Wang Zhengwang
Wang Zhengwang
Personal Profile
Wang Zhengwang, styled Wenxian, art name Qingya Yufu, is from Shaoyang, Hunan, a calligrapher, painter, and seal carver, and the founder of the Qinglian Painting School. Born into poverty, he was naturally gifted. At the age of six, while visiting his uncle’s home, he observed his uncle copying the calligraphy of the "Jiucheng Palace Liquor Spring Inscription," and immediately felt great joy, beginning to study writing under his uncle. Later, he became a disciple of Xing Fengyong to study oil painting. He then entered the studio of the renowned Chinese ink painting master Wu Jianchao to study ink wash painting. Through years of relentless dedication through all seasons, his talent matured into a grand and harmonious form. His watercolor, Western-style, and Chinese ink paintings all exhibit profound mastery, especially in ink landscape and figure painting, characterized by an ethereal, elegant, and naturally integrated style that blends Eastern and Western techniques with Buddhist and Chan philosophical insights, achieving a seamless fusion between realism and expressionism—clear, luminous, and spiritually transcendent. His calligraphy began with the styles of Ouyang Xun, Yan Zhenqing, and Liu Gongquan; later he studied Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, Huai Su, and the “Two Wangs”; eventually focusing exclusively on Zhao Mengfu. Drawing from the strengths of numerous masters, his works possess a unique character: his regular script is bold and expansive, solid and steady; his running script flows like a coiling dragon, graceful and free as a phoenix in flight; his clerical script features the distinctive silkworm head and swallow tail, appearing simple yet profoundly ingenious.
para-title
TAG:
Wang Zhengwang
中文
en 