"Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet"
"Eight Hundred Miles of Qingcheng"
In the 1940s, he was well-known in the Chinese painting and calligraphy circles, known as the "Qi Baishi of Sichuan". He is Zhao Wanbi, a master of green landscape painting whose ancestral home is Nanchong. The green Danqing created by Zhao Wanbi gave people a strong shock, and even Zhang Daqian could not help but express his heartfelt feelings of "Gongbi Landscape, Should Push Zhao Wanbi in Shu" after seeing it. On March 21, the reporter contacted Zhu Tao, a cultural scholar and member of the CPPCC Municipal Committee who has long been engaged in the study of local history, and under his introduction, he went to spy on the artistic life of this landscape painter.
In 1904, Zhao Wanbi was born in Sandongbei Village, Datong Town, Jialing District, and his maternal grandfather Chen Du was a late Qing Xiucai during the Guangxu period. In 1922, Zhao Wanbi was admitted to the art class of Nanchong County Middle School, where Mr. Zhang Lan was the principal and Zhang Xiushu was the director of school affairs. During this period, Zhao Wanbi started from mastering the traditional technique of "Mustard Garden Painting Notation" and had to peek into the doorway. After four years of study, he resolutely gave up the opportunity to take charge of the teaching whip at his alma mater and was admitted to the Chinese Painting Department of Xinhua Art College in Shanghai for further study. "Xinhua Art College can be said to be a famous institution of higher learning in the history of modern art education, and Li Shutong, Xu Beihong, Feng Zikai, Huang Binhong, Zhang Shanxiao and other well-known artists all gathered at this school at that time." In the face of reporters, Mr. Zhu Tao specially introduced the basic situation of Xinhua Art College.
In a rich artistic atmosphere, Zhao Wanbi became a disciple of the art master Wu Changshuo with diligence and talent. During his time at the school, he also won the favor of Zhu Wenyun and Pan Tianshou.
"The former is the first president of the 'White Society', one of the founders of Chinese painting education, and the first director of the first Chinese painting department in domestic universities, good at flowers and birds, especially fine ink bamboo." The latter is Li Shutong Gaozu, former vice chairman of the China Artists Association, and his eclectic talents, after taking office (Bo Nian), Wu (Changshuo), Qi (Bai Shi), and Huang (Binhong), he carried on the upper and lower levels and opened up another world, which had a very far-reaching impact on the development of the landscape of flowers, birds, and landscapes. Pan Gong is a master of Chinese art education, and has written works such as "History of Chinese Painting" and "Listening to Tiange Paintings and Talking about Essays", the former of which was included in the "University Series" textbooks of the 1920s. Zhu Tao said.
Due to the chaos of the war, in the winter of 1931, Zhao Wanbi returned to Nanchong and successively served as a specialty teacher of fine arts in Jialing High School, the predecessor of nangao, and Jialing Women's Division, one of the predecessors of Nanchong Vocational and Technical College. In 1938, Zhao Wanbi was appointed as the director of the private Fuxing Senior Art Vocational School in Chengdu and a professor of Chinese painting. In 1942, the school was renamed Min Yun Art College, and Zhao Wanbi was in charge of the school until the founding of New China.
The second spring, "Eight Hundred Miles of Qingcheng" turned out
In order to run education well, Zhao Wanbi built five grass houses opposite Min Yun Art College for use in the studio and home, and was very satisfied to name this cold house under the elegant name of "Retreating To si Caotang". "Zhao Wanbi has never given up the career he has focused on all his life. While continuing to improve his painting skills, he waited for his own life opportunities, and completed the representative works of boxwood carving "Zhaojun Out of the Plug", "Intellectual Youth Going to the Mountains and Going to the Countryside" and "Rosewood Craft Cabinet". Zhu Tao told reporters that Zhao Wanbi's fine works were hung anonymously in the Great Hall of the People, and silk samples such as "The Great View garden of the Red Chamber" were exported to earn foreign exchange, and won a wide international reputation.
In 1978, Zhao Wanbi ushered in the second spring of his life, "Eight Hundred Miles of Qingcheng" turned out to be a master, established his status as a master of the Shu Zhongtaidou, and had to hire a librarian of the Sichuan Provincial Government Museum of Culture and History, and then became a member of the Fifth CPPCC Committee of Sichuan Province.
"As a leader in the field of art, unlike the painters who became famous in the late stages, Zhao Wanbi became famous at an early age, and then experienced hardships until his later years." Zhu Tao said, but it is precisely for this reason that Zhao Wanbi has accumulated a very huge potential in the adversity of the past thirty years, sharpened into a sword, and completed the real artistic masterpiece with a stunning masterpiece.
"This silk painting "Eight Hundred Li Qingcheng", written in the Song style of mountains and rivers, with vivid charm and majestic pen and ink, undoubtedly represents the peak achievement of the green landscape of the twentieth century in the Chinese painting world. In the painting, the lofty mountains are swirling, the rivers are continuous, the eight hundred miles of Qingcheng are in full view, and the atmosphere of high antiquity jumps out of the pen. Zhu Tao said that in order to create the picture volume of "Eight Hundred Miles of Qingcheng", Zhao Wanbi went down the river from Songpan County, crossed Guanxian County and then returned to the foothills of Qingcheng Mountain, and the whole journey reached eight hundred miles, which was undoubtedly a difficult challenge for the old man who had passed the flower armor.
The consensus of the painting circle "Qi shrimp Zhao duck Zhang Shanshui"
Green landscape, a unique art painting in the field of traditional Chinese painting, was founded in the Tang Dynasty and has influenced it to this day, Zhao Wanbi is a master of "green and green". In addition to "Eight Hundred Miles of Qingcheng", he also created "Ten Thousand Pine Winds", "Five Hundred Miles of Huangshan Mountain", "Overview of Jiangshan", "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River" and so on. "Zhao Wanbi's green Danqing picture scroll, writing mountains and valleys, painting dead wood torrents, imposing, simple and ethereal, endless charm. Even Ms. Zhang Xinrui, the youngest daughter of Zhang Daqian, believes that compared with her father, Mr. Wanbi's ladies are not as good as 'green'. Zhu Tao told reporters that in 2010, the magnificent painting "Eight Hundred Miles of Qingcheng" was auctioned in Chengdu for 880,000 yuan.
What is even more rare is the comprehensive cultivation of Zhao Wanbi's art: flowers, birds, characters, landscapes are excellent, penmanship, freehand can do everything, but also good at clay carving, calligraphy and the way of gold and stone, by the Sichuan painting circle leader, former chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Artists Association Qian Laizhong highly praised as "flowers, birds, work pen can be compared with the Ming and Qing people" master-level generalist. "In the field of flower and bird painting, Zhao Wanbi was publicly promoted by the duck painting industry, and 'Qi Shrimp Zhao Duck Zhang Shanshui' was the reputation of the Chinese painting and calligraphy circle in the 1940s." Zhu Tao said.
"Zhao Wanbi's achievements also lie in his adherence to tradition, eclecticism, innovation, and informality. He was a long copyist and had a solid foundation, and opposed the construction of cars behind closed doors in the old paper pile. His research on chinese painting theories such as landscape techniques of the Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, especially Song painting, has reached a height that is difficult for people to reach. Zhu Tao said that even Mr. Pan Jiezi, a disciple of Qi Baishi and former vice chairman of the Beijing branch of the China Artists Association, highly praised Zhao Wanbi's extensive reputation in the Shuzhong painting circle with the exclamation that "when Dan youth was young and proud, shushui bashan did not know."
Nanchong Daily all-media reporter Wen Xiujia intern Hu Weize/Wen
The pictures in this edition are provided by Zhu Tao