Let the Yellow River give color to life
Since childhood, this color has been shuttling in my field of vision, with the increase of years, in my mind to generate different dimensions of meaning, the formation of an interesting and emotional stretch of the curve, flowing with half a lifetime of life experience, accompanied by seasonal rules, like a chapter of musical scores, the rhyme of the story in this color.
Render the tender green Sanggan River with passion (Ding Ling Memorial Hall) 136x68cm, 2024
The main purpose of art is to burst out from different angles in the accumulation of this color, using the organization and construction of brush, ink and color to express the instant enlightenment, and this color is like my life encyclopedia, which arouses all kinds of interesting associations, which is precisely because of the familiarity, cordiality, and deep understanding, which is the indelible color of the Yellow River - that is, the color of the Yellow River. This color encapsulates the joys, sorrows, and ...... of life, in the morning and dusk...... The rhythm of the Yellow River expresses and displays the original character of the Yellow River, which is the common ontological character that gives birth to the children of the entire Yellow River. From ancient times to the present prosperity and splendor, it is this endless curve that has drawn a lot of moving time coordinates for the Yellow River people, and in the minds of each Yellow River people, there is the color of this common ontology, and at the same time exudes moving music with different personalities, infecting each other, and also moving and attracting the main body of swimming from south to north with different attitudes - people.
Illustration of elm shade to cool off the heat, 68x68cm, 2024
Artistic creation is this inseparable life color enlightenment, again and again ignited the inner impulse, strong emotions in the keen capture of life to grasp the touching opportunity again and again, the essence of the traditional skills, through the deep internalization of the object and me, with an appropriate personalized language and form, around the flow of the main theme, so that the whole picture flow, is not only the flow of life trajectory, is the flow of the Yellow River time, is the flow of the main ideology, is the flow of the Yellow River cultural context, In short, it is the Yellow River that pulls the flow of the whole society from all perspectives. This is a condensed and summarized expression of people, life and society in Chinese language such as line painting and color. Because of the profundity of the national culture, the language and color have a common thickness, which is a powerful and imposing deep flowing posture formed by people for thousands of years, revealing an overall momentum from the limited plane space of the picture, which is the true color of the Yellow River after I internalize it - strong, simple, and resolute...... Never change the vein.
Casting & Metamorphosis, 136x68cm, 2024
The Yellow River gives us a long-term survival of the ecological chain, in the aesthetic concept of the artistic subject, the homeland consciousness is the theme of the people's life, the artistic subject in this consciousness, from the expressiveness to the restructuring of the structure, focusing on the five elements, the five colors, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism in the positive color value orientation, is the majority of the Yellow River people's spiritual return, which is based on the Chinese nation's pursuit of color between the metaphysical and metaphysical, forming a color philosophy that is completely different from the West. In Chinese painting, color is mainly through the generalization and abstraction of the subject, through the visual and mental memory in the natural creation, the acquiescence of the random color system, its color spectrum is subjectively internalized and formed for a long time, has been stripped of the natural universe and the gift of the sun, moon and stars (such as the inherent color and conditional color of the West, etc.), is the artistic subject itself emotional "Danqing" (here we will not talk about the five colors of ink and wash), therefore, the theme color of the Yellow River to inspire people to be positive and optimistic, endowed with the upward nature to create a spiritual home of life.
(Text/Zhang Zhiyong)
Work appreciation
Moon in August (Watermill Expo Park) 68x50cm 2022
The Yellow River flows from here 50x65cm in 2019
The Yellow River flows from here 50x65cm in 2019
Rain painting 68x68cm 2024
Falling rain 136x68cm 2024
Rain and mist in the mountains, 136x68cm, 2024
Cloud Viewing Map (White Rock Mountain), 136x68cm, 2024
Sanggan River in Midsummer (Ding Ling Memorial Hall), 136x68cm, 2024
The Great Wall of China in Time and Space, 136x68cm, 2024
Harmony of rain and dew, 239x193cm, Chinese painting, 2023
Flowing Clouds, 220x190cm, 2019
Shade and Rain, 68x68cm, 2024
Yellow River Ancient Road Series 68x68cm 2021
Sprouts 236x192cm 2021
Ulan Mountain, 68x46cm, 2010
Sketch of White Rock Mountain, 46x68cm, 2024
Shanhaiguan Sketch, 46x68cm, 2024
Taiwu Snow Resort, 68x46cm, 2024
Shanhaiguan Square, 68x46cm, 2024
A Burst of Pretty Wood Shake Light Tulle 136x68cm 2024
Memories of Stone Mountain, 68x68cm, 2024
Suspicious dew of spring branches in the mountains (sketch finishing in Lashao Temple), 68x68cm, 2024
(Source: Chuangrong Times Art Center)
Artist Profile
Zhang Zhiyong holds a bachelor's degree in painting (Chinese painting) from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, a master's degree in academic (practical) master's degree (landscape painting creation research) from Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, a member of the Chinese Artists Association, a member of the China Gongbi Painting Society, and a full-time painter of the Gansu Painting Academy.