "Teach You to Draw Pen Landscape Painting", which was published by Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House.
In September 2016, a collection of personal works was published by China Culture Publishing House.
In December 2016, he published a collection of his works by Chinese Culture Publishing House.
In 2016, he was awarded the honorary title of National Advanced Worker in Literature and Art.
In November 2016, he was awarded the honorary title of "People's Literary and Artistic Artist".
In June 2017, he was awarded the honorary title of "China's Belt and Road" Cultural Envoy.
In August 2017, he was awarded the honorary title of Cultural Pioneer in the New Era of Shengshi China.
In June 2018, China Post published a special limited edition collector's album to celebrate the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up.
In May 2019, he was awarded the honorary title of Contemporary Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting Inheritor.
In August 2020, China Post published a limited-edition collector's stamp album with the theme of Prosperous Chinese Heritage.
In March 2020, he made a personal special report on the "1818** Eye" column of Zhejiang TV Station.
In November 2021, his works were included in the compilation of "Collection of Contemporary Chinese Writers and Artists".
Guo Hang has devoted himself to the study of pen landscape painting for more than 40 years, and has created a school of his own Chinese pen landscape painting, and has created nearly 10,000 Chinese pen landscape paintings, and over the years, more than 800 works have been published in more than 180 newspapers and periodicals across the country.
His personal creative deeds have been reported in more than 280 national newspapers, such as "People's ** Overseas Edition", "TV Station", "Yangcheng Evening News", "Xinmin Evening News", "China Teacher Daily", "Zhejiang **", "Zhejiang Economic News", "Zhejiang TV Station", "Zhejiang Education Daily", "Hangzhou **" City Express, "Daily Business Daily", "Hangzhou TV Station", etc. In May 2012, it was published by Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House.
In recent years, more than 500 works have participated in exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Henan, Shandong, Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, Singapore and the United States, and have won many awards in various international and domestic painting and calligraphy art competitions. Many of his works have been collected by many art institutions such as the National Museum of China, the China Tea Museum, the China National Silk Museum, the Nanjing Museum, the Xi'an Museum, and domestic and international friends.
Looking at the Chinese pen landscape paintings created by Mr. Guo Hang, there are not only exquisite and elegant sketches, but also some exquisite long scrolls and huge works, the short ones are a few meters, and the long ones are tens of meters.
The works have the characteristics of calm lines, delicate depictions, wide range of subject matter, and rigorous composition, which melt and permeate the charm and rhythm of Chinese landscape painting.
Under Guo Hang's pen, all kinds of landscape works are beautiful and elegant, fascinating; It has the characteristics of magnificent, deep, majestic and gorgeous, rich and full of vitality, which not only has the charm of traditional landscape painting, but also exudes the atmosphere of contemporary literati painting.
The pen lines of its landscape pictures are especially like the various methods of Chinese painting, such as mountain peaks, forests, sea of clouds, etc., one by one, with the line as the surface, painting black and white pen paintings, let us marvel that this simple black and white world is so rich in meaning.
Guo Hang told reporters that a landscape painting must have feelings with the landscape, rather than just confined to the brush and ink, it is difficult to imagine that a person who has lived in the bustling city for a long time can depict the landscape painting as extraordinary. Look at the shape of the mountain, listen to the sound of the water, breathe together, breathe together, and completely devote your body and mind to the embrace of the landscape.
The work "Traveling in the Green Mountains" can be said to be the most representative work of Mr. Guo Hang, landscape painting is not only a kind of beauty, but also pay attention to artistic conception and connotation. The author uses skillful pen and ink techniques to form the pen and calmly draw a majestic texture, writing God in form, with a vivid charm.
In particular, the depiction of the mountain is very visually stunning, and the calm lake at the foot of the mountain contrasts with the mountain, which highlights the characteristics of the landscape. The whole painting is majestic, with a strong sense of three-dimensionality, layering and visual effects, and has full humanistic color. The beautiful artistic conception of natural landscapes is fully displayed, and at the same time, the appearance of characters in the scene adds a humanistic atmosphere to the painting.
The ideology of the creation is more subtle and abstract in the expression technique, and the idea of the work is more in-depth and objective. Nature and the thoughts and emotions expressed by it are integrated into one to form an artistic realm, which profoundly and truly expresses the characteristics and multifaceted beauty of nature, and then obtains great aesthetic enjoyment.
In order to create this exquisite picture, Mr. Guo Hang has paid a lot of effort and energy for this. Seeing his creation, he and the usual completely judged two people, in the creation of his concentration, meticulous, meticulous, a mountain, to cross the horizontal and vertical painting of many strokes, a work, it will be up to tens of thousands of times with the pen to complete, each creation of a work of time is as short as a few days, long as months, day and night, I don't know how many pens have been broken, looking at the thick and hard calluses between his thumbs, respect makes people spontaneously. A kind of fresh and elegant atmosphere is abundant in the painting, giving people a unique visual beauty, the middle of the picture is stacked with mountains, green trees, lush grass, houses are looming in the mountains, thousands of walls stand in the distance, the scene is huge, the scenery is dense, the weather is thousands, and it is brilliant.
You can see the spirituality of the landscape flowing out from the end of the pen and ink, simple pen and ink, lines or composition, the spirit is outstanding, to the extreme, internalize the mind and ambition of the hills, write the majestic landscape weather, wonderful!
Guo Hang's love for mountains and rivers is sincere and deep, because this kind of love has been naturally engraved in his bones, so through the touch of pen and ink, he can appreciate the different scenery of mountains and rivers, which is a kind of pleasing to the eye, a pleasing warmth, and an explosion of life tension.
With his persistent artistic spirit, with his distinctive creative theme, unique line charm, and visual impact of black and white, Guo Hang has made Chinese pen landscape painting show in a new form, opening up a new artistic space for the development of Chinese pen painting.
Over the years, Guo Hang has been walking in this boring, boring, arduous art road, for decades, he has been diligently seeking in the field of pen painting art, integrating and innovating the artistic conception of Chinese painting and the sketch perspective theory of Western painting, breaking through the situation that traditional pen painting appears in illustrations, illustrations, sketches, etc., so that the pen painting has made a qualitative leap in creation, and entered the palace of pure art in a grand manner, enriching and innovating the traditional stroke techniques and the connotation of beauty. It has opened up a new way for the innovation of pen painting, promoted the development of pen painting, and laid the foundation for the development of pen painting in China.
Ten years of grinding a sword", there is a pay, there will be a harvest.
Today, Guo Hang has reaped a lot of artistic fruits, and his works are becoming more and more expansive, thick, and far-reaching. In the context of contemporary culture, Guo Hang judged the situation, soberly positioned himself, and on the basis of inheritance, he tended to innovate, so that his art could see a rare enrichment in the accumulation.
For Guo Hang's Chinese pen landscape paintings, Mr. Xiao Feng, the former president of the China Academy of Art, once gave him a "magnificent and strong" evaluation: these four characters constitute the most distinctive artistic style of Mr. Guo Hang's Chinese pen landscape paintings.
"Magnificent" and "abundant" reflect the natural beauty of Dapu and uncarved. "Approaching nature, blending into nature, going with the flow, naturally, and then rising to the realm of Taoism and nature."
Mr. Guo Hang's "magnificent" and "strong" painting style comes from the charm and change at the same time. Landscape painting pays the most attention to the charm, the charm in the painting, is emitted by the painter's life consciousness, if there is no life consciousness of the observation, then the painter's landscape painting will have no charm.
When looking at a work, we should not just look at what the author has drawn or written on the screen, but should look at the essence through the surface. A successful work of art often conveys some information to the viewer beyond the work, so a good work is completed by the author and the viewer together.
In addition to conveying the charm, the eternal subject of the painter's creation is change—the change of artistic techniques, the change of brush and ink techniques, and the change of conception, the arrangement of the array, the sparse and scattered, and the changes in the shade of dryness and wetness. However, these changes are not deliberately new, but the result of the painter's accumulation. A painter is not a thinker, but he cannot be a painter without thoughts; Although the painting is not a literary work, it cannot be a painting that lacks literary heritage, and every stroke in the painting is brewed with heart and painstaking efforts.
Mr. Guo Hang's feelings are very profound, Chinese painting art has always focused on nature, writing mountains and rivers, creating statues for natural mountains and rivers, and landscape paintings often contain the painter's multi-layered meaning of looking at the scenery, sustenance of self, and taste of life.
Both ancient and modern, people agree on the truth that nature and life are the source of art. In Mr. Guo Hang's eyes, "sketching is not about writing about the pure image of the object, nor is it about the pure self, but the artistic realm that is stimulated by the fusion of the object and the self, so that every brush shape and every piece of color touches the excitement that is excited and active; It is a process of full release of a living being with a natural temperament, driven by the beauty of nature."
Innovation is the mother of tradition, without the tradition of the past there is no innovation today, the tradition can not only be passed on, but also can be unified". Guo Hang's "magnificent" and "strong" painting style can also be derived from tradition and innovation.
Painting creation is the externalization of the inner spirit and deep psychology of human beings, and it is a means to disseminate the ideas of painters. "Artists should use a unique painting language to convey their own perception of life and the universe, and the innovation of landscape painting should uphold the purpose of being proficient in tradition and being brave in innovation. Therefore, in Mr. Guo Hang's works, we can not only see the shadow of innovation, but also fully feel his profound traditional painting cultivation.