Weng Changjiang, male, Han nationality, from linkou county, Heilongjiang Province, 196 1. He studied painting since childhood, focusing on freehand figure painting and landscape painting. Now I work in the Central College of Cultural Management Cadres. He was invited to paint for the Ministry of Culture, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His works are collected by many international and domestic art galleries and individuals. Main works: Huashan map, reading map, hiking map, enjoying the cool, spring cow map, grandma ringing the bell.
Chinese name: Weng Changjiang
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Place of Birth: linkou county, Heilongjiang Province
Date of birth: 196 1
Occupation: painter
Representative works: Tuge map, Huashan map, reading map, spring cow map, grandma ringing the bell.
Personal profile
Chinese name: Weng Changjiang
Nationality: China.
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Place of Birth: linkou county, Heilongjiang Province
Date of birth: 196 1
Occupation: painter
Representative works: Tuge map, Huashan map, reading map, spring cow map, grandma ringing the bell.
Basic information
Artistic resume
From 65438 to 0987, he worked in Xiamen Painting Academy, and his works "Huashan Map" and "Reading Map" participated in the "Fujian Eight Masters Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition" and were exhibited in Xiamen and Hong Kong.
1988 the work "A Walking Map" and Xi 'an painter Wang Xijing participated in the "National Golden Dragon Cup Painting and Calligraphy Grand Prix" and won the first prize; In the same year, the work "Spring Cow Map" won the "Peony Cup Painting and Calligraphy Grand Prix" Excellence Award;
1990 was invited to attend the inauguration ceremony of Gansu Painting Academy, and went to Dunhuang to sketch with famous artists from all over the world;
199 1 year's work "Liang Natu" participated in the "First Tourism Painting and Calligraphy Art Festival" and won the Excellence Award; In June 5438+10 of the same year, he was invited to paint for Zhongnanhai for a week;
1993' s work "Spring Cattle Map" won the Excellence Award of "China Contemporary Cultural Essence Expo to commemorate the centenary of Mao Zedong's birth";
June 1995 held a solo exhibition at the Chinese Painting Research Institute;
1997 The work "Grandma Rings the Bell" won the "1997 Welcome to the Return of Hong Kong" Excellence Award, and the work was exhibited in China Art Museum;
1July, 1998, the work "A Cool Painting" participated in the "Exhibition of Famous Paintings and Calligraphy Celebrating the First Anniversary of the Return of Hong Kong" sponsored by the United Front Work Department and the Ministry of Culture, and the works were exhibited at the China Art Museum;
1999 "Spring Cattle Map" participated in the "Exhibition of Famous Paintings and Calligraphy in China to Commemorate the Centenary of Zhang Daqian's Birthday", and his works were exhibited in China Art Museum;
In 2000, he participated in the "Shanghai-Shandong Academic Seminar" and wrote a paper entitled "There are avenues in the abdomen, but there is no ambition in the chest".
In 2004, he was invited to hold an art exhibition in Cairo, Egypt.
In 2008, he participated in the "National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Calligraphy and Photography of Harmonious China for the Olympic Games" held by BOCOG and won the gold medal.
In 2009, he was invited to visit Turkey, was received by Turkish President Gul, and was photographed as a souvenir.
20 1 1 Invited to participate in the World Chinese New Year Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition in Vancouver, Canada.
China and Mongolian Artists Exhibition opens in Ulaanbaatar.
Xinhuanet Ulaanbaatar, May 22 (Reporter Shi Yongchun) The "Exhibition of Chinese and Mongolian Painters" organized by the China Cultural Center in Ulaanbaatar opened in Ulaanbaatar on May 22. The exhibition featured 58 works by China painter Weng Changjiang and Mongolian female painter Wu Ying Ga.
Meng Shude, director of the China Cultural Center in Ulaanbaatar, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony, saying that it is very meaningful for artistic works of different cultures and paintings to meet here.
The exhibition lasts for 4 days. Weng Changjiang, who participated in the exhibition, introduced his 30 representative works in the past 20 years. He said that China's traditional painting is based on lines, which is a kind of freehand brushwork art, and Chinese paintings mostly use lines to form images, so painters must pay attention to spiritual practice and then do whatever they want. Chinese painting takes justice and benefit as the highest realm and pursues the interest of nature. Western oil painting, on the other hand, is realistic and concrete. The means of forming images in oil paintings are mostly light and shade, and more attention is paid to texture effect and visual effect.
Wu Ying Ga, a famous Mongolian female painter, was exhibited with Weng Changjiang. She has 28 masterpieces. With wise observation, exquisite brushwork and full enthusiasm, the two painters outlined and described their favorite natural scenery, local customs and their beautiful vision for the future.
China-Mongolia artists exchange meeting
The exchange meeting between Chinese and Mongolian artists was held in Ulaanbaatar, the cultural center of China.
People's Daily Online, Ulaanbaatar, May 25 (Reporter Huo Wen) The Mongolian-China artists' exchange meeting was held at the China Cultural Center in Ulaanbaatar on the 25th, attended by Weng Changjiang, a famous Mongolian painter, Blundo Ji, president of the Academy of Fine Arts of Mongolian University of Culture and Arts, colleagues in Mongolian art circles, teachers and students of the Academy of Art, and media reporters.
At the exchange meeting, Weng Changjiang introduced his views on painting art, as well as his life philosophy and values to the participants. Weng Changjiang said that he admired Lao Tzu's Taoist thought, and his painting and attitude towards life were always closely related to Taoist thought. Weng Changjiang also painted for the participants and answered questions from reporters.
Dean Blundo Ji said that the art exchange activities held by Mongolian and Chinese art circles are conducive to enhancing mutual understanding, and he thanked the China Cultural Center for the exchange activities held in Ulaanbaatar.
On the same day, the "Joint Exhibition of Chinese and Mongolian Painters' Works", which opened on May 22nd, ended successfully.
Painting review
Beauty lies between birth and WTO entry.
-Read Weng Changjiang's freehand brushwork Chinese painting.
Author: Xin Huang (Traditional Chinese Medicine Ancient Books Publishing House)
Looking at Weng Changjiang's works can make people think a lot. Weng Changjiang's paintings, on the one hand, are very remote in artistic conception, ultra-dusty and refined, which fully shows the characteristics of China literati paintings; On the other hand, it is inseparable from human life, full of fireworks, which makes people feel kind and love at first sight. As a spectator of art, I think it is a good work to do this. Appreciating his paintings, I have the following feelings:
First, full of Zen
What is the most important feature of a work of art? In the eyes of westerners, it is composition and modeling. From ancient Greek and Roman art works to modern western art schools, they all emphasize structure and pursue similarity first. They have done really well in this respect. Paintings and sculptures are lifelike and meticulous, and with the development of mathematics and optics, this structure is becoming more and more developed. Some sculptures are lifelike and are no different from real people; Some oil paintings, in all their forms, can be compared with photography. China's art, including Chinese painting, emphasizes realm, artistic conception, poetry in painting and painting meaning in poetry. Even meticulous painting is quite different from western art in modeling. This is the different pursuit orientation of the two cultures.
China's poems and paintings all pursue artistic conception. For Chinese painting, the highest artistic conception recognized by everyone is the so-called Zen. Zen, originally a Buddhist term, roughly corresponds to the meaning of "awakening". Its meaning is so rich that it is difficult to express it accurately. Generally speaking, it refers to contempt for fame and fortune, letting nature take its course, obeying the laws of nature, not demanding, not greedy, not delusional and so on. Many fields of China people's life are pursuing this realm, such as listening to guqin, drinking tea, writing poetry and calligraphy, which are actually pursuing this artistic conception. For example, writing poems, China people admire beautiful and refined lyric poems, such as "moonlight in the pine forest, crystal stone in the stream", "independence of falling flowers, swift and Qi Fei", all of which are timeless stories, but narrative poems that pay attention to the plot are ignored; Appreciating music, guzheng, pipa and guqin are regarded as elegant, while musical instruments with strong rhythm and momentum such as gongs and drums can only be circulated in the lower social insurance; Even tea is the same. Most people in China like the green taste of green tea, and they will never mix milk and sugar in tea like westerners. This is the cultural taste of China people.
Looking at Weng Changjiang's paintings, people feel a distant Zen, and there are many associations. Those ancient and independent mountains, those lonely mountain springs that have flowed for thousands of years, and those eminent monks and celebrities whose hearts are outside the dust are shocking. When I first saw Weng Changjiang's landscape paintings and figure paintings, I first thought of these two poems: "Zen is as pure as the moon, and poetry is as fresh as the sky." Yes, it's a poem written by The Journey to the West and Tang Sanzang when they talked with the "four old people" in Muxian Temple, which makes people feel cold involuntarily. Zen, as far as its origin is concerned, comes from India. But this doesn't mean that China people didn't have this way of thinking before. On the contrary, it is precisely because it conforms to the way of thinking of China people that Buddhism is now popular in China.
Zen in Weng Changjiang's paintings is naturally revealed, not deliberately displayed. Few of his works take Buddhism as the theme, but no matter what kind of theme, they all show strong Zen. This shows that this realm is inherent in the author's mind.
Weng Changjiang's picture composition also reflects this pursuit. The most valuable thing about China's art is that it emphasizes the combination of reality and fiction, especially modesty. Virtual, can give people the space of association, thus "making something out of nothing" and producing many realities. In western works of art, an angel must have a pair of wings, and a witch must stand on a flying carpet or ride a broom, otherwise she can't fly in the sky, while the fairy monsters in China can fly freely in the sky without these, which is unimaginable to westerners. Weng Changjiang's paintings often have such an ethereal artistic conception, which also adds Zen to the picture.
The second is to be as vivid as possible.
Weng Changjiang's paintings are mainly splash-ink landscapes and freehand brushwork figures. These two themes are the strengths of promoting Chinese painting. I don't want to be the same, I want to be vivid, which has won the essence of Chinese painting. Chinese painting pays little attention to modeling. Su Dongpo talks about painting in Two Branches of Master Book of Yanling King;
"Theory of painting to form, see to the child. The poem must be this poem. You must not know the poet. Poetry and painting are unified, ingenious and fresh. "
The essence of Chinese painting is here. It is not the artist who pursues modeling excessively, but the craftsman. Shen Zongqian, a painting theorist in Qing Dynasty, said: "There are many methods of painting, and vivid is the oldest origin. Gai Yi can pass on the ancient sages and gods to future generations. People who say "God" instead of "shape" and "image" are similar to people in the world, people who say "image" are similar, and people who say "God" are different. " Indeed, a person's demeanor reflects his inner world, which is a unique feature of his natural temperament and acquired personality. In order to be vivid, we should not only be skilled, but also accurately grasp the inner world of the characters. Even if this character is fictional, as long as you "create" him, he will have his own independent "life" and his own unique personality temperament. You must resonate with him in order to accurately "convey the spirit".
Weng Changjiang painted many works with the theme of shepherd boy and cow. In these works, cows and buffaloes are simple and interesting, and the shepherd boy is naughty, quiet and lovely. Weng Changjiang used to herd cattle in the fields when he was a child. This provides an irreplaceable resource for his future paintings related to cattle. He knows the inner world of the shepherd boy and the inner world of the old cow, so he can convey his painting heart and his "spirit". The shepherd boy and the cow described by Weng Changjiang are not the relationship between the owner and the animal, but the relationship between friends. The shepherd boy's joys and sorrows and cows are in his eyes; Every move of the cow also affects the shepherd boy. Since this relationship is not the relationship between master and livestock to control slavery, it is also different from the relationship between man and nature from the perspective of modern ecology. That kind of relationship, in the final analysis, is based on the long-term interests of people and an tolerance for nature. The shepherd boy and the cow described by Weng Changjiang are a pair of partners, and the relationship between the cowherd and the cow.
Weng Changjiang's paintings of some worldly masters also make people feel so kind and natural. Speaking of it, it is because the author and his description object have a spiritual resonance. Weng Changjiang gives everyone the impression that he is introverted and sincere, not a speculator. It is natural for a painter to have a quiet heart and be good at painting clean people. The scenery he painted also gives people a feeling of purity. Its mountains are vast and desolate, and its ghosts are urgent; Its water is as clear as practice and breathtaking. China talked about painting in ancient times and said "Eight Diagrams". "Each painting has eight patterns: the stone is old and moist, the water is clear and bright, the mountains are towering, the springs are scattered, clouds and smoke appear, the wild paths are circuitous, the dragons and snakes are relaxed, and the bamboo hides the wind and rain." After all, they are all quiet places. Not a quiet person, it is difficult to preach a quiet god.
Third, pay attention to composition.
Weng Changjiang's paintings are beautiful. After careful tasting, I found that he is very particular about composition.
Although composition is not the most essential thing in Chinese painting, it is impossible for modern painters not to draw nutrition from western art works and art theories. Even if you haven't read the artistic theory of foreigners, or even the paintings of foreigners, and only look at the works of Chinese people, you will inevitably be indirectly influenced by this concept. Weng Changjiang is no exception.
Although his paintings are very freehand and exaggerated, they are all freehand, exaggerated and distorted on the basis of basic composition ability, and will not make people feel uncomfortable. This is a kind of consciousness based on fully absorbing the nutrition of western art. I always think that paying attention to composition is an important symbol for modern painters to surpass the ancients. Art is developed in the process of blending, learning and absorbing nutrition from each other. As long as the soul of Chinese painting is lost, the pursuit of composition definitely makes up for some unsatisfactory places in Chinese painting. It is a deformation based on similarity, not a painting. This is a fundamental difference.
The fourth is not to leave life.
Although Weng Changjiang's paintings are far-reaching in artistic conception and quiet in style, they are still full of life interest and fireworks. Most of his themes come from real life, not behind closed doors, which can be seen from the titles of his works, such as "Enjoy the Cool", "Shan Jutu", "Nongjiale", "Talk in a Village" and so on. Not to mention the paintings with the theme of shepherd boy and cow.
"Life is the source of art" is an artist's experience and a theory that will never be published. There are many modernist artists who oppose this point and emphasize that art should reflect the author's inner world, which is of course reasonable, but doesn't your inner world come from life?
If its distant artistic conception and quiet style reflect the author's origin, then its strong life breath reflects the author's entry into WTO and love for life. Beauty lies between birth and WTO entry.
It's a pity to appreciate Weng Changjiang's works, but its subject matter is still not wide enough. Mainly based on figures and landscapes, repeatedly honed. Although this is in line with the road to Excellence, after all, there are too many similar themes, which will make people feel less fresh. I sincerely hope that the painter can visit Wan Li Road, read all the people in the world, enrich his life experience and enrich the subject matter of his creation.
The scenery in the subway —— Appreciation of Weng Changjiang's freehand brushwork
The opening of Metro Line 6 has brought many expectations and joy to Beijing residents. In order to experience the legendary new platform and high speed, like many people, I changed my usual way of traveling and couldn't wait to study a new subway route map. Although most of the elevators have not been opened and the follow-up work is still in progress, the different platform designs of Line 6 have really brought us a refreshing feeling.
A few days ago, a friend and I took Line 6 to Chaoyangmen. Out of the southwest exit of the subway, I saw many light boxes with Chinese paintings hanging on the north and south walls of the escalator. I was in a hurry. Seeing these freehand brushwork Chinese paintings, I can't help but look at them twice. I feel familiar with them for a while, but I can't remember where I met them. Presumably, in order to decorate the subway, the designer has arranged some works by modern and contemporary famous artists. A friend around me said, "It was all painted by one person, and I was stunned. Not bad! Look at this seal. " I followed his guide and looked at it carefully. Weng Changjiang turned out to be Mr. Weng's painting! I just came to my senses, so happy that I couldn't help telling my friends about this painter.
Teacher Weng is from the northeast. He studied painting since childhood, focusing on freehand figure painting and landscape painting. I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Weng once. Although he wears a suit, he has an obvious taste of literati-less smiles and casual manners, which is in harmonious contrast with his gentle and clever wife Lu. Teacher Weng heard that I studied art and wrote some articles, which seemed very interesting. I was asked a lot of professional details as soon as I came up. I almost couldn't stand it if I didn't have some ink in my stomach, but I really realized the sincerity and simplicity of this artist. Although he is a generation older than me, Mr. Weng's manners and manners reveal mellow simplicity, and his attitude towards contemporary art and enthusiasm for natural life also make people feel that he is a temperament middleman with a childlike heart.
Teacher Weng's paintings are just like people, and there is a kind of naivety and naivety in the middle. I saw more than 20 freehand paintings by Mr. Weng at Chaoyangmen Station on Line 6. Among them, the landscape paintings such as Huashan Chess Pavilion, Shan Jutu, Autumn in Yanshan Mountain and Deep in Wanshan Mountain are concise and smooth, and the descriptions of small people in the mountains and the brushwork of ochre and Huaqing make these strange stones show a strong human touch. Among these works, I especially like those with the theme of herding cattle. As we all know, Mr. Li Keran loves to draw pictures of cattle herding, and Mr. Weng's cattle herding works have their own characteristics. For example, Mr. Keran loves to draw cows in spring, while Mr. Weng seems to be very interested in the theme of herding cows in different seasons. A "cow-grazing map" of Chaoyangmen subway depicts a cow lying on the ground and two naive children playing chess. Although there is no description of the environment in the painting, we can also feel the breath of summer from the way people are tired with their eyes closed and the situation of children playing chess with shirts off. There is also a picture of "Returning from the Countryside", which shows a shepherd boy wearing a crooked straw hat, a jacket, holding up his arms and carrying a cane, as if to rush home in the evening. The ox next to him followed the young master step by step, and seemed to understand the young master's eagerness to go home. There is a little plot and color between childish pen and ink, and the paper is full of childlike interest.
After the opening of the new subway line for a period of time, I realized that many light boxes on the new line displayed Mr. Weng's works. Occasionally, it's just pleasing to the eye, and my mood is really cheerful. I usually come into contact with meticulous brushwork and heavy color meticulous brushwork. It is impossible to know meticulous brushwork without patience, and freehand brushwork requires talent more. It is said that at the age of 28, Mr. Weng has already won the first prize of "National Golden Dragon Cup Painting and Calligraphy Grand Prix" with the president of An Painting Academy, and his works are really impressive.
I think these works in the subway can not only enrich the cultural life of citizens, but many passers-by may also have similar feelings with me-under the high pressure of life in the capital, this scenery in the subway can slow down our hurried pace; Let's relax our nervous nerves after intense study and work. The plowman fell to the ground and said nothing. It's telling us to slow down, and then slow down. With the footsteps of the shepherd boy, he raised his crutch and hummed a little song, and slowly went home.
Text/Jiang Fangting (Peking University Art College)