Author: Tang Yahong
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Tang Yahong's unforgettable artistic relationship with Mr. Tahara</h1>
Mr. Tahara is a famous calligraphy and painting artist with both virtue and art, although he has been dead for 7 years, but his voice and smile will never be forgotten!
In May 2001, Mr. Tahara came from Shenzhen to Ningning for cultural and artistic exchanges, when I was engaged in cultural news reporting in the weekend department of Jiangsu Workers Daily, and through the enthusiastic mediation of Professor Xu Lingzhi of the Fine Arts Department of Jiangsu Institute of Education, I was not only fortunate to interview Mr. Tahara, but also invited to listen to his open class to explain how to master painting skills for college students.
During the interview, I learned that Mr. Tahara is an accomplished artist who has grown up through diligent self-study. Because of the great emphasis on integrating folk art elements, his paintings are appreciated by both elegant and customary, with unique styles and deeply loved by people.
Listening to Mr. Tahara's lecture on the art of painting was a great benefit. When he was invited to walk into the Hongqiao Campus of Nanjing University of Technology to give a painting skills class to college students, the students were very interested due to their novel concepts and vivid explanations. In particular, the concepts of "intending to write first" and "painting 'unreasonable'" taught by him deeply inspired the students. Mr. Tahara's wonderful lectures have won warm applause many times! After the lecture, many students took photos with him. At that time, I, zhang Daoyi and Xu Lingzhi, two famous artists in the arts and crafts circles, not only listened to Mr. Tahara's lectures together, but also took a precious group photo with him in class after the class.
I remember that the next day, with interesting topics such as the origin of Mr. Tahara's pen name "Iiko", I conducted a detailed interview with him face to face.
According to Mr. Tahara, he was born in Shanghai in 1925 and his original name was Pan Youwei, and "Tahara" and "Rice Cow" were his pen names. Among them, the pen name of "Rice Cow" is because he belongs to the zodiac cattle, and he grew up in the Lishui countryside when he was a teenager and once let go of cattle, so he called himself "Rice Cow". Since taking the pen name "Rice Cow", Tahara not only loves to paint cattle, but also especially loves to collect crafts related to cattle.
After the interview, Mr. Tahara also invited me to his hotel to enjoy his newly created ink celebrity portrait scroll. Every art celebrity he paints in this long scroll is both vivid and vivid. Because I was the editor of the jiangsu workers' newspaper comic column "Laugh Bar" at that time, I specially photographed more than 10 artistic celebrities from this long scroll created by Mr. Tahara, which was published in the "Laugh Bar" column. In order to express his gratitude to me, Mr. Tahara gave me the work of writing "Bright and Clear" to me, which made me unexpectedly happy!
In the blink of an eye, it has been 20 years since the interview with Mr. Tahara. Whenever I admire Mr. Tahara's "Bright and Clear" book work written for me, and whenever I think of the beautiful past of interviewing him, Mr. Tahara's voice and smile seem to appear in front of my eyes again.
An introduction to Mr. Tahara's art
Mr. Tahara, the real name of Pan Youwei, his ancestral home is Lishui, Jiangsu, born in Shanghai in January 1925. He died in Shenzhen on July 19, 2014 at the age of 90.
Before his death, Mr. Tahara was a national first-class artist. He is a member of the China Artists Association, the Chinese Calligraphers Association, and the China Printmakers Association. Before his death, he served as a director of the China Arts and Crafts Society, the first secretary-general of the Jiangsu Calligraphers Association, an advisor to the Jiangsu Provincial Press and Art Association, and the president of the Nanjing Oriental Art Institute. He has been employed as a professor by Southeast University, Shenzhen University, China Correspondence University of Calligraphy and Painting, Nanjing Animation Center, etc.
Because of his outstanding achievements and reputation in the field of culture and art, Mr. Tahara received the first batch of special government allowances in 1990. For 10 years, Mr. Tahara has worked as an art editor in a newspaper or as secretary general of the Jiangsu Calligraphers Association, and he has done his job conscientiously and dedicatedly, and has continuously extended the scope of artistic creation to comics, Chinese paintings, prints, comic strips, paper cutting, calligraphy, seal engraving, book binding and other artistic fields. Moreover, he is proficient in everything, has achieved great achievements in everything, and shows the "Tian style" in everything.
Over the past 10 years, Mr. Tahara has won the Chinese Comic Strip Painting Award, the National Book Binding Award, the Printmaking Award, the Animation Award, and the Album International Award. Because of his great contributions to the promotion, promotion and practice of manga art, Mr. Tahara won the "Golden Monkey Award of Chinese Manga", the highest award in China's manga industry, in 1994. In 2002, he was also awarded the Honorary Certificate of "Master of Arts and Crafts" by unesco. During the 100th anniversary of the founding of Southeast University, it also established a personal calligraphy and painting exhibition hall "Iikoso Caotang" for Mr. Tahara.
I took a picture with Mr. Tahara
I took a group photo with the famous calligraphy and painting artist Tian Yuan, the famous arts and crafts educators Zhang Daoyi and Xu Lingzhi
A calligraphy work written specially for me by Mr. Tahara
A celebrity cartoon created by Mr. Tahara in the "Laugh Bar" column of Jiangsu Workers' Daily
Editor/Gongga Lee Kwang-woo