Text / Wang Li-qiang
Chinese people paint tiger, claborate-style is the most; Jiang Biao-wu paint tiger, good at painting ink.
Jiang Biao-wu is Fujian people, he was born in China, graduated from Fujian normal university of fine arts, studied in the central academy of fine arts, he is the introductory disciple of paint tiger master of Shanghang Fujian. First meeting, I can’t felt some special for Mr. Jiang, I watched he painting tiger, just known he is not common Fujian people, his special and profound, all expressed in his tiger painting. many paintings, just “ink tiger” make me eyes light up. Mr. Jiang paint tiger, the most difference is the ink. Chinese painting always as well as simple, the difficult of ink is cutting out the superfluous and simplified it. Able to use the most concise ink, express the most complex object, just as master-hand. Jiang Biao-wu paint tiger, just few of shades affordable strokes, embodied the force of tiger、power of tiger and momentum of tiger incisively and vividly, he just used a character “simple”, simple is not simple, in fact is extremely refined.
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Jiang Biao-wu’s tiger painting, small painting with interest, lager painting with vigour, the stick is unhurried, embodied generally two kinds: realistic and freehand brushwork, the realistic painting is six feet, or eight feet, also have huge. A painting of tiger head, eight feet within, well-arranged, numerous but not random, skillful but not vulgar, part of the fine details not affected the unity of the whole, especially for depict the eyes, more deep and inside collect, power and prestige eight sides, the spirit of human depends on eyes, animal is also so, according to Mr. Jiang’s introduction, since he studied from professor Lin Wei-jing, he concentrate on paint tiger mainly, more than 30 years. during this time, he hold fast to the feeling of simple and romantic of Fujian people, and absorbed the style of straightforward and thick of north people，especially for several years in Shandong, he continues to tempered his own artistic personality.
Frankly speaking, still is Jiang Biao-wu’s ink tiger more artistic conception. His realistic painting, flexible with powerful, seen his ability from succinct style, was able to give us a kind of feeling of purification. Jiang Biao-wu use ink, sprinkle freely and innovate boldly, use ink to paint tiger potential, and changed the defects of the previous painting tiger rigid and ignore the tiger’s overall prowess, formed the unique style of meaningful and forceful and plain “Jiangnan tiger”, in current Chinese painting circle, there is have “south Jiang north Feng”, Feng Da-zhong in Dongbei, he was famous as fine but not greasy claborate-style tiger; Jiang Biao-wu in Jiangnan, he was famous as simpler and clear ink tiger. Jiang Biao-wu painting tiger its method naturally, composition of picture is skillful, seen ability through potential, revealed simple and natural, forceful and peculiar master style. his tiger painting used brush followed feelings, free and easy, square contact with round, false or true complement;shade fitting for use ink, incisively and vividly, full of charming, in ink color of point and dye straightforward, clear vulgar away, highlight the essence and full of vitality. His ink painting beyond the concept of “tiger” far away, combined more deep literature connotation of Tang poetry、Song poems and philosophy of Yi, make the tiger “humanization、poetization、artistry”, so the tiger he paint like tiger or not, but full of vigour.
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From of old, so many people love tiger honor tiger and paint tiger, according to historical date, Wu dynasty painter Li Gui-zhen was good at painting tiger, “he build a shed on large tree in the mountain, watched the tiger look down at the shed, wanted to known tiger’s true state. Or used tiger skin to make clothes, jumped like tiger, to copied tiger’s posture.” The modern painter Zhang Shanzi also styled himself “tiger madmen”, his degree of love tiger surpassed Mr. Li. Contemporary Jiang Biao-wu also called “tiger madmen”, he watched tiger jumping and leaping, standing and lying, strolling and sleeping early and later, every day he watched tiger’s sharp and emotion, tiger’s reaction for surrounding, as a result, tiger’s sharp and meaning, tiger’s gesture and spirit, all in his mind, when he was painting, subject and object are in harmony, Jiang Biao-wu painting tiger, not only painting skin and sharp, but also pay attention to painting bone and spirit, his ink tiger through spirit to shaped, through feeling to moved, the unity of tiger and own, achieved the conception of zen.
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A kind of painting style, a kind of way, how to choice? A master said, art is not learn from teaching, just hold it by own wisdom. Chinese philosophy tells us, simplified the complicated things, this is the profound, for tiger, paint realistic is too inflexible, paint brief is too empty, Jiang Biao-wu puts in a great effort in this difficulty, his expressed brush、ink、color、sharp fresh and lively, achieved vivid effect.
Recent years Mr. Jiang in Shandong, he was employed visiting professor in Qingdao university more than four years, his tiger painting was beloved and collected by Shandong people, he has held solo exhibition in Beijing、Nanjing、Chengdu and Xi’an, also crossed the sea to held tiger painting exhibition in Japan、America、and Singapore, even though in Shandong, he also held solo exhibition in Qingdao、Weihai、Linyi, etc. listen to Mr. Jiang said, not very soon, he will take his new works to Ji’ning hold solo exhibition, then, I will enjoy watching, as much as feeling Mr. Jiang’s “ink vigour”.
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