Release
time: 2015.03.06 news
source: Datong News Network
Original
title:Datong painter Zhang Xiuping is famous
for painting sheep
Before the Spring Festival, in “the new spring
of Sheep Year painting and calligraphy exhibition", The female painter in
our city Zhang Xiuping’s paintings with sheep as the theme, are especially
favored by visitors. In her paintings, the sheep’s body fat and vivid, the
sheep fur is distinct, recently, the reporter interviewed her.
Zhang Xiuping admitted that she is a
painter who devoted to paint fine brushwork sheep, she has studios in Datong
and Beijing. She said, paint a sheep in a painting, in need of practising for ten
years, she has painted for 40 years, specializing in painting sheep for ten years.
Zhang
Xiuping | flower in spring and yield fruit in autumn | 65×65cm | fine brushwork animal painting |
November,2016
Zhang Xiuping said her childhood loves
painting, also love gentle animal, flower and bird painting and landscape
painting in his early years, also painted the Yungang Buddha, from the day when
she picked up a brush, she was showing extraordinary understanding for painting.
In her point of view, painting is no pollution of the "green
landscape", is a green land of the art palace, she used the brush to draw her
favorite pictures, express her preferences, but also express her feelings. In
order to achieve the artistic breakthrough, Zhang Xiuping enrolled in the
Beijing Academy of painting, bird and flower painting senior research class in
2006, her teacher Mo Xiaosong saw her sheep, the sheep curled horns is naïve
and burly and cute, she painted the goat, vivid and obvious, so he suggested her
drawing sheep more.
Zhang
Xiuping | lucky sheep | 130×65cm | fine brushwork animal painting | 2016 winter
Zhang Xiuping also felt
that painting sheep handy,
especially in the background of the society in the traditional agriculture, the
"sheep" as the peasant family It is quite common for livestock,
especially popular, but sheep also carrying art, on behalf of beauty. The regular
script of "beauty", that is "sheep" and "large"
two words combination, beauty of the sheep, it is the embodiment of the ancient aesthetic
tendency.
She has looked for a way, and later specialized in fine brushwork sheep painting. In order to
draw good sheep, she went to the countryside to see sheep, sketch and paint. In
order to observe the sheep, sometimes she stayed in the sheep house for more
than half a day. Later, Zhang Xiuping went to Beijing to meet a lot of friends
in the painting circles, and learned a lot of painting techniques and skills.
She said, in order to draw a good picture, sometimes ten days and a half month
not to go out, and her painting is also getting better, under the brush of
sheep or standing or lying, or walking, or sitting, special charm, and the
sheep and the vast cosmic background form a single unit. Her work "Five
Sheep Gully in Autumn" won the excellence award of “2012 Wu Guanzhong Art
Museum and the national China painting exhibition" of Chinese Artists
Association; “Ci Rui" won the 2012 "Fairview central China painting
exhibition excellence award of Chinese Artists Association.
Zhang
Xiuping | sisterhood | 65×65cm | fine brushwork animal painting | 2013 autumn
In the tradition of Zhang Xiuping fine
brushwork painting world, she tried to leave the exploration and innovation of
the mark in the composition, color, line drawing and other aspects, trying to
express the praise of the sheep of life, to bring the audience a fresh and
elegant and meaningful artistic enjoyment.