张敬立的作品立足于自我的真实情感体验，表达了艺术家对人性本质的深层困惑，对生命存在的痛苦体验和对日常情感的高度关注。在2008年以前，张敬立是一个冷峻的社会观察者，他的作品在对喧嚣、混杂、充满着令人畏惧的活力的中国生活状态的隐喻性描述中，隐含着一代人面对高速失控的社会状态所体验到的慎重忧虑。直到2008年，作品开始出现了转变，加入了中国人熟悉的人物造型-孙悟空。中国人儿时记忆的齐天大圣，活泼捣蛋同时却也充满正义且到处斩妖除魔的一位英雄人物，在张敬立的作品中随处可见。艺术家精细刻画出这位法力无边且能72变幻化成不同形象的人物造型，并且精心安排在充满幻象的背景中，产生无比的视觉张力，也让观者有着无限的想象空间。然而，看似轻松诙谐的画面中，内心敏感的他希望藉此暗示着在当今社会的快速发展及过度接受外来的消费文化之下，需要一个存在于自身文化根深蒂固的图像，重新唤起人们对自我生存意识及环境的反省。

　　绘画所创造出来的图像也许不能和那些流行文化的图像相匹敌，基于此，他的绘画直接选择现实中的人物及物体。意在使在那些流行文化的图像鞭长莫及的地方找到绘画的领地，通过作品中那些充满冲突的碎片，为绘画在艺术观念化的进程中保留某种不可替代的张力。

　　Introduction

　　Zhang Jingli received his graduate diploma from Print-making Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. Based on his true emotional experience, Zhang creates his works to express his deep confusion on the essence of human nature, concerns about the pain of life and daily emotions. Before 2008, he was a sober social observer, using vivid metaphorical description to imply noisy, mixed, formidable vitality of Chinese life in his works, showing serious concerns on increasingly out-of-control society. From 2008, he began to change his painting style by adding a well-known Chinese character Monkey King. Declared himself the “Great Sage Equal of Heaven”, Monkey King is a lively, rebel hero who slays demons and searches for justice. The character can be seen everywhere in Zhang’s works. The artist depicts Monkey King with supernatural powers and 72 transformation skills, in the background full of imagination and vision, creating unparalleled visual tension, and bringing viewers unlimited imagination. However, through the seemingly lighthearted, satirical pictures, the sensitive artist hopes that in the context of today's rapidly-developed society and excessive acceptance of foreign culture, the character deeply-rooted in Chinese culture will re-evoke the self-consciousness on survival and the reflection on environment.

　　The images created by paintings may not be comparable to those of popular cultures, so his paintings directly select figures and objects in the real world. He intends to find the territory of painting, which is out of the reach of images of popular culture, and reserve some irreplaceable tension during art ideation process of painting through those fragments full of conflicts in his works.