Dec.19, 2015
Abstract: The presale exhibition of
Xiamen Zhang Xiong 2015 Painting and Calligraphy Autumn Auction was held in the
gallery of Zhang Xiong Painting and Calligraphy Academy from Dec. 18 to 19,
2015. Lin Zhiqiang’s Green Willow Branches and Melodious Pastoral Songs was
unveiled on the exhibition. The formal auction was due to begin at 2pm on
Dec.20,2015.
Green Willow Branches and Melodious
Pastoral Songs by Lin Zhiqiang 68x68cm mounted Chinese Painting created in 2011
Inscription: Green Willow Branches and
Melodious Pastoral Songs painted by Lin
Zhiqiang in Wangshan Cottage on the Beginning of Spring(Feb.4)2011
Seal: (in red)Qiang (in white) Lin
(in white) Traveler in bamboo hat
Zhang Xiong Art correspondence The
presale exhibition of Xiamen Zhang Xiong 2015 Painting and Calligraphy Autumn
Auction was held in the gallery of Zhang Xiong Painting and Calligraphy Academy
from Dec. 18 to 19, 2015.more than 200 articles were exhibited. The famous
artist from Fujian Lin Zhiqiang’s Green Willow Branches and Melodious Pastoral
Songs was unveiled on the exhibition. The formal auction was due to begin at
2pm on Dec.20,2015.
Green Willow Branches and Melodious
Pastoral Songs depicts a countryside scene that a young girl of She nationality
is herding buffalos. The girl is in traditional costume of She nationality. Her
hair is plaited with a red wool. She
rides on the back of a buffalo, with a bamboo branch in her hand for herding
the buffalos. Around the girl there are green willows and flopping birds. Several buffalos are leisurely moving through
the green willow bushes in such a beautiful spring day. In all, the picture
presents a unique beautiful scenery in the southern riverside villages. Same as
his previous series of Folklore of She nationality, Lin utilizes heavy colors
for fine brushwork and splashing colors for imagery in this painting to present
the characteristic temperament of She nationality on the girl.
Lin Zhiqiang is very good at ink
wash figure painting. The artist Weng Zhenxin said “Lin Zhiqiang’s ink wash
figure paintings present the tenacious vitality of realistic style with true
affection, soundness, simplicity and purity.” Lin has been insisting in ink
wash realistic figure paintings and have
created a plenty of portraits. He follows the principles of “expressing the
spirit with form” and “combination of form and spirit” and stresses the
soundness and subtleness of the figure itself to make it natural, simple and realistic.
Just like in Green Willow Branches and Melodious Pastoral Songs, the image of
the girl is rather vivid. We can see the girl’s eyes are looking to the right.
Lin Zhiqiang is an artist from Putian municipality,
Fujian province. He is good at ink wash figure painting. He participated in
national arts exhibition and won awards for times. His Two Herding Men was
selected for the 2nd National Youth Fine Arts Exhibition; Century Suffering was
selected for Chinese Figure Painting Exhibition; Immortal Memory ---Feb. 7,1923 was selected for National Painting and Calligraphy
Exhibition and won the gold prize. Besides, Lin also makes efforts for the research of educational theory of
Chinese fine arts. His papers on fine arts education have been published in
many national and provincial newspapers and magazines such as Literature &
Art Studies, Fine Arts, Overview of Fine Arts, China Art Weekly, China Youth
Daily and Painting Today. He has made contributions in research of Chinese
painting practice and theory.