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戴安娜·罗曼（Diana Roman），艺术评论家 The Artist on the Opposite Hill---Dong Dafeng The Spring Festival is the most important holiday in China, symbolizing the seeing off the old year and greeting the new. Also, the Chinese people like to write some dual and concise words (贴春联)on red paper to express their new year’s wishes. This Spring the words of written wishes included wealth, prosperity, diligence, and perseverance – the symbols of the Ox, and as astrologers assert, this year will be auspicious because the ox is “grounded, loyal, gentle and trustworthy.” Spring Festival is the most important moment in which Chinese people appeal to tradition, to the long preserved spiritual values, therefore artists, poets, writers are the first to remember them through auspicious and festive works. Dong Dafeng is one of these artists, whose art has a powerful reference to tradition by means of ink and calligraphy, but also a striking Western abstraction in color and gesture, creating complex compositions based on literature, philosophy, folk customs, Buddhism and ancient beliefs of Chinese ancestors. His energetic compositions are the result of an enormous amount of information gathered by the artist from tradition, from culture, from religion and philosophy; it is his restless soul for learning and knowledge that guides him to create paintings which embody the “old” and the “new” in powerful shapes, brushstrokes and colors. His series dedicated to the 牛 Year expresses the hope (the bright green is very present), the love (red, pink) and the strength (black) that we all wish to have in this global context. Dong Dafeng is the artist that focuses on expressing strength, beauty and love, by means of new aesthetics, but still preserving the style characteristics from traditional Chinese paintings. I agree with the art critic Peng Wenbin when he asserts that “the new ink and wash” technique is an experiment, an evolution and a “state” of being, not a pure abstract style. Knowing Mr. Dong Dafeng through social media, I can say that he is passionate in everything he does, whether he writes, paints, collects or carves seals; he is a powerful opinion maker and supporter of the true value in art. All I can say looking at Dong Dafeng’s painting is that I understand his veneration towards refinement, simplicity and equilibrium, conciseness and tranquility. Admiring his paintings it becomes very clear that they really can represent contemporary Chinese abstract art, due to their blend of the abstract language, traditional Chinese ink paintings, and a certain spiritual Buddhist component, as it is revealed by the work “The Source of Life”, which definitely invites to meditation. Through the act of painting, Dong Dafeng is making himself known to us as a deep thinker (The Source of Life), a bright person (Shiny Days), and an energetic soul revealed by decisive brush-strokes or ink drops (The Beginning of the Mankind, Celestial Chaotic Bodies). In his works, he tries to seize the moment, but also to visualize and create the future through the eyes of the past, like in the series dedicated to the Huashan Rock paintings in China, the sacred place where Sky, Water and Earth are meeting. Taking a close look at every painting it is impossible not to grasp the essence of Dong Dafeng’s soul in the moment of creation, because everything, every color splash, brush-stroke, or drop is in the right place, with no error. His soul penetrates the hand and creates masterpieces which reflect a state of mind, an emotion, an instant of life and of nature. “I just want to give life and soul to every ink dot”, says Dong Dafeng.我只想赋予每一个墨点生命和灵魂. And this is what he really does! Summing up, I see an artist in love with Life and Nature, with great respect towards tradition, and a strong fighter for true values in art, and I strongly advise young artists to take Dong Dafeng as a role model! Diana Roman, art critic
董达峰，1967年生于河北巨鹿，祖籍山东历城。工作、生活在天津南开。 文化学者，博物馆研究员，半个跨界艺术家。 中国作家协会河北会员，天津市文博学会专业委员会会员。海航集团（天津）项目原文化顾问组组长，建川博物馆研究员。 主要作品《摩睺罗》《双吉羊》《母亲》《借手机的女孩》《自律》《生命》《五老奶奶不是开银行的》《土·欲·魂》《写给人间的情书》等。 中央电视台、天津电视台、上海电视台、凤凰卫视、塞尔维亚国家电视台、卡塔尔国家电视台，《中新社》《中国文物报》《中国艺术报》《中国商报》《天津日报》《中国收藏》《艺术家》《收藏家》《收藏界》《收藏》《乡土》等等均有报道或刊登转载。 多篇文章和作品被推荐到百度首页，几十篇论文被美国波斯顿大学、山东大学、辽宁大学、广西大学、东北师大、重庆大学、内蒙古社会科学院、西南民族大学、河北师大、西北大学、湖南大学、贵州大学等等转载收藏。 荣获在塞尔维亚举办的第22届国际艺术节提名奖。首届中国·国际抽象艺术联展金奖，中国艺术第首届中外艺术家画展特别金奖，中法艺术节提名奖，第四节国际艺术节钜献奖等等等，在国内外举办个人画展多场，参加国内画展近百场。 作品被美国波士顿大学、法国里昂大学、法国当代艺术中心、卡塔尔国家艺术学院、罗马尼亚国家艺术中心等多家中外大学、艺术机构和个人收藏，在美国曾与著名艺术大师达利的作品一同展出。
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