Huang Binhong, formerly known as Maozhi, was born on New Year's Day of the Lunar New Year, and was also named Yuanji. Because he was afraid of the name of Yuanji, the tenth ancestor, he changed his name and kept his word simple. There are many nicknames, especially Binhong. Originally from Tandu Village, Xixiang, Shexian County, Anhui Province, he was born in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province.
Huang Binhong's life spanned two centuries and two eras, and he finally became famous as a master of Chinese painting. What is important is his thinking and practice, which has a profound mark of the change of the century. In the face of spiritual and cultural dilemmas caused by social upheaval and many difficulties in artistic development, Huang Binhong adhered to the excellent tradition of China intellectuals, started with exploring the source of national culture, and took "vigorous and gorgeous", that is, the ideal of healthy and peaceful survival and the spirit of sincere and vigorous remolding, as the aesthetic direction of artistic creation, and worked hard for decades. Therefore, his achievements are various, and painting embodies his deep enthusiasm and insight into the tradition of art history. It embodies his unique views and creation on the development prospect of Chinese painting. The significance of this creation lies in erecting a new milestone for the history of Chinese painting to enter the modern era. At the same time, his creative spirit also shows us a simple and great life of China intellectual artists who are persistent and intelligent in the torrent of the times.
"The height of painting is rooted in character", and Huang Binhong has been diligent and modest all his life, teaching people tirelessly. He has been a patriot since his youth. On his ninetieth birthday, the Ministry of Culture of East China awarded him the title of "Excellent Painter of China People". When Master Bin Hong died, he asked his family to give all his 2283 ancient and modern famous paintings, bronzes, porcelain, jade and thousands of his own works to the country, which shows that Mr. Bin Hong loves the motherland.
2. Qi Baishi
was originally named Chunzhi, whose word is Weiqing, and later renamed Huang, whose word is Pingsheng, whose name is Baishi, and whose other name is borrowed from the owner of the Mountain Pavilion, sent old Ping, old people of Xingziwu, wooden people, wooden laymen, etc. to Xiangtan, Hunan. He is a famous painter and calligraphy seal engraver in China in the 2th century. He used to be a professor of Beijing National Art College, honorary professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts, honorary president of Beijing Painting Academy and chairman of China Artists Association. He was awarded the title of "China People's Artist", won the 1955 International Peace Gold Award of the World Peace Council, and was elected as a "world cultural celebrity" on the occasion of his 1th birthday in 1963. There are poems and grass on white stone, grass printed on white stone, selected works of Qi Baishi, and works of Qi Baishi handed down from generation to generation.
I worked as a carver in my early years, and then I studied poetry, seal cutting, calligraphy and painting from local cultural figures Chen Shao Fan and Hu Qinyuan. He made a living by selling paintings and engraving. Middle-aged has traveled many times to the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. Poets live in Zengxiang Fan, with sincerity and interest in ancient folk songs. Qin Quan, Hanyin and Han steles were printed and taken, which was swift and powerful. He studied calligraphy, including He Zizhen, Jin Dongxin, Li Beihai, The Divine Wonder of Heaven, and The Three Mount. In his later years, he joined the Cao Zijian Monument. With the support of Chen Shiceng, painting has a "declining law", which is between broad and subtle. I have done many "good articles" that are "the last song of the ages".
Qi Huang, a carpenter, is a great artist with outstanding poems, books, paintings and seals. His artistic experience is legendary. He thinks that seal cutting is the first, poetry is the second, calligraphy is the third and painting is the fourth.
3. Xu Beihong (1895—1953) was born in Yixing, Jiangsu, and his father was a famous painter. When Beihong was a teenager, he studied painting with his father. At the age of 2, he sold paintings in Shanghai. In 1918, he was hired by Cai Yuanpei as a tutor of Peking University Painting Research Association. He went to Paris to study in the following year, and then transferred to Berlin and Belgium to study sketch and oil painting. He likes the classical paintings of the European Renaissance and beyond very much, and he forgets to eat and sleep carefully. After returning to China in 1927. He served as Dean of Beiping Art College, Director of Art Department of Nanjing Central University, and President of Beiping Art College after the Anti-Japanese War. After liberation, he served as president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and chairman of the National Artists Association until his death.
4. Zhang Daqian
Zhang Daqian is a master of Chinese painting with world influence. His outstanding achievements in creation are inseparable from his profound academic accomplishment, profound life accumulation, and his extensive friendship with teachers and friends. Besides painting, he dabbled in poetry, ancient prose, drama, music, calligraphy and seal cutting. He has made friends with Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Huang Binhong, Pu Ru, Yu Feichang and other famous domestic and foreign masters Picasso, and his skill is not ordinary. Zhang Daqian is a famous man, also known as Ji and Ji Ling, whose name is Daqian, and whose nickname is Daqian Jushi, or "Shu Zhang Daqian". Born in 191 and died in 1984, Neijiang, Sichuan. When Zhang Daqian was young, he was influenced by his mother who was good at painting and his second brother Zhang Shanzi, who was famous for painting tigers. He also learned poetry, calligraphy and painting from famous teachers Zeng Nongzuo and Li Meian. In addition to copying the famous sites of past dynasties, I have traveled all over the world, taking nature as my teacher, and after hard study, I have achieved outstanding artistic achievements. Youth, that is, with the second brother Zhang Shanzi. In my twenties, I studied in Japan and studied dyeing and weaving. After returning home, he was once fascinated by Buddhism, and went to tiantong temple, Ningbo to "convert to Buddhism" and wanted to be a monk. It is said that he was afraid of burning nine incense sticks on his head, so he had to bid farewell to master Hong Raft and return to the real world. In 1932, his family moved to Suzhou Netlion Park and devoted themselves to painting. After 194, it took two and a half years to arrange and copy the numbers of Dunhuang caves in China one by one, which enriched the painting techniques. Moved to Hong Kong in 1948, and then lived in India, France, Brazil and other countries. He settled in Taiwan Province in 1978 and died in Taiwan Province in April 1984. At the age of 84. Now, the "Moye Jingshe" where he lived in Taiwan Province before his death is built as the "Chang Daqian Memorial Hall".
5. Fu Baoshi Fu Baoshi (194? 1.965) from Xinyu County, Jiangxi Province. When I was young, I loved painting, calligraphy and seal cutting. In 1933, he was sponsored by Xu Beihong to study in Japan to study the history of oriental art and graduated from Tokyo Imperial Art School. After returning to China, he taught in the Art Department of Central University. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as president of Jiangsu Academy of Traditional Chinese Painting and vice chairman of China Artists Association. Be good at painting landscapes and figures. Advocating innovation, he has made a lot of achievements, and created a mountain stone drum method with straight roots, folds and circles, thickness, light and heavy, and changes in reality and reality-holding stone drums. Influenced by Chen Laolian, figure painting can be used without change, forming its own style. Wash with a pen, pay attention to charm, and achieve the effect of being fascinated. His brushwork structure is unconventional, unique, the lines are elegant, the colors are dull and beautiful, and he is good at blending water, ink and color. The artistic conception is profound, and it is intoxicating to draw a picture like a fairy. His works are abundant, including Fu Baoshi's Collection of Fine Arts and dozens of other works. The influence is far-reaching
6. Pan Tianshou
Pan Tianshou's painting themes include eagle, lotus, pine, four gentlemen, mountains and rivers, figures, etc. Every painting must have a strange situation, seeking balance in structural risks, concise in form and far in meaning; Goushi Fang grows water chestnuts; Mo Yun is thick, heavy, burnt and light, and the lines are condensed and healthy with a pen.
He is good at freehand brushwork of flowers and birds and landscapes, and occasionally works as a figure. You are good at painting eagles, starlings, fruits and vegetables, pines and plums. Put pen to paper boldly and dye carefully. Ink colors are criss-crossed, the composition is fresh and beautiful, magnificent and interesting. The picture is smart and fascinating.
Pan Tianshou's finger painting is also unique, with outstanding achievements. There are a large number of such works, such as Qing Xia, Zhu He, Xin Fang, etc., which refer to ink flowers, and all of them are "lotus flowers reflecting the sun", with ink splashing, lotus leaves smeared with palms, and lines hooked with fingertips, with vivid charm beyond the reach of pen power. When Pan Tianshou paints, every stroke should be carefully scrutinized and meticulous. Under the guidance of the thought of "what is often will change", he took the strengths of others and made his own style. His painting materials are ordinary themes, but the paintings he started can produce extraordinary artistic appeal. For example, in his "A Corner of Little Dragon", especially the composition in which the main body of the picture, Little Dragon, is pressed to the corner, which implicitly allows the viewer to see the majestic mountains of Lingyan first and then appreciate the dragon water. This method is in contrast with those that make the picture "unobstructed", which not only shows the painter's amazing composition ability, but also expresses the painter's inner nature for ordinary things.
The value of Pan Tianshou's art mainly lies in his bold creative spirit. He often said, "There are barren hills and rocks, and there are flowers in the grass. Although there is no special ordinary difference, those who are wise and skillful will achieve the best." His calligraphy skill is also very deep. He learned Zhong and Yan in his early years, and then he extracted the essence of Wei and Jin steles and the ancient seal han li. He was also good at poetry and seal. Usually painting, poetry, inscriptions, printing, very serious, pay attention to, never careless. He is also well-versed in painting history and painting theory, and has written History of Painting in China, Gu Kaizhi, Listening to Poems in Tiange Pavilion and Talking about Printing Silk. He also collected "Essays on Listening to Tiange Paintings" and so on.
7. Lin Fengming
Lin Fengming is a modern painter and art educator. Formerly known as Lin Fengming, he was born in Meixian County, Guangdong Province. He loved painting since childhood and went to France to work and study at the age of 19. He first studied western painting at Tijie Fine Arts School, and then transferred to Paris National Institute of Fine Arts for further study. After returning to China in 1925, he became the president and professor of Beiping Art College. In 1927, Lin Fengmian was invited by Cai Yuanpei to go to Hangzhou to establish the National Academy of Art (later Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts) as the president. After liberation, he worked as a painter in China Painting Academy. Lin Fengmian settled in Hong Kong in the 197s and held a solo exhibition in Paris in 1979, which was a great success.
Lin Fengmian is good at describing ladies, Peking Opera figures, fishing village customs and women's bodies, as well as all kinds of still life paintings and landscape paintings with houses. From the content of the work, there is a sad, lonely, empty and lyrical style; From the formal point of view, one is a square composition, and the other is untitled. His paintings are distinctive and can be seen by viewers at a glance. He tried to break the boundary between Chinese and western arts and create a universal artistic language. He is worthy of being an innovative master of art and has had a profound influence on many younger painters. Lin Fengmian was the spiritual leader of China art circle in the 2th century.
8. Wu Guanzhong
Wu Guanzhong is a master of Chinese and Western art. For decades, he has been exploring the combination of Chinese and Western painting arts.
Wu Guanzhong was born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province in 1919. At first, he studied engineering. Because of a chance to visit Hangzhou Art College, which was presided over by painter Lin Fengmian at that time, he was immediately fascinated by the colorful artistic beauty and made up his mind to switch to art and devote his life. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to Hangzhou Art College. After graduating from college, Wu Guanzhong earned a tuition fee for studying in France in 1946, when New China was founded, so he resolutely returned to China to teach at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and later became a professor at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts. He aims to combine Chinese and Western arts and push China painting art to the world. His spirit can be summed up in the title of one of his books, that is, "Art is not fatal".
most of Wu Guanzhong's earliest paintings are based on water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and the pictures are full of poetry. He pays special attention to the combination and collocation of points, lines and surfaces. In recent years, his painting style has changed, and thick lines are often used in a number of works reflecting the Loess Plateau, forming a kind of artistic conception. Recently, he got? quot; The highest honor of French culture and art ".
From March 26th to May 1th, 1992, the British Museum launched an unprecedented exhibition-Wu Guanzhong's solo exhibition, with 44 works, including his oil paintings, ink paintings and sketches created since 197. This exhibition is called "unprecedented" because it is Wu Guanzhong's first solo exhibition in Europe, and it is also the first exhibition held by the British Museum for living painters in China. Therefore, this solo exhibition is not only another breakthrough in Wu Guanzhong's painting career, but also means the forward development of artistic exchanges between East and West. Wu Guanzhong said that my painting shows the advantages of western painting in Chinese painting. I draw points and lines, and each stroke includes a decent structural relationship. The dots and lines in the painting, whether big or small, long or short, are strictly used, and they are not casually put up. Sometimes there can be no more or less, and too many ideas don't help the picture, so I try to cover them up. The same is true for the length of the line, which is not drawn casually, but just right.
9. Li Keran
Mr. Li Keran was born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province on March 26th, 197. At the age of 13, he studied traditional landscape painting with Xiangxian Xianqian Shizhi, and at the age of 16, he entered a private art school in Shanghai. In 1929, he entered Hangzhou (International) West Lake Art Academy with excellent results, and was admitted as a graduate student, studying western painting under professors such as Lin Fengmian. In 1943, he was hired as a lecturer of Chongqing National Art College, engaged in the teaching, creation and work of Chinese painting. In 1946, he was hired by Xu Beihong as a professor of Chinese painting at the National Beiping Art College. At the same time, he studied under Qi Baishi and Huang Binhong and devoted himself to the research and creation of national traditional painting. After the founding of New China, he devoted himself to the innovation of Chinese painting. Taking the motto "those who are valuable are courageous, those who want are soul" and "go in with the greatest skill and fight with the greatest courage" as the motto, the ancient landscape painting art has gained new life. Mr. Keran's landscape is profound and dignified, broad and profound, which promotes the evolution and sublimation of national traditional painting with distinctive spirit of the times and artistic personality. With Mr Keran's self-contained educational thought, the "Li Keran School" active in the painting circle appeared. He is not only a master of painting who has worked hard for more than 7 years, but also made important contributions to the development of artistic concepts. His influence has already gone beyond the art world and has been highly praised by all sides.
There are many collections of works in major museums at home and abroad. Albums include Li Keran's Paintings and Li Keran's Paintings. (turn)