The subject matter of Wang Zan's figure paintings is easy to understand, and there is no surprising style. However, after the fusion of traditional aesthetics and modern art, his figure paintings have created far-reaching cultural works of the years.
The brushwork in the painting is vigorous and powerful, and the delicate lines narrate the painter's reflection and experience of the years, and the artistic philosophy in the heart of the transcendental painter with the rationality of ink painting.
Wang Zan's figure paintings, with their figures outlined in ink, allow the viewer to enjoy a free and comfortable emotional space. He uses the freehand characters of new ink to examine his own interpretation of today's social culture.
He is full of pictures and paintings, the years are ethereal, not tending to be "empty" but taking the fullness into fullness, creating art, materializing life, and reverying the ethereal reproduction of the spiritual objects of the years.
The rebirth of the figures in Wang Zan's paintings, after becoming more and more ceremonial, expresses his search for the ideal rebirth form in his heart. Years of life, reverie and ethereal, let the viewer read the heart, read the person.
Work appreciation
高原红丨200cm×140cm丨设色纸本丨2002
悲欣交集——弘一法师丨176cm×130cm丨设色纸本丨1992
Out of the valley, moved to the arbor—Cai Yuanpei, Lin Fengmian丨176cm×130cm丨Ink and color on paper丨1993
踏青丨68cm×68cm丨设色纸本丨2007
云出本无心丨68cm×68cm丨设色纸本丨2004
初阳动暄妍丨36cm×68cm丨设色纸本丨1993
圣洁恒河水丨136cm×44cm丨设色纸本丨2006
心灵之约丨136cm×44cm丨设色纸本丨2007
血浓于水——白求恩丨240cm×198cm丨设色纸本丨1995
Brilliant Black and White - Huang Binhong丨240cm×200cm丨Ink on paper丨1998
眷恋可可西里丨200cm×140cm丨设色纸本丨2002
(Source: Comprehensive Sohu @ Universal Art, Personal Library)
Artist Profile
Wang Zan is a second-level professor and doctoral supervisor at the China Academy of Art. He used to be the vice president of the China Academy of Art, the director of the China Artists Association, and the vice chairman of the Zhejiang Artists Association. He is currently the Deputy Director of the Academic Committee of the China Academy of Art, the Librarian of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum of Culture and History, the Deputy Director of the Mural Art Committee of the China Artists Association, the President of the Zhejiang Yixian Painting and Calligraphy Institute, and the Distinguished Professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the Distinguished Professor of Macau University of Science and Technology, and the Distinguished Professor of Northwest Normal University in Gansu Province. He is a young and middle-aged Chinese painter and benchmark scholar in the field of teaching, research and creation of Chinese character painting, a young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions in Zhejiang Province, and enjoys the special government allowance of the State Council.