——Remember Dong Ping, the founder of the "Cold and Glamorous Incense" school
□ Peony Evening News reporter Guo Weidong
Peony occupies a high position in the minds of the world, and the literati of all dynasties, celebrities, emperors and nobles do not like peony. They not only love flowers, appreciate flowers, feast flowers, tie flowers, worship flowers, but also plant flowers, arrange flowers, write flowers, and form an indissoluble bond with peonies.
Heze is known as the "hometown of calligraphy and painting", and a large number of famous calligraphers and painters have grown up in this land, especially the peony painter, Dong Ping, who created the "cold and beautiful incense" painting method, is one of the famous artists.
Heze is the famous "Peony Capital of China", and there was a profound peony culture in the Sui and Tang dynasties. "Ai Lian Said" wrote: "The flowers of water, land, grass and trees are very lovely. And "love peony" is Dong Ping's strong local feelings as a native of Heze, and it is also her original intention to love peony creation. Peony is known as the "king of flowers", the national color is fragrant, graceful and luxurious, symbolizing wealth and auspiciousness, prosperity, and can best reflect the prosperity of China. Dong Ping's wish is to let the whole world fall in love with peony and understand Heze through peony painting.
A few days ago, the reporter met Dong Ping who was immersed in creation in Dong Ping's Chinese painting studio.
After a cup of tea, I saw a bright peony displayed on the end of the pen, which immediately aroused unanimous praise from people in the industry.
Painter of China Bayi Academy of Painting and Calligraphy, Vice President of Heze Branch of General Academy of Painting and Calligraphy, Distinguished Honorary Vice President of Dingtao Academy of Painting and Calligraphy, Vice Chairman of Heze Young Artists Association, Vice President of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Association, Member of Beijing Artists Association...... Dong Ping has many titles.
Dong Ping is one of the few well-known female painters in Heze, with the original "cold and glamorous incense" painting method, it has been famous in Heze Art Garden a long time ago, and now it is famous in the land of Qilu, the north and south of the river, inside and outside the Great Wall, and is being loved by more and more people. She loves to paint and is the best at painting peonies, and the peonies in her pen are not only good, but elegant and beautiful, and have their own style. She painted the true spirit of Peony, and she is Peony's true confidant.
Heze peony cultivation has a long history and is far prestigious. Due to the natural beauty of peony itself, it has become the subject of competition for generations of painters for thousands of years. In Dong Ping's view, the peony embodies the noble spirit of the Chinese nation, does not tend to be inflammatory, the flowers are bright, magnificent, and you are the "King of Flowers" but have no intention of competing for spring.
The natural beauty and inner spirit of peony have fed generations of flower and bird painters, and also nurtured Dong Ping. She summed up the essence of peony painting from the peony painters of the past. How to use the brush to show the charm and temperament of the peony, show her true, good and beautiful life connotation, so that people can feel her life characteristics through painting? Dong Ping's preciousness lies in the fact that he used his skills in fine brushwork to find a new way to skillfully integrate into the creation of Chinese painting.
Dong Ping's peony is gorgeous but not vulgar, the quality is elegant, and there is no soft fragrance of fat powder, showing a great spirit and a kind of grandeur in the magnificence, giving people a sense of being able to watch from a distance and not blasphemous.
Her works are rooted in the traditional Chinese painting art, absorbing the strengths of others, combining Chinese and Western, good at freehand flowers and birds, and creating the original "cold and fragrant" peony painting method. His works are part-time and written, based on the hometown of Heze peony, based on realism, seeing the virtual in the real, imagining the virtual with the real, unpretentious, elegant and chic, with a fresh picture to truly reproduce the peony's national color and fragrance, the spirit of the flower, and the crown presses the group.
Dong Ping's cold and glamorous peonies are rich in color and expressive, and her peonies are not only gorgeous and vulgar, but elegant and noble, painting the instantaneous shape, brilliant color and stunning beauty of peony flowers.
In the art garden for decades, Dong Ping's works have participated in national, provincial and municipal art exhibitions and won awards, and his works have been compiled into a variety of large-scale art collections, winning praise from the calligraphy and painting circles and the majority of enthusiasts. In recent years, he has been invited to create special works in national party and government institutions for many times, and has been well received. And a number of works have been collected by the national party and government organs, and are also favored by domestic and foreign calligraphy and painting enthusiasts and collectors, and have repeatedly set new records in the auction of peony Chinese paintings. The sea of art is boundless, and Dong Ping has been working hard and the road of peony painting creation.
Painter: Dong Ping
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