In Chinese traditional culture, tiger represent auspicious and dignified and honorable beast, since ancient times, people like tiger painting particularly, painting tiger masters of past dynasties are Baoding and his son in Song dynasty、Baocai in Yuan dynasty、Zhou Gengyun、Zhaolian Ming dynasty、Daijin、Shangxi, ect., they are all painting tiger master-hand. Nowadays in painting circle, there is have “south Jiang north Feng”, Feng Da-zhong in northeast, he has been known for refined but no bored claborate-style tiger, Jiang Biao-wu in Jiangnan, he has been known for simple and clear ink tiger.
Mr. Jiang Biao-wu painting tiger, not highlights painting the fur and feather of neat and order, also not shape appearance of tiger like others, no need robust limbs and sharp claws and sharp teeth and rounded eyes, but just touch on lightly and painter a few, depicted the tiger’s powerful body and plump physique and lithe body and powerful momentum, and every kinds of vivid sentiment. Mr. Jiang Biaowu’s ink tiger is flexible and lively, changed multiple, very interesting and charming, it has own unique style, his painting beyond the concept of tiger, and wrote the powerful universal philosophy of life.
Jiang Biao-wu, styled himself xun-di, alternative name is Shan jun householder, and yun shan householder. He was born in Fuzhou city in 1948, He graduated from Fujian arts normal university in 1976. Then studied in the Central Academy of Fine Arts, currently he is member of Chinese artists association, dean of Fujian Mindu painting academy, visiting professor of Qingdao university. In 2005, he stood out form thousands of painting of the whole nation, he was the open recruitment profession painter in Jiangsu province Chinese traditional painting academy, in 2006, he won “Lifetime achievement award for Chinese art model”.
Mr. Jiang Biao-wu is the paint tiger master Lin Wei-jing’s introductory disciple of Shanghang Fujian, he mainly paint tiger more than 30 years, he hold fast to the feeling of simple and romantic of Fujian people, and absorbed the style of straightforward and thick of north people, crazy about the essence of art. The valuable is, Mr. Jiang Biao-wu’s family origin is profound, learned calligraphy from ancestors since 6 years old, practice calligraphy diligently take decades as a day, then paint tiger, so his brush of painting tiger and calligraphy, very free and meaningful, he use orchid leaf to depict tiger stripes, depict skeletal structure to its place and well-shaped, sharp the fur and texture are flexible, construct the three-dimensional of tiger’s body, full of rhythm of dynamic, paint it simply、beauty of form、alike in spirit.
“Make tiger humanization、poetization、artistry”, Mr. Jiang Biao-wu paint tiger, not only paint fur and skin, but also describe the personnel through paint beast. “Open and close, is to detect the false and true”, he painted a fiercer tiger, look like it lay on the ground, stay calm and collected, in fact the tiger is waiting for preys watchfully, contain the philosophy of handing matters of Guiguzi, profound meaning and aftertaste long time. The tiger in his painting as a brilliant scholar, or drunk with bold and unconstrained, or deep and quiet to think of life. Mr. Jiang Biao-wu use brush following the feeling, free and easy, square connect round, false or true complement； use ink thick and thin are suitable, full-bodied and lively, full of charm, combined more deep literary connotation of Tang poetry、Song poems、philosophy of Yi, he paint tiger like tiger or not, but full of vigour and vitality, give fierce tiger more valuable new life connotation.