\n\tLei Zongyu, born in 57, is originally from Shaoyang, Hunan Province, and his pen name is Jiuge Mountain Ghost. He studied at Shaoyang Academy and Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts successively, with a bachelor's degree. For many years, he has been engaged in art education, and has been carefully taught by the painter, theorist and potter Zhu Dainian, and his works have participated in many national exhibitions. He is now a national-level artist, a member of the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Art Committee, a director of the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Relics Society, and a member of the Hunan branch of the China Art Association.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tLao Tzu once said: \"One life is two, two begets three, and three begets all things; man is the law of the earth, the law of the earth is the law of heaven, the law of heaven is the law of the road, and the law of the road is the law of nature\". All things in the universe are living beings, are the unity of \"yes\" and \"no\", the unity of \"virtual\" and \"real\", with this unity, all things in heaven and earth can move and change and develop. With this unity, all things in heaven and earth can move and change and develop. The \"combination of reality and emptiness\" is an important principle of Chinese aesthetic theory. Everything has a deep root, and painting is not beyond that. Wading in deep water is easy to wet the lapel, the traditional, master nature, to be able to in today's mixed painting world, unconventional, pushing the envelope, constantly strive to explore the accumulation of the pursuit of traditional art, while pioneering a new path, bold creativity, is rare and valuable. Mr. Lei Zongyu is such a brave man, who dares to wade through the rapids, cross the dangerous shoals, cut through the thorns, and disregard the world's prejudices, so as to form his own unique style, which organically combines watercolor, abstraction, and aesthetics, which is really admirable!\n<\/p>\n
\n\tMr. Lei is a gifted, honest and kind person. Mr. Lei is a warm and generous person, easy-going and indifferent to fame and fortune. Since childhood, Mr. Lei has loved painting, and he has been working diligently and diligently in the cause of art education for decades, making full use of his leisure time and vacation time.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tYu, traveled all over the three mountains and five mountains, worship masters, make painting friends, draw the essence of the ancients, pick the strengths of many, extensive knowledge, rich experience, with hard work and modesty, perseverance, deep and clear state of mind, in the inheritance of the tradition on the basis of the external teacher of the creation of \"in the source of the heart\", the state of mind of the birth of righteousness, and ultimately achieved the right result, which is the root of its success.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tMr. Lei is an innovative painter, good at discovering problems from painting practice, summarizing experience, and proposing his own painting language, the most important of which is the \"texture\" theory. This \"texture\" theory should be regarded as an original creation in the technique of landscape painting, which will play a great role in the development of landscape painting in the future. This \"texture\" is the painter's bold use of ink color in the practice of painting, through the continuous change of ink color, highlighting the picture of the airy, serene beauty, through the micro-abstract, figurative \"texture\" changes to reflect the painter's thoughts and feelings and creative intent, for the mood and the creation of a scene. The artist's thoughts and feelings and creative intentions are reflected through changes in micro-abstractions and figurative \"texture\", creating a realm for the sake of meaning, so that the ink is exhausted but the meaning is endless.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tMr. Lei Zongyu in the creation of landscape painting, is its artistic thinking and artistic language. The highest state of landscape painting is \"both form and spirit\", \"heaven and man in one\", everything is between \"like and unlike\", and \"the interest of heaven\". The idea is to \"create the interest of heaven\". In decades of continuous practice and exploration, on the basis of traditional techniques, we have worked out the crayon painting method, spray painting method, dripping painting method, sprinkling salt painting method, overlapping painting method and so on. Through the use of this series of painting methods, not only enriches the natural effect of thought and emotion and texture, but also creates a perfect fusion of figurative modeling and imaginative modeling, and organically combines the beauty of the mood and texture together, thus illuminating a spiritual, divine, mysterious and ethereal realm.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tViewing Mr. Lei's paintings, whether it is houses and villages, mountain streams and stone paths, flowers, birds and trees, the imagery and figuration in his pictures, or abstraction and texture, are all reality and sparseness,\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe thickness, depth, rhythm and rhyme are harmoniously unified, and the real and imaginary in the painting are complementary to each other, both illusory and real, and mutually reinforcing. The function of form and illusion not only greatly enriches the artistic expression of creation, but also strengthens the telepathic power and visual impact of the work, while fully displaying the natural beauty, formal beauty, abstract beauty of the work, and fully demonstrates the painter's love of life, love of society, and love of nature's sincere feelings. Received a strong artistic effect. For example, the works such as \"Heavy Mountains\", \"Heavy Mountains\", \"Craggy Peaks\" and \"Ten Million Miles\".\n<\/p>\n
\n\tIn today's painting world, Mr. Lei Zongyu should be said to be a unique case. His creative thinking is unrestrained, magnificent and peculiar, which is not only reflected in his creativity in painting, but also in his unique painting style. The passionate and bold character of the southern Hunanese people formed his painting style in which he boldly marched forward without any scruples in the art of painting. He does not simply seek for changes, but seeks for sudden changes in the intentional expression, and develops the subjective spiritual expression to the depth. When reading Mr. Lei's paintings, the first thing that strikes people is his passionate, free-spirited and unrestrained artistic spirit. His works, a change in the traditional face, gives a person a new feeling, simple, sincere, warm, pure and quiet, ethereal, it should be said that this is his heart yearning, fascinated by the spiritual home; a kind of dreamlike, beyond the world. It is through this kind of imagery that the painter organically integrates the ideal and reality, imagery and figurative, abstraction and aesthetics, and in the constant change of the ink color \"texture\", he transforms the strange into the mysterious, and the plain into the magical. A beautiful bridge is built between the painter's ideal demand and the viewer's feeling, thus completing the docking between hearts. It highlights the painter's great style of transcending reality. Such as the \"gully condensation smoke\", \"ten thousand peaks snow clearing\" and other works.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tFrom his works, it is easy to see that Mr. Lei's ink and watercolors are obviously steeped in the influence of Western art, and his artistic path has been a tortuous one. Over the past decades, he has been teaching and educating people while painting, making full use of his vacations to travel to Guilin, Zhangjiajie, Taihang Mountains and other places in the north and south of the Yangtze River, exploring the methods and ways of converting \"ink and wash\" and searching for the artistic language and style that is compatible with both the East and the West by sketching and reading the classic works of western masters of various genres over and over again. In his works, mountains and water, trees, flowers and birds have abandoned the conventionality of spatial settings, idealization and arbitrariness is particularly prominent, according to the heart and development, and follow the passion and gallop, and strive to express the spatial aesthetics of contemporary painting. With the symbolic method of simplifying and deconstructing, the vibrant life in the abstract and figurative eclecticism expresses the heavenly dynamic rhythm, such as \"Heavenly Melody in the Mountains\" and \"Thousand Peaks Pulling Up from the Ground\" and so on.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tMr. Lei's use of color in his paintings is very bold, making full use of strong color presentations that break people's visual habits, thus challenging the viewer's visual nerves. Big red, blue, bright yellow, emerald green and other pigments are exuded on the rice paper, so that the silent colors are transformed into tangible life, and a wonderful and moving music is played with colors, whose lyrical expressive function is played to the extreme. Color is an activator, color is a stimulant, which not only beautifies everything in nature, but also creates the vitality of art. Mr. Lei can evoke the strange effect of water haloing and ink highlighting in the seepage and mingling of water, ink and color, and he often uses pure color to the extreme. He can paint the mountains with red, the sky with bright yellow, and the serenity and softness of the lake with sapphire-like pure colors, rebelling against the traditional notion of coloring by object. Such as \"Ode to Terraced Fields\" and \"Bright Lights\".\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThroughout his paintings, I have reasons to say that Mr. Lei's works are beyond reality, with\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThere is a great deal of idealization. The artist pretends to poetically express the wonderful mountains, rivers and streams, thus showing the author's passionate humanistic feelings and noble sentiments for the earth's homeland and the environment on which human beings depend for survival, thus demonstrating to the world his great love for a better life!\n<\/p>\n
\n\tMr. Lei has not yet passed the age of flower, is at the peak of its creative period, with its rigorous attitude and creative enthusiasm, in the future creative practice will certainly be thick and thin, harvest.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tDeputy Editor-in-Chief, China Painting and Calligraphy Market Journal\n<\/p>\n