Xu Kang

Xu Kang

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Xu Kang, a famous fan painter, was born in Jinan in 1961 and his ancestral home is Shouguang, Shandong Province. He graduated from East China Normal University, and now works as a professional painter in Shandong Art Museum, director of collection department, member of China Artists Association, director of Shandong Artists Association, and senior painter of Shandong Painting Academy.

Professional painter of Shandong Art Museum

Xu Kang, a famous fan painter, was born in Jinan in 1961 and his ancestral home is Shouguang, Shandong Province. He graduated from East China Normal University, and now works as a professional painter in Shandong Art Museum, director of collection department, member of China Artists Association, director of Shandong Artists Association, and senior painter of Shandong Painting Academy. He has held individual and joint exhibitions in Jinan, Beijing, Dalian, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Canada, the United States, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Australia and other countries and regions. The TV station has made many feature films, which were broadcast on TV stations and Internet in Shandong and the United States respectively. His works have participated in many art exhibitions at home and abroad and won awards. "Children's dream" won the highest award in the national art exhibition. The works are collected by former German Prime Minister Kohl, Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa, Australian Prime Minister Howard, Australian Minister of immigration Ruddock and many people from friendly countries. And published personal album. In 2012, the stamps of Xu Kang's twelve beauties in Jinling were issued in Macao. the integration of traditional brush and ink and contemporary emotion -- appreciating Xu Kang's paintings of ladies what Chinese painting conveys is not only simple techniques and schemata, but also the painter's character, interest and spiritual purpose. It can be seen that painting is a process of drawing scenery and transmitting temperament. Through the interpretation of Shandong painter Xu Kang's paintings of ladies, I have a deeper understanding of this. When Xie he wrote "six methods" in the ancient painting records of the Southern Dynasty, he pointed out that "the charm is vivid, the bone technique is pen, the object should be pictorial, the color should be given according to the category, the business location, the transmission and transfer of the mold", which refers to the traditional learning rules of Chinese painting. Combined with his own experience, Xu Kang summed up his personal learning ways into two aspects: one is "learning from nature and learning from heart"; the other is learning from the works of ancient sages. He has realized many connotations and true meanings of traditional painting from the works of former masters, and the beauty and aesthetic taste of contemporary people from the life of modern people. With the help of the court style paintings of Song Dynasty and the flower and bird paintings of Yun Nantian and Hua Xinluo of Qing Dynasty, he takes the figure paintings of Min Zhen and Fei danxu, and integrates his strong modern consciousness and personal emotion into the traditional painting By learning from nature, he wrote the novelty of modern people's hair styles, shoes and hats into the ancient costume figure paintings, and by basing on tradition and grasping the modern, he created a fresh, graceful, gentle and beautiful personal style of his own lady paintings. In Xu Kang's paintings, he can read poetry, read prose and essays, and appreciate the beauty of China's culture, such as poetry, prose, drama and other traditional Chinese culture. He can appreciate life and appreciate history. He will feel that his painting is deeply rooted in the soil of national art and the essence of national culture. In his paintings, the poetess is a cultural lifeline of his painting creation, which is also the cultural value of Mr. Xu Kang's soul. In his works, poetry and painting are interlinked, and poets and painters can transcend time and space for spiritual dialogue. Most of his works are selected from the poems of Li Qingzhao, Zhu Shuzhen and Xie Daokai. The themes of the paintings, such as "deep spring in the small courtyard window", "who sends brochures in the clouds", "soft wind and thin day, spring is still early", "some time to urge flowers and rain", "little red paper sings my flute" and "it should be green, fat, red and thin", are mostly taken from the poems of the Song Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, especially the poetries of female poets, whose images naturally convey a kind of cultural character and spiritual purpose. The emotion of the character, Gu song behind Xie Daokai, Haoyue behind Zhu Shuzhen, and Bajiao and Huanghua beside Li Qingzhao all highlight the character's thoughts and emotions in the artistic conception of "depending on things" and "transforming things into me", and also enable us to see the painter's feeling for the fate of the main character. In the light and flexible lines, in the fresh and graceful shadows, and in the beautiful poems, we can not only appreciate the beauty of traditional Chinese culture, but also see the strong cultural and artistic accomplishment of the painter. Xu Kang believes that the performance of Chinese ladies' paintings focuses on the harmony and unity of body posture, appearance, clothing, clothing pattern and scenery. The ancients paid attention to the depiction of women as "delicate and graceful", "light and slender", "delicate expression" or "plump and plump". There are different aesthetic standards in different times, but no matter how the times change, "beauty" is the core of art. Beauty comes from life, from emotion, and more importantly from "truth". Only when there is "truth" can there be "goodness", and only when there is "goodness" can there be "beauty". In order to pursue this realm, Xu Kang has struggled for more than 30 years. When he was a child, he loved painting very much. When he was in primary school, he copied a copy of Lenin in October, which made a sensation in the whole school. When he went to art school, the school bought a Venus sculpture for teachers only. Xu Kang climbed into the warehouse from the window and copied it all night. Over the years, he has seen all the famous ancient paintings and works of modern masters, which has laid a solid foundation. In addition, he has been eager to learn classical poetry and literature, from techniques to rhyme, which has injected great beauty into the image and connotation of his paintings. Since he was 26 years old, he has held art exhibitions in the Academy of fine arts. Over the past 20 years, he has held hundreds of art exhibitions in China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, and his works have been loved and welcomed by people from all walks of life. Although most of his paintings are based on talents, beauties and dramatic characters in traditional themes, the connotation of his paintings is the emotion and thinking of modern people. Enjoy his new work twelve hairpins in Red Mansions, with fluent strokes, fresh ink, harmonious layout, beautiful modeling, poetic and picturesque, and melodious prose. Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, Wang Xifeng and Shi Xiangyun all have vivid mood and vivid characters On the other hand, from the image modeling to the modality structure of the whole form, it has reached a relatively perfect state. Then watch his various paintings, no matter the square, fan pages, banners, a variety of colorful, but all into a good structure, unique. The beauty of flowers and plants is the main pattern of Chinese ladies' paintings, but the style of some modern ladies' paintings has been difficult to improve. Xu Kang, on the other hand, insisted on coming out of history and then into reality, carefully pondering the feelings of the ancients, inferring the behavior of the ancients with the thinking of modern people, and using his skills of landscape painting and flower and bird painting for many years to set off the psychological feelings of the characters and the artistic conception of the works by rendering the background of the ladies' paintings, so as to convey his inner feelings in the blend of feelings and scenes. He takes historical figures and poetic conception as the main body, with Xiuzhu, plantain, willow, peach blossom, stream, mountain stone, courtyard and terrace. The brush is moved and dyed at will, so that the flowing clouds and flowing water, mountains, stones and trees, pavilions and pavilions, exotic flowers and plants, fish, insects, birds and animals and the main body of the characters can be perfectly combined and reflect each other The level of the painting is more rich, and the picture is more colorful, which further deepens the artistic conception and charm of the work. He expressed his love for life and his desire for idyllic interest with light and calm brushwork and bright and clean ink, creating a fairyland like paradise. In today's noisy and complicated modern society, reading Xu Kang's paintings can make the noise tend to be quiet, let utilitarianism return to indifference, and get the purification of mind and the enjoyment of great beauty in physical and mental pleasure. Reading Xu Kang's paintings reminds me of Gao Lian's words in Zunsheng bajian in Ming Dynasty: "beauty is unexpected, richness is subtle, charming and graceful The spirit is born out of the shape, but in the shape I realized the style and taste of ancient Chinese ladies' paintings, which provided useful reference for later painters. Appreciating the eyes of the lady and the expression intoxicated with the fragrance of spring flowers in "spring melt flowers bloom and pure fragrance", the beautiful woman in "the wind is soft and the sun is thin and spring is still early" looks back and smiles, and the heroine's expectation and sadness in "who in the cloud sends brocade book", I can read the modern life breath, the voice of the times and the ancient echo in his works with both spirit and form . In a word, Xu Kang creates a fairyland like paradise with his light and calm brushwork and clear ink. His paintings make our hearts from impetuous to calm, let utility return to indifferent, so as to get the enjoyment of great beauty. Reading his paintings, I can't help but think of a passage by Gao Lian of Ming Dynasty: "beauty is unexpected, abundance is hidden, charming and charming, and posture is dignified... The spirit is strong and strong, the shape is strong, and the interest of heaven is flying."

Art calendar

In 1987, he held a personal exhibition in Beijing; in 1991, his works were collected by former German Prime Minister Kohl; in 1993, he was invited to participate in an exhibition in Taiwan; in 1994, he held an exhibition with foreign painter Martin in Jinan; in 1999, he held a personal exhibition in Hong Kong; in 1999, his works were collected by Hong Kong Chief Executive Dong Jianhua; in 1999, he went to Korea to participate in an exhibition; in 2001, his work "children's dream" won the National Art Exhibition Award In 2002, he went to Australia to hold a personal painting exhibition; in 2002, his works were collected by Australian Prime Minister He Huade; in 2003, he held a personal painting exhibition in Jinan; in 2005, he participated in the national invitation exhibition of Chinese Painting Masters (Jinan exhibition area); in 2005, his works "an Olympic class" participated in the Sixth China sports art exhibition; in July 2005, he went to Taiwan to participate in the painting exhibition; in 2005, he went to Malaysia to hold the painting exhibition; in 2005, he went to Malaysia to participate in the painting exhibition; 2006: Tradition and Modernity

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