Wang Xudong, born in Longkou City, Shandong Province in 1938, graduated from Harbin Art Institute in 1961. He is currently a professor at Shandong Academy of Arts, a member of the China Artists Association, the president of the International Academy of "Qilu School", the honorary president of the Asian Artists Association of America, and the chairman of the China National Artists Association.
Since 1964, more than 500 works have been selected and awarded in major exhibitions at home and abroad; More than 300 works have been published in important newspapers and periodicals such as People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Beijing Daily and Art Observation; More than 80 works have been collected by the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, Tiananmen City Tower and many art museums and exhibition halls at home and abroad; He was invited to paint more than 20 huge Chinese paintings for Chinese embassies in Japan, Bangladesh and other countries, and many works were presented as national gifts to foreign leaders, "Li Bai" was presented to Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaibe in 1991, "Tarzan" was presented to German Chancellor Schroeder in 2000, and "Temple of Confucius" was presented to US President Clinton in 2001. From 1978 to 2010, he held many solo exhibitions and lectures at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, the United States, Japan and other places, and was highly praised by more than 20 news media such as CCTV, American Panda TV, Los Angeles TV, People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Popular Daily, Overseas Chinese Daily, International Daily, Sing Tao Daily, Hong Kong Wen Wei Po, etc., and was known as the leader of the Qilu School.
In 2010, the Australian National Diversified Press honorably published the world-class art series "21st Century Art Masters - Wang Xudong", "Portland Literature and Art" long-form feature report "The famous Chinese painting master Wang Xudong and his Qilu scenery", his biography and works were selected into more than 90 dictionaries such as "World Chinese Artists Achievement Expo Ceremony" and won the honorary gold medal for international cultural exchange. He himself was awarded the title of "Cultural Envoy" and "Honorary Citizen" in Los Angeles and USA.
《Qilu View》
Professor Wang Xudong, the pioneer and founder of the Qilu School
Zhang Chuanyao
Speaking of the "Qilu School", we must mention Professor Wang Xudong, Director of the Chinese Painting Research Office of the Shandong Academy of Arts and President of the International Research Institute of the "Qilu School". Born in June 1938 in Longkou, Shandong, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Harbin Art Institute in the early sixties of last century, and was admitted to the graduate class of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in the seventies to specialize in Chinese painting. After teaching at Shandong Art Institute, in addition to high-quality and intense teaching, he concentrated on studying and perusing Chinese and Qilu historical materials and historical sites in the temple and shuzhai; Rushing to search for Qilu's cultural heritage and rivers and mountains, according to the collection of ancient and modern pictograms, Nabaili is a piece of paper. With profound erudition and observation of Qilu rivers and mountains, humanities, and victories, his heart swelled with huge waves, and he looked through the history of Chinese and Qilu painting, and there was never a record of the "Qilu School", and since then he has been determined to make a statement: to highlight Mount Tai, the Yellow River, and the Kong saints as the main theme and values of his life's struggle, and raise the banner of the "Qilu School". Although such a decision is extremely challenging, the journey will inevitably be full of mountains and difficult to have a smooth road, but his perseverance grows from his bones, and he has no hesitation and no regrets, and he decided to spend his life practicing his choice.
"Source of the Yellow River"
"Confucius in the Guanchuan Hall"
With this great understanding, in order to make the works that express "one mountain, one water and one saint" into Qilu paintings, Professor Xudong specially engraved the seal of "leaving no inferior products in the world" to inspire and alert himself. With perseverance and belief rarely seen by ordinary people, he aimed at the collection of Chinese painting calligraphy and the most profound Song and Yuan painting and calligraphy, and persevered and painstakingly cultivated. Landscapes, oil paintings, gongbi, flowers and birds, figures, calligraphy, imitation of ancient paintings of the Song and Yuan dynasties, all kinds of skills go hand in hand, breakthroughs one by one, all-round development, among which modern landscapes are the most beautiful, its shape and artistic conception are otherworldly, breaking new and unique. With a solid traditional foundation, broad calligraphy and painting skills, and the wisdom of literati, Professor Xudong sincerely and respectfully introduced "one mountain, one water and one saint" as the theme and entered the picture scroll, and his original works reached more than 200 paintings, and his paintings of the majestic Mount Tai, the majestic Yellow River, the ancient Confucius Mansion of Pu Mao, the elegant and heavy victories, and the ancestors of the god-shaped high bank, all formed a series.
"Taishan Ruixue"
Professor Xudong identified a goal and kept his promises and vows. He lived willingly in loneliness, without temptation, floating clouds of fame and fortune, and had no distractions, fully dispatched and exerted his intellectual potential, and worked hard with his life's energy, and finally completed Nirvana with pioneering achievements. Its Taishan series include "Qilu Range Rover", "Taishan Sunrise", "Taishan Chaohui", "Taishan Bixia Temple", "Daiding Range Rover", "Taishan Moon View Peak", "Dai Temple Hanbai", "Taishan Winter Snow"... The Yellow River series includes "Estuary of the Yellow River", "Source of the Yellow River", "Thousands of Rocks and Thousands of Mountains Walk the Yellow Dragon", "Yellow River Boatman", "Yellow River and Glacier", "The First Bridge of the Yellow River"... The Confucius series include "Confucius Travels Around the Countries", "Nishan Confucius Temple", "Confucius Garden", "Confucius Temple Dacheng Hall", "Confucius Mother Godson", "Confucius Temple Lubi", "Confucius Misses Disciple Yan Hui", "Wangu Changchunfang"... The victory series includes "Shuyuquan and Li Qingzhao Memorial Hall", "Daming Temple Qiling Pagoda", "Yanzi's Hometown - Bad Alley", "The First Spring in the World", "Minghu Starry Night", "Range Rover Pavilion of Thousand Buddha Mountain", "Penglai Winter Snow", "Liugong Island Scenic View"... The Xianxian series include "Xu Fu Dongdu Japan", "Jianzhen Dongdu Fusang Preaching", "Sima Qian's Visit to Qufu", "Li Bai Dufu Meeting in Qufu", "Li Qingzhao's Meaning of Words", "Pu Songling's Night Tour to Daming Lake" and so on...
"Qufu Confucius Tomb"
"The Source of the Yellow River" Eling Lake
Professor Xu Dong's works are not simply records of objects and reproductions of monuments, but "one mountain, one water and one saint" that has been carefully considered, carefully planned, creative, advancing with the times, and incorporating fresh elements. In the Taishan series, we can see the clouds and mist, the rising sun in the east, the layers of forests dripping emerald, the vast peaks, the heroic atmosphere, the golden and splendid Jade Emperor Peak of the dome, and the TV transmission tower of the Dai Ding, set up on the high-altitude ropeway of the mountains, and the eighteen-plate trail winds faintly in the crest and valley to the gate of heaven; In the Confucius series, we can see that the Dacheng Hall has been renovated, the thousand-year-old cypress is full of vitality, and the apricot altar is more solemn and solemn in the shade of green trees; In the Yellow River series, we can see that the mother river flows endlessly, nourishing and benefiting the land of Qilu, the newly built majestic bridge, and the vehicles flowing endlessly; The wetlands at the mouth of the Yellow River are full of reeds like snow, migratory birds soaring, and oil-harvesting trees; In the series of victories and ancestors, the world heritage is best protected, and the organic combination of characters and scenery according to the historical context not only makes the picture rich in connotation and simple, but also makes the work rich in artistic conception and adds eye-catching charm.
"Taishan Songyun"
Professor Xu Dong's paintings are skillful in brush and ink, exquisite in composition and rigorous in style, and pay great attention to discovering and creating a moving charm, and his pictures can always present an otherworldly, magnificent atmosphere, elegant and ancient, far-reaching and elegant, leading the viewer into a reverie and resonance. In the mid-nineties of last century, he held a solo exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, and more than 100 paintings showing "one mountain, one water and one saint" caused a sensation in Beijing when they were first unveiled. Famous calligraphers and painters Shen Peng, Qin Lingyun, Zhu Naizheng and others gave high praise after viewing the exhibition: Mr. Wang Xudong's landscape paintings have the style of artist, mellow skill, majestic momentum, beautiful shape, unique style, and profound artistic conception, which not only grasp and highlight the geographical and cultural characteristics of Qilu, but also carry forward the authentic Chinese painting style, heritage and spirit of the times. It is rare in the art world to show such an all-round, multi-angle, series of artists who highlight "one mountain, one water and one saint".
"Nishan Confucius Temple"
After the solo exhibition in Beijing, Professor Xu Dong became famous, and "Sunrise on Mount Tai", "Dacheng Hall of Confucius Temple", "Winter Snow on Thousand Buddha Mountain" and so on were successively collected by the National Museum, National Art Museum of China, Academy of Chinese Painting, Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum and other cultural and museum units. His works showing "one mountain, one water and one saint" include "Mount Tai", "Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains", "Dading Range Rover", "The First Spring Under the World" and many other works, which are hung in Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, Great Hall of the People, Tiananmen City Tower, Diaoyutai State Guest House, and other national noble places and elegant halls. These wide scales are full of connotation, thick and heavy, complex and remarkable. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China invited Professor Xu Dong to paint the gift paintings presented by party and state leaders to foreign heads of state during their visits, and repeatedly asked him to paint huge Chinese paintings for the Protocol Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the conference halls of embassies and consulates abroad. But whenever he has this opportunity, Professor Xudong always works hard to create the most characteristic rivers and mountains of Qilu, so that foreign friends can fully appreciate the brilliant Chinese culture and the elegant and magnificent charm of Qilu.
"Temple of Confucius"
Professor Xudong was also invited to hold solo exhibitions and travel lectures in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Ibaraki and other places with more than 100 works with the theme of "One Mountain, One Water and One Saint". The places on display were all sensational: California TV, American Panda TV, and Huamei TV recorded "Art from Confucius's Hometown"; TV Tokyo and TV Asahi recorded special films such as "Qilu Shen Yun" for broadcasting; The American "American Literary Weekly", "International Daily", "Daily Daily", "Yomiuri Shimbun", "China Daily Herald" and other media made wonderful comments and reports on the paintings exhibited by "One Mountain, One Water and One Saint"; Professor Ding Shaoguang, United Nations Chinese Art Director and President of the International Chinese Artists Association, traveled from New York to Los Angeles to visit Professor Xudong's solo exhibition, and inscribed "The Light of Qilu" to present in recognition of his achievements and path.
"Ten Thousand Years of Flowing Water in the Cangsong"
Looking at the causes of Jinling, Chang'an, Beijing-Tianjin, Lingnan, Wumen and other schools on the mainland, we are soberly aware that the birth of a school is not only a long formation process, but also a complex system engineering. It not only has a specific time node, political situation, social environment, economic situation and geographical factors, but more importantly, it has a group of leaders who are unswerving, lightly utilitarian, fearless of difficulties, perseverance, dedication, solid style, like-mindedness, courage to innovate, unique achievements, and both moral and artistic. At present, we are living in an unprecedented Chinese era: the country is prosperous and strong, the society is stable, the people are moderately prosperous, the total economic volume ranks second in the world, the weight of international discourse, and the Chinese culture is focused on the world. By the end of 2011, 353 Confucius Institutes and 473 Confucius Classrooms had been established in 104 countries and regions around the world, which is the joy of the country and the pride of Qilu. As the hometown of Confucius and Mengmen, the "Qilu School" should become the best golden business card for spreading Chinese culture, boosting Shandong's popularity, enhancing soft power, building a culturally strong province, and developing the whole country and the world.
"Confucius Misses Yan Hui"
The "Qilu School" must be associated with "one mountain, one water and one saint", otherwise the name does not match; Its leaders cannot claim to be self-proclaimed, but must be supported by strength, achievements, and influence, and must be recognized by society and supported by the people. Professor Xu Dong has won more than 40 domestic and foreign painting and calligraphy awards in his lifetime, and held more than ten Chinese and foreign solo exhibitions, and his paintings of "One Mountain, One Water and One Saint" have become more and more extensive and far-reaching, attracting the attention of critics. Many famous art critics greatly admired Professor Xudong's dedication, frank character and artistic achievements, fully affirmed his sacrifices and contributions to the cultivation and birth of the Qilu School, and wrote articles and uploaded articles to Sina, Guangming, Popular, Dagong, Jinghua Art, Straits Calligraphy and Painting, Chinese Culture Media, Chinese Calligraphy and Painting, etc., among which representative works include "He Makes Qilu Shenyun Forever Brilliant Inheritance - Remembering the Struggle of Professor Wang Xudong, the leading figure of the "Qilu School" and a famous Chinese painter". There are also many reviews frequently published in newspapers and periodicals such as "Calligraphy and Painting World", "Guangming Daily", Hong Kong's "Wen Wei Po", "Yipin Jianzang", "Xizhi Calligraphy and Painting News", "Contemporary Calligraphy and Painters", "Phoenix Weekly", "Qilu Calligraphy and Painting" and other newspapers and periodicals, among which an article published in the American "Qiao Pao" was titled "China's Famous Landscape Painting Masters - Wang Xudong Inherits Tradition, Pioneers and Innovates, Mount Tai is Magnificent, Confucius is Elegant, the Yellow River is surging, his paintings are poetic, and his achievements are remarkable."
"Wangwu Shengji"
Professor Xudong's paintings with the theme of "One Mountain, One Water and One Saint" are rich in Chinese cultural style, distinctive national characteristics, and outstanding pen and ink techniques, which are favored by Chinese and foreign publishing institutions. China Federation of Literature Publishing House, Xiling Printing Society Publishing House, Rongbaozhai Publishing House, China Cultural Relics Publishing House, People's Art Publishing House, Shanghai Fine Arts Publishing House and other well-known national publishing units took the initiative to invite manuscripts and published Professor Xudong's works in one volume with the works of Liu Wenxi, Liu Dawei, Fan Zeng, Shen Peng, Sun Qifeng, Chen Jinzhang, He Jiaying and other contemporary first-class people. When Professor Xudong's teacher, former executive vice chairman of the China Fine Arts Association, famous calligrapher and art critic, and over 90 years old, Professor Wang Qi, read the "Wang Xudong Qilu Landscape Album" published by Beijing Rongbaozhai Publishing House, Tianjin Yang Liuqing Publishing House, and Australia's 21st Century National Multicultural Publishing House, and said emotionally: Xudong spent 50 years and a lifetime of energy to create more than 200 classic works with both shape and god, divided into five series to highlight the charm of Qilu, and can be well received at home and abroad, which is well deserved. Xudong has been diligent all his life, refusing to give up until he achieves his goal, and his spirit is precious, and there are few people who can have such goals, minds, and deep efforts.
Zhang Chuanyao is the director of Modern Workers' Daily and a famous literary critic
Swim up and down, in and out
——Professor Wang Xudong's landscape painting art
Xu Encun
Professor Wang Xudong is famous for his landscape painting and is a representative figure of the "Qilu School" today. From the 60s of the last century to the present, decades of hard work are now fruitful, entering the golden season of harvest. In the years of experience, he has become a kind old man, his art has gradually become calm, in the plain and old, but also a little somber, life situation is hidden in it. Professor Wang Xudong established his own aesthetic orientation in the creation of foreign teachers, and precipitated his artistic essence in the diversified artistic accomplishment, and he can feel the vitality and cultural meaning in many landscapes, flowers, birds and calligraphy works he makes.
"The First Bridge of the Yellow River"
Professor Wang Xudong once said sincerely: "The inspiration of art is nurtured in the hotbed of culture, shimmering in the intersection of the mind and nature. It should be said that in his life journey and artistic quest, he has always been closely associated with historical traditions, the creation of nature, and the humanistic spirit, sucking nourishment, finding spiritual resources, nurturing inspiration, and achieving his own art.
"Yan Zi's Hometown Bad Alley"
In other words, Professor Wang Xudong uses his own spiritual perception, controls pen and ink and language, and creates his own images and symbols with his own feelings and experiences, conveying the spirit of landscape and reaching a realm of life.
"The Race Show"
The study, research and reflection on tradition has laid a solid artistic foundation for Professor Wang Xudong. To a large extent, he borrowed and accepted the landscape art style and spirit of the five dynasties and the two Song dynasties. The aesthetic characteristics of landscape painting summarized and summarized in Jing Hao's "Notes on Brushwork" have a particularly profound influence on it. Such as the "six essentials": qi, rhyme, thought, scenery, pen, ink; "Four Grids": God, Wonder, Wonder, and Skill; Use the pen "four poses": tendons, flesh, bones, and qi; As well as important concepts such as tangible and intangible, they all have a great influence on the style, form, temperament, realm and aesthetic orientation of Wang Xudong's landscape paintings. Reading the work carefully, you can see, "Climb to the peak, look down at the valley, and stand tall,...... And the peaks and valleys are green, the forest foothills are earthy and rocky, and the geography is far away. ...... The landscape momentum and majestic landscape grid show the bold and vigorous pen power in almost all works. The turning point of the brushwork is abrupt, hard and old, which can be described as detached from the slightest, the simpler and stronger the pen, the less the scenery and the longer the intention, which shows the depth of the painter's understanding of tradition and the use of life. Importantly, Wang Xudong is not satisfied with learning traditions at the technical level, but strives to find regularities, discover essential ones, and ingest them in the expo, so that he can become his own style in an eclectic world—thick pen and ink, rigid and soft, and far-reaching.
"Taishan Longtan Flying Waterfall" 《Taishan Longtan Flying Waterfall》
In landscape painting, the use of mountains and water into the painting is the refraction of the painter's mind and feelings, the externalization of the spiritual height and life realm, and the imagery, pattern and momentum in the picture are all in line with the inner world. In Professor Wang Xudong's works, it is not difficult to find his preference for the freehand expression of mountains and rivers and ancient time and space. His paintings of Mount Tai, Huangshan, Qilian Mountain and the source of the Yellow River are all in a majestic pen power, revealing a vast atmosphere and conveying an epic aesthetic pursuit. Such as "Chest Chest Stratus Cloud", "Taishan Pine Valley", "Taishan Peak Cloud", "Will be the Top" and other far-reaching and far-reaching treatment; "Huangshan Ruixue", "Songmao Liulong", "Thousands of Rocks and Thousands of Mountains Walk the Yellow Dragon", "Estuary of the Yellow River", "Taishan Cableway Tongdai Ding", "Confucius Small World", "Taishan Ci'en Pavilion" and other ideas of affection and reason and "I use my method"; Works such as "Zhang Qian's Envoy to the Western Regions", "Taishan Sunrise", "Mount Tai", "Yellow River and Glacier" and other works are magnificent epics of magnificent mountains and rivers interpreted together with pingyuan, high and far-reaching, reflecting the atmosphere, heaviness and majestic charm of the Qilu School, and also reflecting the painter's determination to explore and innovate in the contemporary cultural context, as well as the reinterpretation of nature and historical events. Therefore, the above works all reflect a kind of open-minded attitude and a bosom of swimming up and down, in and out of the house.
"Lingyan Temple Ghostland"
In the concept of "grandmaster's creation, self-created scenery, all in harmony" and "the fun of a thousand miles within reach", and in the drawing on the "giant mountain" landscape pattern of his predecessors, Professor Wang Xudong formed the rich ink landscape form and language of writing hills and valleys in the chest, taking creation as the teacher, and focusing on the heart source. Although he mainly uses the pen of Zhongfeng, his brushwork is changeable, and the natural landscape and pen and ink imagery are separated and combined, and the divine form is connected to the pen and ink and the spirit; As Shi Tao said: "To people cannot, not impossible, unable to law, is the most law," Professor Wang Xudong taught the teacher to create and get the source of the heart, the ancient people, the teacher, in the source of the teacher, finally became a family of its own, and its art is getting older and older.
"Wang Weixing Yinxiangji Temple"
In the wisdom of all, the accumulation of thick and thin, the creation of foreign teachers, and the source of the heart, with his own spirituality and understanding, with his own thinking and tireless search, and finally condensed and crystallized the dynamic and emotional life form, the works can be vibrant, which is Professor Wang Xudong's artistic experience and creative experience, therefore, he left behind a solid and heavy step and fruitful artistic achievements. In the decades of artistic experience, Professor Wang has reached the artistic height of "viewing things with the heart" and "imprinting the heart with things", pointing directly to the artistic height of the essence of the mental image, so that the pen and ink are free from the world, and the heart is seen; Then, in the freehand landscape, flowers and birds and calligraphy, the expectation and pursuit of spiritual height are reflected, and in the dotted line ink, virtual and real density, dry and wet thick, and rubbing rendering, it shows the charm of both luscence and form and spirit, and displays the spiritual style of Qilu in the subconscious. Shen Zongqian, a Qingren, said in "The Compilation of Mustard Boat Paintings": "Those who are engaged in pen and ink only have a little understanding of pen and ink temperament in the first ten years; Another decade and the scale is beginning to prepare; Another ten years and little theology; Thirty years later can be more than changed, and this is probably the case. Professor Wang Xudong has cultivated himself in the contemporary cultural context and the Qilu cultural environment, and also cultivated his art, so that he can use pen and ink to shape, create the environment, and achieve meaning, and highlight the changeability of pen and ink in the improvement of the internal quality of pen and ink, so that the picture has more interest and charm.
"A Thousand Miles of Gangneung One Day Back"
Qilu painting style is known for its deep cultural heritage, and reflects the heavy, clumsy and thick Northern style. Professor Wang Xudong, as a leading figure of the contemporary Qilu School, its most obvious feature is that it changes traditional brush and ink into a new wind of the times, and the pen and ink are full of passion, so that the picture is full and full, and the pattern is magnificent and magnificent, so his works reflect the distinctive characteristics of "ancient quality and modern Yan", not only its composition is square and stable, its pen to ink rhyme is also turbulent, hazy, and creates a relativity between the virtual and the real, so that the ink interpretation and illusion of black, white and gray are in line with the infinity of the creation of heaven and earth. Let people appreciate the magic and wonder of nature.
"Cold Love"
In terms of the pattern of his works, Professor Wang Xudong pays more attention to the high and majestic and deep twists and turns of pre-Yuan landscape painting, and is deeply influenced by Song painting, and the works and spiritual orientation of Dong Yuan, Li Cheng, Guo Xi, Ma Xia, etc., have a particularly profound enlightenment and far-reaching influence on him. In the works, the image of standing on a wall is mostly used to create a majestic realm of dangerous rock walls and standing tall and upright; In terms of pen and ink language, although he is known for his pen with a middle peak, he often puts pen and ink together, so that the ink marks are integrated, so that the large image is formed, the thick rubbing is beautiful, and the moist shade is loose and empty, so the picture is vivid and interesting. As Dong Qichang said, "The beauty of a painter is all in the smoke cloud,...... Mountains and waters, in front of the smoke,...... When it comes out with ink, it is like steaming and rising, it can be called a vivid rhyme", which allows people to appreciate the superb painting realm of swimming up and down, in and out of the interior and outside.
"Taishan Ci'en Pavilion"
As a painter and educator, Mr. Wang Xudong is well-known in the art world for his good character, paintings, virtue and art. He taught and educated, and worked tirelessly, writing a new chapter for the Qilu School, and his works and experiences not only shared with us, but also brought us inspiration on inheritance and innovation, inheritance and enlightenment.
Xu Encun has worked in China Art News, Oriental Art, and Art Observation, and is currently the editor-in-chief of China Art. Engaged in art theory research, art criticism and landscape painting, published many monographs and critical articles.
"Confucius Travels Around the World"