Gao Yan (formerly known as Gao Zhanguo) was born in 1954 in Gaojiazhuang, Yuanshi County, Hebei Province. He joined the Xinjiang Army in 1974 and has loved Jinshi calligraphy and painting since childhood, and is also good at photography, with a correspondence university degree in Chinese calligraphy and painting. He is now a member of the China Artists Association, a national first-class artist, a member of the Chinese National Painters Association, a researcher of the China Ink Painting Research Institute, a Chinese state guest artist, a visiting professor of the French National Academy of Fine Arts, a special photographer of Hebei Press Photo Agency, and the president of Shijiazhuang Zhushixuan Calligraphy and Painting Institute.
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His works have participated in many domestic and foreign calligraphy and painting competitions, and won the Excellence Award, Gold Award, First Prize, Special Prize, and have been included in many collections of calligraphy and painting works. In September 2015, the works were strictly selected and approved by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China, and awarded the honorary title of "Famous Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Artists". In November 2015, his works were evaluated and studied by the Chinese Calligraphers Association, the China Artists Association and the Ministry of Culture, and awarded the honorary title of "Chinese Art Master".
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In July 2018, he won the "Gold Award" of the National Intangible Culture and Art Inheritance Award, and was awarded the "Honorary Title of National Intangible Culture and Art Inheritor". In September 2018, the "World Intangible Cultural Heritage Meritorious Award" and the honorary title of "Inheritor of the World Intangible Cultural Heritage" were specially awarded. In 2019, jointly planned and edited by Beijing Lindu Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, The Chinese Art Museum, the Chinese Calligraphers Association, the China Artists Association, and the World Federation of Writers and Artists, the large-scale calligraphy and painting art special issue of "Seven Great Masters of Chinese Contemporary Calligraphy and Painting" was a gift for the 70th birthday of the motherland (included in the compilation of "Seven Great Masters of Chinese Contemporary Calligraphy and Painting", namely: Shen Peng, Su Shishu, Fan Di'an, He Qiyetu, Wu Weishan, Yan Ping, and Gao Yan).
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In 2020, he won the honorary title of "World's Top Ten Contemporary Literary and Art Masters" by the "International Literary and Art Peak Achievement Award", and was specially invited to be included in the compilation of "Top of Literature and Art : World Contemporary Literary and Art Masters Collection" international large-scale literary and art masterpieces. In 2020, he was selected as an artist for Forbes's "World Art World Flaunting People". In February 2021, after the review of the expert group of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Academy of Management Sciences and the Institute of Educational Sciences, the Education Development Research Center approved the project of "Gaoyan Painting Bamboo" and won the "First Prize for Educational Scientific Research Achievements". In 2021, the Ink Danqing Cultural Research Institute published a special issue of "Gao Yan Works" that warmly celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. In February 2021, he was awarded the "United Nations Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts" and awarded the honorary titles of "Meritorious Figure in World Art" and "United Nations Medal of Culture and Art". In April 2021, he won the honorary title of "National Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting Highest Achievement Award" and "Centennial Art Master", and was specially invited to be included in the compilation of large-scale classical line-bound books of "Masterpieces of Famous Artists".
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Pass on the merits of dongpo banqiao The bamboo inscription of the era is on the product
——Remember the famous painter Gao Yan
Bamboo is an important object carrier of traditional culture, and the paintings of bamboo in the past are free and simple, and they are also bone-style. Bamboo culture has been passed down from ancient to modern times, the Song Dynasty has the eastern slope to paint red bamboo, and the Qing has Banqiao as thin bamboo. Mr. Gao Yan, a famous contemporary painter, can not only paint red bamboo with Dan pen, but also write thin bamboo with bone method, the traditional method is refined, and then the teacher is not informal, using pen and ink to follow the innovative spirit of the times, creating a new world of the era of bamboo, becoming the first stroke of contemporary painting bamboo!
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Mr. Gao Yan's bamboo paintings place great emphasis on professional quality. The authentic way of painting is to say painting, and painting bamboo cannot be painted. Mr. Gao Yan paints bamboo, and his awareness of using a pen in the bone method is particularly strong, and the practice is also quite solid! This is due to the fact that Mr. Li has a good calligraphy cultivation as the foundation, and he can use books to paint! Sketching, in one go, long-term without hindrance, the work is smooth and healthy. Short-term setbacks, clear explanation. He painted bamboo to express the essence of Chinese painting according to the line, so the bone method of writing bamboo has the most rigid and soft spirit. Both form and god, should be the shape of the object, especially more expensive than the god!
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The bamboo gentleman is just right! Inside the painting is the exquisite technique, and outside the painting is the elegant Confucian spirit of bamboo, the Zen principle of bamboo meaning emptiness, and the Taoist mystery of the unity of heaven and man. From this point of view, Mr. Gao Yan painted bamboo, really painted the cultural taste, painted the humanistic height! Professional quality and cultural spirit are integrated, so that his bamboo paintings are impeccable at the professional level, and at the cultural communication level, they have the reputation of elegant and popular appreciation!
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Ink writing bamboo, very good at water! Those who are good at water use, painting wind bamboo flowing and easy to hand, so watch Mr. Gao Yan's wind bamboo works, ink is laid out naturally. Thick and dry, wet and dry, layered. Cang and run, outstanding and elegant. There is both the speed of pen and ink like a sword, and the abundance of pen and ink flying instruments. Pure ink aesthetic imagery, so that the picture in the high and low greeting, virtual reality reflection of the bamboo leaves, the formation of a space pattern resistant to taste! Simple ink leaves, imitating the posture of all things, there is the momentum of the dragon, there is the meaning of phoenix wandering, bamboo leaves are all kinds of changes, infinite imagery, let people see pleasing to the eye.
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Mr. Gao Yan has a super accumulation of sketching, visual experience is quite rich, not only can write the meaning of bamboo, but also can work as a bamboo god! Green bamboo paintings, exquisite portraits, lined with landscapes, like poetry. Sketching and painting real bamboo can not only plunder the physical appearance of objects and elephants, but also seize the spirit of objects and elephants, painting non-craftsmen, and seeing magic powers! Only the creation of foreign teachers can get the source of the heart like this! Hanging such a bamboo painting in the elegant house will inevitably cultivate the body and mind and enjoy the best quality! This is an important reason why his bamboo paintings can decorate the barriers of thousands of homes and have a distinct cultural communication value.
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Pass on the merits of dongpo banqiao, and establish the bamboo inscription of the times. Its painting method originates from the ancient method, but it will never stick to the Dongpo bamboo and Itabashi bamboo as a painting slave, but has my strokes to draw my heart, I hand-draw my bamboo's independent personality, and paint a unique style of "Gaojia bamboo". There are freehand bamboo, there are gongbi bamboo, and there is rubbing bamboo made with the help of the golden stone law, the sonorous spirit, the unified people's hearts, which is also the exclusive expression of pen and ink with the times! Its bamboo painting and former sage bamboo painting trinity, can arch the bamboo title, for the inheritance and innovation of bamboo culture to establish the era of merit!
Famous calligraphy and painting critic Luo Cheng
February 9, 2021
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