In the history of Chinese art, there is no shortage of fathers and sons who are good at painting. Famous father and son painters in ancient times were Mi Fu and Mi Youren of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Ziang and Zhao Yong of the Yuan Dynasty, Wen Zhengming and Wen Peng of the Ming Dynasty, and Dong Bangda and Dong Yu of the Qing Dynasty. They were famous and accomplished, and some even became leaders of the founding sect.
Tao Weihuan's "Lotus Pavilion Moon Night Map"
Guo Yixiao,"Peony Day in Beijing in May"
Among modern and contemporary painters, there are not a few who are good at painting and inheriting their father's business, such as Wu Changshuo and Wu Dongmai, Qi Baishi and Qi Liangmu, Fu Baoshi and Fu Xiaoshi, Pan Tianshou and Pan Gongkai, Li Kejian and Li Xiaoke, Guo Weiqu and Guo Yiwei, Li Kuchan and Li Yan, Liu Kuiling and Liu Jiji, Zhao Wangyun and Zhao Zhenchuan, Tang Yun and Tang Yilan, Tao Lengyue and Tao Weihuan, Wang Zhiyi and Wang Gongzhu, Tian Shiguang and Tian Yong, Kong Xiaoyu and Kong Zhongqi, etc., whose achievements in the history of modern Chinese art are remarkable.
As we all know, Chinese painting and calligraphy have a long history and history. The study of this art is very inherited, mainly through copying, which is a recognized and effective way of learning. Especially before there was no art school education in the mainland, copying the works of predecessors was the only way to learn painting.
The ancients learned to paint, generally the master with the apprentice, if the father is a famous painter, the son wants to inherit the father's business, will also follow the father to learn painting. However, copying often limits the artist's innovation, and at the same time brings a lot of trouble to the market, and there will be a situation of falsehood and concealment. However, in ancient times, literati, scholars, and inkers often regarded "chaotic truth" as a fashion for self-amusement, which was very popular.
From the perspective of modern father and son painters, most children learn from their fathers, which is a unique favorable condition and a reasonable thing, but this kind of learning method often makes it difficult for learners to jump out of the shadow of their fathers. Like Qi Baishi's son Qi Liangmu, born in 1938, the old man of Baishi was particularly fond of his young son, and after the death of His Wife Baozhu, he always took Qi Liangmu with him. When Qi Liangmu was 8 years old, the old man of Shiraishi began to teach him to paint by hand, and also made a special model for him to paint. When he was 10 years old, his father taught him to paint the "Zhong Kui Catching Ghosts", which was highly praised. Due to his father's influence since childhood, coupled with his own intelligence and diligence, after years of hard work, Qi Liangmu's conception of Chinese painting is very distinctive, his artistic images of fish, shrimp, insects and other artistic images are very rich in the style of Qi Baishi's old man, and his painting skills are very similar to Qi Baishi, so he is praised as "Little Qi Baishi" by many friends who love to collect Qi Baishi's paintings. Unfortunately, Qi Liangmu's personal style did not form.
In addition to learning from their father, some painters feel that they cannot learn from a painter to learn painting, and they need to change to many teachers. For example, Liu Kuiling's son Liu Jijie studied landscape with Liu Zijiu, a famous landscape painter in Tianjin, in his early years; Tao Lengyue's son Tao Weihuan successively learned painting techniques with Liu Haisu and Zhang Dazhuang.
Qi Baishi has a high evaluation of Chen Banding's artistic attainments, in his opinion, Chen Banding is good at calligraphy and painting, poetry, seal carving, collection, appreciation, especially good at painting flowers, landscapes, his flowers in his early years were taught by Ren Bonian and Wu Changshuo, and also taught Zhao Zhiqian, Xu Wei, Chen Chun, Yun Shouping, Hua Yue and other families, and extensively dabbled in Song and Yuan dynasty flower and bird paintings, depicting emotions, vivid and natural, with a beautiful and ancient interest, the works often show the thousands of flowers, birds and beasts with washed, generalized pen and ink and bright and calm colors; the composition pays attention to poetry, books, paintings, The organic combination of printing; the landscape master Fa Shitao, the style is elegant and ancient; the figure painting is concise and elegant, and more expresses the life interest of the literati. What is particularly valuable is that Chen Banding does not imitate and force Xiao to force the family to work, but is committed to the integration of the various families and laws. For this reason, Qi Baishi worshipped his third son Qi Liangkun (Ziru) under Chen Banding's door.
In addition, due to the emergence of art academies in modern times, many painters feel that it is also a good way to cultivate painting talents through colleges and universities, so they have sent their sons to art schools for further study.
Qi Liangmu "Ink Shrimp"
Fu Xiaoshi's "Appreciation of Music"
Liu Jiji, "Wusong Fighting the Tiger"
Pan Gongkai's "Drizzle Lotus Pond"
For example, Fu Baoshi's son Fu Xiaoshi studied in the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950s; Guo Weiqu's son Guo Yizu graduated from the Beijing Academy of Arts in 1962; Li Yan, the son of Li Kuchan, graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1961; Kong Xiaoyu's son Kong Zhongqi enrolled in the Chinese Painting Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1960; Tang Yun's son Tang Yilan graduated from the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts in 1962; Tian Shiguang's son Tian Yong did not attend a strictly art academy. However, he has participated in several professional training courses in Chinese painting, such as participating in the Chinese Painting Technique Training Class sponsored by the Beijing Chinese Painting Research Association in 1958, and being admitted to the Chinese Painting Class of the Beijing Academy of Chinese Painting in 1959, and learning the creation of freehand flower and bird paintings with the famous flower and bird painter Wang Xuetao.
It is particularly worth mentioning that Pan Tianshou's son, Pan Gongkai, stayed on to teach at the End of the 1970s after studying in the Chinese Painting Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, and is the first painter to serve as the president of the China Academy of Fine Arts and the Central Academy of Fine Arts. It should be said that with the rise of art academies, the painters trained by art academies have become the mainstream of the art world, such as Fu Baoshi, Pan Tianshou, Li Keyan, Guo Weiqu, Li Kuchan, Tian Shiguang, Kong Xiaoyu have all taught in art academies, and through their hard work, many academic painters have become the mainstay of today's painting world.
In short, many father and son painters, with their superb skills and exquisite works, shine in today's painting world and become a major landscape in the painting world. It is also very interesting to study their success in detail.