Renowned Oil Painter: Liping Zhang
Profile:
Liping Zhang was born in 1961 in Chifeng city of Inner Mogolia. Currently, he is working as the professor and master’s supervisor of Xiamen University, the vice dean of Art Department in Xiamen University.
He
is the member of Oil Painting Committee under Chinese Artists
Association, the council member of Chinese Oil Painting Society, the
vice president of Fujian Artists Association, the director of art commit of FuJian Artists Association and the president of Xiamen Oil Painting Society.
His works were showcased on the 7th-12th National Fine Arts Exhibition and
National Academic Exhibition of Oil Paintings. He has been awarded with
the highest prize of Chinese Oil Paintings Exhibition.
Tradition & Innovation
By Alres·Mary·Buckfar
Red Moon by Liping Zhang | 230 x 150cm | 2014
Color is the place where our brain and universe meet.-Paul Klee
By Paul Klee
At the borders between the
abstract and the concrete, the form and the color, the Chinese painter
Liping Zhang assiduously explores in the generation of picture through
extremely compelling methods and results in novelty and tensional works.
The Top Pear Blossom by Liping Zhang | 100 x 80cm | 2015
Just as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the French philosopher once said, “Painter should always remember that he is living with things around in fascination, as if the freedom of perception is derives from the nature of the thing itself like the distribution of stars”; “Painter explores the interaction of visible objects through the depth, space sense, color and the other factors in paiting”.
Works
by Liping Zhang are featured with bright color, rich sentiment and
changes of rhythm and space sense. The imaginative colors and
alternation of light and dark arouse an air of artistic tension, leading
the spectator to
enter the artistic space where we can experience the entire world with
our body and all senses. The colorization attracts people and makes them
too delight to stand still and mediate in front of the works. For Mr.
Zhang, painting is referred to “building forms in color” and interpreting the scene and urban space in the language of art.
Summer of Suzdal by Liping Zhang | 100 x 80cm |2015
George·Lowley
mentioned in The Principles of Chinese Painting (1959) that, the most
important characteristics of Chinese artists is that they regards that
the nature shall be acknowledged in an natural manner.
They retire from the world and keep away from worldly harassment and noise .Being in the nature, Chinese poets
and painters have an insight of the missing spiritual order in the
flooding of human desire and material desire. Their ideas were recorded
in Xiamen Museum. Only through the visualization of nature, human will communicate with the nature and build the oneness of man and nature and a better world.
At Sunset by Liping Zhang | 80 x 60cm | 2015
For his landscape paintings,
the compositions act on their own ways with light, graceful and smooth
lines to highlight the tempo of the nature and the subject of change.
The depiction of urban space in his work arouses imagination to spectators.
He utilizes color and light to draw varied contours of the city, making
the daily life for the blocks and ports as beautiful as poem.
In the encounter with Mr. Zhang’s paintings, they will remind you the words of Adorno in Aesthetic Theory (1970). He illustrates the relation between art and nature as that “Nature opens its eyes in art works.”Therefore, the skill of painting is an irreplaceable language.