Zhang Jianguo - ＂Oriental Aesthetics · Echoes Across the World: A Role Model for Cultural Export＂

Zhang Jianguo, dharma name Miaojing, was born in 1968 in Donghai, Jiangsu. He is a member of the China Artists Association, the China Calligraphers Association, and the Beijing Cungeng Society. He serves as a mentor for the Advanced Landscape Painting Program at Beijing Normal University and for the Ministry of Culture’s Landscape Painting Research Program, and holds professorships at Beijing Renwen University, Sabah College of Art in Malaysia, and the College of Fine Arts at Daqing Normal University.

He received the Gold Award at the 1997 World Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition and the Achievement Award at the 1999 National Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China. His Terraced Field Landscape and Danxia Landscape series are registered with the National Copyright Administration, and he has published monographs including Discourse on Terraced Field Landscape Painting and Aesthetics of Terraced Field Landscape Painting. He has also collected and inscribed over three hundred antique Duanyan inkstones from old quarry deposits, documented in the volume Art Without Bounds—One Hundred Inscriptions on Water-Rock Inkstones by Zhang Jianguo.

His album Contemporary Chinese Master Painters—Zhang Jianguo was published by Tianjin People’s Fine Arts Publishing House. His painting “Rain Passing, Autumn Grows Clearer” was selected for the inaugural China Art Museum Collection Exhibition of Young Artists’ Works, and his monumental landscape handscroll “The Liusha River Harnessing Scroll” is held in the permanent collection of the Linze Museum. He has exhibited internationally, including the solo exhibition Honoring the Way, Cultivating Virtue—Zhang Jianguo Landscape Painting Exhibition in Manhattan, New York.

张鉴国(张建国），妙景。1968年生，江苏东海人。现为中国美术家协会会员，中国书法家协会会员，北京寸耕社社员。北师大山水高研班导师，文化部山水课题班导师，北京人文大学教授，马来西亚沙巴艺术学院特聘教授，大庆师范学院美术学院教授。97年《世界华人书画展》金奖，99年《建国五十周年全国书画展览》评为成就奖。梯田山水、丹霞山水通过了国家版权局的版权登记，并出版《梯田山水论》和《梯田山水美学》等专著。收藏并铭刻三百余方老坑端砚铭并出版《艺无止境—水岩百铭张鉴国》。天津人民美术出版社出版发行《中国当代名家画集—张鉴国》。《雨余秋更清》首届中国美术馆收藏青年美术家作品展，巨幅山水画《流沙河治理图卷》陈列收藏于临泽博物馆。美国纽约曼哈顿举办《弘道养正—张建国山水画纽约展》。