Zhang Jia Jie

  ' I discovered Zhang Jia Jie at the end of 1970s and wrote an article entitled "A Beautiful Place Which Is Not Yet Known to People" which was published in Hunan Daily on January 1, 1980, introducing this beautiful place. I also made a large piece of sketch which was lost later. Now, I have created this painting according to my memory in various artistic ways including Chinese and foreign artistic ways. '

Dated 1992

Ink and colour on paper

69 x 139 cm

Sailing at Night

  ' At nights, the ships on the Yangtse River sail into the dark gorges, giving people a severe situation. Sometimes, there is moon in the dark sky with stars twinkling, which also gives people the sense of fear.

  There are many cities, layers after layers, along the two sides of the Yangtse River, presenting us a spectacular scene. During nights, there are lots of lights in the cities, which look extremely splendid and magnificent. Whenever we sail through the mountainous cities, I always enjoy the night scene very much. But I can not find a way to present this spectacular scene in the way of painting.

   have tried many times to paint this night scene but every time, the paintings were too dark and could not reflect the activities on the river, thus losing the attractiveness of the darkness. However, this time I have succeeded in making this painting by projecting the structure of the darkness and make the darkness as the background which might be influenced by a piece of Beijing Opera entitled "The Crossroad". '

Dated 2000

Ink and colour on paper

45 x 48 cm

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The Builder's Song

  ' People usually make scaffoldings before they construct high buildings. High buildings can be constructed on scaffoldings. When the buildings are completed, the scaffoldings will be moved away and be forgotten forever.

  It is not easy to make the high scaffoldings as they should be made as high as the buildings. They crisscross with each other and are exposed to people. People can easily see the construction workers are constructing magnificent buildings.

  Many scaffoldings left us unforgettable impression --- the impression of complicated configuration. But nowadays, scaffoldings are covered up and can no longer be seen by people. Therefore, this painting entitled "Music of Construction" records the time and life of the scaffordings. '

Dated 2000

Ink and colour on paper

49 x 45 cm

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The Buddha of Mount Le

  ' As it is too big, people can not get an overall view of the Buddha, no matter they look at it from its left, right, upward or downward. If we have a look at it from the distant river, we can get its overall perspective view. We can have its overall view but it is only a reduced one and we can not get the imposing feeling. Only if we could become swallows and fly aroung it several times, would we get its real overall view. The rainbow looking like the Buddist lights adds more beauty ti the Buddha after the rain. '

Not Dated (1979)

Ink and colour on paper

102 x 102 cm

Peaches

' Some people like peach flowers and some like peaches themselves, because they are popular. Peach flowers are colourful, popular and beautiful. They take their roots among the village girls and old village womanand they ate often made the theme of some Chinese classical poetry, such as "The Story of Peaches-flower Garden". The painter also pays great attention to the land and history of the people.

When he said that peach trees would blossom again the next year after they fell off, Zhu Ziqing only made the use of artistic wrong impression. In reality, it is not the truth, because this year's peach flowers and peaches are not the ones of next year. People use peaches to imply longevity because they suppose it would take 3 thousand years for the peach trees to bear fruits. When I worked out this painting , I painted the grey moving lines as clouds to fill in the empty place of the painting. I also wrote the following words on the painting: It would be no need to take 3 thousand years for the peach trees to bear fruits and the red peaches and green leaves up in the clouds would not be polluted as they are in the world of human beings. I have also added another sentence which says it would have to take one thousand years for the peach trees to bear fruits in celebration of the new century.

When I made the painting, I used both water and oil Colors, which Seems to make it more colourful and popular. Is this vulgar or popular? '

Dated 2000

Ink and colour on paper

70 x 70 cm

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Village of Bridges

  ' This painting shows the bridges in arch forms, rivers flowing in twists and turns and the form houses in clusters, forming a beautiful scene of a country of bridges, rivers and farm houses. A country of bridges (or a country of water) in beautiful geometric figure are connected by arch bridges, presenting a spectacular village scene. In my opinion, anything that plays the key role of connect ingvarious parts has the beauty of the bridges. '

Dated 1992

Ink and colour on paper

69 x 69 cm

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Pomegranate

  ' In Chinese tradition, pomegranate symbolize a lot of sons and daughters and are hanging upward under the trees. If there were only pomegranates in the painting, it would not be a good painting. However, the painting paints more tree branches overlapping each other, just like the nets to hold the pomegranates from the trees, causing no "injuries" to the pomegranates and making them smile happily. '

Dated 1992

Ink and colour on paper

69 x 138 cm

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Two Swallows

  ' A white wall occupying a large part of the painting lies across it, dividing it into two. It is the Queen in the painting. The vertical doors and windows together with the wall reflect the unity of the white and black. In structure, it has the same effects as Mondrian's paintings. however, when two swallows fly in, my hometown is no longer what it is in the mind of the western painters. '

Not Dated (1981)

Ink and colour on paper

68 x 137 cm

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Long, Still Day

  ' It is difficult to find a very quiet place even in the deep mountains. As the saying goes the tree may prefer calm but the wind will not subside, which means there is no easy life and the struggles taking place among people. Too Yuanming could not hear the noises from the streets even he lived in the busiest downtown area, which was really not easy.

  I visited a birds' paradise in Xinhui County, Guangdong province. But as soon as I entered it, the birds flew away immediately and the paradise disappeared. After I returned from the forests, I made a huge painting about the forests with birds in it, entitled "The Birds Paradise". In the painting, I pursued the sense of mistry from the diversity.

  One day, i was excited by the natural patterns on a large marble which look like trees and birds and I made this painting. But what I want to tell people in this painting is that there is peace forever without any wind. '

Dated 2000

Ink on paper

70 x 140 cm

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柳下河塘

Ink and colour on paper

倒影

Ink and colour on paper

香山紅葉

吳冠中先生擅畫山水畫，此作描繪香山紅葉之景、之魂。紅葉獨佔香山擺開赤紅色的八陣圖，儼如香山之王，引天下眾生盡來朝拜。

Ink and colour on paper