In recent years, cafarica art museums have paid attention to the basic role of collections in the development of art museums, and have improved the construction of collection sequences in art museums through extensive collection work. In the 20th century, Chinese art and higher art education are an important direction for the collection construction of art museums, and we continue to pay attention to the construction of the classic collection of famous teachers of the Academy of Fine Arts, supplement the collection of representative works of Mr. Lao of the Academy of Fine Arts, fill in the blanks, and enrich the collection sequence of the art museum.
After Mr. Liang Yulong's death in 2011, the museum has been in contact with his family for many years, hoping to add Mr. Liang Yulong's representative works to the museum's collection. In 2021, Ms. Liang Hao, a family member of Mr. Liang Yulong, on behalf of Liang Yulong's family, proposed to donate Liang Yulong's representative works to our museum. After active and friendly communication between the two sides, a number of representative works with the characteristics of the times by Mr. Liang Yulong were finally entered into the Tibetan Art Museum. For this generous donation from the family, our museum expresses its deep respect and gratitude.
In 2003, Mr. Liang Yulong calligraphed "The Grace of Dripping Water Springs reciprocate".
Ms. Liang Hao said that Mr. Liang Yulong has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts for more than 40 years, from teaching assistants, lecturers and professors step by step, and has a deep affection for the Academy of Fine Arts, which is also her original intention to donate her father's works to the school art museum. The works donated by Ms. Liang Hao to our museum on behalf of her family include 18 oil paintings and 7 sketches, a total of 25 paintings. She said that many of these works donated to the Academy of Fine Arts are Mr. Liang Yulong's sketch representative works, and the paintings of these works are expressive and very vivid with pens, hoping to make some contributions to the teaching work of the school.
Mr. Liang Yulong was the last class of students trained by Mr. Xu Beihong during the teaching period of Central University, in the early 1950s, he was invited by Xu Beihong to engage in teaching work at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, as a young teaching force at that time, as an assistant teacher of Mr. Wu Zuoren, he made many contributions to the beginning of oil painting teaching at the Central Academy of Fine Arts; he participated in the study of Luo Gongliu's postgraduate class, practiced and explored the road of sinicization of oil painting, and has been involved in the teaching of the first studio of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Mr. Liang Yulong has been diligent all his life and is an important participant and witness to the development of Chinese oil painting.
2022 is the 100th anniversary of Mr. Liang Yulong's birth, this time, the art museum specially selected Mr. Liang Yulong's "Self-Introduction" written for his album at the age of 89 - a "summary of life" with a sentence of true feelings, accompanied by Mr. Liang Yulong's life documents and donated works, to launch this WeChat. In this way, we commemorate the artistic life of this sincere and delicate artist, Mr. Liang Yulong, and thank his family for their donation.
"The Grace of Dripping Water Springs reciprocates" is Mr. Liang Yulong's life credo, and it is also the attitude of the art museum in the face of precious donated works, and the art museum will properly preserve, restore, study and display these precious donated works in the future.
Liang Yulong Self-prologue
Time flies so fast, I am eighty-nine years old this year, the wind and candles are dead, there are not many days to come, life is rushing by, and it is time to leave some traces. It is a record of the process, but also the crystallization of hard work, as a summary of life.
I am a native of Changsha, Hunan, born in Beijing in 1922, living in a turbulent era, the war continues, my father died very early, the family fell from well-off to poverty, the most difficult time was when I was in college, on the one hand, to raise tuition fees, on the other hand to support the family, the double pressure forced me to have to look for a job in the winter and summer vacations, which also gave me the opportunity to contact many aspects of art work, just by virtue of my spontaneous "talent", for the store to paint advertisements, write signboards, window design, He painted cartoons for film studios, cartoons and portraits for newspapers, etc. The tools used are also diverse. Oil paints, gouache, ink, paints, charcoal and so on. It's like eighteen martial arts come a little bit, but they are not exquisite.
"Self-Portrait" Liang Yulong Oil on canvas, 100×70cm, graduated in 1947, and later stayed in the school to collect
In 1938, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese bombed everywhere, and my mother and sister fled to Chongqing, and in 1943 I was fortunate enough to be admitted to the art department of National Central University. I saw the masters I have admired and revered for a long time, Xu Beihong, Wu Zuoren, Qin Xuanfu, Lu Sibai, Huang Xianzhi, Fu Baoshi... This was a turning point in my life, when I began to receive an enlightened education in art, laid the foundation for painting, and at the same time understood advanced revolutionary ideology and participated in the student movement.
In 1947, the classmates took a photo, from the left Yuan Zhenzao, Liang Yulong, Yun Zongying, Wei Tiezheng
In 1947, Liang Yulong graduated from the Art Department of National Central University
In May 1945, Japan surrendered, cuccidental was demobilized and returned to Nanjing, and the country began a civil war again, and I participated in the "Anti-Hunger, Anti-Persecution, Anti-Civil War" and "May 20" parades. I worked as an art editor at a newspaper, attacking the reactionary government of the time. Many cartoons were drawn and published in newspapers of the time.
After the liberation of Shanghai in May 1949, I joined the Shanghai Artists Association under the leadership of the Shanghai Party organization and got to know some of the artists of my predecessors, such as Mi Gu, Shen Tongheng, Yang Keyang, Zhang Wenwu, Zhao Yannian, Zhang Leping, etc. At the same time, he also served as the art editor of the Shanghai Popular Bookstore, organized the publication of the first edition of "New Year Paintings" after the liberation of Shanghai, and also drew some anti-enemy cartoons, which were published in newspapers and periodicals such as Liberation Daily and Wen Wei Po.
"Bao Long March Grain Map", Liang Yulong, 24×26cm Comic, 1946
"Yesterday's War Criminal, Today's Guest" Liang Yulong 54×40cm Comic, 1951
At the end of 1949, I received three letters from Xu Beihong, asking me to go to Beijing to assist in the art work of the Reform of Chinese Opera led by Mr. Tian Han. On January 1, 1950, he went to Beijing to fulfill the task given to me by Master Beihong. After working for a few months, I considered that opera work was not my profession, so I was admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts, did graduate school, and then learned painting from Xu Beihong.
In 1951, I was retained as an assistant teacher to Teacher Wu Zuoren, and at the same time accepted the task given by the school, and successively served as an art tutorial for the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, the Central Academy of Drama, and the Beijing Film Academy. Teaching is not an easy task, teachers should continue to enrich themselves, improve themselves, lesson preparation time is several times more than the teaching time, otherwise it will be backward, how to teach people, but to see the students who have been taught, can become outstanding painters or become excellent backbone of the art team, it is particularly gratifying, hard work is not in vain.
In the teaching of the Academy of Fine Arts, I met a simple and robust female student, Zhang Dehua, who was both good at character and learning. Later, he married him, grew old with a white head, and remained unswerving throughout his life.
In 1952, Liang Yulong and Zhang Dehua were married
In 1952, Liang Yulong was instructing students
In 1953, during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, as a Chinese Volunteer Army, I went deep into Korea twice to collect materials and paint military history paintings for the Railway Corps and the Memorial Hall of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army. In the same year, I followed Mr. Beihong to a construction site of a water conservancy project in Shandong to collect materials, Mr. Beihong in order to create some paintings praising new China, my task is to take care of the old man's body, and take photos, this is the teacher's hard work in his later years to create a record, but unfortunately destroyed in the ten years of catastrophe, it is regrettable and sad.
Portrait of workers at a water conservancy site in Shandong in 1953 (Photo by Liang Yulong)
"Road Sign" Liang Yulong Oil painting 140×210cm 1982 During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in 1952, he went to Korea twice as a Chinese Volunteer Army, and created this painting for the Memorial Hall of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army more than 20 years later.
In 1954, the oil painting of the Great Patriotic War in the former Soviet Union broke through the closed "narrow door" of China, and the training class taught by Maksimov experts improved Chinese oil painting by a big step. From the choice of content themes, the discussion of forms and techniques have emerged. Although this kind of foreign aid still wants to continue, contradictions between China and the Soviet Union have arisen, and this aid has been interrupted. In its place was the "Oil Painting Research Class" with the revolutionary spirit of "self-reliance", which I attended.
In 1958, the school was run in the suburbs of Beijing, from right, Wu Zuoren, Liang Yulong, Wang Shikuo, Zhong Han, Wen Lipeng, Zhan Jianjun, Yin Rongsheng, Dong Xiwen, and Wei Qimei
In the 1960s, Luo Gongliu's oil painting graduate class students took a group photo, and the fourth from the right in the back row was Liang Yulong
"The Old Man in the Countryside" Liang Yulong 79× 64cm Oil on canvas, 1957, Collection of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, donated in 2021
"Old Man with a Back Bag in Xinjiang", Liang Yulong, 87×68cm Oil on canvas, 1961, Collection of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, donated in 2021
"The Development of Grotto Art", Liang Yulong Oil on canvas, 210×140cm, 1963, reproduced in the 1980s.
When the "Cultural Revolution" came, I was criticized, and in the midst of grievances and indignation, I thought of a sentence in Lu Xun's translation of "The Narrow Cage", "The tiger is injured, licking its own wounds with its tongue", and also thought of a poem by Chairman Mao, "Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now I step forward from the beginning." In the cowshed, I sketched the oil painting sketch of the revolutionary martyr Li Dazhao's "Iron Shoulders Bear Moral Righteousness, Clever Hands Write Articles", and I want to wash my wounds, restore my reputation, and defend myself as a patriotic painter.
"Li Dazhao", Liang Yulong, 1978, 170×130cm oil on canvas, family collection
At the end of the "Cultural Revolution", the teachers, students, and employees of the Academy of Fine Arts were all sent to the farms of the People's Liberation Army troops in Cixian County to work, picking dung, cutting wheat, driving, expanding blanks, doing everything, my stomach ulcer, gastrointestinal bleeding also survived, and later transferred to the army to train art cadres for the People's Liberation Army, and finally transferred to the National Museum to paint history paintings.
Teaching was finally resumed, and the first studio taught oil painting, and at the same time painted a picture of "Selling Songs" which was collected by the National Art Museum of China.
In 1978, Liang Yulong and his students were together, zhang Zuying, Liang Yulong, Yang Feiyun and Han Xin in the front row from the right, and Shi Benming, Wang Yidong, Gao Tianhua and Chao Ge in the back row from right
"Selling Singing", Liang Yulong, 135×89cm Oil on canvas, 1982, Collection of cacosa fine arts museum, donated in 2021
In 1988, he was invited by the Paulista Gallery in São Paulo, Brazil, to hold a solo exhibition in Brazil, and he also met his big brother who had been away for 45 years. After all the vicissitudes, there are groups of children again. The following year, I went to Detroit, the United States, to participate in the graduation ceremony of my daughter Liang Hao's master of fine arts, and my American friends Sally and overseas Chinese Guo Weiquan and Guo Meihua received me very warmly and friendly, and I visited Paris, France for 10 days, broadening my horizons and increasing my knowledge. Looking back on the past days, a person who took art as a career was in such a closed environment for a long time, which was really pitiful.
"Yellow Flower", Liang Yulong, 45×53cm oil on canvas, 2001, Collection of CAFA Art Museum, donated in 2021
August 3, 2005 was my saddest day, my dear wife Andy Cheung died of overwork, causing heart disease and ineffective rescue, at the age of 75. After five years of preparation, I published "People's Sculptor Zhang Dehua" and established a Dehua Memorial Hall, and these two major events were completed, which fulfilled my unfinished wish. Whenever I walk into the Dehua Memorial Hall and see her sculptures displayed everywhere, it is like Dehua smiling at me, and I feel relaxed and happy, and I relive my dreams.
In 1994, Professor Leung Yuk Lung and his wife Professor Andy Cheung were in the studio
In this album there are a series of paintings by foreign expert groups, I respect them, they have left their relatives and friends, crossed the ocean to Come to China, came to China when they were prosperous, handsome and mature, but now they are white-haired, old and old, some lying in hospitals, some in wheelchairs, some have left the human world forever, for the sake of China's revolution and construction, they have dedicated their life's energy and painstaking efforts to China, they are great internationalist fighters, let us always miss them.
(Note: The museum has partially edited the original text)
In 2021, Mr. Liang Yulong's family donated
Some works of cabo academy art museum
Liang Yulong, 28× Pencil on 19cm paper, May 1953, Cafa Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum
"The Lady who Wants Yuxi", Liang Yulong, 27.5× 21cm Pencil on Paper, June 1953, Collection of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts
"The Plug of His Mother", Liang Yulong, 27.5× 18.5cm Pencil on Paper, 1953, Caucasian Academy of Fine Arts, Art Museum
"Nine Ropes", Liang Yulong, 30.3× 23cm Pencil on paper, June 1953, Cafa Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum Collection
"The Daughter-in-law of the Horse Egg", Liang Yulong, 27.5× 18.5cm Pencil on paper, June 1953, Collection of the Cafa Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum
"Old Farmer", Liang Yulong, 60× 45cm oil on canvas, 1953, Collection of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts
Farmers of Northern Shaanxi 1, Liang Yulong, 26×22cm oil on canvas, 1953, Collection of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts
"Northern Shaanxi Farmer 2", Liang Yulong 37× 29cm oil on canvas, 1960, Collection of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts
Farmers of Northern Shaanxi 3, Liang Yulong, 31.5× 26cm oil on canvas, 1960, Collection of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts
Northern Shaanxi Peasants 4, Liang Yulong, 64×50cm oil on canvas, 1960, Cafa Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum Collection
"Branch Secretary Han Shangfu" Liang Yulong Oil on canvas, 64×46cm, 1960, Caucasian Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum Collection
Liang Yulong, "The Old Man of Xinjiang", 36.5×26.5cm Charcoal on paper, 1961, Cafa Academy of Fine Arts, Art Museum
Liang Yulong, Sunshine, 70×60cm Oil on canvas, 1961, Cafa Academy of Fine Arts, Collection
Liang Yulong, Middle School Students, 54× 39.5cm Oil on canvas, 1977, Cafa Academy of Fine Arts, Art Museum
Liang Yulong, Young Actor, 52×37cm Oil on canvas, 1977, Caucasian Academy of Fine Arts, Art Museum
Liang Yulong, Cardamom Years, 53×47cm Oil on canvas, 1978, Cafa Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Collection
Liang Yulong, "Human Body", 76×97cm Oil on canvas, 1978, Caucasian Art Museum, Collection
Liang Yulong, "Pretty Girl", 82×88cm Oil on canvas, 1979, Collection of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts
Liang Yulong, "Courtyard", 28.5×51.5cm Oil on paper, 1979, Cafa Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Collection
"Song Qingling", Liang Yulong, 160×130cm Oil on canvas, 1981, Cafa Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum Collection
Liang Yulong, Miner, 180×180cm Oil on canvas, 1984, Collection of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts
Artist Profile
Liang Yulong
(June 8, 1922 - December 27, 2011)
A native of Changsha, Hunan. He is a member of the China Artists Association and an oil painter. He graduated from the Art Department of Nanjing National Central University in 1947, and successively served as an assistant teacher, lecturer, associate professor and professor of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1950, graduated from the oil painting graduate class of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1963, and taught at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, the Central Academy of Drama, and the Beijing Film Academy from 1952 to 1964.
Mr. Liang Yulong's representative works: "Li Dazhao" is collected by the Capital Museum; "Selling Singing", "Professor Li Oulige", "Three Old Figures", "Maiden Yellow Flower" is collected by the National Art Museum of China; "Dr. Ma Haide", "Writer Louis. Ai Li", "Friendship" is collected by the Beijing Artists Association; "Blood Donation" is collected by the Museum of the Chinese Revolution (now the National Museum of China); his works include "Color Problems in Oil Painting", "50 Cases of Drawing Teaching", "Liang Yulong Oil Painting" and so on.
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