Zhang JingSheng

Zhang Jingshen, born in 1940, is a devoted painter who for many years studied color. Obviously influenced by Impressionism he has, however, developed his own style. He tries to reveal the intensity of color, often working with a palette knife to let each pigment reach its most brilliant and richest point. He paints in layers, alternating the thick and the thin to give his colors a dynamic tension. His work also reflects traditional Chinese influences in that he manipulates the emptiness and fullness, the tinting of colors and the flowing of energy in his paintings as would an ink painter.