Painter Zhang Xilai

Zhang Xilai was born in Beijing in 1957. Since childhood, he has always loved the art of painting and calligraphy. In 1985, he took part in a Chinese correspondence school for calligraphy and painting. He studied under Wang Chengxi and Lu Xin. She painted flowers and birds as the basic things. After a few years, he took paintings of plum blossoms as his main theme. Throughout the famous plum blossoms of the past dynasties, he especially admired the paintings of the Qing Dynasty. Zhao Zhiqian and Yangzhou Eight Monsters, Wu Changshuo's technique and structure were sublimated under his pen. He is currently a director of the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Institute of the Ministry of Culture and Arts, and a painter of the Chinese Academy of Painting.

During this period, in order to achieve the improvement of the plum blossoms, they visited famous teachers and successively consulted Guan Shanyue and Dong Shou as equal masters. They were taught with utmost care and benefited from it. His paintings are improving day by day. In order to realize the spirit of Meihua bone, he went to Wuxi several times, painted the Mei guan from Nanjing, especially for Mei Ruixue in the Tiangong Temple of Meihua Mountain in Nanjing, and truly realized the charm of plum in the snow. His works are eloquent, vigorous and primitive, with high style and full of charm. Thousands of books, such as the outline of the iron wire. The work forms an exclusive style.

His works have participated in various kinds of exhibitions in the country and won awards. Many of his works have been collected by international friends and several personal pictures have been published. His work "Beauty Soul" was included in the "Guide to the Collection of Celebrities in Chinese Calligraphy and Painting"; the work "The Proud of Snow in Spring" was included in the large album of the "China Jinghai Painting and Calligraphy Collection"; the work "Xiangxue" was incorporated into the "Ink and Momentum". "Harmony" and the "Chinese Masters Collection" large-scale album; work "Aoxue" was compiled into the "Fengtai Range Rover" album; works "Spring Comes to Heaven and Earth" was compiled into "Dan Qing Song Olympics" album; The China Artists Association, the Chinese Book Association, the Guangming Daily, and the Central Literature and History Museum jointly sponsored the National Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Party and published large-scale albums. Their works were highly praised by experts and peers.