The Journey of My Art

Foreword for English Edition 12
Preface : Heartbeat of Our Time 14
The Journey of My Art 17
My childhood and the awakening of my art 17
Under siege 20
Victory 20
The No. 1 and No. 3 Departments of Huabei University 23
Peking University 24
Engagement in Art-reation of Officials
at the Beijing People'Art Studio 26
Oil painting In the Youth Palace and
preliminary exploration of creative methodologies 27
Creation of Engineering Train 31
Maksimov oil painting training class and
creation of some oil paintings during 1955-956 36
Transfer to a Lower Level of Labor 43
Sculpture: Lu Xun'Portrait 51
A Group of Rural Subject Paintings and
the Oil Painting Thinning 54
Rush before the mountain rains 69
The Cultural Revolution is comming indeed 70
Searching up and down with unbending will 79
Creation of several oil paintings in the 1970s 89
Travel sketching in Southern Gansu 94
Towering Taihang Mountain 103
Portrait Painting 116
Change in the 1980s 133
Scenery 152
The spiritual connotation of landscape painting 167
Travel in the U.S. 194
Artistic activities in America 198
Realistic Paintings are the Mainstream of the U.S. Domestic Market 202
Chinese painters'remarkable influence on
the field of the arts in America 213
Return 249
History of Zhang WenXin 329
Chronology 331
1987~2004 One man show & Group show in U.S.A. 337
Comments Excerpts 338