Wang Changjiang's artistic evaluation

The small mountain village covered with snow is quiet and elegant, and the moonlight shines on the winding glacier as smooth as a mirror. The trees near the distant mountains are covered with soft gauze, which condenses into snow on the treetops, ethereal and smart, and the red lanterns hung high in front of the gate of the farmhouse ignite the fiery passion in the night sky ... This is the snow and ice landscape painting "Snow Country Family" written by Wang Changjiang, which is vivid, delicate and inky. Although each painting seems to be a world of ice and snow, it contains a myriad of vitality, which makes people feel dynamic in silence, strong in light, and an artistic conception and inspiration from precipitation, which makes people think and feel profound. Wang Changjiang's natural, fluent and pioneering painting style has won people's love. He is well-known in the painting world for his form, language and beauty of ice and snow landscape paintings, and has written a magnificent chapter for the Syracuse culture in Mudanjiang.

Take the ground as paper, use hoes instead of pens, and cultivate hope on black land

Wang Changjiang, as its name suggests, is magnificent and boundless. In his works, the scenery of the northern country, such as the vast snow fields, the thawed rivers, the huts' courtyards and the wintersweet pines, is full of vitality and strong local complex. Many of his ice and snow paintings have been selected for national art exhibitions and won prizes, and dozens of his works have been exhibited and collected in the United States, Russia, Japan, South Korea and other countries. Plum blossoms came from bitter cold. Wang Changjiang was born in yutian county, Hebei Province in 1956. In 1975, he went to the countryside to work in anshan village, Kuishan Township, linkou county. Although he tills on the long ridges in the fields every day, he has not lost his enterprising spirit. Because there is always a beautiful ideal in his heart: to be a painter. During his work, he used the earth as paper and a hoe as a ghostwriter, constantly depicting the picture of life. Having been in contact with nature for a long time, he naturally has an inseparable feeling. In his spare time, Wang Changjiang tried to freeze these most simple and natural scenery on paper with a brush and keep it forever. Wang Changjiang's artistic talent and extraordinary painting skills were quickly displayed and applied during that time. He was elected as the production team to publish a newspaper, enriching the spiritual and cultural life of farmers. In order to do a good job on the blackboard newspaper, Wang Changjiang carried a hoe to farm during the day and picked up chalk to draw at night. In order to write a good blackboard newspaper the next day, he was often busy until after midnight, that is, in those days when he held a hoe in one hand and a brush in the other, he honed Wang Changjiang's willpower and laid a solid foundation for portrait and sketch, which greatly inspired him to move towards his ideal.

There was a young man in the village who could draw. Soon, Wang Changjiang's name was gradually spread. He was transferred from anshan village to the cultural station in Kuishan Township as an art propagandist. During this period, under the guidance of Yi Xiaobai, the first teacher, he insisted on contributing to Mudanjiang Daily and was awarded as an excellent correspondent for two consecutive years. In 1976, his traditional Chinese painting "Collective Wedding" was selected and sent to the national art exhibition that year, and he participated in the art creation class sponsored by China Artists Association.

In order to pursue his dream, Wang Changjiang insists on studying after work. In the first year of the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977, Wang Changjiang was admitted to the art major class of Mudanjiang Normal School. There, like a hungry man flapping on bread, he tried his best to absorb nutrition and learn painting techniques. After graduation, Wang Changjiang was assigned to linkou county Cinema as an art propagandist, where he met his mentor, Mr. Zhou Zuncheng. In 198, Mudanjiang Daily recruited an American editor. Wang Changjiang stood out among more than a dozen competitors at that time and became a journalist with his long painting skills and artistic talent. In 1986, Wang Changjiang was selected by the unit to attend the first comic art workshop in China, where he got to know Ma Sanli, the master of comic dialogue in China, and Hua Junwu, the two masters' teaching guidance deepened his understanding of art. During this period, his works won many national advertising design awards, and were adopted by enterprises and published in major newspapers all over the country. At the same time, Wang Changjiang studied comic art under Hua Junwu, a master of Chinese comic art, and his comic works were outstanding. His comic works "Wheel" were selected for the National Comic Competition sponsored by China Artists Association. It takes a passion, especially for artists, to dream about ice and snow, and to study ice and snow painting for twenty years

. In addition to his daily news work, Wang Changjiang never gave up painting. Sketch, watercolor, comics and meticulous Chinese painting were widely read by Wang Changjiang, and they all made some achievements. However, he always felt that painting could only be called true love if it reached a state of obsession, and what he lacked was this state of "infatuation". It was not until he came into contact with the school of ice and snow painting developed by Yu Zhixue, a famous master of ice and snow painting, that he really found that feeling. Yu Zhixue, born in Harbin, an ice city, is a member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a director of China Artists Association. He used new ideas and new techniques, and created a new kind of painting-ice and snow painting after more than 4 years of artistic practice, which can show the new style of the scenery of the northern country with thousands of miles of ice and snow in Wan Li, filling the gap in the history of China art. The ice and snow landscape paintings created have a strong sense of texture and distinct layers, which show the world of ice and snow wrapped in silver to the fullest, give new life to the ice and snow that has always been considered desolate and cold, create a quiet and elegant artistic realm for people, and let people enjoy beautiful art. Wang Changjiang, who grew up in the northeast, also has a special feeling for the world of ice and snow. His native land in the north is not only the root of his life, but also the root of his art, so he also has a strong desire to express the nature of ice and snow with a brush. In 1978, he studied ice and snow painting with Zhou Zuncheng, his mentor and now the president of China Ice and Snow Painting Association. In 1986, Wang Changjiang studied ice and snow painting techniques with Yu Zhixue as his teacher. Mudanjiang has a unique natural ice and snow landscape, which provides a vast world for ice and snow painters, which is beyond the reach of southerners. Therefore, ice and snow paintings not only become treasures in the northern region, but also are particularly popular in the southern region. In order to paint ice and snow thoroughly, Wang Changjiang went deep into the snow-covered mountain of Yuan Ye, regardless of the cold and fatigue. After careful observation and constant pondering, Wang Changjiang became interested in ice and snow painting with special techniques to express the beauty of ice and snow, and he sincerely loved it. With a solid foundation in painting and art theory, he turned his eyes to the field of ice and snow painting. From the beginning, Wang Changjiang buried himself in hard research and exploration, and painted with emotion. Wang Changjiang's works have a unique charm. Since the 198s, Wang Changjiang has devoted himself to studying ice and snow painting for decades, and has gone through an extraordinary artistic growth path in the field of ice and snow. In 23, his ice and snow paintings "Spring Breeze", 24 "Moon is the Snow Country" and 25 "Tianjing" were selected for the second, third and fourth China Ice and Snow Exhibition respectively, and were collected by Yu Zhixue Art Museum. In 29, his ice and snow painting "Jingbo Ice Waterfall" was presented as a gift by Mudanjiang Municipal Committee to former South Korean Prime Minister Li Shoucheng, and dozens of works were sent to the United States, South Korea and Japan as gifts from the municipal government. With the improvement of ice and snow painting techniques, Wang Changjiang devoted himself to the development of ice and snow painting. In order to develop the ice and snow painting art of Snow City-Mudanjiang, Wang Changjiang came up with the idea of expanding the creative group of ice and snow painting in his hometown. In 25, together with Gao Chengshan, then president of the City Painting and Calligraphy Institute, he set up the first ice and snow painting academy in our city, assisted the painting academy to hold the first large-scale ice and snow painting exhibition in our city, and was lucky enough to invite Yu Zhixue to cut the ribbon for the exhibition, which not only expanded the team of ice and snow painting creative groups in Mudanjiang City, but also greatly promoted the development of ice and snow painting in Mudanjiang City.

Unique topic selection and innovative techniques promote the snow culture in Syracuse

Love for snow country, painting winter snow. It's the season of falling snow again. When the reporter interviewed Wang Changjiang, he just came back from Xuexiang and asked him how many times he had entered Xuexiang. Wang Changjiang laughed and said that he couldn't remember it. Every time he went, there would be new discoveries and new harvests. The huts, rivers, birch trees, trees and a house there made Wang Changjiang memorize them and had a deep feeling. Appreciating the snow and ice landscape paintings in his Snow Country Series is a kind of spiritual wandering and singing. He closely connects himself with the natural landscape. Obviously, this is the "spiritual blood" that the painter sees through in his works, and this "spiritual blood" is displayed through images, shapes, colors, spaces and realms in his painting creation. Wang Changjiang, who is good at benefiting from his teacher but not sticking to techniques, is constantly strengthening his own cultural and artistic accomplishment and building his basic skills. In terms of techniques, Wang Changjiang still uses the simple and plain ink and wash language of Yu Zhixue and Zhou Zuncheng, telling his natural feelings for the country, while Wang Changjiang, who is good at innovation, also has his own unique painting skills. He often uses the medium and long-term composition to make the picture show a low or high overlooking perspective, gain a rare sense of vastness and show a wild scene of the original ecology. In the "Snow Country Series", Wang Changjiang often adopts the methods of seeing the big from the small, focusing on the perspective, seeking the profound from the complex, and seeking unity from repetition. The reason why he has such a structure and made such a schema choice is that the world is so grand and emotional, and he uses ink and gong to give full expression, so he has such a situation and a unique move.

"Snow Country Series" is the motif of Wang Changjiang's infinite extension. He used the techniques of half-work, half-writing, fainting, dyeing, rubbing, etc. to combine the effects of warm and cold colors and decent relationships, without losing the relevant elements and formal meanings of China's paintings. The combination of the two values made Wang Changjiang's ice and snow landscape paintings gain a new meaning. The stagnant water, spring flood, hometown snow, dream, autumn moon, wandering, far sunny and wilderness in the works all belong to works that have gone out of the aesthetic feeling of classical ink painting, presenting a cold contemporary aesthetic feeling style to the world. Wang Changjiang's ice and snow paintings attract people's attention because of their performance of the ice and snow world and natural sounds, which has become an artistic phenomenon that people in Syracuse pay attention to. "Snow Country Series" is an unpredictable, mysterious and dreamy space. This space is more profound, deep and mysterious, and contains some eternal theme.

Wang Changjiang's paintings are pioneering on the basis of worshipping tradition. He tries to promote the development of ice and snow painting in the blending of Chinese painting art. He is deeply attached to the national painting tradition, always humbly asking for advice from the national tradition, and at the same time absorbing foreign art and skills with a broad mind, trying to create a broader world of ice and snow landscape painting. Nowadays, Mudanjiang's ice and snow painting has become a backbone of the ice and snow painting school, and it has also initially formed a characteristic cultural brand of Mudanjiang City. These successes can't be separated from a group of artists like Wang Changjiang who are quietly exploring behind the scenes to promote the art of ice and snow. As a director of China Ice and Snow Painting Association, a member of Heilongjiang Artists Association, a vice chairman of Mudanjiang Artists Association, and a deputy director of Mudanjiang Artists Association's Chinese Painting Art Committee, Wang Changjiang deeply feels the great responsibility on his shoulders. How to draw the ice and snow landscape to the extreme and how to continue to promote the ice and snow art is the subject that Wang Changjiang keeps thinking about. The New Year has arrived, and Wang Changjiang has devoted himself to new creation. In his new works, he is going to integrate colors into the ice and snow paintings, so as to keep the pictures transparent and add colorful colors, break away the monochrome desolation of the ice and snow paintings, make viewers feel comfortable after enjoying them, and look forward to his new works.