When viewing Bai Xiangzhen’s paintings, whether they are fine brushwork or freehand brushwork, one unifying impression is “professional quality”. For example, the freehand painting "Good Fortune", whether it is the lines structuring the shape or the brush and ink application, are all professional techniques.
The professional quality of Bai Balsam's paintings stems from her professional studies.
Bai Xiangzhan graduated from the Arts and Crafts Department of Hubei Institute of Technology in 1990. After further study in the academy, he laid a solid foundation of professional brushwork and ink, so his works are all of good professional quality. Although Bai Xiangzhi did not engage in full-time painting after graduating from the Academy of Art and joined the Food and Drug Administration, she still continued to practice professional skills in her spare time, and thus obtained the official certification of a national first-class artist. It can be said that she is still in her heart outside of painting. An art expert in the art world.
In addition to relying on her solid academic skills to master the art of painting, she also relies on hard work, intelligence, and perseverance in daily life to continuously add miraculous achievements to her dream of painting that started in her youth. Today In the end, I was praised by the masters of fine brushwork and freehand brushwork, and gained from artistic practice that my wishes came true and my dreams came true.
Gongbi painting is the most down-to-earth and the most popular among the people. However, because it requires long-term practice and labor-like creation, in the current painting world, Gongbi is gradually declining, and the peak of the Southern Song Dynasty's Gongbi is rarely seen.
Times create heroes, crises call for talents. Bai Xiangzhen struggled to escape the decline of gongbi painting. With his devoted love and artistic responsibility for gongbi art, he became the standard-bearer to save the decline of gongbi painting.
Her gongbi paintings reshape the artistic peak of gongbi paintings with the most authentic forms and become a huge force to inspire art. For example, after viewing the representative work "Ning Fragrance Picture", I was deeply moved by the artist's delicate feelings when holding the pen as if holding the hair. Through the detailed outline of the fine lines, the grace and splendor of the peony was firstly laid out from the bone, and then the colorful ink was applied exquisitely. The layers are layered on top of each other, blending together to dazzle the fairy quality of peony.
Some people say that fine brushwork becomes photography. Yes, Bai Xiangzhi's meticulous paintings are indeed integrated into photography's environment-creating methods, but Bai Xiangzhi's meticulous paintings surpass the strength of photographic depictions in terms of realism. Photography is the beauty of an instant. Even though the shutter is pressed, it is wonderful, but because it cannot actively arrange time and space, it cannot be comprehensive, so photography is a regrettable art.
The reason why Bai Balsam’s fine brushwork is surreal is that she can quietly, for a long time, and use thousands of strokes to capture the beauty of natural forms in the painting through active planning. Leave regrets. Therefore, Bai Balsam's fine brushwork is a perfect technique and a perfect painting. It is not an artistic wonder that the photographic effect can match.
"Ningxiang Tu" is exquisitely composed and flawless. It has become a model for today's gongbi works. If it is put into the auction and collection market, it will definitely trigger a bidding war. Its artistic value determines its immeasurable collection value. . There are also fine works of fine brushwork such as "Xiang Ning" and "Magnolia", which are also valuable and should arouse the attention of discerning collectors and collectors, who should pay close attention to the flow of fine works.
If Bai Xiangzhen’s meticulous paintings transcend the truth of reality, then her freehand paintings are the most beautiful in their context and have become exquisite works in auction collections. The aforementioned "Good Fortune" is best explained by Qi Baishi's painting theory of "the beauty lies between similarity and dissimilarity". Judging from its big chicken shape, does it look similar or not? It's completely a clever balance between similarity and dissimilarity.
The chicken is in the shape of a soaring dragon, but also in the shape of a leaping tiger. This is not like a chicken, because it does not look like a proud one. As soon as the rooster sings, the impression of passion becomes prominent, and the dissimilarity creates the effect. The white balsam technique is calm and easy.
The chicken's comb is crimson and its claws are sharp. This is the similarity, and the similarity means the meaning. The rooster turned around and looked up at the sky and the earth. It was full of momentum, as if it was a wish, and the white balsam was easily obtained, and it was completed in one breath.
Freehand brushwork in white balsam, the writing is like lightning, and the ink is flying. In the flash of lightning, the most profound meaning, good fortune and good fortune, suddenly hit people's hearts. Therefore, this kind of freehand painting contains the most beautiful artistic conception. It is not tacky because it is similar, nor is it deceptive because it is not similar. It has an accurate and unique presentation of the spirit of Chinese freehand brushwork. It is very suitable for hanging in the hall, nourishing the spirit and demeanor, and nourishing the atmosphere of the home. All the best. This is an important reason why many collectors like white balsam freehand works.
In addition to flowers and birds, Bai Balsam’s figures and Buddha images are also unique.
For example, the painting "Amitabha" has a green and ink background, which changes the traditional Buddhist painting's lack of scenery, and the green and ink creates charm and long-lasting meaning of the Buddha. Against this background, she created a Buddha statue with flexible and changeable lines, as silky as silk, and a very accurate modeling of the scene, once again demonstrating her professional skills. Exquisite Buddhist pictures, coupled with scriptures and wonderful calligraphy, create a divine sect that is fascinating. From the Buddhist pictures, we can also recognize the outstanding small regular script skills of white balsam. There is a kind of style that is women's calligraphy in small regular script. Bai Xiangzhen is the mainstream style. It has merits and methods and considerable achievements.
Inheriting the past and innovating, absorbing the aesthetics of Western painting, integrating scientific concepts, using vivid realism, showing exquisite images, adopting elegant colors, and constructing the most beautiful poetry - Bai Balsam has its own artistic creation Concepts and systems, her works have won many awards in art exhibitions. Because of her unique concepts and outstanding achievements, she has become a heroine in the painting world and attracts admiration!