Tongxi Xiaochan / Zhang Bin

Zhang Bin (artist names Xiao Chan, Tong Xi) is a scholar, painter and poet. She has a warm, sensitive approach to classical Chinese ways of (https://www.douban.com/event/11106688/, 2016)
Tongxi Xiaochan graduated from CAFA, with a doctoral degree. She once studied with the famous painter Zhu Jialu and Li Yuzhong, studied Chinese painting starting from traditional Chinese landscape painting and freehand flower painting. During her period of study at CAFA, under the guidance of famous teachers such as Qian Shaowu, Xue Yongnian, Shao Dazhen, Zhang Lichen, Guo Yizong, Tian Liming, Tongxi Xiaochan she further practiced her brushwork, calligraphy and explored the traditional Chinese cultural connotation.
Tongxi Xiaochan is addicted to Buddhism, study the classics of Zen, she is a researcher of Feng Zikai, publishing the “Feng Zikai”, “Feng Zikai’ Poetry and Painting”, “Painting and Poetry — the Art of Feng Zikai”, translated and published the German Sinologist Professor Christoph Harbsmeier’s book “Socialist Realism with a Buddhist Face: the Cartoonist Feng Zikai”.
Tongxi Xiaochan is also an excellent poet. In the early years, she created contemporary poems; while in recent years, she has devoted herself to the creation of archaic poems. Because she was born in Fuding of Fujian Province, the rhyme of archaic poetry is maintained in her hometown dialect, which becomes her unique advantage. (http://en.cafa.com.cn/today-i-blossom-tongxi-xiaochans-unrestrained-poetry-and-painting-opened-at-798-art-center.html, 2016)