The characteristics of Mr. Ma Guoqiang's paintings can be summarized into six fonts: positive, thick and clear.

Those who are upright, inherit and innovate with clear lines, sharp lines, elegant and harmonious ink and wash, steady and full composition, clear and sincere expression, which can be described as Confucian demeanor and magnificent; Thick-skinned people, calligraphy with a pen, five strokes and seven inks bite each other, vigorous and full of internal force; Those with clear-cut flags have a sense of detachment from the overall picture, like a wisp. If the first month rises to the end of the world, it is more beautiful than the sound of a deep spring. Mr. Ma Guoqiang made unremitting efforts to catch up with Ren Bonian on the one hand, and keep pace with the times on the other. He combined tradition with reality, refined with macro, combined form with spirit, and changed his style suddenly, creating his own style different from that of his predecessors. Its image, realm and beauty of pen and ink present a unique artistic personality, which is unique in today's painting world.

1. It is the primary feature of Ma Guoqiang's art to calmly draw materials in the hot real life to express the grand purpose of "portraying thousands of grass-roots workers in Qian Qian vividly".

In Mr. Ma Guoqiang's works, there is no far-fetched preconceived annotation, no inexplicable fear of being in Lushan Mountain, but a real touch and in-depth thinking. There are concerns about efforts, sincere admiration for sunshine smiles, persistence in difficulties, calmness in vicissitudes of life, a grasp of the voice of the times and an interpretation of the true meaning of life.

Mr. Ma Guoqiang's writing direction can be roughly divided into three categories: ethnic minority figures, poetic figures in ancient costumes, and grass-roots workers in the Central Plains. For a long time, these three kinds of performance objects have been mixed with painters, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages in art.

Mr. Ma Guoqiang's choice of "grass-roots workers in the 2 1 century great plains" as the main direction is equally convincing for his keen artistic insight. In this regard, a number of new realistic works represented by builders (migrant workers) have been unveiled with great fanfare. In this vast work depicting dozens of characters, the painter created a brand-new character image and artistic conception of pen and ink. Although there are storms, frost and snow, depression and anxiety in reality, the group atmosphere they create in the picture has a beautiful and lyrical artistic conception, fresh and cheerful, chic and heroic, optimistic and determined. This is a typical mental outlook of the Great Plains people, simple and bold, forbearing and cheerful. With exquisite and unrestrained brushwork, the painter fully depicts and shows this touching group temperament, which has strong realistic appeal and artistic value that cannot be ignored.

Secondly, on the basis of solid realism, it is another great goal of Mr. Ma Guoqiang's art to vigorously carry forward the spirit of China's pen and ink. The outstanding thing about Mr. Ma Guoqiang is that he has never been addicted to "technology". He is fully aware that realism is a means rather than an end. The introduction of western realism has undoubtedly broken the distortion and bondage of traditional ink painting procedures with vague concepts to life, but the core essence of Chinese painting is freehand brushwork, which is a grasp of the universal spirit based on concrete description. Otherwise, it is bound to fall into the quagmire of "turning the vertebral wheel against the jade and carving the palace". Based on this, his ink figure paintings always pay attention to the overall situation of the characters, with strict positioning of key points, proper placement of non-key points, exaggeration and omission, freehand brushwork based on realism, rich in simplicity, complexity and order, pleasing to the eye, and can be appreciated in the heart.

The pen is crisp, the image is vivid, the composition is concise, the ink and wash are rich, and the pen mark rotating at the center is happily soaked away, dry and smooth, which will make the massiness fade, fresh and romantic, and the reality and reality coexist, and build a familiar and unfamiliar aesthetic system. These creative marks with strong personalized colors are everywhere, and they are the guideposts for China's pen and ink spirit to reach Mr. Ma Guoqiang's artistic heart.

Third, it is unique in the use of lines, realizing the unity of modeling sense and writing taste in the breakthrough, which is the third of Mr. Ma Guoqiang's art concerto.

Chinese painting or calligraphy, the most basic starting point is line, and the smallest component is also line. The difference between Chinese painting and western painting lies in the shape of lines and the interest of calligraphy. Chinese painting, a world of lines, contains a variety of artistic cultural characteristics, which are formed by the orderly superposition of lines, dots, horizontal lines, vertical lines, skimming, pressing and turning points. At the moment of dancing, the lines seem to be broken, the air lingers in invisible places, there is no connection between strokes and veins, or beauty is flowing, or the potential is smart and dense, or sex is vertical, which is more self-contained.