Lizhuang Zhonghua
-Wan Li Mountain Map (1800㎝×372㎝)
The hall on the third floor of the Great Hall of the People is an important place for party and state leaders to hold political activities. The annual Lantern Festival party, the premier's press conference of the "two sessions", many international conferences and large-scale receptions are held here. The renovation of Qian Qian Hall has been completed, and the hall is resplendent, solemn and elegant, resplendent. The reconstructed hall will become the "golden hall" of China.
The creation requirements of the main painting in the hall should be able to represent the national cultural and artistic image, reflect the prosperity of the country, and be in harmony with the surrounding environment.
Since August 2008, Zhong was invited to participate in sketch creation, and the draft was completed in1February. After repeated evaluation, screening and examination by experts, the entrusted creation task book was issued, and Comrade Zhong, a famous military painter, was selected to complete the theme painting of the Golden Hall.
Mural painting lasted for one year from creation to completion. Together with Li, an assistant painter in Zhongnanhai, he faces a huge painting every day, or squats on the ground to sketch it, or pushes a unicycle to work in the sky, up and down, day and night. During this period, with the support of provincial military leaders, we provided very good working conditions. The works have been assisted by the provincial people's congress from creation to evaluation, and the leaders of the General Assembly Hall Administration and famous experts and scholars have given very specific care and guidance during the enlargement stage. The Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries also organized a forum to observe the works.
In mid-August, 2009, the leaders and experts of the Great Hall of the People passed the acceptance of their works and set off for Beijing in September to welcome the 60th anniversary celebration of People's Republic of China (PRC).
The magnificent China-Wan map (large mural 1800㎝×372㎝) makes people feel like they are in space, overlooking 9.6 million square kilometers of China, starting from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the west, with rolling mountains and snow-covered, with Mount Everest looking like a sword and mountains rolling like waves; In the misty Sichuan Basin, the wonders of Emei, the Yangtze River pierces the thousands of peaks split by knives and axes, crosses the majestic and steep Three Gorges, and is mighty eastward. A golden sun rose from Ran Ran, the vast horizon in the east, and dyed the Qinling, Huashan, Taihang and Dabie Mountains red. The Yellow River flows from Hetao through the Loess Plateau and North China Plain and into the Yellow Sea. There are Huangshan and Wuyishan in the southeast of the picture, the rolling mountains in the south of the motherland, and the land of plenty in the south of the splendid Yangtze River. Surging rivers, majestic mountains, waterfalls, flowing springs, vast forests, steamed clouds, lush peaks, rivers flowing thousands of miles away, full of weather, magnificent, a vibrant land of China, magnificent and brilliant. The close-up part of the picture starts from the left: Banna style, Tibetan and Qiang villages, plateau grazing, Emei Jinding, Three Gorges boating, Sichuan and Guizhou Diaolou, Xianggan mountain village, water town scenery, Guanyun Waterfall and new-type city, all of which are eye-catching and make it vast and implicit. Great rivers and mountains have nurtured the long history and culture of the Chinese nation for 5,000 years and attracted countless heroes to compete for beauty. On the vast land of China,1300 million China people are rising, and the nation is reviving, creating unprecedented glory!
In the creation of mural art, he inherited the excellent tradition of landscape painting, paying special attention to artistic conception, pen and ink and ideological connotation. "Mountains and rivers take me as one, and everything takes me as the body", casting the national spirit with the spirit of mountains and rivers, and attaching great importance to innovation. Murals avoid the style of literati painting with a stroke of a pen on rice paper. It is composed of a large picture with canvas board, copper screen partition, titanium edge and connection. It uses acrylic pigments and mineral pigments of traditional Chinese painting, with bright and elegant colors, strong adhesion and no discoloration or deformation for a long time. The murals are located by satellite cloud images, and the composition method of Chinese painting is scattered perspective, flat and lofty, and various painting and calligraphy techniques are used to absorb the strong colors and shapes of western painting, with special attention to the contrast between reality, ink white, cold and warm, dynamic and static, dry and wet, and vertical, and the overall effect is simple. The picture can stand repeated revisions, and it can be seen from a distance and near, which greatly enriches the expressive force of Chinese painting.
The mural "Magnificent China" is like a piece of green jade inlaid in bright gold, which complements the golden hall and is fascinating. Corresponding to this is another theme wall in the hall, Ode to China written by Mr. Zhang. This 385-word poem brings together the 5,000-year history and culture of China and the splendid land of China, and the mountains, rivers and scenery are vividly displayed. Calligraphy and painting complement each other and are beautiful. The mural "Magnificent China" and "Ode to China" give people magnificent visual impact, endow the works with lofty and magnificent aesthetic character, and inspire people's patriotic enthusiasm and national pride.
Attachment: Ode to China
Historical memory, philosophical thinking, original value
-Talking about the artistic creation of famous painter Zhong's long scrolls such as Entering Wa Mountain and Wa Mountain Tribe Map.
Chen yiwu
Zhong, a famous painter, became famous for his long-term painting of Wa Mountain, and successively created long scrolls such as Entering Wa Mountain and Map of Wa Mountain Tribe. When the reporter interviewed him, Zhong said, "When I was a student, I read The Journey to the West and was deeply moved by the primitive, wild and mysterious nature of the Wa people. This headhunting tribe hidden in the deep forest is fascinating and even a little creepy! "
The southwest frontier of China is one of the cradles of human civilization. Until the 1950s, Awa Mountain area in the border area of Yunnan was still in the state of clan and tribe. Slash-and-burn, headhunting valley sacrifice, totem worship, cattle hunting celebration, tribal vendetta, and life in primitive ignorance are everywhere, so historians also call them living fossils of human beings.
In the early 1950s, the Eighth Frontier Corps stationed in Ximeng failed to enter Mount Awa smoothly, and the troops went through hardships and dangers. The fortified villages of the Awa tribe are heavily guarded. Many soldiers were shot by snipers and crossbows with poison in the forest, and the squad was attacked. Especially once the poisoned arrows were shot, they rolled around in pain, their hands and feet twitched, and their faces were black and blue when they died. Some soldiers fell victim to their headhunters and sacrificed to the valley, but our army never used force to suppress them. Instead, we have repeatedly done patient and meticulous ethnic work, used the party's ethnic policy, and used our own actions to influence the Wa brothers and peacefully entered the Wa mountainous areas. The troops went into the mountains and went deep into the villages to visit, cure and help the poor. All kinds of materials are continuously transported into the cottage to develop production, build homes, and become one with the Wa people to live and work together. In the battle to defend and build the frontier, * * established flesh-and-blood ties with the Wa people. Zhong joined the army as a border guard in the early 1960s, and the area under the jurisdiction of Simao Army Division is Xishuangbanna, Menglian, Mengla and Awashan in Ximeng. He was lucky enough to enter Awa Mountain many times, and was deeply impressed by the historical achievements of the old frontier defense in those days, and established a profound friendship between the army and the people. Zhong said: "The Wa people told us to' liberate', and' liberating the Wa people is a family'. In the eyes of the Wa people, the PLA is the * * * production party, and the * * * production party is the PLA. " "The Truth" and "Counting Treasures" are still songs taught by northern veterans in the 1950s, and have been sung to this day. This simple feeling for the party and the army shocked my soul, so the creative impulse of "Walking into Awa Mountain" came into being.
1979, Zhong once again went deep into the Wa mountainous area for several months, stayed with the Wa people, drank the concentric wine of the Wa people, ate mouse meat and cooked rice, went to a corner of the field and slept in a bamboo building fire pit. Back in Kunming, people are dark and thin. After the draft was finalized, it took half a year to create a long painting scroll "Into Awa Mountain" (100200) abroad, which was exhibited in Beijing on August 1st Army Day (198 1) and became an instant hit.
With the reform and opening up, artistic creation has entered diversification. As the west wind of culture and art spread eastward, pop, installation, behavior, concept and earth art came to the foreground; Pioneer, avant-garde, trendy, fashionable, Zhong thought for a long time that he could not be avant-garde and went back. The more primitive things are, the more valuable they are. With the rapid development of modern civilization, human beings pay more attention to their childhood. So on the basis of "entering Wa Mountain", I began to create "Wa Mountain Tribe Map". The author does not generally express the ethnic customs and costumes in the border areas, but deposits in the deep layer of national culture, excavating the original value of national culture and the modern consciousness and humanistic spirit contained in it.
The Chinese painting "Washan Tribe Scroll" is Zhong's masterpiece handed down from generation to generation (this is the words of Professor Zhan, chairman of the Chinese Association of Atlanta, USA). With the alliance of two tribal leaders as the main axis, the painter started all aspects of primitive life: Awa Mountain in vast expanse, primitive bamboo buildings in Gu Zhuo, crude bows and broadswords, spears, wooden plates, bamboo spoons, bamboo barrels, bamboo stools, Awa Mountain people were drunk day and night, singing and dancing, and offering sacrifices to cattle. There are vivid descriptions of toasting and hunting to opponents (leaders elected by the masses) and Moba (wizards), life scenes of twisting thread to weave cloth, pounding rice and carrying water, and cemeteries near the village. The pictures in Ghost Forest, such as human head pile, bull's head pile,,, and so on, are magnificent, and many characters with strong personality bring people into a tough, rough, thick, simple, primitive and mysterious situation.
This painting was exhibited in Hawaii, USA in 1994, and in Atlanta in 1997, which shocked the audience. Sing Tao Daily commented: "The work has a strong internal motivation. The author tries to grasp the core of life, open the key of life, realize the true meaning of life, seek the original value, appreciate the complete spiritual liberation and the high-level realm of natural integration, and purify people's hearts. In artistic form, his works have broken through and developed China's long scroll figure painting, and the composition is broader and richer on the basis of scattered perspective, and the image portrayal is more in-depth and accurate, making his works huge and more epic. He also praised Zhong for being Gauguin in Tahiti. The World Journal said: "Zhong uses multi-point perspective painting and three-dimensional depth painting instead of traditional single-person performance."
Zhong Kai has lived in the frontier of Yunnan for a long time, and has a profound life accumulation and solid painting skills. His painting style is vigorous, his works are profound and simple, and he pays attention to the exploration of life and philosophical thinking. The Map of the Wa nationality vividly shows the spiritual feelings and lifestyle of human beings in primitive times, which can be said to be a historical picture of the life of the Wa nationality.
The Zhong Ink Painting published by Hong Kong Publishing House shows the lifestyle and spiritual form of the Wa people in primitive times, expresses profound rational ideas and thoughts on the meaning of life with perfect painting language, and expresses extremely abstract ideas with concrete methods. When science enters theology, art will break into philosophy. Mr. painter critic, deputy editor-in-chief of Calligraphy and Painting magazine, said: "It will be enlightening to read every work of Zhong carefully. Years are long, tribal drums, black holes, ghost forests, soul worlds, curses, distant mountains,,, all contain some ideas, and he has no intention of expressing anything.
The Breakthrough and Innovation of China's Flower and Bird Painting
-Comment on Zhong's large mural "Mountain Flower"
Wu
Flower and bird paintings are colorful and fragrant, butterflies fly and birds soar. "The metamorphosis of poor feathers has taken away the fragrance of flowers." Care, Dai, Lu and Bian in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and Huang Quan and Xu Xi in the Five Dynasties all flourished for a while. In the Song Dynasty, Huizong Zhao Ji advocated and practiced flower-and-bird painting to reach its peak. The flower-and-bird paintings in this period, whether rich or wild, are mainly based on learning from nature and attach importance to learning from nature. Since the Yuan Dynasty, literati painting has been on the rise, and there are many famous artists in Ming and Qing Dynasties, including Xu Wei, Bada, Shi Tao, Zheng Xie and Jin Nong. Xu Gu, Si Ren, Wu Changshuo and other maritime painting schools pushed flower-and-bird painting to a peak; Modern times, represented by Qi Baishi, created a new style of flower-and-bird painting. Literati painting emphasizes the subjective expression of artistic conception, pursues the interest of pen and ink, expresses emotion with plum blossoms and bamboo flowers, nourishes the soul with piano, chess and calligraphy, expresses the escape in the chest with a wave of his hand, and pursues the self-improvement and detachment of personality in style and integrity. China's flower-and-bird paintings are the most perfect and mature among many kinds of Chinese paintings, and there are many masters, so that some people think that from Wu Changshuo to Qi Baishi, it has reached its peak, which is insurmountable, and it is necessary to start a new stove. Contemporary flower-and-bird painting stopped not because of the high mountains, but because of the heavy blow of the Cultural Revolution. Many painters take the spirit of the times as their mission and the mass aesthetics as their standard, and begin to explore and move forward. Probably, freehand brushwork, the combination of meticulous brushwork, the revival of meticulous brushwork, and the blending of China and the West have become a new wave in the new century, resulting in the coexistence of multiple elements, the blossoming of flowers and the emergence of new people. China has a profound cultural accumulation of 5,000 years. Through the efforts of several generations, with the rapid economic development, the rise of the country and the great rejuvenation of the nation in China in the past 30 years, the times call for great country style, national style, spirit of the times and modern consciousness, and magnificent works of art have emerged. At present, the giant flower-and-bird painting "Mountain Flowers Bloom" (1370㎝×270㎝) which Zhong was hired to create for the No.5 conference hall of the Bayi Building of the Central Military Commission came into being under this background.
"Mountain Flower Map" is a panoramic mural with kapok as the main body, flowers and plants, and a variety of birds and insects. In the mountains and streams with different shapes, beautiful as sheep fat, expensive as jade and rich in decorative meaning, the water is flowing and the jasper is clear; Tall and straight kapok trees, heroic flowers in full bloom; Rhododendrons surge like the tide, reflecting the mountains; Holy and noble magnolia is graceful, turtle back, bluegrass, Tianzhu ... flowers are blooming, dove flowers are flying and birds are soaring in the wind. The picture is colorful, full of spring, full of vitality and vitality. This is a spring poem, beautiful and harmonious, a heroic symphony, magnificent and lofty. It praises the continuous development and growth of the people's army from Jinggangshan to today, especially since the reform and opening up, reveals the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and shows the prosperity of the country.
On the basis of inheriting excellent traditional flower-and-bird paintings, Mountain Flowers in Bloom has made bold artistic innovations. The author's inheritance of excellent traditional culture is a process of continuous breakthrough and innovation, standing at a new historical starting point in the contemporary era, and selectively inherits and sublates inappropriate things. Zhong clearly saw that since the Song Dynasty, China's painting art had been in decline in the feudal society of Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties and in China. Although the rise of literati painting, artistic style and pen and ink expression have made great achievements, the social and historical background on which it relies has gone from bad to worse. The overall artistic spirit is lost, and even stereotyped writing, calligraphy pavilions and painting kings are highly stylized and rigid. Literati painters are well educated and knowledgeable, deeply understand the philosophical thoughts of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and attach importance to self-cultivation. Although the world is bleak, it can not help the world at the same time, but it can stay away from the world, send feelings to the mountains and rivers, hide from the world with calligraphy and painting, feel life in a quiet and mysterious time and space, and sublimate the artistic realm and spiritual realm. At the Eighth National Congress, Hong Ren, Shi Tao, Xu Gu Gan and Hong Yi were all a generation of eminent monks, and there were not a few who claimed to be Taoist priests, lay people, mountaineers and Yi Shi. They are born in poverty, and their spirit is self-centered. Their works are characterized by indifference, desolation, lofty and aloof, which undesirably express the present era. Under the condition of market economy, artworks are gradually commercialized, and the value orientation of artists tends to be diversified. Some people pay too much attention to material interests and reputation, devote themselves to artistic activities, social entertainment and market hype, neglect their own careers and pay little attention to the great cause of the country and the nation. Some even blindly cater to the market, leading to kitsch works. Zhong believes that to inherit the excellent tradition, we should mainly inherit the great artistic spirit of the tradition, focus on the Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties, and restore the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties and the temperament of a great country. We should carry forward the original life attitude of Chinese culture, that is, the national spirit of being vigorous, upright, radiant, self-reliant, high-spirited, enterprising, upright and bright, and conform to the nature of "harmony between man and nature" and "ecstasy". It is precisely because of this that the Han and Tang Dynasties produced a magnificent, broad, bold, bold and brilliant art. The artistic pursuit of "striving for strength" and taking strength as the beauty of personality has reconstructed and revived the masculine beauty in the great traditional artistic spirit of the Chinese nation in his own works.
Zhong also believes that it is not enough to break through innovation on the basis of inheritance, vertical inheritance and integration of ancient and modern times. It should also be transplanted horizontally, integrated with China and the West, based on the main spirit of the Chinese nation, absorb the nutrition of foreign art, develop itself and create new national art. At present, the process of world economic integration is accelerating. As a culture, the trend of westward advancement, anti-tradition and total westernization is increasing. We blindly pursue western modernism and post-modern art, learn from others, and are cynical and ridiculous, exposing our impetuousness and shallowness. After repeated comparison, long-term thinking and years of creative practice, Zhong set the tone for the creation of Mountain Flowers: inherit the excellent traditional art of the nation, but don't draw it as an ancient painting and absorb modern western art, but don't draw it as a western painting, but draw the spirit of the times. His works should be national, modern and contemporary art.
The mural "Flowers in the Mountain" lasted for three years from drafting, finalization, release to completion, and was widely praised once it was hung up. This is a breakthrough and innovation of traditional flower-and-bird painting: First, the traditional flower-and-bird painting with broken branches is moved into nature, and flowers and birds are combined with mountains and rivers to make a landscape flower-and-bird painting or a big flower-and-bird painting. Broken-branch flower-and-bird painting is based on courtyard flowers and trees, and the interior is clear at a glance. Only three or two, only two or three. Mr. Zhong, the former party secretary, executive vice chairman and famous painter of China Artists Association, commented: "Zhong is a versatile and excellent painter. He has made great achievements in the creation of figures, landscapes and flowers and birds. The mountains and rivers he painted are undulating and magnificent, and the ancient trees and giant trees are intertwined and spectacular; The flowers he painted were not for cleaning the desk indoors, but rooted in the soil in the mountains, bearing the moisture of rain and dew and emitting the fragrance of life. " This is the most pertinent evaluation of Zhong Shanshui's flower-and-bird painting.
Second, traditional flower-and-bird paintings are mostly films, fans, hand scrolls, scrolls and picture books, or they are placed on the study desk or hung in the living room nave, with small frames. Three or five friends get together to drink and paint, and improvise a few strokes. In one fell swoop, painting is not enough for poetry, poetry is not enough for books, printing it, and Danqing amuses himself, mostly for sketching. "Mountain Flower" bid farewell to the sketch, trying to avoid small feelings, small scenes and small interests, pushing the flower-and-bird painting to the wall and hanging it in the hall. This is a huge system, which took several years to complete. It can't solve the problems of large space, complex multi-level picture composition, large production volume and great momentum.
Third, traditional flower-and-bird paintings are fresh and elegant, pleasing to the eye, quiet and mysterious, mostly beautiful, and belong to female beauty. "Mountain Flower" pushes beauty to the sublime and magnificent, with saturated colors, wide and open pictures, ups and downs, visual impact and soul shock, which belongs to masculine beauty.
Fourthly, China's paintings follow the painter's path of learning and mind, empathize with the scenery and express emotions through objects. However, traditional flower-and-bird paintings are full of literati's breath, and literati also use this to express their personal feelings and live in seclusion. The author of Flowers in Full Bloom has a strong sense of social responsibility, is close to reality, loves life, integrates individuals with the country and the nation, expresses the feelings of the country and the nation, and is full of the flavor of the times and national spirit.
Five, "Mountain Flower" has solved the intricate picture relations such as meticulous brushwork and freehand brushwork, pen and ink and modeling, color and Mo Yun, traditional commercial position and modern composition, lines and blocks, light and shade and structure, and similarities and differences in artistic techniques. And with calligraphy and pen, the branches of kapok trees are straight and intertwined, vividly displayed by freehand brushwork, with vigorous lines and vigorous pens; Flowers and plants are painted with meticulous iron lines, such as Yousimiao in ancient times and rat's tail painted with nails. The center of the lines is painted with a pen, which is vigorous and elastic. There are 100 birds and countless insects in the painting, which are surprisingly numerous and have different shapes. The technique of expression surpasses that of the Song Dynasty's college painting, and it is nuanced. Cicada and dragonfly are as thin as cicada wings, transparent and visible, and can be confused with reality. Nearly10,000 hero flowers, azaleas and magnolias ... bloom like flowers, and the mountain flowers are brilliant. After layers of rendering, the color is strong and gorgeous, the picture is delicate but not greasy, the workmanship is not flat, and it is complicated but not chaotic. He is good at seeking unity in black and white, density, Fiona Fang, shade, dry and wet, cold and warm, vertical and horizontal contrast, and seeking harmony in diversity, which shows the author's rich life accumulation, solid western painting sketch modeling ability, color cultivation and profound traditional pen and ink skills, especially his ability to control and control the overall situation by deploying troops, coordinating various arms with large corps, scheduling orderly, and advancing and retreating freely. This is a wonderful pen that uses the law of unity of opposites in artistic creation, which is amazing.
All these kinds of paintings with traditional brush, ink, paper, inkstone, silk and rice paper are unbearable, forcing the author to make bold innovations in painting materials, sticking the board with canvas, screening out steel bars, connecting and combining the big picture, and using acrylic pigments and mineral pigments of traditional Chinese painting to create a unique effect of bright and elegant colors, strong adhesion and lasting discoloration. Brushes range from Ye Jin and clothing lines to bucket pens, combination pens and brushes. The comprehensive application of various tools and materials, repeated revisions of paintings and years of efforts have made them perfect, greatly enriching the expressive power of Chinese paintings. The picture is smooth and smooth, and it can be seen from a distance or near, achieving the best visual effect and expanding the visual aesthetic image of the viewer.
Zhong painstakingly managed and sharpened his sword for decades, and finally made a breakthrough contribution to the art of painting and created a new Chinese painting. It has been widely recognized by the society and the industry, and has successfully created many large-scale murals with Chinese style for the Great Hall of the People, the Bayi Building of the Military Commission, Ziguangge in Zhongnanhai, the Ministry of National Defense and other important national halls. This is a masterpiece of contemporary art. Looking forward to more works by the famous painter Zhong.
Theme Mural of Foreign Affairs Hall of Ministry of National Defense
The Soul of China
-Wan Li Great Wall Map (54 1.8㎝×396.7㎝)
As a symbol of the Chinese national spirit, the Great Wall amazed the world with its majestic and great projects. Up and down for five thousand years, thousands of miles, through the vicissitudes of time, stand tall on the land of China. Throughout the ages, many literati, poets and painters have praised it thousands of times. The Great Wall is also an important symbol of world history and culture, attracting worldwide attention.
Zhong, a famous military painter, was hired as the main wall of the Foreign Affairs Hall of the Ministry of National Defense-the Great Wall of Wan Li (54 1.8㎝×396.7㎝) to paint the large-scale mural "Chinese Soul", but his creation was original: the endless Great Wall of Wan Li on the screen, winding over the mountains, is the backbone of our Chinese nation; Flying in the boundless sea of clouds, like a soaring golden dragon, facing the sunrise and soaring in the east of the world. This painting has a vast sea of clouds, momentum, a sunny sky and mountains everywhere. Looking at the mountains like jade, the layers of forests are like Dai, and the pines are all over the mountains, like a guardian lined up in a row, majestic but upright, majestic and solemn; The rocks are steep, like knives and axes, and the walls stand thousands of miles, which is insurmountable. The murals are magnificent, magnificent, magnificent. It praises the people's army, such as the Great Wall of Steel and rock-solid, symbolizes the perseverance, self-improvement, vitality and prosperity of the Chinese nation, and reveals the great rejuvenation of a nation.
The works combine Chinese and western styles, have national style and historical feelings, and have strong contemporary significance and spirit of the times. In order to fully express the ideological connotation of the work and improve the picture effect, the author made bold innovations in materials, using a large picture composed of plates as the base, canvas veneers, copper bars as the partition, titanium and gold as the edge, using acrylic pigments with strong adhesion and lasting color, and properly infiltrating mineral pigments of Chinese painting. The color is saturated, calm and elegant, and the picture is smooth, bright and magnificent, which complements the surrounding environment and is harmonious and unified. Walking into the hall is like walking into a painting. At the same time, it has a strong visual impact, giving people a sense of excitement and pride, and endowing the works with lofty and magnificent aesthetic character.
Famous military painter Zhong
-Comment on Zhong's military war theme creation.
Wang Jieyu
As early as 1980s, Zhong was already an influential military painter in the whole army. Living in the frontier for a long time, he always insisted on starting from life and paying attention to the southwest region, especially devoted infinite and sincere love to the red land of Yunnan, which raised himself. The works reveal a kind of soldier's masculinity and deep and simple aesthetic character, and a large number of works with military war themes have aroused widespread concern and evaluation inside and outside the military. The important events of the thought-provoking military war left a permanent historical memory. General Chi Haotian, then Deputy Minister of National Defense, and General Zhao Nanqi, then Vice Chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, praised Zhong as an excellent painter trained by the People's Army and the pride of soldiers.
Zhong's life is not easy. He has experienced hardships and bumps. Mr. Zhou Liangpei, a famous writer and poet, once wrote: "Zhong was born in a poor family, and because of his family education, he liked calligraphy and Chinese painting. 196 1 entered Yunnan art institute and joined the army angrily. This seems to be the beginning of many realistic literature and artists at home and abroad. He taught himself completely in the "university hall" of the army and became a self-taught talent. This is undoubtedly a valuable file for many literary and art workers with similar experiences and military backgrounds. Zhong Kai was born withdrawn and diligent. His art began with his familiarity with life and grassroots, and began with painting company wall newspapers and slides. I used my own works to be discovered and cultivated by the leaders again and again. This is also a myth, for example, in the case of artistic corruption, bad habits of yamen, and emphasis on titles. People who come out of the company are not so easy to adapt to the complicated interpersonal relationships and ways of doing things in the organs and literary and art departments. It's not that or that. The suffering of feelings far exceeds the suffering of material life. It's unpleasant to hear these stories. There are too many questions to think about. Regardless of being criticized, suppressed and excluded, he chose the frontier defense and the company to go to the battlefield filled with smoke ... "Zhong was a soldier, monitor and deputy platoon leader. In the 1960s, he participated in border patrol for many times, ambushed the remnants of small-scale criminals, demarcated the border between China and Myanmar, rehearsed jungle warfare under three conditions, and prepared to join the Vietnam War. In the 1980 s, he fought back in self-defense, arrested Lin and fought Laoshan; Mine clearance in border areas in the 1990s was both rigid and flexible.
Sun Tzu's Art of War said: "Soldiers are a national event, a place of life and death, and a way to survive." It can be seen that soldiers are important to the country and the nation. But Lao Tzu said, "Soldiers have weapons"; Mencius said, "There is no righteous war in the Spring and Autumn Period". China for thousands of years, the world for nearly ten thousand years, from the Roman legion, the Ottoman Empire, Hitler fascism, the Great Japanese Empire to the Gulf War, the plight of Israel, Iraq and Libya; The first emperor of China proclaimed himself emperor, Chu and Han contended with each other, and there was a three-legged struggle. The Anshi Rebellion, Eight-Nation Alliance, warlords scuffled, and after several wars of justice. Which one is not a river of blood, a mountain of bones and countless lives?
As a professional soldier and military painter, Zhong experienced countless battlefields of blood and fire. In the bloody game of life and death, he studied war, praised war and examined war. He tried his best to capture the justice of the war he participated in, and tried to show the patriotism and heroism of contemporary soldiers fighting for national defense and peace and tranquility of the motherland. The people's army, like the Great Wall of Steel, is rock solid. It symbolizes the Chinese nation's perseverance, self-improvement, tenacious struggle and selfless dedication. It can be the backbone of the nation and the soul of China. At the same time, the work also touches on the love and hate, sex and affection of soldiers in the war, as well as the feelings of being humble but not afraid to forget the country. The author also focuses on the history of Yunnan war since the Republic of China, the battle of defending the country and defending the country, and the battle of Taierzhuang. The teacher of justice is unstoppable; Chinese painting "where is the home of Wumeng, where is the snow holding the blue horse." It shows that the Red Army has passed the most difficult time in Yunnan. In addition to the horsehead in the lower right corner and Hong Haier leading the horse, the central picture is extremely simple, depicting Zhu De and Mao Zedong standing in a daze at the top of the mountain, looking at the vast distance, with far-reaching artistic conception and poetic philosophy. The liberation of southwest China shows the heroic spirit of our army's millions of soldiers going south to fight for the liberation of China. The Chinese painting "Spring Breeze" created by the author in his later period triggered deep thinking about the war. The picture shows the soldiers patrolling the scorched earth after the smoke. They are resolute, tenacious and tenacious, staring at the new green still blooming on the scorched branches cut off by artillery shells. Wildfire has never completely swallowed them up, and they are tall again in the spring breeze. Although the war is powerful, their lives are irresistible! Masculine, beautiful and suffocating.
Zhong's works on the theme of military war are all blood flowing out of his veins, which can't be compared with the popular multimedia video art works that are divorced from life, cynical, empty and pale, and dull. In today's market economy, the starting point and destination of all human behaviors are a word of benefit, and advocating material pursuit leads to spiritual loss. Zhong can be ascetic alone and always maintain a belief and a spiritual realm in the rapidly changing real society. Zhong expresses his feelings about life through his works, trying to transcend the sublimation, yearning and pursuit of the world to infinity, so that his works can reach a height, depth and breadth that ordinary people have never reached.