Knowing White and Guarding Black" - Zhang Donglin’s landscape exhibition
Mr.Zhang’s exhibition was in Beijing Art Museum on May 31, 2013. The exhibition would display more than 30 of his works, including three works of 2009 beautiful Xishuangbanna series, seven works of Taihang mountain series, as well as his loving works of Fangshan series and other landscape painting of flowers and birds, etc, which were dense body work with his personal style , and also had traditional works.
Dense body landscape was also called the traditional Chinese realistic painting landscape that was different from the freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese landscape. The before one more emphasized on the progress and steps of creating, and the exquisite and fine style.
In dong-linzhang's works, we could hardly see the traditional, stylized skills influence on him, you can clearly see he is a very attention to sketch artist. According to dong-lin zhang, behind each of his works, there is a lot of sketch, sorting and filtering, finally selected in accordance with their own aesthetic standards. Works very distinctive one characteristic is that different from the traditional ink painting space, dong-lin zhang said: "he was to the structure of the tree branches or left out, in addition to add other trees interwoven, unlike traditional in form, but still follows the law of our traditional Chinese painting, and Lao zi 'know white keep black' thought. According to the traditional Chinese painting methods of writing, the structure of the trees. I like pure and fresh and clean, the impact of the color not too strong, weak contrast, or, in the form of light ink is very elegant. I mainly depend on the actual condition of Yin and Yang to performance. The Chinese ink painting imaginary space is very big, Chinese ink painting freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese painting is very important, lenovo's space is very large."
In fact, he is very respect tradition and pay attention to the inherent law study on creation, are good at digesting the experience of the ancients, inherit the ancient culture of the spirit and not into the surface of skills. Legend in the fashion view county, can see the focus on the performance of the cliff to the manifold blessings that lie in the mountains stand of trees at the same time, in describing the tree trunks and branches, dong-lin zhang has not applied the method of traditional landscape can be seen everywhere in his fresh, delicate sketch instead.
When asked why love depiction of trees, dong-lin zhang said: "have a special liking to trees by memories of his childhood. At that time, the eyes see is tall and lush trees, persimmon trees, trees, peach trees. Now very rare, these represent a state of life, now can not see, also have no, only by memory, so I like to show it in my work."
Dong-lin zhang thinks, the work of the true feeling is the most important. Good work should reflect the artist's feelings.
Chen Yu
(source: Yachang Art Network)