Zhu Quan

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Zhu Quan

Personal Profile

Zhu Quan, pen name Chang Le and Peng Yi, was born in 1970 in Tongyu County, Jilin Province. He graduated from Shijiazhuang Institute of Humanities and Arts. A member of the Communist Party of China, a veteran of special forces, and a member of the Jilin Calligraphers Association, he is currently a full-time professor at Jilin Calligraphy and Painting Advanced Studies College. Since childhood, he has had a profound interest in traditional Chinese art and is passionate about calligraphy and seal carving. His calligraphy is distinguished by strict structure and fluid brushwork—freely expressive yet retaining ancient elegance, dynamic like flying dragons and serpents yet never losing its refined grace, creating a large body of highly individualistic calligraphic works. During his studies, he specialized in cursive script, diligently practiced, absorbed the strengths of numerous masters, achieved rigorous structure and refined brush techniques, and developed a unique style. While serving in the military, he never ceased writing and was actively involved in propaganda efforts within his unit; this unique experience added a touch of grandeur and majesty to his later works. Since the 1990s, he has won multiple awards domestically and received widespread acclaim from calligraphy enthusiasts. His ink painting studies under Zhang Dachuan, a National First-Class Artist, specializing in Chinese painting techniques, with particular expertise in bamboo, orchids, and bird-and-flower subjects. He has received high praise and careful guidance from renowned Chinese painting masters such as Miao Tiliang and Chen Qixuan. His works are fresh, elegant, with precise and crisp brushwork. Numerous pieces have been included in the anthology of China’s Master Artists. A large number of his works have been collected by art lovers in the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. His achievements have been reported by multiple media outlets including Baidu, Sina, and Sohu. In 2015, he was honored with the title of China’s Calligraphy Creation Master; in 2016, several of his works were selected by the China Post Group Corporation for nationwide issuance as Chinese postage stamps; in 2017, a limited-edition collection album titled “One Belt, One Road, Chinese Dream Masterpieces” was released. Master Chang Le has deeply studied calligraphy and gained profound insights, emphasizing rules and discipline: only through adherence to law can true beauty emerge. He assembles dots and strokes into characters, achieving balance and symmetry, contrast and harmony, appropriate emphasis, moderate spacing, and unified character forms, all of which are deeply evocative. Master Chang Le’s calligraphic aesthetics seek rhythm and charm in brushstrokes, structure, and form—pleasing to contemplate, fully revealing the calligrapher’s openness and charisma. He pursues simplicity, ethereal lightness, and unrestrained vigor; his character structures lean or stand upright, heavy or light, embodying the beauty of “coming like thunder ceasing its fury.” His brush movements are swift, forceful, and steady, fully expressing his aesthetic principles: harmonious interplay of thick and thin, interconnected veins and sinews, robust and aged structure, graceful and free-spirited execution, rhythmic and effortless brushwork—truly powerful, magnificent, and richly saturated, like the vast grassland quietly awaiting the gallop of swift steeds. Master Chang Le’s ink paintings draw from the artistic traditions of successive dynasties, absorbing the styles of countless masters, cultivating the spirit of the literati, pursuing the leisurely ways of drifting clouds, admiring the conduct of noble sages, and envying the seclusion of reclusive scholars. What his heart attains cannot be easily expressed in words; what words convey becomes embodied in ink and wash. He has developed a distinctive ink-and-wash style that combines solid foundational skills with personal expression, intensifying the artistic beauty of his work through varied brushwork, structure, color application, and composition. He highlights the interplay of tradition and innovation, hardness and softness, emptiness and substance, speed and slowness, intensity and subtlety, thickness and thinness, lightness and weight, largeness and smallness, straightness and slant, openness and density, continuity and interruption, clumsiness and dexterity, profundity and delicacy—creating rich rhythmic variations that elevate bird-and-flower painting to higher aesthetic realms and deliver profound artistic resonance, offering viewers an entirely new experience of beauty.

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