Foreword
Culture is the spiritual lifeblood of the nation, literature and art are the clarion call of the times, and the rejuvenation of a nation needs a strong spiritual force. Looking back on the history of Chinese art, those immortal works are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and moving, in that they express the praise of life and the praise of a better life. In particular, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, calligraphers and painters have adhered to the people-centered creative orientation, gone deep into life, taken root in the people, and created many excellent works loved by the people with abundant passion and vivid brushstrokes. The "Artists Needed by the People" Digital Theme Cloud Exhibition will launch outstanding contemporary literary and artistic workers and advanced models in the literary and artistic circles, these artists loved by the people, with firm lofty ideals, the pursuit of excellence in artistic creation, rooted in the wonderful practice of life, always sing for the people, for the times, shape the beauty of literature and art in art, and show the noble quality of both virtue and art in life, so as to integrate personal aesthetic ideals and artistic pursuits into the great practice of building the Chinese dream, and sing for the times. Expressing nostalgia for the motherland, we strive to create a masterpiece that integrates the people's nature, the times, and innovation, so that the world can appreciate the beauty of Chinese calligraphy and painting.
Advocating virtue and art, keeping integrity and innovation, and inheriting the style and virtue. As a famous contemporary painter, Sheng Jun expounded the creative ideas and spiritual values of literature and art with profound artistic attainments, creative perceptions, and unique insights into the art of calligraphy and painting. His works are not only a visual enjoyment, but also a kind of spiritual touch, especially the expression of subjective imagination and creative ideas, so vivid and emotional, people are intoxicated, creating a unique style of personal painting language, with excellent morality, open mind, show its breadth and profundity, is a beloved artist.
For a long time, Sheng Jun has expressed themes and ideas through subjective concepts, focusing on the transmission of connotation, character and spirit, containing a kind of melancholy or thick, creating an atmosphere and effect that may be simple or poetic, and even full of philosophy. Through his works, it is not difficult for us to understand his value pursuit and artistic thoughts, focusing on the deep tranquility of the realm and the integration of nature, with simple, subtle, symbolic, aesthetic lines and harmonious tones. In a reasonable way, according to his own thoughts and feelings, he seeks the meaning of the form, expresses the spirit of the individual, and does not stick to the rules, expressing the social and cultural phenomena he recognizes, the self-consciousness and the portrayal of the appearance of all beings. Its unique space, color, line interweaving of visual beauty, greatly strengthens the essential characteristics of contemporary painting, this novel visual impact makes the integration and diversification of Eastern and Western art elements to be presented, the modern culture into the form of expression, imagery, mental imagery, give people a more real feeling, is a natural expression of true temperament, but also a kind of expression of feelings. With his outstanding artistic talent and aesthetic conception, Sheng Jun focuses on the sense of the times in artistic language, and grasps the theme and value of the times. The people need such artists, who hold high the torch of the national spirit, carry forward the national values, use exquisite artistic language, and make great efforts to create around the needs of the times and the people, creating classic works one after another, which have won wide acclaim and made positive contributions to the literary and artistic cause of New China.
【Artist Profile】
A master of cosmic art that transcends time and space Sheng Jun
Sheng Jun, Chairman of the National Calligraphy and Painting Art Committee, character: Yongli, pen name: Shengjun, Yongli, Ai Ling, Wan Shuang and so on, to create new contemporary art (including contrasting color painting school, Chinese character ink abstract art, Chinese character sculpture and installation art, Chinese character landscape painting, hyper-realistic large ink Chinese painting figures, scheme art, experience and induction art, one hour of character head sketching, new contemporary Chinese painting, new contemporary calligraphy, Sheng Ti character (holy character), new contemporary aesthetics, new contemporary philosophy, new contemporary literature, new contemporary film and television, etc.), has won six national patent certificates. In 1985, Sheng Jun claimed to be an alien, from outer space, and was a cosmic artist, and issued an art manifesto for the creation of a space art base and a Chinese character art manifesto, and held a new concept art exhibition of Sheng Jun. Sheng Jun's nearly 300 works of art have caused a sensation and have attracted 300,000 viewers, and one of his installation works, A New Examination of the Ah Q Phenomenon, was published in the art trend edited by Peng De, a leader of contemporary art critics; Sheng Jun made a soft sculpture made of silk scarves and plastic ribbons hanging from the window to the ground, fluttering in the breeze, and named it a waterfall. At that time, Sheng Jun called on Chinese contemporary artists to go abroad and march into the world, and the declaration of marching to the world was published on the trend of art thought. Since then, many contemporary artists such as Huang Yongping, Xu Bing, Gao Brothers, Cai Guoqiang and many others have gone abroad to open up new horizons in Europe and the United States. And as early as the eighties and nineties of the last century, Sheng Jun predicted that Mars immigration real estate development projects, space performance art, space exhibition halls, art galleries and space weddings, space travel and other scheme arts, and now, these scheme arts have been experimented by Musk. It can be seen that Sheng Jun's program art forty years ago has influenced the world. Sheng Jun is the honorary chairman of the Chinese Traditional Culture Development Committee, a visiting professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, an art consultant and visiting professor of the CCTV Art Masters Program, a people's artist, a people's calligrapher and painter, an image ambassador of the Chinese Winter Olympics, a master of state guest art, a national first-class artist, a senior artist, an honorary chairman of the Hong Kong Artists Association, a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor of calligraphy and painting, a Chinese meritorious artist, a senior teacher of the Chinese Artists Association, a doctoral supervisor, and has taught in universities for many years, teaching Chinese painting, calligraphy, oil painting, drawing, sculpture, He is an internationally renowned art master, literary theorist, philosopher, aesthete, painter, calligrapher, writer, poet, collector, connoisseur, inventor, historian and director. His works have been published in: Fine Arts, China Art Newspaper, Beijing Literature, Art Thought, Pictorial Magazine, Calligraphy Newspaper, Film Literature, New Observation, Global Art, Gangcheng Literature and Art, Normal University Newspaper, etc., and has been rated as one of the important representatives of the new wave art that changed and created the history of Chinese contemporary art by Mr. Peng De, a famous contemporary literary theorist and doctoral supervisor. He is the author of a number of professional art theories, film and television scripts, novels, poems and other literary works, such as: New Theory of Contemporary Art, Criticism of Literati Painting in Calligraphy Art, Dissolution and Subversion, History of Chinese Character Legend, Legend of the Silk Road, Love Tears and Dreams, Blue Youth, The Past Like Smoke, Criticism of Literati Painting, Criticism of Contemporary Calligraphy, etc. In February 1989, he participated in the first Chinese modern art exhibition held at the National Art Museum of China, which caused a sensation in the world, and was interviewed and reported by the international media many times, and often held cutting-edge art activities in Europe, America, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, with a wide influence, and his works won the Venice Contemporary Art Award in Italy, the Lifetime Achievement Award of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Art, and were collected by international art institutions such as the Louvre Museum. Contemporary Lu Xun, known abroad as Leonardo da Vinci, Duchamp, Beuys, Picasso, and Mondrian, has been included in the history of Chinese calligraphy, the dictionary of famous Chinese calligraphers and painters, the collection of paintings of Chinese art leaders, and the bilingual Who's Who in the world.
Shengjun (Sheng Jun) is a versatile all-round art master, with continuous innovation, invention, pioneering, exploring, leading, leading, Beyond the times and painting speed is extremely fast and famous, since childhood, he has practiced a solid and profound traditional painting foundation real kung fu, and has deeply studied the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign profound traditional cultural and artistic knowledge, he founded an hour sketch at the age of 18, without eraser modification, not bad at all, at the age of 20 founded the ultra-realistic large ink Chinese painting, and founded the Shengti character (holy body), at the age of 23 founded the Chinese character ink abstract art, and wrote hundreds of thousands of words of literary and artistic theory monographs: dissolution and subversion, The art of calligraphy and the new theory of literati painting, in 1982 began to publish novels, poetry, literary and artistic reviews, etc., Sheng Jun's painting of Chinese painting does not need to be drafted, and can be directly created with a brush on the raw rice paper to sketch the characters, the pen is accurate and in one go, and it is expressive, freehand, Vivid, sketch painting and oil painting, he is superior in kung fu incomparable, the professor commented that Sheng Jun's sketches are not only fine and accurate but also able to paint a sense of color, at the age of twenty-five he founded contrasting oil painting, created a contrasting color painting school, Sheng Jun is a pioneer of Chinese abstract art, founded new contemporary art, new contemporary calligraphy Sheng Ti Zi (holy body), new contemporary literature, new contemporary film and television, new contemporary aesthetics, new contemporary philosophy, new contemporary poetry, New contemporary music, etc., is the master of art who invented new art genres and published the most new art declarations in the history of mankind in the world, and is internationally recognized as the father of new contemporary art. Sheng Jun graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Southern Normal University in 85, and his teacher was China's first calligraphy professor and doctoral supervisor, Wei Tianchi, once commented that Sheng Jun's calligraphy started from Wei Bei and became a family of its own. Hundreds of inscriptions, including the seal Li Wei stele and the two kings, Ou Yan Liu Zhao, Huang Su Mi Cai, etc., dabbled in a wide range, knowledgeable, the strength of a hundred schools in one, the traditional skills are extremely profound, their own face is particularly unique, the personality is distinct, magnificent, majestic, bold, open and close, ancient and clumsy, masculine and upright, strong and vigorous, Huang Zhong Da Lu, unconventional, to the right, take the side of the momentum, ups and downs, strong and powerful, do as you like, spontaneously, wild and unrestrained, diverse styles, unique, another way, lawless but extra-legal, strange but not lose the sense of beauty, open a sect, unique and traditional, Sheng Jun created a new self-face of the Sheng Ti character (holy body).
【Work】