Chen Xiangxun, male, 1956, from Hangzhou, Zhejiang. 1984 graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of China Academy of Fine Arts (formerly Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts), and stayed in the school to teach, with a bachelor of arts; 1990, graduated with a master's degree in landscape painting and obtained a master's degree in literature. He is now a member of China Artists Association, a professor, dean and doctoral supervisor of Chinese painting department of China Academy of Fine Arts, enjoying special government allowance from the State Council, and was invited to participate in the Capital Exhibition of Top Ten Artists in Zhejiang Province in 2002. Being good at landscape flowers, he is one of the most anticipated artists among contemporary middle-aged ink painters.
Chinese name: Chen Xiangxun.
Nationality: China.
Place of birth: Pan 'an, Zhejiang
Date of birth: 1956 65438+ 10/0/.
Occupation: painter
Graduate school: China Academy of Fine Arts.
Main achievements: Member of China Artists Association.
Representative works: Lanjiang Memory; "Everyone sings late"; Ink composition
brief introduction
Chen Xiangxun 1956 10 was born on 10/2 1 day, with a ancestral home in Pan 'an, Zhejiang and a native place in Hangzhou. Lecturer of Chinese Painting Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, member of China Artists Association.
1980 was admitted to the landscape class of Chinese painting department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. Being good at landscape flowers, he is one of the most anticipated artists among contemporary middle-aged ink painters. Now he is a member of China Artists Association, professor, dean and doctoral supervisor of Chinese painting department of China Academy of Fine Arts. He has published the Collection of Modern Landscape Paintings in Chen Xiangxun, the Collection of Chen Xiangxun's Works in the Dream of the South of the Yangtze River in the Sound of Flower Selling, and the Large-scale Hardcover Chen Xiangxun of China Ink Painting Series in the 20th Century. His works are collected by British Museum, American Asia-Pacific Museum, Korean Art Museum of Asia, Huairentang in Zhongnanhai, China Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Chinese Painting Research Institute, Jiangsu Art Museum, Guangdong Art Museum and Shenzhen Art Museum. His works were auctioned by auction companies such as Hong Kong Christie's, China Guardian, Beijing Rongbao, Beijing Hanhai, Guomao Shengjia, Beijing Huachen, Beijing Poly, Taipei Chuanjia, Shenzhen Poly, Shanghai Poly, Zhejiang Xiling, Zhejiang Jiabao, Zhejiang Nanbei, Zhejiang Panlong and Zhejiang Painting Academy.
achievement
198 1 won the scholarship of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. Chen Xiangxun once jumped the queue and worked as a worker in the countryside for three years. 65438-0980 entered the Chinese Painting Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, stayed there after graduation, and worked as a graduate student. He is introverted, sensitive and inarticulate. He and the famous trendy painter Gu Wenda are good friends, but compared with Gu Wenda's expansive, indulgent and strange personality, he is so reserved and reserved. He always relaxes his passion and hides his sensitivity behind a faint expression that seems shy. 1982, Chen Xiangxun's Sunset Map was selected as "Zhejiang China Landscape Painting Exhibition".
1983 Completed the works Jiuhua Mountain, Twilight Rain on the Spring River and Taihu People. In winter, I started my graduation writing with the title of "A Journey to My Hometown". The works "The Beginning of a Spring Rain" and "Shanbei People" were sent to the University of Minnesota and the University of Montana for exhibition.
1June, 984, I finished my graduation writing Pastoral March, Swallow in the Sound, Everyone sings late, The Year of Xue Ruifeng and my graduation thesis Two Elements of Form. In July, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts graduated from the Department of Chinese Painting with a bachelor's degree in landscape, and stayed on as a teacher. 10, Pastoral March and Swallow's Voice were selected as the "Sixth National Art Exhibition". /kloc-In February, Pastoral March was selected as the "Sixth National Excellent Works Exhibition" and won the silver prize, which was collected by China Art Museum. His works also won the second prize of "Zhejiang Excellent Art Exhibition". The work "Pastoral March" was published in,, and.
Characteristics of works
Chen Xiangxun's works are deeply branded with Zhejiang Chinese painting: attaching importance to form and pen and ink, and attaching importance to the tradition of literati painting. However, he alienated the New Zhejiang School's reverence for realistic modeling and became close to deformation and expression. He kept his predecessors' interest in charm and gave up following and using fixed procedures. He knew that it was too difficult to surpass the pen and ink of the ancients in general, so he adopted a strategy, that is, separating a certain part from the established formal structure of the ancients, isolating it, and then strengthening and exaggerating it into his own new structure.
Chen Xiangxun's works have undergone several changes since 1984. Every change is an exploration and a self-denial. This change is different from some imitators who follow the trend. It has been carefully brewed, seriously thought and tested. Every piece of work is painted with all my strength, not on a whim.
1989, Chen Xiangxun created a series of works that combined characters with landscapes, extended effects and writing effects, which can be called "figure painting series". Some people try to introduce words into the picture, making it the protagonist of the form, and aromatherapy is inevitably influenced by them. However, he did not emphasize the meaning of words, nor did he appreciate words as an independent and comfortable composition. He regards them as a kind of texture, which blends with the landscape, making the rubbinglike ancient characters and chaotic landscape symbols fill the picture, giving people a heavy sense of history.
art director
Chen Xiangxun's exploration has expanded to a new field. He drew a set of flower still life paintings, not sketches, but compositions. The background color is deep, the flowers are light, the ink seems to be the background, and the colors seem to be in the foreground, at least in the sense. He didn't brush with a combination brush, but always dyed with a round brush and a pen. He doesn't want to pursue the light and color effect of imitating western painting. He paints meticulously and heartily only by feeling. Do not emphasize depth perspective, only pay attention to plane segmentation and deformation treatment; I don't know the name of the flower, but I think it's a flower. Inclined to design, but very rich and in-depth; Meticulous home, the overall sense is also very strong. Trying to introduce more colors into ink painting is his main motivation, but how to combine the creativity and lyricism of ink painting perfectly needs further experiments.
Introduction of works
Jiangnan group painting
After graduation, I created a group of paintings in the south of the Yangtze River for the first time: I changed my face with traditional pen and ink-division, overlapping, simplification, emotionalization, etc., to achieve the unity of traditional style charm and modern structure. Won the Silver Award of the 6th National Excellent Art Exhibition and was recognized by the new and old members of the jury.
Apprenticeship series
1987' s Classmates Series is a group of huge acrylic ink paintings without coloring. The lyrical style in "Jiangnan Group Paintings" has disappeared, and the relaxed memories have become deep, heavy and insightful thinking. Face it, (see my essay, 1988, the first issue of Spring Festival). The ancient wrinkle removal method is an isolated aesthetic protagonist, not just the texture of the rock, which blurs the human body into an independent body, strengthens the black color, makes it full of picture sense, and produces a huge effect of being as muddy as night. This is one of the most influential ink paintings since the 1980s. Its value mainly lies in the form of language creation, not ideological implication. Its transformation and reconstruction of landscape symbols not only inherits and draws lessons from style, but also denies and deviates from style. This is Chen Xiangxun's development of modern ink painting style after cleaning.
Garden series
"Garden Series" is another group of works that are carried out at the same time as still life flowers. Still do not seek a sense of space, do not need focus perspective, its intention is the same as the flower series; The method of plane composition is used to reconstruct the garden image, which is far from the realistic simulation of nature and the freehand brushwork form of shape. Objects and images are symbolized; Pavilions, bridges, pools, windows, corridors, stacked stones, flowers and trees, only take their silhouette, or simplify them into a typical part, or abstract them into a symbol. Objects and images are not arranged according to the spatial order of objects, but are organized according to the needs of form, that is, order is subordinate to mind and vision. Color and ink painting play different roles: ink painting constitutes the skeleton of garden buildings, giving works a sense of weight and culture; Color shapes the image of nature and endows the picture with vivid life and lyrical atmosphere. Painting is multi-layered coloring on an ink base (such as painting a roof, first applying thick ink, and then applying mottled azurite or turquoise, so that the charm of ancient buildings emerges), or applying ink on a color base. The picture is cut in a straight line and the shadows are misplaced, as if it were like a garden. Trees, leaves or flowers are often decorated, or branches do not see flowers and leaves, or branches do not see flowers and leaves, and the land is blue, that is a tree. Painters are still interested in richness, such as using a fine pen to hook gold or silver flowers or leaves on multiple layers of ink; In some places, sometimes, there will be expanded words, and almost all seals are punched in rows and pieces, which becomes a part of composition and color. The most prominent features of this series are profound historical implications and rigorous language exploration. Very modern, permeated with the fragrance of China ancient culture.
Academic activities
1983 The works "The Beginning of Spring Rain" and "Shanbei People" were exhibited at the University of Minnesota and the University of Montana.
1984 graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of China Academy of Fine Arts (formerly Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts), and stayed in the school to teach, with a bachelor of arts; The work "Pastoral March" was selected in the "Sixth National Art Exhibition" and won the silver award.
1985 "every family sings late" was selected as "China international youth art exhibition" and won the encouragement award; "Xue Ruifeng Year" was selected for the exhibition of teachers' works in national art colleges.
1986 was admitted to the Landscape Graduate School of Chinese Painting Department of China Academy of Fine Arts, and studied under Mr. Lu; Participated in the "National Symposium on Chinese Painting" organized by China Artists Association and Institute of Fine Arts of China Academy of Fine Arts in Xi 'an; The work "Good Jiangnan" participated in the "Joint Exhibition of Chinese Paintings in Six Ancient Capitals (Beijing, Nanjing, Xi, Hangzhou, Luoyang and Kaifeng)".
1988 The painting "Ink Landscape" was selected as "88 Beijing International Ink Painting Exhibition" and won the Excellence Award; He was hired as a judge of the "National Chinese Painting Grand Prix" organized by China Artists Association and participated in the evaluation of the exhibition.
1989 The Moon in the Woods was selected as the "Contemporary China Ink and Wash Newcomer Award" and won the Newcomer Award; The work "Good Jiangnan" was selected in the "Zhejiang Art Exhibition" and won the Excellence Award, and was also selected in the "Seventh National Art Exhibition".
1990 graduated from the department with a master's degree in landscape painting; His works "Garden Group Painting", "Ink Composition" and "Landscape Group Painting" participated in the "China Landscape Painting Exhibition" (Beijing, Shanghai, Harbin, Hong Kong, Japan and other countries or regions) respectively.
199 1 The composition of ink and wash was selected for the 27th Asian Modern Art Exhibition.
1992 "Door God 1" participated in the Second International Ink Painting Exhibition and Seminar (Shenzhen).
7 1993 paintings of door gods participated in the' 93 nomination exhibition of art critics; He was hired by the Chinese Painting Art Committee of China Artists Association as the judge of the "First National China Art Exhibition" and participated in the evaluation of the exhibition.
From 65438 to 0994, he participated in the "China Modern Ink Painting Exhibition" held by the Taiwan Province Provincial Art Museum, and exhibited four paintings by the door gods.
1996 "Bottle Flower Series" was exhibited in Malaysian "New Zhejiang School, Leader of China Xinshan Mo".
1997 "Door God Series" and "Landscape 1" were exhibited in "1997 Bologna International Modern Art Fair" in Italy.
Lanjiang memory
Blue River 1998 "Memory" was exhibited in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Taiwan Province Province.
1999 The Fuchun Family was selected as the "Seventh National Art Exhibition" and won the Excellence Award; "Jiangshan Wan Li" (Tong and Zhuo) was arranged in the General Office of the Central Committee of the CPC, the main hall of Huairentang, Zhongnanhai, and the Ministry of Culture presented three teachers of the Chinese Painting Department of China Academy of Fine Arts with works collection certificates. It is worth mentioning that this is the first time that the General Office of the Central Committee of the CPC has issued a collection certificate to artists; His works participated in the "Ink True Color Exhibition" held by China Art Museum.
200 1 Up to now, he has served as the director and professor of Chinese painting department of China Academy of Fine Arts, and was rated as "the leader of young and middle-aged subjects in provincial universities" by Zhejiang Education Department; "Lanjiang Memory" series participated in the "Tradition and Attempt Contemporary China Ink Painting Exhibition" organized by the Czech National Art Museum; The work "Pastoral" participated in the "Centennial China Art Exhibition" held by China Art Museum.
In 2002, he was invited to participate in the "Zhejiang Top Ten Artists Capital Exhibition" (the youngest) and enjoyed the special government allowance awarded by the State Council.
In 2003, the work "Lanjiang Memory" was exhibited in the "First Beijing Biennale"; The work Qiqi participated in the 2003 Seoul International Art Fair.
In 2004, the work "Memories of Lanjiang" was selected in the "Tenth National Art Exhibition" and won the Excellence Award and the "Marley" Art Creation Award.
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Comment 1
Chen Xiangxun is an eclectic artist. He has a strong desire for modernity and a deep affection for tradition. So he didn't take too much risk and was persistent in exploration. In terms of form and connotation, it pays more attention to form, but it also ignores the intention of emotion and symbols. In him, there are often more rational things than emotional things, but his intuitive ability is not bad. The exploration of modern ink painting requires brave adventurers and meticulous and in-depth experimenters. It needs a breakthrough in form and spiritual enrichment. In my opinion, artists who can give consideration to both language and spirit, have a strong internal impulse and a keen sense of form, have the best hope of achieving great success. -Lang Shao Jun's Contemporary Elegance-Collection of Modern Ink and Wash Works
Comment 2
People who look at Chen Xiangxun's paintings often have a profound influence on the trees with vivid images, rich brushwork and absorbing rocks. Chen Xiangxun said that the reason why he painted the trees distorted and exaggerated was to show the lush charm and vitality of the trees in the south of the Yangtze River. It is also appropriate to compare it to a tree, because its creative enthusiasm will never go out, and it also has a natural mind and charm like the trees written by Qi. Chen Xiangxun's earnest creative attitude and self-confident personal color made him admire the world in the south of the Yangtze River and created infinite possibilities for China ink painting. Along the way, he is also moving towards a broader and more lofty artistic realm.
-Deng Peiwen's contemporary elegance-collection of modern ink and wash works
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