Gong Wenzhen, a leading figure in contemporary meticulous flower-and-bird painting, 1945, was born in Beijing. He studied traditional meticulous flower-and-bird painting in China since childhood, paying special attention to sketching and pursuing rigorous, generous, beautiful and elegant artistic style.

Chinese name: Gong Wenzhen.

Nationality: China.

Ethnic group: Han nationality

Place of birth: Beijing

Date of birth: 1945

Occupation: painter

Graduation school: Beijing Arts and Crafts School.

Main achievements: leading figures in contemporary meticulous flower-and-bird painting.

Representative works: mountain red, heavier frost, camellia.

brief introduction

Gong Wenzhen, 1945, a famous painter in China, is a leading figure in contemporary meticulous flower-and-bird painting. He studied traditional meticulous flower-and-bird painting in China since childhood, paying special attention to sketching and pursuing rigorous, generous, beautiful and elegant artistic style. He studied under the famous painters Tian Shiguang and Li Kuchan, 198 1 Central Academy of Fine Arts, and then taught at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts. Now he is a first-class painter in China National Painting Academy, and enjoys the allowance of experts for special contributions from the State Council. Senior title judge of Ministry of Culture, senior title judge of Beijing Painting Academy, and judge of China Gongbi Painting Exhibition. His works have participated in many national art exhibitions and have been collected by China Art Museum and China Artists Association. His works have also been exhibited in the United States, Japan, Canada, Singapore and other countries, and many paintings and techniques have been published. The China Orchid stamp designed by 1988 won the National Best Stamp Award of 1988. Many works, such as "Spring of the Earth" and "Hong Mei Tu", are now on display in Zhongnanhai, Diaoyutai and other state organs. Many flower and bird works were presented as national gifts to foreign countries, such as US President Bush and Indonesian President Suharto. 199 1 June, 2008, he painted Zhu meitu, a meticulous painting for China Hall of United Nations Headquarters. 200 1 Participate in the Centennial Exhibition of Chinese Painting. In 2005, he was selected into the exhibition of outstanding contemporary Chinese paintings hosted by China People's Political Consultative Conference (the "Twenty People Exhibition").

Artistic resume

First-class painter of China National Painting Academy, member of China Artists Association, director of China Gongbi Society, honorary president of Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, and academician of the Central Museum of Literature and History. He has served as a senior title judge of the Ministry of Culture, a senior title judge of Beijing Painting Academy and a judge of China Gongbi Painting Exhibition.

1945 65438+February, born in Beijing.

1965, graduated from Beijing Art and Design School.

1972 The work "Four Seasons Green" was selected for the National Exhibition of Chinese Painting Comics.

1973 The work "Mountain Red" was selected for the national art exhibition.

1975 The work "Cauliflower" was selected for the Beijing Art Exhibition.

1979 was admitted to the Chinese painting department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts as a graduate student.

198 1 year, graduated from graduate school.

From 65438 to 0982, he taught at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, and his work "Poems and Pictures of the Tang Dynasty" participated in the "Beijing Fine brushwork and heavy color painting exhibition" and other exhibitions.

1983 Works "golden phoenix Map" participated in exhibitions such as "New China Art Exhibition".

1984, painting gift of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Painting for Zhongnanhai, German Embassy in West Germany and other places.

1985, painting for the Great Hall of the People, British Embassy and other places; His works participated in exhibitions such as "Nine-person Joint Exhibition".

1986, painting for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Works to participate in exhibitions held in Hong Kong and other places; Shoot the teaching video of meticulous flower techniques.

1987, transferred to Chinese Painting Research Institute; His works are exhibited in Chinese Painting Research Institute and China Art Museum. His works were selected in Selected Works of Fine brushwork Flowers and Birds published by Rong Baozhai.

1988 The work "Old Tree" was selected as "Beijing International Ink Painting Exhibition" and won the Excellence Award; Visit Japan and exhibit works; Designed stamps for the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and won many awards.

1989, published the album "Gong Wenzhen meticulous flowers"; The work "Spring and Glory of Ancient Wood" was selected for the 7th National Art Exhibition.

199 1 painted for China's headquarters in the United Nations.

1992, Gong Wenzhen meticulous flower-and-bird painting was published.

1993, Gong Wenzhen Painting Collection published; Lao Mei was selected as the "First China Art Exhibition" and won the Excellence Award.

1994 His works were selected for the 8th National Art Exhibition and held in the Chinese Painting Research Institute. His works were selected for the 8th International Art Exhibition held by Indian Academy of Fine Arts.

1995, Beijing TV filmed a video of meticulous flower techniques.

1996 painted "A Beautiful Country" for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 1997, participated in the activity of "Stone Carving of Three Gorges by World Chinese Painters".

From 65438 to 0998, his works participated in exhibitions such as "The First Anniversary Exhibition of Hong Kong's Reunification" and "Peking University Centennial Exhibition".

In 2000, he participated in the China Contemporary Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition held in Hongkong.

200 1 Published albums such as Gong Wenzhen Modern Meticulous Flower and Bird Collection and Meticulous Plum Blossom Painting. His works participated in "Centennial Exhibition of China Painting" and "Biennale of National Academy of Painting".

In 2002, he published "Gong Wenzhen Bamboo Painting Techniques"; At the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he created "Shoubi Nanshan" for the birthday of former US President Bush; Four Works of China People's Political Consultative Conference.

In 2003, he created "Brilliant Spring" for the Beijing Municipal Party Committee Building and exhibited it in the mayor's office building.

In 2004, Gong Wenzhen Flowers and Birds, a collection of painters' works in China Painting Academy, was published.

In 2005, he participated in the exhibition of 20 works sponsored by China People's Political Consultative Conference; The work Begonia oriole was collected and displayed by Zhongnanhai; Participate in the "International Plastic Art Exhibition"; Create "jubilation" for Diaoyutai State Guesthouse; Design a "Magnolia" stamp for the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

In 2006, I made a map for the United Front Work Department building.

In 2007, he participated in the same world China painter art exhibition and painted five paintings for the United Front Work Department.

In 2008, he made "Chinese rose flower" for the Chinese Olympic Committee.

20 10 painted two pictures for Zhongnanhai. Published The Paintings of Rong Baozhai.

artistic style

There are not many painters with personality like Gong Wenzhen. Maybe it is a modern society of 2 1 century. Many painters deal with society and art in a modern way. However, Gong Wenzhen is a man without much modernity. At the same time, he is not the kind of person who looks very classical, at least he will not flaunt himself with a Hanfu. There is no scholar in his paintings. Although the thin gold body in his inscription reveals a trace of ancient meaning, the overall style is still contemporary aesthetic interest. He is a very plain person, so plain that it is difficult to find a topic to talk about. Many painters in ancient society were often nicknamed "crazy" or "crazy" among the people, probably starting from Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. This is because there are many differences between painters and ordinary people, or because the undressing of painting presents a "crazy" or "crazy" state, and perseverance and selflessness are the most important qualities of a painter.

In Gong Wenzhen's personality style, the most superficial point is that he is not good at words and making friends. Therefore, it is difficult for others to see his "madness" or "epilepsy", nor can they see the painter's style that can be seen everywhere in many painters. He kept a low profile and devoted himself to painting. Among the painters in contemporary society, there are really few people who can concentrate on their own paintings without other worries. Therefore, it is appreciated by artists of the older generation, such as Ye, Ye and Ye. The movie line "Be kind to others" was once all the rage, because "kindness" has become people's expectation today. Gong Wenzhen is really a kind person.

As a painter, the "kindness" in Gong Wenzhen's paintings is as smooth and sweet as others. There are no streets and rivers and lakes. Every detail of his composition, marking and rendering shows a rigorous attitude, and every aspect of his interest, artistic conception and style reflects his heartfelt confession. He removed the traces of description in neat pictures and revealed the interest of "writing" in rigorous brushwork, which is unique in the overall trend of contemporary meticulous flower-and-bird painting in China.

After China's flower-and-bird painting developed to modern Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi, almost all descendants felt the difficulty of surpassing the peak. Although famous artists such as Pan Tianshou appeared in flower-and-bird painting after the mid-20th century, the overall achievement in the history of painting is not outstanding. However, there are two meticulous masters, Yu Feichang and Chen Zhifo. It can be said that this is a rare strain of meticulous flowers and birds since the Song Dynasty. Obviously, the experience of meticulous painting in the history of China painting is related to the mainstream status of literati painting represented by Su Dongpo in the Song Dynasty. Therefore, the decline of meticulous painting after the Yuan Dynasty is a historical issue. In the late 20th century, due to the guidance of exhibitions, meticulous flower-and-bird painting has reached a peak since the Song Dynasty. Not only have a large number of meticulous flower-and-bird painters appeared one after another, but also a large number of meticulous flower-and-bird works have been selected for the national art exhibition. It can be said that both meticulous flower-and-bird painting and meticulous flower-and-bird painting painters have received the courtesy of the times. Undoubtedly, this is not a normal phenomenon. In this abnormal phenomenon, the overall appearance of meticulous flower-and-bird painting has also been distorted in history. The main problem is that most painters blindly pursue neatness and kung fu in order to win the pity and admiration of the judges, so most of them are "capable". The trend of contemporary meticulous painting has lost the feeling and interest of painting, and also lost the humanistic spirit of painting, which makes meticulous painting take the pursuit of lens reflection similar to photography as its ultimate goal, forming the disease of the times behind the prosperous scene. Gong Wenzhen's paintings are not like this. The picture feeling created by his paintings is not based on neatness, but on the feeling and interest of painting to interpret the proper character of meticulous painting.

As a meticulous flower-and-bird painter, Gong Wenzhen will definitely weigh the difficulty when choosing flower-and-bird painting and meticulous painting. This unique category in western painting has gained professional recognition as an independent painting in China. Therefore, the knot formation method represented by folding branches embodies the achievements of historical development, which is completely different from the still life painting in western painting. In the dialectical relationship between gains and losses, the limitation of broken branches is first manifested in the limited possibility of development. From the historical development, there are only a handful of flowers and birds in meticulous flower-and-bird painting, and the collocation of flowers and birds shows a kind of inheritance relationship at the folk level. Therefore, many modern painters take the introduction of new concrete objects as the breakthrough point, such as the workers in leitian cloth and the flowers in Yandang Mountain in Pan Tianshou, which are unprecedented. Although there are some broken branches in Gong Wenzhen's paintings, which show the connection with traditional meticulous flower-and-bird paintings, he still loves some new themes and related new languages from Yunnan. Therefore, he 1 1 went to Yunnan to sketch and experience his feelings about the natural world in that area, thus opening a new window for his meticulous flower-and-bird painting and expressing his new views on contemporary meticulous flower-and-bird painting in China.

Gong Wenzhen's choice has no special significance among contemporary meticulous flower-and-bird painters, because there are many painters who have been to Yunnan, and there are also many painters who paint flowers and birds in Yunnan. His achievement and significance lies in exploring new techniques from the new content he wants to express, thus expressing a new realm of flower-and-bird painting and a new aesthetic visual experience. For example, the flowers and birds in his night scenes are unprecedented, and the flowers and birds in special situations have also been specially treated, making them an artistic atmosphere between similarity and dissimilarity, without copying natural intuition. He chose the unique bamboo in Yunnan and set his eyes on the picturesque bamboo roots. Therefore, the bamboo in his paintings not only has the connection with traditional aesthetics, but also has a new realm created by the change of image. He also paid special attention to parasitic plants such as vines, and combined the interest of nature with the interest of painting to create a new scene.

Gong Wenzhen's meticulous flower-and-bird language has its unique content, which not only reflects his academic background from non-factory and Tian Shiguang, but also shows his research achievements for many years. He promoted the healthy development of meticulous flower-and-bird painting in contemporary China from one aspect.

Chen Lvsheng

magnum opus

Representative works include Spring of the Earth, Four Seasons Green, Mountain Red, Rain Flower and Liu Qing Picture, Smoked Wind, Spring Picture of Ancient Trees, etc. He has participated in the National Fine Arts Exhibition, Contemporary Fine Painting Society Exhibition, Centennial China Fine Arts Exhibition, and 20 exhibitions sponsored by Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Expert review

Ye Yuqian

The change from freehand brushwork to meticulous brushwork aims to break through the monopoly of Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi. As soon as I turned the brush, I turned to the meticulous painting of the Northern Song Dynasty, and learned both Song Huizong's paintings and his calligraphy. Tian Shiguang and Yu Zhizhen, and the third signed painter. Is one of them, he also gives priority to meticulous flower-and-bird painting, which not only has the same merits as his teacher and teacher Tai, but also has different faces. If you don't look at anything else, just look at his photo with bamboo and bamboo shoots, you will know that the artistic image he pursues has his own world. Look at his sketch again. Besides bamboo and bamboo shoots, swallows and birds, he is also good at drawing dark corners of nature to highlight the faces of wild trees and wild flowers and enhance the color beauty in natural landscapes. Although his brushwork is pragmatic and meticulous everywhere, it is actually ethereal and intriguing. In layout, he pays attention to the natural relationship between flowers, stones, trees and birds, and shows the characteristics of seasons and environment. His teacher likes to use a kind of poem with the theme of "An Apricot Out of the Wall" to contrast the distinctiveness of the image, rather than relying on the contrast between the poem and the theme. The artistic image he created relies on meticulous efforts, with lightness in massiness and agility in rigor.

qin lingyun

Gong Wenzhen used the techniques and language of traditional meticulous painting calmly, skillfully and creatively, and also absorbed the effective expression techniques from abroad. His paintings are meticulous but not plain, gorgeous and not vulgar. They are masterpieces that are not angry but powerful, bear people's chewing, and write the customs of the times.

Sun Ke

(Secretary-General of Chinese Painting Art Committee of China Artists Association) Gong Wenzhen has been painting bamboo for many years and has become an expert in bamboo painting. The bamboo in his works is strong and straight, beautiful and slender, with dense branches and leaves, dragon patterns and bells. They are short and thin and very beautiful. Different from predecessors, bamboo in Gong Wenzhen's works not only shows its spiritual connotation and the realm that artists yearn for, but also shows its perfect shape and characteristics. The depiction of its roots, stems, nodes and leaves is the result of highly skilled and expressive line drawing and moderate rendering and coloring on the basis of careful observation and sketching.

Gong Wenzhen's flower-and-bird painting not only has its own thread to follow, but also can keep pace with the times and create and develop with heart. Gong is a leading figure in meticulous flower-and-bird painting.

Zuo Wei Zhuang

Gong Wenzhen, a contemporary master from tradition to modernity, has made great achievements on behalf of northern meticulous flower-and-bird painting and made exemplary contributions to the development of contemporary meticulous flower-and-bird painting in China.

Wuyang

Gong Wenzhen's meticulous flower-and-bird painting is famous for its academic character and great demeanor. Reading his works, the most direct feeling is the fresh and rich flavor of life, which is active and profound on the basis of traditional meticulous painting, greatly enriching the theme of performance and life feelings, which can only come from life. In his life, he once sank to the bottom of society. In the collection of painting materials, he once sank into the deepest part of the virgin forest. He grafted the two together, formed his painting language, made it live, and realized the fresh and noble emotional connotation in an approachable way.

The painter's experience

Sketching is kung fu, and kung fu is at home. When painting, you don't need to consider brushwork and skills, but focus on emotional input. In the process of creating a sense of space, you also create an atmosphere. With the passion for painting, we can get rid of the stagnation and rigidity of meticulous painting and pursue smart pictures and elegant styles. Only by persistently going deep into life, observing life, experiencing life, recording life, understanding life, carefully observing the birds and animals to be described, carefully studying the seasonal changes of flowers and trees, paying attention to the color changes of mountains and rivers in time, constantly improving one's cultural accomplishment and various artistic accomplishments, and synchronizing life accumulation with learning accumulation, can we continuously produce new ideas and works and maintain a good creative state.