Chinanews.com, Guangzhou, January 12th, title: "Scattered" painter Huang Zhansheng: Looking for more artistic ways to play in the world

　　Author Cheng Jingwei Zhu Yinghao

　　"Forget Your Shape—Huang Zhansheng's New Year's Works Exhibition" was held at the Zhujiang Park Bay Area Bookstore in Guangzhou on the 12th. A total of 9 representative works of Chinese painting flowers and birds and more than 10 ceramic paintings series by painter Huang Zhansheng were exhibited.

　　Wang Yuanqi, a painter in the early Qing Dynasty, said: "The brush and ink are the same as the temperament." In the Chinese freehand brushwork of flowers and birds, the painter enters the painting with his temperament, and in the free smearing of the brush and ink, he gets the spirit and selflessness.

　　Huang Zhansheng, a painter who has dealt with paper and ink for half his life, has gradually entered this realm.

Whether it is the carrier of the painting or the content of the painting itself, compared with the form, Huang Zhansheng pays more attention to the expression of "meaning" and "interest".

The attempt of the ceramic painting series exhibited in this exhibition is exactly where Huang Zhansheng "lost himself with complacency".

"Su Lotus" by Huang Zhansheng, photo by Zhu Yinghao

　　In 2010, Huang Zhansheng held a solo exhibition at the Guangdong Academy of Painting with the theme of "Scattered" inscribed by Huang Yongyu.

Since then, he has successively held solo exhibitions in Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Thailand and Shantou.

　　Yang Zi, an art critic, said that Huang Zhansheng is a master of large-scale freehand lotus flowers. "When he was studying, he studied sculpture and oil painting, and he has a solid foundation in Western painting. His palette is not only Chinese painting pigments, but also imported watercolor and Gouache. The addition of watercolor gives his flowers, birds and landscapes a magical sense of transparency."

　　Yi Ying, a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, said that Huang Zhansheng's paintings are the embodiment of his personal taste in form.

　　In particular, as Huang Zhansheng has entered the retirement age and relieved of many chores, he no longer sticks to a single form to express his art world.

Huang Zhansheng first cooperated with Guangzhou enamel intangible cultural heritage craftsmen to integrate his color and ink art into enamel paintings, becoming a highly fashionable intangible cultural heritage artwork.

Then he started "touching porcelain" again - painting on the Jingdezhen porcelain body.

Lotus, begonias, even terraced fields, mountains and rivers, and Taihu stones radiate distinctive artistic expression on the round and white three-dimensional porcelain, and the glaze made by high-temperature firing endows the picture with a beauty that will never fade.

　　"The conventional painting method is not fun. Painting on a porcelain body instead makes me explore how color and ink can be ingeniously blended with different materials, temperature and other factors. It is fun, interesting, and very addictive." Huang Zhansheng said.

Huang Zhansheng's ceramic painting "Rock Chrysanthemum" photo by Zhu Yinghao

　　Huang Yongyu once titled Huang Zhansheng's painting collection with the word "scattered", implying that the form is scattered and the meaning is loose. This is not only Huang Yongyu's own temperament, but also Huang Zhansheng's interest.

Huang Yongyu also named him "Tea Sheng", because Huang Yongyu saw that Huang Zhansheng liked to drink tea as soon as he sat down, and he also brought his own tea set when visiting Beijing. He is indeed a tea-loving Chaoshan native.

　　Huang Zhansheng often mentions that Mr. Huang Yongyu is still fun in his nineties, "He is always thinking, creating, and sublating, so his life is full of richness and splendor that ordinary people can't match." .

Huang Zhansheng, who takes Huang Yongyu as his spiritual guide, said that he wants to find more ways to play life and art in this vast world.

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