Ji Zi, 194 1 Hebei Xuanhua, was born in Ji Zi, Yunshan. Specializing in China landscape painting, landscape works are divided into three categories: brush and ink landscape, ice and snow landscape and Mo Dao landscape. Study classical tradition and modern tradition in the first ten years; Ten years to explore the formation of their own style of brush and ink landscape; After another ten years, I explored my own landscape style of ice and snow, and created techniques such as snow hemp, snow splitting, snow honeycomb and snow skeleton, taking my own landscape style of pen and ink as the starting point for further practice. 20 15 died of illness.
Chinese name: Wang Yunshan.
Alias: Yunshan Ji Zi, Ji Zi
Nationality: China.
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Place of birth: Xuanhua, Hebei
Date of birth: 194 1 year
Date of death: 20 15
Occupation: famous landscape painter
Main achievements: brush and ink landscape, ice and snow landscape, Mo Dao landscape.
Representative Works: Mohist Faxiang Series
outline
Mr. Ji Zi, a famous landscape painter in China, has been engaged in landscape painting for more than 40 years. He was born in 194 1, Xuanhua, Hebei, and his real name is Wang Yunshan, whose real name is Ji Zi Yunshan. Now lives in Beijing. In the mid-1960 s, he began to participate in national provincial and municipal art exhibitions and published his works.
The work is magnificent and the realm is open; Composition is open and closed, which has both the connotation of classical painting and the composition of modern visual images; The style and brushwork are unrestrained, especially the original brushwork that has been honed for decades, which has far-reaching influence. Look at it, if you climb three mountains and five mountains, if you hold it, if you fly all over the world; Staring at it for a long time, I feel that heaven and earth are sensing and understanding Tao, both ancient and modern. It fully shows China's classic philosophical thought of harmony between man and nature and detachment from things, uniquely shows the natural world of modern aesthetics, advocates the creative spirit of "Mo Dao landscape", and devotes the pursuit of culture to art.
Exhibition introduction
Solo exhibition:
20 19 "Journey of the Soul-Kiko's Painting Teaching Exhibition", Museum of Hebei Normal University, Hebei.
20 19 "Ji Zi: A Journey of Mind", Shijiazhuang Art Museum, Hebei.
20 18 "Ji Zi: a spiritual journey", White Box Art Space, new york, USA.
20 17 "Ji Zi: Spiritual Journey", Wiseman Art Museum, Minnesota, USA.
20 15 "Back to Kiko Ink Painting Exhibition in the Early Yuan Dynasty", Guangdong Provincial Art Museum, Guangdong.
20 15 "watching video with god"-Ji zi's solo exhibition, Suzhou jinji lake art museum.
20 13 "Boundless Pursuit" exhibition, No.22 Art Center, Shanghai Bund.
20 12 "mountain view", pan-space, Beijing
20 12 "Tian Wen-Kiko Water and Ink Solo Exhibition", Beijing No.3 Gallery.
20 10 Kiko ink and wash solo exhibition-contemporary ink and wash space, Songzhuang, Beijing
2009 "Mohist School and Legal Image"-Ji Zi's solo exhibition, Beijing 798 Art District.
Joint exhibition:
20 19 "historical gaze" revisits contemporary China art, Jupiter Art Museum, Shenzhen.
20 18 "the scale of freedom (the fifth time)-China's contemporary ink and wash moves towards Europe", casares museum, Italy.
20 17 "ink and wash attack-the first Wuhan ink and wash biennale", Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan.
20 15 "People's Power-Opening Exhibition of Beijing Minsheng Modern Art Museum", Beijing Minsheng Modern Art Museum.
20 14 "The Return of the Future-Contemporary Art Exhibition from China", Broad Art Museum, Michigan, USA.
20 14 "Ink and Wash: Zen or Revolution Exhibition", Quartus Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
20 14 The 2nd Xinjiang International Art Biennale, Changji Art Museum, Xinjiang.
20 14 "spirit is like a mountain-China contemporary art exhibition", PearlLam gallery.
20 13 "Freedom and Nature-Art Exhibition for Nine People", Shanghai Mingyuan Art Museum.
20 12 "nature-the first Italy-China contemporary art biennale", Milan, Italy.
20 12 "The Return of the Louvre-China Ink and Wash Exhibition in Beijing", Huantie Times Art Museum, Beijing.
20 12 "One Hundred Years of China Ink and Wash", French Louvre Carlocell Invitational Exhibition, Paris.
20 10 "Art as Life-Leshan Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition", Sichuan.
2009 "Mohist School and Legal Image"-Ji Zi's solo exhibition, Beijing 798 Art District.
2009 First China Ink and Wash Biennale, Shanghai Duolun Art Museum.
2009 People's Republic of China (PRC) 60th Anniversary Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing.
Peer 2009- German-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuhan Art Museum
2009 60th Anniversary Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition of New China, Beijing.
Ink and wash notes in 2009, Yide Art Space in Beijing Winery International Art Zone.
"Pen Meaning" 2009-China-Korea Painting Exchange Exhibition, Beijing
The first symbolic ink and wash exhibition in 2008, Masbid Art Center, Beijing.
2008 Busan, South Korea 2008 International Modern Ink and Wash Exhibition
In 2006, Beijing Shangyuan Third Studio Open Exhibition, etc.
In 2002, Beijing Shangyuan Second Studio Open Exhibition.
1999 Hebei Art Exhibition, Shijiazhuang
1996 The 4th China Art Fair in Beijing
1992 Canadian Overseas China Painting and Calligraphy Research Exhibition.
199 1 year "soul of china" 100-meter long scroll creation and exhibition, Beijing.
1984 national staff and workers' art calligraphy photography exhibition (won the Excellence Award), Taiyuan, Beijing.
1982 Hebei landscape painting exhibition, Shijiazhuang
1972 Hebei Haihe art exhibition, Hebei nave art exhibition, Hebei calligraphy exhibition, etc. , Shijiazhuang
Main work
Hebei Literature and Art (Shijiazhuang No.2, 1972), Peace Magazine (Taiwan Province No.2, No.5), Collection of Outstanding Talents of Contemporary Painting in China, 2002, Beijing, Rong Baozhai (200 1.8, Beijing), Oriental Art (2000). Beijing), China Painting Art Yearbook (Beijing, 2007), China Painting and Calligraphy Exchange Yearbook (Beijing, 2007), Art Times (No.4, 2009), China Culture Newspaper (16, April, 2009), and Art Map (No.7, 2009).
publish
Ink and wash management-a study of Ji Zi's ink path and landscape, Gao,,, Guangxi Normal University Press, 20 17.
Ji Zi-Mohist Faxiang, edited by Wang, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 20 15.
Art evaluation
Jia: Crossing Time and Space, Crossing Heaven and Earth —— On Ji Zi's new work "Mo Dao Shan Shui"
The sudden change of Mr. Kiko's painting style in the past two years really impressed me. Teacher Wang is nearly 70 years old, and he is still so diligent about art, which makes me deeply touched.
Ji Zi's new works are mainly embodied in Mo Dao series and composition series. In these two series, the painter broke through the traditional pattern and idiomatic technique of landscape painting, gave up the previous obedience to the physical time order, and completely entered the subjective expression state of freely mobilizing time and space.
Ji Zi's new work is a modern perspective and means, showing a variety of natural weather from all angles and creating a magnificent "Mo Dao landscape". In particular, his works with strong color contrast are a kind of natural landscape with more fantastic effect and universal consciousness, and a new schema and new realm created by a modern landscape painter after returning to the origin of traditional landscape painting.
Ji Zi, who is aging before he gets old, has put his art into a good situation, which deserves congratulations.
Beijing Shangyuan, April 27, 2009
Yin Shuangxi: Taoism is natural.
Mr. Kiko's ink painting comes from tradition, but it is not traditional. It comes from nature, but it goes beyond nature. In terms of pen and ink, he can freely use the accumulated pen and ink and dyes, showing a vivid and enlarged image of clouds and water, and his vitality is dripping. But in composition, he surpassed the realistic route of landscape painting with natural mountains and valleys as the composition template, but freely combined everything in mountains, rivers, Yun He, glaciers and deserts.
I feel that the aesthetic taste of Mr. Jizi's works is obviously not the middle view or close view of China's traditional landscape painting with human as the visual subject, but the macro landscape containing modern people's understanding and reflection on the universe. Moreover, his interest is not in mountains and rivers, but in understanding Tao in mountains and rivers and reflecting on the universe and human past lives.
Mr. Jizi's works have their own "Tao", which is the dignity of human existence, and it shows people's closeness to nature and reverence for life.
May 25, 2009 at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Arthur C Danto: Zhangzi's Painting: A Suitable World.
Some of Zhangzi's works are painted in China's traditional ink landscape style, but they are different from the serene and Zen scroll paintings I saw in the works collected by the Metropolitan Museum. The Qianshan Mountain in Ji Zi's works is boiling and trembling, like surging water. People feel that the dragon is in an anxious sleep. When they wake up, they will jump up.
These works have the same wild and sexy, almost primitive feeling. To some extent, they show the mystery hidden in nature.
The scenery in Ji Zi reminds me of Coleridge's description of the boiling river in the wilderness. Do the actual strokes of these paintings actually convey a completely different world?
Curtis Carter: Bridging Tradition and Present
Ji Zi (1942-) belongs to a completely different aspect of contemporary art in China. China's contemporary art unconsciously adopts artistic methods influenced by the West, which is quite flashy. Ji Zi and other painters who choose China ink and wash media actively explore the meaningful connection between traditional philosophy-art method and contemporary experience. This doesn't mean just creating paintings in the way of past masters. On the contrary, Ji Zi's painting has gained its original value by depicting the picture space and exploring various ink colors and brushwork. His medium is pen drawing, or a variant of some architectural form.
Ji Zi belongs to the mainstream movement in contemporary art in China, and pays attention to the connotation of China's painting and contemporary ink painting. These debates focus on the traditional concepts involved in this medium and the influence of modern abstract and representation theory. This tradition has continued, although in fact, ink painting, a material medium, is quiet and gentle compared with the complex format of media art today. Its achievement almost lies in the understanding and techniques of philosophy and aesthetics, which need to be mastered by the artist himself. Artists engaged in ink painting have a wish that the art they create should be rooted in the cultural tradition of China, but strive to create a meaningful symbol of life in today's new China. Ji Zi's ink painting means participating in realistic dialogue to establish the important position of ink painting in China's contemporary art world.
Curtis Carter is the president of the International Aesthetic Association and a professor of aesthetics at Marquette University.
Liu Xiaochun: Symphony of the Images of Dragons and Monuments —— Comment on the landscape scroll "The Long Figure of Dayu" written by Ji Zi.
"Ji Zi's long scroll Daewoo Long Figure is unique in the history of painting in China and even in the history of painting in the world. If Ji Zi is a master of ink painting, this painting, as well as landscape paintings at the same level, can support the word "everyone". This is his masterpiece in his life, which includes his later exploration of Daewoo schema and reaches a more mature level. Ji Zi adopted the traditional lofty image and, like Dan Tao, created an independent road of building mountains with stones and casting stones with dead trees. He greatly reduced the vertical space of rocks, and created the image of a dragon and a cluster of monuments with strong black-and-white contrast and steel casting structure, showing a momentum and strength that expanded from the inside out.
Beijing, August 8, 2065 438+07