Cen Baoshan: Born in Beijing in 1945, he is a national first-class stage designer and artist, a member of the Beijing Artists Association, a director of the China Stage Art Society, and a special painter of the Beijing Yuanming Painting Garden.
In the early days, he inherited the contemporary landscape master Lu Yushao, deeply understood the essence of Lu Yushao's painting, laid a solid foundation for Chinese painting, and then he went to Zhouzhuang, Jiuzhaigou, Three Gorges and other places to sketch for many years, he said: "Sketching is the source of artistic creation. ”
Cen Baoshan is an important representative of the contemporary color ink painting school, his works not only use the combination of Chinese and Western techniques, but also integrate the art of stage art, Baoshan has his own unique understanding of the rendering of the picture artistic conception, he inherits and carries forward the idea of "Integration of China and the West" of the older generation of painters such as Lin Fengmian and Wu Guan, breaking the shackles of mutual exclusion between Chinese and Western paintings, and gradually forming a unique color ink style.
Its creation not only inherits the expression methods of traditional landscape painting in China, but also integrates the brushwork and color of contemporary oil painting, and also absorbs the nutrition of stage art, and gradually forms a unique painting style that combines Chinese and Western with stage art.
He strives to integrate the intuitive vividness of European oil paintings depicting nature and the rich and delicate color of oil paintings with the spirit of traditional Chinese art and aesthetic ideals. Cen Baoshan's color ink landscape paintings are light and elegant, the color is bright, and the color and ink are integrated, so that people can feel the breath of nature and taste the comfort of pastoral life.
He is good at expressing the scenery of Jiangnan water town, such as the new green in early spring, the thin mist, the waterside cottage, the black tile white wall, the harmonious and fresh tones, the quiet and light beauty, so that the picture produces a lyrical appeal, worthy of the contemporary ink painting of the combination of Chinese and Western models.