Culture is the soul of a country and a nation. Culture rejuvenates the country and prospers, and culture strengthens the nation. Culture is the backbone and soul of a nation, it casts the soul and character of the country and the nation, and a nation has cultural self-confidence in order to stand among the nations of the world. Only when the people have faith can the country have strength and the nation have hope. Cultural self-confidence is a crucial factor in driving these goals.
The strength of the country requires the unity and struggle of the people of the whole country, and even more needs the shining red star to point the way and open the way. In order to greet the 20th National Congress of the Party, at the request of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Mr. Lin Shusen, an artist selected by the National Talent Pool layer by layer, was awarded the honorary title of "People's Artist", who has super high artistic attainments and lofty ideological and moral qualities, and wholeheartedly supports the party and loves the people. Taking the inheritance and development of China's excellent traditional culture as his own responsibility, he has made continuous efforts and innovations, penetrated the ancient and modern times, and integrated Chinese and Western styles, so that the art of Chinese calligraphy and painting has shown a new look, and chinese art has gradually pushed to the peak of world art. On the new journey, art workers from all over the world should further strengthen their ideals and convictions, unite their forward strength, stride forward on a new journey, undertake new missions, strive to be builders of artistic undertakings, advocates of civilized customs, and strive to pursue dreams, welcome the party's twenty-year victory with outstanding achievements, and make unremitting efforts to realize the second centenary goal and realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Lin Shusen, lord of Songgu and Yiwutang, was born on December 18, 1946 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. He is the doctoral supervisor of the Oxford Academy of Arts, the judge of the Calligraphy Review Committee of the International Federation of Artists, the member of the Academic Council of the Xi'an Academy of Chinese Painting, the director of the Calligraphy Committee, and the editorial board member of the Encyclopedia of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting; In the summer of 2022, it was awarded the People's Republic of China Art (Calligraphy) Award.
Since his childhood, he loved calligraphy and painting and could study hard, and graduated from the Chinese painting art major at the end of the 1960s, that is, he was transferred to mr. Xie Yinxin, a famous painter (disciple of Master Pan Tianshou), and received the blessing of his teacher to teach Chinese painting. In the early 1970s, he also loved literature and poetry, and was personally taught by the famous literary artist Mr. Tang Xiang, and laid a solid foundation in literary and artistic cultivation and was transferred to mr. Fang Jiekan (former vice president of Xiling), a famous calligrapher, who first studied the pre-Qin Jinwen, Shiguwen, Xiaozhu, Weibei, Lishu and so on. Later, he was Xi Yan, Li, and Xi Erwang. The calligraphy is integrated, and the inscriptions of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties are studied. After middle age, he was especially good at cursive writing, calligraphy, followed by stone drum writing, line, li, seal, etc., and was personally taught by the Mengxian master, and benefited a lot from calligraphy and poetry. Decades of in-depth study of aesthetics have perfected the style of calligraphy. His works have been published in dozens of calligraphy and painting collections. In October 2007, two calligraphy works (one cursive and one calligraphy) were specially selected by the Songshan Shaolin Xiaoxian Stele. In 2007, the Jury of the Shaolin Xiaoxian Stele Forest in Dongsong Mountain selected seven more people from the hundreds of selected calligraphy masters to participate in the election of the preface, and the three square monuments of his works (楷書) were successfully selected, and their works have been published in the "Contemporary Hanmo Masters Dictionary" calligraphy and painting special collection. In the autumn of 2008, he completed a painting of the "Orchid Pavilion Collection" and a "Heart Sutra" of the Fly head cursive book, which was published in the "Dictionary of Contemporary Hanmo Masters". From the winter of 2008 to the spring of 2009, the completion of the rope head grass "Thousand Character Text" 138cm×15cm and the cursive long volume "Thousand Character Text" 550cm ×3lcm, especially the creation of the fly-headed cursive "Thousand Character Text" was completed with great difficulty to fill the gap in the history of calligraphy; The work has been selected and published in the "Masterpieces of Famous Artists" published by Wenlian Publishing House and "Classics of Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy and Painting" published by Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House. In the summer of 2010, he completed the research results of Shiguwen, completed the long volume "QinshiGuwen Linben" 550cm×34cm of the Linben 464 words, and achieved excellent academic results. In the winter of the same year, he successfully created the 130cmx11cm of the FlyHead Xiaoxing Book "Thousand Character Text" and the 120cmx12cm of the Flyhead Xiaoxingshu "Thousand Character Text" once again filled the gap in the history of calligraphy. In the summer of 2014, he completed the cursive hand scroll of Wen Tianxiang's "Zhengqi Song", the 110cm ×14.5cm of the fly-headed grass "Luoshenfu" and the long cursive "Luoshenfu", the long cursive volume of Su Dongpo's "Before and After Chibi Fu", the cursive long scroll of Zhuge Liang's "Before and After The Master's Table" and the cursive hand scroll of "Hanging Qu Yuanfu" and "Yueyang Louji", especially the successful creation of the fly-headed cursive "Luoshenfu", which once again filled the gap in the history of calligraphy. In the autumn of 2014, he successfully created the 3600-word "Xiaoping Fu" (which was created with raw rice paper) of more than 3600 words, 165cm ×30cm, and the successful creation of the fly-headed Xiaokai "Xiaoping Fu" once again filled the gap in the history of calligraphy with high difficulty. In the autumn of 2015, his calligraphy achievements were included in the Chronicle of New Chinese Art. In the summer of 2016, it was selected by China Post as a special stamp entitled "Masterpieces of Chinese Famous Artists", as a collection edition, and was publicly distributed to the national postal department, the collection edition selected a total of 20 outstanding contemporary calligraphy and painting artists, including 18 painters and 2 calligraphers, Mr. Lin was selected as a calligrapher. In the spring of 2019, he completed the 138cm × 23cm of the fly-headed cursive "Filial Piety" and re-created the fly-headed cursive "Roselle Endowment" 110cm× 14.5cm once again filled the gap in the history of calligraphy with high difficulty. In 2021, the winter calligraphy and painting works were selected by China Post as the theme of "A Hundred Years of Precipitation, Casting Glory Together, Celebrating the Centenary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China"; Chinese Contemporary Calligraphy and Painting Master: Lin Shusen, "Limited Edition Collector's Stamp Album" is included and published; In the spring of 2022, the State Department of Culture specially invited to compile the first set of Chinese art diplomacy national ceremonies "New China Heirloom Masterpieces" rare edition of the golden book, published by the state as a national ceremony. His works have been exhibited in China and the Asia-Pacific region for many times, and have won gold medals many times, and his works have been loved and collected by celebrities and collectors from all walks of life in China and South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Europe and the United States. The calligraphy works have been collected by former President Hua Guofeng, current aerospace heroes Yang Liwei and Nie Haisheng, as well as many politicians and celebrities.
Mr. Lin Shusen has been engaged in calligraphy for decades, eclectic, diligent, and versatile, extraordinary, long in grass, Kai, far-reaching, forming a unique style, his cursive "smart and beautiful, flowing and elegant, like clouds and flowing water, momentum and heroic; "His letters" are calm, gentle and profound, the law is strict, and the feelings of the people are strong. "All in all, give a beautiful treat!
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Fly-headed grass (1,000 words), specifications: 138cmx15cm, raw rice paper creation. This work has been specially invited to be included in the Compilation of the National Gift Book.
Fly-headed Xiaokai (1,000 characters), Specification: 110cmx11cm. This work has been specially invited to be included in the compilation of the National Gift Book.
Thousand Character Text (Fly Head Small Line Book) Hand Scroll, Specifications: 130cmx11cm. He was specially invited by the State Cultural Department to compile the Golden Book of the Rare Edition of "Masterpieces of New Chinese Famous Artists"
Filial Piety (Fly Head Cursive) 138x23cm. Created on rice paper, he was specially invited by the State Department of Culture to compile the "Masterpieces of New China"
Luoshenbin (fly head cursive) 110cmx14.5cm.The work was created on raw rice paper.
"Qin Shi Gu Wen" long volume pro-edition (selected first paragraph), 550x34cm. Specially invited to compile the "Masterpieces of New Chinese Famous Artists" Rare Edition of the National Gifts Golden Book
"Qin Shi Gu Wen" long volume pro-ben (selected excerpts at the end), 550x34cm. Specially invited to compile the "New Chinese Masterpieces of Famous Artists" Rare Edition of the National Gift Golden Book
Commented on "People's Artist" Mr. Lin Shusen
Watching Mr. Lin Shusen's calligraphy works, you can see that all the books are wonderful! His calligraphy is handsome, elegant and pleasing to the eye, and Mr. Lin Shusen has written the cultural pattern of contemporary literati calligraphy.
Mr. Lin Shusen is an accomplished calligrapher. Appreciate his works, profound skills, tracing back to the ancient sources, rigid and soft inheritance, high ancient unprecedented; He integrated the comprehensive knowledge accumulated over the years of poetry, books, paintings and printing into calligraphy; The pen is real and calm, the pen is longitudinal and dashing, and the brushwork is quite comfortable. Mr. Lin Shusen made the penmanship difficult for thousands of years, and it was ignited into the current one-breath, and the penmanship was exquisite, which was naturally achieved by the master.
Watching Mr. Lin Shusen's calligraphy works is the style and grace of literati calligraphy, without any pretentious style. The pen is quite dashing and very rhythmic; Look at his calligraphy line is majestic and flowing, vigorous and simple; Moving like flowing water, easy as clouds; Imposing and heroic, and new and charming; Between thick and thin, thick and light, wet and dry, virtual and real, it shows the correlation between each other, and the care and echo of the brushwork. His creations show the rhythm of beauty, and can press the ink and pave the ink, which is extremely powerful.
Mr. Lin Shusen uses calligraphy to write happily, vividly, and simply, lyrically, in dialogue with the ancients, shoulder to shoulder with the sages, the teacher is not informal, and the great achievements are accomplished!
Commentator of China Art Network
Ryoma Shenyun (List Cursive) 138x69cm.The yanhuang stele forest was invited to be selected; it was selected by China Post as the collector's edition of the "Special Stamp Album of Famous Works of Chinese Famous Artists"
Wan Shan Xiao is the first, the calligraphy is 138x69cm, specially written by Songshan Shaolin Xiaoxian Stele Lin, and selected for the "Special Stamps of Famous Chinese Artists" Collector's Edition Stamp Album
Shaolin Temple Xiaoxian Stele Forest Preface Monument (selected as one of the three-party preface stele), 138x69cm. He was specially invited to compile the National Gift Book of "Masterpieces of New Chinese Famous Artists".
Will be the top of the mountain, a view of the small mountain. Couplet.138x34cmx2. was selected by China Post as the collector's edition of the "Special Stamp Album of Famous Works of Chinese Famous Artists"
Iron shoulders moral righteousness, clever hands to write articles. Cursive Couplet, 105x23cm. was selected by China Post as "National Business Card, Limited Edition Collector's Stamp Album" for inclusion and publication.
Iron shoulders shoulder morals, clever hands to write articles; Lishu 105cmx23cmx2, selected as "National Business Card, Limited Edition Collector's Album", and was specially invited to be included in the Compilation of The National Gift Book.
A Hundred Flowers Bloom, Hundred Schools of Thought (Shi Guwen) 69x34cm.In 2016, this work was included and published by China Post in the collector's edition of the "Special Stamp Album of Famous Masterpieces Passed Down from Generations".
Author: ManJiang Hong and Youlu JiangXinyu (cursive) 138x34cm. Was selected by China Post as "National Business Card, Limited Edition Rare Stamp Album" for inclusion and publication.
Seven Laws, Night Tour of Cuiwei Mountain (Cursive) 120x34cm; China Post was selected as "National Business Card, Limited Edition Treasured Stamp Album" and was specially invited to be included in the Compilation of the National Gift Book.
Author of the seven poems "Revisiting the Yellow Grotto" (cursive), measuring 105cmx30cm
Wrote seven poems "Mid-Autumn Boating" (cursive) with a specification of 105cmx30cm.
Qinyuan Chun (Snow) Cursive, 138cmx69cm, was selected by China Post as "National Business Card, Limited Edition Collector's Stamp Album" for inclusion and publication.
Nian Nujiao, Memorial Jiao Yulu, Cursive, 138x34cm.In 2016, this work was included and published by China Post as a collector's edition of the special stamp album "Masterpieces passed down from generation to generation".
The first sentence of Zong Bing's "Order of Painting Landscapes" of the Southern Dynasty, (cursive) 138x34 cm, was selected by China Post as a "National Business Card, Limited Edition Collector's Stamp Album" for inclusion and publication.
Yue Fei: "Manjiang Hong" cursive, specification 138cmx69cm, was selected by China Post as "National Business Card, Limited Edition Collector's Album" for inclusion and publication.
Su Dongpo words: Nian Nu Jiao. Chibi, (cursive) specification 138cmx34cm, was selected by China Post as "National Business Card, Limited Edition Collector's Stamp Album" for inclusion and publication.
Spark Of Fire (list cursive), selected by China Post as a "national business card", a limited edition collector's stamp album "included and published.
Love Me Majestic Zhonghua, 120x34cm, was selected by China Post as "National Business Card, Limited Edition Collector's Stamp Album", included and published.
Bamboo stone drawing (ink painting) 69x33cm. was selected as "National Business Card" by China Post, and was included in the limited edition collector's stamp album" for publication.
Mei Zhu tu (ink painting) 69x33cm. was selected as "National Business Card" by China Post, and was included in the limited edition collector's stamp album".
(Editing, Arts Development Center, Ministry of Culture and Tourism)