Sun Qifeng has won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese Art, the Lifetime Achievement Award for the Lanting Cup of Chinese Calligraphy, the Lifetime Achievement Award for Art Education at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, the Lifetime Achievement Award for Xiling Printing Society, and the Plastic Arts Achievement Award issued by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He has five lifetime achievement awards in one, especially in both the worlds of painting and calligraphy, and has won the highest achievement award, which is the only one in the national art world.
In 2019, he was awarded the "Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China" medal. In 2021, he was awarded the commemorative medal of "50 Years of Glory in the Party".
Period Yi painter Sun Qifeng
On February 20, the 20th day of the first lunar month, Mr. Sun Qifeng, a professor at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, a famous art educator and a master of calligraphy and painting, is the 103rd birthday. All the teachers and students of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts extended their sincere wishes to Mr. Sun on his birthday.
In today's Chinese painting and calligraphy circles, everyone knows sun Qifeng. His art and character are well-known, virtue and art, which is Tianjin, but also a peak in China's art and education circles.
Sun Qifeng recently took a photo
One morning before the Spring Festival in 1931, 11-year-old Sun Qifeng followed Hao Guoxuan, a village teacher, to the village primary school, and according to local customs, they wanted to write a Spring Festival league for their distant relatives and neighbors. Since the age of 7, Sun Qifeng has begun to learn characters, and under the guidance of Hao Guoxuan, he has practiced words every day, never stopping.
Many years later, Sun Qifeng, who was already an elderly man, recalled this past and was still very proud: "At that time, I was the youngest in the village who wrote the Spring Festival, and I could say 'famous in a village'. ”
However, Hao Guoxuan, a discerning rural primary school teacher, has higher expectations for this primary school student. "You can't be proud of a village, but you should work hard, work harder, and be 'famous in Qilu.'"
More than 80 years have passed, Sun Qifeng, who came out of Zhaoyuanshitou Village in Shandong Province, is not only famous in Qilu and Manjinmen, but also becomes a well-known painter, calligrapher and art educator full of peach and plum at home and abroad.
Works by Sun Qifeng
When sun Qifeng talked to students about his experience in learning painting, he said: "My childhood love of painting was caused by my uncle. Although I had no more contact with him, my family, especially my parents, often talked about how good my uncle's painting was, how famous he was in his hometown and Jinan, and so on, and these words gradually sowed the seeds of love for painting in my young soul. ”
After the founding of New China, Sun Qifeng learned that his uncle Wang Youshi was not only a famous painter, but also a revolutionary engaged in the party's underground work. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Youshi's home in Beiping was the party's underground liaison station.
During the Liberation War, Wang Youshi participated in the formation of the "People's Education Alliance" and contributed to the peaceful liberation of Peiping. Subsequently, he led the establishment of the Beijing Painting Academy.
In 1944, with the support and influence of Wang Youshi and Xu Renzhong, Sun Qifeng was admitted to the Peking Art College as he wished. At this famous art school in China at that time, he was taught in person by famous teachers such as Huang Binhong and Li Keyan. "Flower and bird painting was taught by Wang Shensheng and Wang Youshi; landscape painting was taught by Qin Zhongwen and Pu Songxiao; calligraphy was taught by Huang Binhong and Luo Fujie; seal carving was taught by Jin Yumin and Shou Shigong. In particular, the principal, Xu Beihong, not only instructed in painting and calligraphy, but also guided the study of Western art knowledge and theory. Although their views are not the same, they are all unheard of by me, and some of their arguments play a lifelong role in my calligraphy and painting life. ”
In 1952, Sun Qifeng was transferred to the Fine Arts Department of Hebei Normal University (the predecessor of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts) and began a career of calligrapher, painter and educator for more than 60 years.
Giving lessons to students, Sun Qifeng talked about his "three knowledges" motto and engraved a party seal: contentment, insufficient knowledge, and dissatisfaction. The side section is titled: I am self-deprecating, self-reflective, self-cultivation, and every time I take these eight characters as my motto. Contentment and lack of knowledge, the ancients already had a chapter. As a self-disciplined person, I am an abuser?
Sun Qifeng explained that "contentment" means that he is already very satisfied with his current daily life, "the people have given me a lot, more than I imagined how many times." "Lack of knowledge" is a kind of self-discipline, examining one's own shortcomings, whether it is painting techniques, ideological understanding, or treating people and interacting with people, they all know that they have many deficiencies and still need to improve their learning. "Not being satisfied" is specifically aimed at the attitude of governing learning, the so-called living to be old, learning to be old, and seeking truth from learning is always unsatisfied, "the years are old, every hate is empty in the belly, and the words are not satisfied."
Today, Sun Qifeng, who is already in his prime, lives in the Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin Medical University and is still "not satisfied". Although he spent most of his time lying in a hospital bed, he often held calligraphy and painting magazines and publications in his hands. When you think about it, you stretch out your finger and sketch in the air.
This reporter took the "Guangming Daily", which was reported by Sun Qifeng, to visit him
Sun Qifeng evaluated himself: painting first, book second, printing third. However, in the minds of many students, his character comes first.
Sun Boxiang, an early student of Sun Qifeng and a famous artist in Jinmen, once said: "Teacher Sun Qifeng was first an educator, then a painter and calligrapher. The principle he accepts students is that 'the door of goodness is always open, and the door of goodness is difficult to close'. ”
During his tenure as deputy director of the Fine Arts Department of Hebei Normal University, Sun Qifeng had a unique vision, and hired famous artists Li Kuchan, Li Hecuo, Jiang Zhaohe, Pu Xuezhai, Pu Songxiao, Ye Qianyu, Wu Jingting, Wu Guangyu, Liu Junli, Liu Lingcang, Wang Songyu, and others to teach at the school.
At that time, there were not many teaching materials in the Fine Arts Department of Hebei Normal University, and there were very few collections of famous calligraphy and paintings. Sun Qifeng wrote the teaching materials himself, and mobilized other teachers to write more and paint more, and in addition to teaching, he left paintings and calligraphy works to show later students.
Sun Qifeng also personally compiled and painted albums such as "Hundred Birds Painting Notation", "Peacock Flower Notation", "Animal Pattern" and other albums, and the painter Liu Wensheng recalled: "As soon as these albums were published, they were robbed of crazy in the whole country. "Don't say at that time, even now many people don't know, the best-selling quilt covers, sheets, pillowcases and other textiles in the country, most of the flowers and birds on them are from Sun Qifeng's hand."
(Guangming Daily all-media reporter Liu Qian, Chen Jianqiang)
Contents: Guangming Daily all-media reporter Liu Qian Chen Jianqiang
Editor-in-charge: Wang Yuanfang
Editors: Xing Yanyan Wu Yaqi