An Outstanding Canvas: The Colors and Creed of Zhang Xian
China Today, September 6, 2016 Adjust font size:
During Bonjour Brand 2016, the annual forum in May, to facilitate the pairing of Chinese companies with French ones, former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin received a surprise gift. It was a scroll painting by Zhang Xian, the Chinese artist who has evolved his own style of combining elements of Western and Eastern art. It was a doubly welcome present since five years earlier, Raffarin had added to his collection an oil by the same artist.
Artist Zhang Xian.
A prime pillar of Chinese culture, Chinese paintings convey distinctive Chinese thoughts, conceptions, and aesthetics, and are appreciated worldwide as a gem of world culture. Zhang Xian stands out for his ingenious combination of the fundamentals of Chinese ink painting with the color scheme and sketching techniques of Western oils. The result is a style with nuanced grace and flamboyant colors, acclaimed both in and outside China.
