Zhuang Jinghui is a well-known Chinese American artist, an international heavy-color master, advanced adviser of Beverly Arts, President of America Zhang Daqian Art Research Association, executive vice president of American Chinese Painting Association, executive vice president of North America Art Academy and America Arts Research Institute.
He is a rare scholar-type artist who can paint and calligraphy, poetry, sculpture, oil painting, and pot making. He published monographs such as "Selected Poems on Paintings by Zhuang Jinghui," "Collection of Paintings by Zhuang Jinghui," etc. His sculptures are collected by American dignitaries, and paintings are collected by the American president, governors, Danish prince, and Hollywood stars. He is a Chinese artist with international influence.
Mr. Zhuang has a wide range of artistic backgrounds and a broad field of vision, from traditional painting and calligraphy to Western art, Chinese and Western artistic theories, and so on. He is in the USA, the forefront of modern and contemporary art. His creation is striving to expand into new areas during the collision and blending of Eastern and Western cultures. His artistic thinking and boundaries of exploration have been continuously widened. He has gradually moved from the cultural expression of natural hills to the spiritual presentation of heaven and earth, and then entered a new realm of "cosmic consciousness" and the life meaning.
From his recent batch of heavy color artworks, it can be seen that his thinking has clearly detached from the grasp of the phenomenal world and has entered into the spiritual exploration of the natural content of the universe. In other words, it is closer to the ultimate questioning of "Tao." From the movement and transformation of the universe, the creation of heaven and earth, to the life and even more microscopic scale, is always in the "easy" of the "hard." Fundamentally speaking, artistic creation is just a way to realize the Tao and become a master by presenting the "universal" at different levels from the vast to the subtle. Mr. Zhuang's creation is precisely an effort on such a high-level cognitive coordinate.
Getting a full appreciation of his new works, which have magnificent colors, fantastic changes, and fill with the mysterious, are pictures outside of people's usual visual experience. Although there are still vague traces of natural mountains and rivers, it is more of the subconscious and even unconscious nature in the soul's depths. Therefore, certain images or symbols in his artworks can always evoke a certain "resonance" that has never appeared in people's minds. The so-called "heaven-human induction," the study of Lao Zhuang, which sublimated to the astronomy and the universe, can be used to interpret the thought of Zhuang Jinghui's art.
On the aesthetic level, Mr. Zhuang's accumulation of the spirit of Chinese brush and ink makes his works always exude a friendly oriental connotation. While the use of new techniques such as heavy color splashing and the introduction of modern aesthetic concepts make his works show a very different traditional appearance and a new vision different from the West.
Mr. Zhuang made extensive use of splashing colors and developed his own language of expression. Splashing color is not a kind of indulgence but more in control. His grasp of spatial and color relations and his subjective "intervention" and control in the process of collision and integration of color, ink, and water reflect his own good technical experience and aesthetics.
His creations on rice papers are especially in his strong international painting language and keep the East's mysterious charm. No matter what spirit or concept he expresses, he can always make his creation run on the aesthetic level. This is his artistic ideal and makes his artworks have more audiences at home and abroad than concept-based art.
Art comes from life. I hope more people will come into art from life. Mr. Zhuang let us feel the spiritual enjoyment and artistic feast brought to us by the artist closely. He allows the audience to walk into an endless universe from his paintings. We all have benefited a lot and wish for the next share by Mr. Zhuang.
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