Zhao Mengzhu

Zhao Mengzhu

Zhao Mengzhu, a famous contemporary Chinese painter, was a professor of Jinghua Academy of fine arts and North China Academy of art, and a member of China Artists Association. Many flower and bird paintings have been collected by China Art Museum and national art museums at home and abroad. His artistic achievement is remarkable and has been affirmed by others.

Life of the characters

Zhao Mengzhu (1892-1985), formerly known as Enxi, was born in Xiongxian County, Hebei Province. He was a professor of Jinghua Academy of fine arts and North China Academy of Arts, and a member of China Artists Association. Many flower and bird paintings have been collected by China Art Museum and national art museums at home and abroad

He is a famous contemporary Chinese painter. Zhao Enxi, formerly known as Ming Lake, was born in Xiong County, Hebei Province. In the late Qing Dynasty, he graduated from the Department of pattern design of the Ministry of Commerce. He has been a fine arts teacher of primary and secondary schools in Beiping, a lecturer of National Academy of Arts, a professor of Fine Arts Department of Huashan University in Beiping and Jinghua Academy of fine arts. After the 1950s, he taught in the Department of traditional Chinese painting of northeast art college. He is a member of China Artists Association, vice chairman and honorary chairman of Liaoning Branch, provincial people's representative, director of Liaoning Association for foreign culture and arts, member of Liaoning Federation of literary and art circles, and professor of Liaoning Lu Xun Academy of fine arts.

In the early years of the Republic of China, he participated in the Chinese Painting Research Association and the Hu society Painting Association. His meticulous flower and bird paintings were influenced by Jin Beilou and Zhou Zhaoxiang. In the 1920s, he participated in the Belgium International Fair and Panama Art Exhibition and won medals and certificates. 3、 In the 1940s, he published the atlas of flowers and birds and founded the Beiping women's painting and Calligraphy Research Association. His achievements in painting are far from those of the Song Dynasty, but he attaches great importance to nature. He practices watercolor and integrates it into traditional Chinese painting, and gets his own way. His meticulous brushwork is freehand brushwork, including boneless brushwork, goupiao brushwork, heavy color brushwork and ink brushwork. His meticulous brushwork is small and freehand brushwork, rigorous technique, realistic brushwork, beautiful and elegant. His works are grape dragonfly, meishou painting, plum bamboo tit, Magnolia and green willow water lily《 Xinglin Chunxiao and Dongfeng songnuan all have distinct elegant personal style. In 1983, Liaoning People's Fine Arts Publishing House published his large-scale album "selected works of Zhao Mengzhu".

In 1911, he graduated from the pattern Department of the Ministry of Commerce in the late Qing Dynasty.

In 1923, he joined the Beijing Chinese Painting Research Association and worked in jinbeilou (Jincheng). He was once a critic.

In 1927, he was a teacher of Huabei fine arts college.

After 1949, he participated in the establishment of Beijing Chinese Artists Association and served as vice president.

In 1953, he was a professor of Chinese Painting Department of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Northeast China. Member of China Artists Association.

Later, he served as deputy to the first to the Fifth National People's Congress of Liaoning Province.

Vice chairman of Liaoning Federation of literary and art circles.

Vice chairman and honorary chairman of Liaoning Branch of the Art Association.

Analysis of works

Zhao Mengzhu

Good at meticulous flower and bird painting. This picture is entitled《

Lotus

》His works are based on the scenery of lotus pond in autumn. Although they are paper-based, they depict the graceful posture of lotus, lotus leaves and reeds through delicate brushwork, thus creating the rich autumn charm of lotus pond and giving people a sense of beauty.

With the ingenious layout of several huge lotus leaves, this painting establishes the overall framework of the picture and gives people a sense of open space. The leaves are different in shape, withering or sleeping, which is in sharp contrast to the lotus, which is full bloom and fragrant. Some lotus, light pink petals and a few yellow flowers, convey the message of autumn; some petals on the remaining silk ruddy, but also let people think of her blooming "out of the mud but not stained" beautiful appearance. The two stems of lotus on the left side of the picture are closely wrapped in the buds, and the high ones are in bud, which are properly and skillfully interspersed among the lotus leaves. The lotus seed, which is about to mature, has not completely taken off its flower coat. The fruit of the lotus seed is like the eyes of a goldfish, bulging out one by one. Add miscellaneous in the lotus, the division of several reed grass, the leaves have been yellow, out of the posture of the plant swaying in the wind reed. These subtle and precise depictions reveal the truth that the lotus pond in summer and autumn is alive and dead in silence, and that the withered and the withered and the withered are in harmony, and the static and the dynamic are opposite. Let people appreciate the unique artistic conception in the change of natural images, savor the unique connotation of autumn charm, and experience the painter's lingering and carefree emotion.

In the picture, there is no vitality of "connecting the sky and the lotus leaves" in midsummer, but the delicate depiction of "full of wind" in autumn lotus pond; there is no transcendent and free brushwork and ink rhyme, which always maintains a kind of artistic and euphemistic style, just like a graceful poem, which is quiet, soothing but not publicized, indifferent, peaceful but not decadent. It expresses its feelings with its own unique brushwork language The true feelings of natural cognition.

The author pays special attention to the creation of the aesthetic feeling of the form of the picture, which not only enhances the poetic and picturesque sense of rhythm, but also makes the level of the picture more prominent. For example, the slender lines and pieces of lotus leaves presented by the stems of lotus and reed grass are the ingenious combination of line and surface. In addition, the lotus flowers interspersed between the leaves and stems make the perfect combination of point, line and surface. And the unique management of techniques, and the poetic realm of rendering incisively and vividly. Lotus leaves are dyed first and then hooked. In this way, the outlined plant veins can be naturally integrated into the ink color of the leaves. The treatment of this method not only conforms to the real image, but also has freehand brushwork. This method is particularly prominent in the halo dyeing of the picture. In the aspect of dyeing, the painter combines the depth of color with the amount of moisture, dry and wet, and strives to show a dynamic effect of ink and water, dry and wet infiltration through the rich color changes with dry, moist and wet changes. It not only appropriately shows the rich aesthetic feeling of dry and prosperous in autumn, but also naturally conveys the unique interest and connotation in the picture. It can be seen that the painter's in-depth understanding of nature, as well as the use of ink techniques on the extraordinary.

Artistic achievements

In the 20th century, in the field of flower and bird painting, only Mr. Zhao Mengzhu was included in the collection in Lu Xun Academy of fine arts. The Beijing school has the most distinctive features in abiding by the laws of the ancients. After the death of Jin Beilou, his Son Jin Qianan and his family were born in 1927 and founded the "hushe Painting Society". The main founders of this painting society all took the word "Hu" as their mark, such as Guan Pinghu, Li Wuhu, Wu Jinghu, Meng Zhu, whose name was "Minghu", and his younger sister was "Linghu". When the Hu society was founded, Mr. Meng Zhu supported the later generations with great enthusiasm and cultivated many famous artists. Such as Bai Xueshi, Tian Shiguang, Jiang Yan and so on, they were taught and cultivated patiently.

Mr. Meng Zhu's painting of flowers and birds, far from the song and Yuan Dynasties and near the jinbeilou, is well versed in the history of ancient and modern painting. He has a profound foundation and is able to win many advantages. He takes nature as his teacher and develops his own new style. His art of flowers and birds is solid and graceful, vigorous and graceful, elegant and elegant in color setting, exquisite and meticulous in composition and rigorous in law.

representative work

"Yulan ribbon" won the second national art exhibition outstanding works.

His works, such as spring dawn in the apricot forest, plum blossom in the plum forest, lilac orchid, autumn fruit, hollyhock doves and myriad colors, can better reflect his artistic achievements in flower and bird painting and mark his artistic orientation.

In his later years, Mr. Zhu dreamt that freehand brushwork "orchid" had become the peak of his art.

evaluate

Mr. Meng Zhu's flowers and birds, far from the Song Dynasty, near the jinbeilou, attaches great importance to nature, and practices watercolor painting. He has developed his own method, fine brushwork, freehand brushwork, boneless brushwork, filling in, heavy color, and ink painting. He mainly focuses on fine brushwork and small freehand brushwork. Mr. Meng Zhu's rigorous and realistic skills in the creation of flower and bird paintings, as well as his beautiful, elegant and elegant personal style, are also very remarkable. Mr. Du's painting is just like Tao Ling's poem drinking, which makes people feel that "there is a real taste in it, and they want to argue to forget their words". In a moment, they put people in the realm of the beauty of birds' singing and flowers' fragrance. This style has been basically formed in his early works, such as grape dragonfly in the 1920s, meishou in the 1930s and plum bamboo Tit in the 1940s. In the later period, that is, after the founding of new China, the works are more fully presented. For example, Yulan, Fugui Changchun, Cuiliu shuilian in the 1950s, Xinglin Chunxiao, peony and Dongfeng songnuan in the 1960s are enough to illustrate. During this period, Mr. Meng Zhu was able to reach a higher level of attainments in flower and bird painting and form his own distinctive elegant style. It was not only a matter of practice and Cultivation in skills, but also a world outlook due to changes in life.

Mr. Meng Zhu is an art educator who is never tired of learning and teaching. He is a master of flower and bird painting who is good at drawing, filling and freehand brushwork. Zhao Mengzhu, Yu Feian, Xu Cao, Wu Jingting, Zhou Huaimin, Wang Rong, Liu Yansheng and Shi Ming cooperated.