Abstract:
In the years between 1950s and 1960s, ZHANG Da qian created a number of landscape paintings about Changjiang River. The people who were donated with these paintings concerning the scenery of the painter’s hometown were generally his relatives or old friends. Accordingly, these paintings are the media which symbolize his nostalgia and the friendship and fellowship between him and his friends and relatives. The collection Scenic Spots in Sichuan and Hubei housed in Taipei National Museum is such an example. ZHANG fused his good memory of his hometown into his familiar Changjiang landscape. The donation of his paintings wakened the sympathy and feelings of his relatives and friends for their hometowns. And the new memory and the emotional world that belongs to the donation receivers and him once again were agglomerated.With its experimental techniques, the collection has given the landscape paintings about Changjiang the nostalgic connotation. Either from the perspective of ZHANG’s splash painting development or from the perspective of paintings concerning Changjiang River, it undoubtedly has its unique status.