Zhang Xiong Art correspondence(Article/Peng Dan)Famous Contemporary Chinese Artist Zheng Jingxian’s Chinese Paintings Exhibition was opened at Shen De Cultural and Art Museum on May 17,2014.The exhibition was jointly held by Xiamen Shen De Cultural and Art Museum,Fujian Collection Culture Association and Xiamen Zhang Xiong Academy of Painting and Calligraphy.More than 200 entrepreneurs,celebrities from literary and art circles,media practitioners and art lovers attended the opening ceremony.
Famous Contemporary Chinese Artist Zheng Jingxian’s Chinese Paintings Exhibition opened at Shen De Cultural and Art Museum
Zheng Jingxian:My bird-and-flower paintings go with beautiful Xiamen.
More than 60 refined works that are created by Zheng Jingxian over recent years were exhibited.Among the exhibits,his representative work Egrets Come Back To The Green Mountain And River which takes the city bird as suject received many praises from visiting experts,scholars and painting and calligraphy lovers.
When receiving an interview from Zhang Xiong Art,Zheng Jingxian said,“most works exhibited this time are created over recent years and take the city flower bougainvillea speetabilis and the city bird egret as subjects.Artists in Southern Fujian should paint things in Southern Fujian.Only paintings with local characteristics can be representative.So I find my own way to go.I love the mountains,lakes,and the sea in Xiamen.I know Xiamen little by little then can I depict it vividly on paper.I wish my bird-and-flower paintings go with beautiful Xiamen.”
Zheng Jingxian receiving an interview from Zhang Xiong Art
There is no familiar pattern of traditional bird-and-flower painting in Zheng Jingxian’s paintings.His creation subjects have distinctive regional characteristics.His painting focuses on numerous subtropical flowers in Southern Fujian.He was born and grew up here,so he has deep affection for the land.The distinctive subtropical ecology and subjects and characteristic brushwork form his distinctive art style.He advocates to discover the communication and clash between the soul and the nature by feeling the nature.
Zheng Jingxian’s art exhibition
Zheng Jingxian’s works:To build up artistic conceptions with colors
His Spring Flavor presents the orchid and aerial root in Southern Fujian.In this painting,he lays emphasis on the contrast of colors and ink and the double treatment of point,line and plane in the alternation of white,black and grey.While keeping traditional bone lining brushwork,he also makes appropriate transformation and exaggeration to stress the form and spirit of 3D objects.
Zheng Jingxian’s painting
Characteristic color use.In traditional Chinese painting,there is only ink shading and rendering.It cannot fully present the diversity and abundance of subtropical plants and flowers.So on ink and color use,Zheng Jingxian makes new exploration.He neither completely abandons the existing tradition and substitutes it with Western techniques,nor follows the pattern of ink supplemented by colors.He is very bold in ink and color use and completely subject to specific context and feeling.I used to witness his creation process of Flower Shades,he vividly presented the characteristic textures of flowers and created the effects of natural shading and water penetration by diluting ink with water,blending colors with ink,and blending different colors.His paintings are realistic yet keep the characteristics of free brushwork.He likes to stress the strong contrast in white and black,green and white,red and white to make his paintings feel as refreshing and bright as watercolors and as thick and succinct as oil painting.To create the illusion of layering and space,he can keep coloring over and over again to harmonize and brighten the color contrast in general.He presents the vitality and refreshing flavor of the lush subtropical plants by large pieces of color,to further present the characteristics of environment colors in Southern Fujian.
Zheng Jingxian’s painting
Characteristic artistic conception.The artistic conception of a painting is determined by the artist’s art cultivation and pursuit.The artistic conception of Zheng Jingxian’s works is realistic and natural.He is especially good at overall arrangement.The layout of his paintings tends to be full but not stuffing,lively but not empty.He follows the principle of modern plane composition and applies segment composition to make the painting appear succinct and bright.His appropriate exaggeration and generalization make the painting look more lively.He often paints the flower in clumps,seldom in single to present the flourishing natural vitality and regional ecological characteristics.
Zheng Jingxian depicts a new humanistic and natural world of Xiamen which enjoys advantageous natural environment with his unique artistic perspective and abundant cultural cultivation and expresses his love for beautiful Xiamen through his bird-and-flower painting.
Zheng Jingxian
Zheng Jingxian was born in 1944 in Hui’an,Fujian.He graduated from Xiamen Academy of Arts and Crafts in 1963 and then further studied in Chinese bird-and-flower painting seminar for national teachers in Central Academy of Arts and Crafts(present College of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University).Titles:professor of Xiamen Academy of Arts and Crafts of Fuzhou University,member of Chinese Artists Association,Director of Painting and Calligraphy Institute of Chinese Arts and Crafts Society,member of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Talents Committee of National Ministry of Personnel,member of Editorial Board of Chinese Painting of People’s Art Publishing House,advisor of Xiamen Artists Association,Director of Xiamen Bird-and-Flower Painting Committee,Vice-President of Fujian Chinese Bird-and-Flower Painting Society,member of Organization Committee of National Bird-and-Flower Painting Exhibitions.Many works have been collected by domestic and overseas galleries and museums.