At that time, Yan Gongda, vice chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association
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In today's Chinese flower and bird painting world, there is such a creative team with an average age of seventy-four years old but still full of spirit.
They are famous painters who have walked the flower and bird painting circle in Jiangsu for decades.
They have different ages, different personalities, and different painting styles, but in the run-in of long-term exchanges and cooperation, they have formed a good academic atmosphere of mutual appreciation and mutual respect.
They join hands with each other, each promoting its own strengths, each with its own beauty, and the United States and the United States.
Their collective attempt to create a huge painting not only created a precedent in ancient and modern times, but also formed a unique painting style in the Chinese flower and bird painting world.
Their understanding and harvest in cooperation is not only a rare and wonderful experience, but also a different form of creation, and it is also a unity in the diversity of today's flower and bird painting creation.
Their unique creative practice has not only become the theme of many rounds of academic seminars, but also won the high praise of dozens of famous theorists and painters in China. The famous art theorist Zuo Zhuangwei commented that it embodies and represents the style of Jiangsu freehand flower and bird painting and stands in the Chinese painting world; the famous theorist Mr. Ma Hongzeng calls it an important force in today's flower and bird painting world; Shang Hui, president and editor-in-chief of Fine Arts Magazine, praises it, which not only opens up a new model of Chinese painting creation, but also plays a role in revitalization and promotion in the current situation of the continuous decline of freehand Chinese painting.
They have created a series of huge large-scale paintings, which have not only become the largest and best freehand flower and bird paintings in Jiangsu praised by Yu Jigao, a master of Chinese gongbi flower and bird painting, but also the largest display works in the world's largest theater.
They are regarded as a phenomenon that has attracted the attention of many domestic media, and have also been reported in multi-angle and multi-faceted large sections, including mainstream media such as China Art Daily and CCTV, and professional media with considerable academic status.
They have been invited to participate in various large-scale national art exhibitions and academic exchange activities, and have been invited by relevant institutions in many places in China to establish art museums, porcelain painting art museums, sketching bases and creative bases.
They have been interviewed and reported by the CCTV Calligraphy and Painting Channel for many times, and have been invited to participate in the "Into Ten Thousand Homes" activities and on-site large-scale painting cooperation demonstrations held throughout the country for many times, and have been invited to participate in the national exhibition of calligraphers and painters for many times.
They have been invited to attend the "Spring of Great Beauty" National Calligraphy and Painting Spring Festival Gala jointly organized by the Chinese Culture Promotion Association, the National Academy of Painting of China and the Calligraphy and Painting Channel, and the "Spring of a Hundred Flowers" National Famous Artists Association.
They were invited again and again to enter the hall-level calligraphy and painting activities held in the banquet hall and golden hall of the Great Hall of the People.
They, a series of masterpieces created collectively, were included in the teaching model of China's higher art colleges and universities for the first time by authoritative domestic college publishing houses.
They, with their systematic artistic practice results, were awarded the "Provincial Excellent Organization Award for Art Work" by the Jiangsu Provincial Artists Association.
They are the Jinling Group of Chinese Freehand Flower and Bird Painting, a creative team composed of Chen Peiguang, Li Luo, Shi Yongcheng, He Ming, Feng Zhi, Zhang Shaowu, Zhao Zhiping, Yao Liang, Yi Jun (in order of age) and nine famous flower and bird painters who are well-known in today's Chinese painting world for their collective cooperation on huge flower and bird paintings.
The leader of their team is mr. Chen Peiguang, the eldest, and the secretary-general is the youngest Mr. Yijun.
▲CCTV Calligraphy and Painting Channel interviewed Jinling Group
What kind of artistic styles the nine painters are, here may be in the order of age:
From left: Yi Jun, Li Luo, Chen Peiguang, Shi Yongcheng, Yao Liang, He Ming, Zhao Zhiping, Zhang Shaowu, Feng Zhi
Chen Peiguang
Jinling Peony Chen, born in 1933 in Zhangping City, Fujian Province, joined the Fujian-Guangdong-Gansu Border Longitudinal Literary and Labor Troupe in 1949, and engaged in military art work in his early years. In 1964, his Chinese painting "The Place where Childhood Was a Long Worker" won the "Excellence Award" of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army and was compiled into the "History of New Chinese Art Map". In the late 1960s, he transferred to jiangsu art museum. In 1995, he went to the United States, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia to hold solo exhibitions. In 2010, more than 50 Chinese paintings were donated free of charge to his hometown in Zhangping City, Fujian Province, and in July 2019, 70 Chinese paintings were donated to the Central Soviet District (Western Fujian) History Museum. He is currently a national first-class artist of Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, the leader of the Jinling Group of Chinese Freehand Flower and Bird Painting, a librarian of Jiangsu Provincial Research Museum of Literature and History, a member of the China Artists Association, and the fifth president of the fourth session of the Jiangsu Provincial Flower and Bird Painting Research Association. He has published "Selected Chinese Paintings of Chen Peiguang", "Jinling Peony Chen Painting Collection", "Introduction to Learning to Paint - Freehand Peony", "New Mustard Garden Painting Notation - Flower and Bird Scrolls" (cooperation), "Contemporary Famous Painter Technique Classics - Chen Peiguang Freehand Peony" and so on.
Li Luo
Born in 1941 in Zaoyang, Hubei Province, she graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Academy of arts in 1963, majoring in Chinese painting, under the tutelage of the calligrapher professor Chen Dayu, who is good at freehand flower and bird painting, calligraphy and seal carving. He is currently a librarian, senior artist, member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, and a chinese freehand flower and bird painting Jinling group painter. He once served as vice president and secretary general of Jiangsu Flower and Bird Research Association, vice president of Nanjing Flower and Bird Painting Research Association, vice president and secretary general of Nanjing Municipal CPPCC Calligraphy and Painting Art Association, and director of Nanjing Printing Society. He has published "Li Luo Calligraphy and Painting Seal Carving", "Li Luo Calligraphy and Painting Collection", "Chinese Modern and Contemporary Famous Artists Painting Collection - Li Luo" (Da Hong Pao), "Chinese Painting Famous Teacher Model Classroom Flower and Bird Freehand", "Basic Techniques of Flower and Bird Freehand", "Common Flowers and Trees of Flower and Bird Sketching", "Animals and Plants of Flower and Bird Sketching", "Creative Techniques of Flower and Bird Freehand", etc.
Shi Yongcheng
Descendants of Shi Nai'an, born in Haimen, Jiangsu Province in 1943, graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Normal University in 1964, and was a national first-class artist of the Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Chinese Painting, and successively served as a member of the Art Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Chinese Painting, the director of the academy office, and the director of the art museum. He is currently a member of the China Artists Association, the honorary president of the Jiangsu Flower and Bird Painting Research Association, the Jinling combination painter of Chinese freehand flower and bird painting, the vice president of the Zijin Calligraphy and Painting Institute of Jiangsu Province, the consultant of the Jiangsu Xu Beihong Research Association, the consultant of the China Pastoral Landscape Painting Institute, and the honorary president of the Shi Nai'an Calligraphy and Painting Institute. He is good at freehand flowers and birds, is famous for painting animals, and is a famous contemporary tiger painter. He has held more than ten solo exhibitions at home and abroad, and a large number of works have participated in domestic and foreign painting exhibitions and won awards. He has published monographs such as "Shi Yongcheng Painting Collection", "Shi Yongcheng Flower, Bird and Animal Painting Collection", "Demonstration of Chinese Painting Techniques - Painting Horses", "Demonstration of Chinese Painting Techniques - Painting Deer", "Demonstration of Chinese Painting Techniques - Painting Cranes", "Introduction to Chinese Painting Self-study - Animals", and 39 episodes of feature films "Ink Painting - Animal Series".
He Ming
Born in Nanjing in 1944. Consultant of Jiangsu Flower and Bird Painting Research Association, Consultant of Calligraphy and Painting Center of Cultural Industry Research Institute of Nanjing Normal University, Director of Jiangsu Chinese Painting Society, Researcher of Jiangsu Provincial Literature and Painting Research Center, President of Nanjing Flower and Bird Painting Research Association, Director of Central Painting Institute of The Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, Jinling Combination Painter of Chinese Freehand Flower and Bird Painting. He has held painting exhibitions and lectured in the United States, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and is "the first ambassador of cultural exchanges from the mainland to Taiwan" and is included in the "Yearbook of the People's Republic of China". His published works include "Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Textbook", "Chinese Flower and Bird Painting Linben", "Introduction to Chinese Painting Self-Study", etc., and the chief editor of "Introduction to Learning Painting", "New Mustard Garden Painting Notation", "Art Cilin", "Chinese Freehand Flower and Bird Painting Technique" and so on. His works are often invited to participate in painting exhibitions sponsored by national and provincial cultural and artistic institutions, and many works are collected by art galleries, museums and grand theaters. He has been featured on CCTV, Hong Kong TVB, Asia Television and other special features. Yu Jigao, a master of Chinese gongbi flower and bird painting, praised him as "a very prominent one among jiangsu freehand flower and bird painters".
Feng Zhi
(1947-2016) Was a Jinling group painter of Chinese freehand flower and bird painting, a special painter of Nanjing Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, the deputy secretary-general of Jiangsu Provincial Flower and Bird Painting Research Association, a specially invited participating painter of Jiangsu Provincial Chinese Painting Institute, and a distinguished professor of Jinling University for the Elderly. His works have been involved in national, provincial and municipal art exhibitions, and have won many awards. CCTV Calligraphy and Painting Channel, Jiangsu Television, Gansu Television Station and many other media have made special reports and art introductions; "Three Hundred Chinese Paintings" and other publications edited by the China Artists Association have been included, and many times have been exhibited throughout the country with the Jinling Group of Chinese Flower and Bird Painting, and many times have participated in the "Calligraphy and Painting into Ten Thousand Homes" activities throughout the country at the invitation of the "CCTV Calligraphy and Painting Channel", and have held many personal exhibitions.
Zhang Shaowu
Born in 1950 in Changting, Fujian Province, he has successively served as the vice president and consultant of the Jiangsu Flower and Bird Painting Research Association, the president of the Jinchuan Calligraphy and Painting Institute of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, the researcher of the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Literature and Painting Research Center, the director of the Jiangsu Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Institute, the Jinling combination painter of Chinese freehand flower and bird painting, and the senior arts and crafts artist. He studied Chinese painting and calligraphy under professors Wu Guoting, Xie Haiyan, Chen Dayu and other professors, good at flower and bird painting, landscape painting, calligraphy and seal carving, and has long been committed to exploring the creation of flower and bird painting and landscape painting, Chinese painting and Western painting, calligraphy and poetry. His works have participated in many national and provincial exhibitions, collected by many colleges and universities at home and abroad, art galleries, museums and grand theaters, and have been included in many painting collections, famous books and dictionaries.
Zhao Zhiping
Born in Changzhou in 1957, he is a national first-class artist. He is currently the deputy director of the Art Committee of jiangsu Provincial Academy of Chinese Painting, the president of Jiangsu Provincial Flower and Bird Painting Research Association, a member of China Artists Association, the vice president of Jiangsu Chinese Painting Society, and a Jinling combination painter of Chinese freehand flower and bird painting. He once served as the deputy director of Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, the director of Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Chinese Painting Art Museum, and the director of Liu Haisu Art Museum. His works have been selected for more than ten national exhibitions, won the silver medal of the "Fourth National Exhibition of Industrial Brush Painting", and published three kinds of "Zhao Zhiping Painting Collection".
Yao Liang
Born in Nanjing in 1957, graduated from Nanjing Academy of Arts, and later studied under Mr. Chen Dayu, a master of Chinese painting, he successively served as the secretary general, vice president, consultant and researcher of the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Literature and Bird Painting research center, the Jinling combination painter of Chinese freehand flower and bird painting, and a special painter for many art academies, whose works have participated in a series of national and provincial institutions and foreign invitation exhibitions, and has been collected by many albums, albums, famous books, dictionaries and many art museums, museums, galleries and grand theaters.
Memories
Xiangtan Renshi, serving in the National Pictorial of China, mainly engaged in flower and bird painting and a wide range of themes, especially good at the creation of ginkgo themes, has visited more than a thousand ancient ginkgo trees at home and abroad, and has authored "Overview of Ancient Chinese Ginkgo", "Research on Ancient Chinese Ginkgo Culture" and more than 200 poems on the theme of ginkgo, which is the first scholar painter in China today who has not only extensively studied archaeological ginkgo but also engaged in the promotion of ginkgo culture and is committed to the creation of ginkgo art. Many media have called him "the holy hand of ginkgo biloba", "the leading figure of Chinese ginkgo painting", and "the first person of Chinese ginkgo painting". Li Jianchen, the father of Chinese watercolor painting, wrote his inscription "Jinling Flower and Bird Family", and Yu Jigao, a master of Chinese gongbi flower and bird painting, painted "Ginkgo Heaven and Earth Who Is Comparable". He is now the Secretary-General of jinling Group of Chinese Freehand Flower and Bird Painting, a member of the China Flower and Bird Painting Art Committee of Jiangsu Artists Association, a first-class artist of China Arts and Crafts Association, the vice president of Chinese Min Calligraphy and Painting Art Research Institute, the director of Dayin Art Museum, the sixth vice president of the fifth session of Jiangsu Flower and Bird Painting Research Association, a member of the Chinese Poetry Society, professors of many colleges and universities and researchers of Nanjing Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, and China Calligraphy and Painting Newspaper.