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Zhang Ming

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Zhang Ming, styled Shu Chan, styled Ziyuan and Jin Yu, originally from Shandong, currently resides in Beijing. Calligrapher, painter, art critic, and poet.A contemporary master calligrapher and painter,visiting scholar at Peking University,art critic, poet, lyricist, international curator, and director of Dajia Art Museum.He serves as an executive council member of the China Research Association of Famous Personalities in Chinese and Foreign Cultures, and Director of the Creation and Review Committee.He studied under renowned aesthetic scholars from Peking University, including Ye Lang, Yang Xin, and Luo Zheng. As early as 1992, he organized international academic activities in calligraphy and painting, gaining fame on the global art scene. He planned and edited monumental collections such as "International Modern Calligraphy Collection" and "Compendium of 20th Century International Art Masterpieces," among over twenty major publications, pioneering new frontiers in international academic research and creating a sensation in the international art world. His artworks, essays, and poems have repeatedly won prestigious awards both at home and abroad. To perfect his freehand-style bird-and-flower paintings, Mr. Zhang Ming has carefully studied aesthetics, philosophy, and wild cursive script from both Chinese and Western traditions. His wild cursive calligraphy exhibits mature brushwork and profound artistic conception, filled with swirling energy across the paper. Synthesizing the achievements of ancient and modern masters, he has developed a unique personal style. Over more than thirty years in the arts, he has comprehensively cultivated himself in calligraphy, painting, poetry, literature, and seal carving—each discipline complementing and enhancing the others. His paintings convey a seasoned flavor of epigraphy, a refined sense of expressive writing, and a deeply felt humanistic, impressionistic sentiment. Viewing his bird-and-flower paintings, one is immediately struck by a Daoist realm of “returning to emptiness and merging into wholeness.” In his works, Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist philosophies are seamlessly fused. Zhang Ming’s art embodies the essence of traditional Chinese artistic theory: “Emotions move and manifest through form and language, capturing the spirit of poetry and elegance; the joy of yang and sorrow of yin originate from the heart of heaven and earth!” His works feature “poetry within painting, imagery within poetry, meaning beyond imagery, delight beyond meaning, and emotion arising from delight”—achieving a transcendent state reflecting the grand beauty of nature. His lotus paintings exude Zen意境 (Zen atmosphere), evoking the ethereal stillness of “Zen meditation” like footsteps echoing in an empty valley, further expressing the artist’s humanistic ideals: “Emerging from mud yet unstained, washed in clear lotuses yet not seductive; hollow inside and straight outside, neither sprawling nor branching; fragrance spreading far and pure, standing erect and clean—admirable from afar but not to be trifled with.” These works symbolize the noble character of the artist. At the same time, they reveal the artist’s lofty, archaic temperament expressed in the lines: “Though the lotus fades, no longer holding rain; even withered leaves retain frost-defying branches,” reflecting a spirit of dedication and generosity. In today's cultural context, Mr. Zhang Ming—poet, art theorist, master of cursive script, and great painter—stands at the height of Chinese humanistic spirit, practicing in action the principle of “literature as a vehicle for moral values,” using the refined and elevated “freehand spirit” to call for the revival and sublimation of humanistic values! Through the brilliant, harmonious, and spiritually resonant artistic realms of Mr. Zhang Ming, we can perceive the artist’s comprehensive cultivation, profound intellectual depth, visionary perspective like one who stands atop a high tower gazing to the horizon’s end, and the deep cultural lineage and lofty realm of a cultural thinker and philosopher! The Book of Changes states: “Observe celestial phenomena to understand changes in time; observe human culture to transform and civilize the world.” “With a heart full of splendor, his paintings brim with brilliance!” We optimistically anticipate that Mr. Zhang Ming’s artistic future will be brilliant and resplendent. We believe that inspired by Mr. Zhang Ming’s devotion to humanistic art, the spirit of Chinese humanistic art will stand independently within the global cultural landscape, triggering a cascading “composite effect” of a “humanistic carnival” in world culture. “There will come a time to ride the wind and cleave the waves; I’ll set my cloud-tipped sail and cross the vast sea!” May Zhang Ming’s tree of art remain evergreen! May Mr. Zhang Ming’s artworks “stir a spring pond with a sudden breeze.”

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