In the turbulent years, as an orphan, he was sold into the Qinglou by his uncle and was tortured repeatedly in the Qinglou...... , which was the tragic fate of a woman at the beginning of the last century.
But her future did not fall in the Qinglou, on the contrary, she seized every opportunity to redeem herself, continued to improve herself, and finally, played a bad deck of cards in her hand to the effect of Wang Bang.
She is Pan Yuliang, known as the "Chinese female Van Gogh", a first-rate figure among Chinese Western painters, in her, you can see the vigorous vitality that does not give in to the struggle against fate.
Pan Yuliang
1. When I was young, I was lonely and miserable, and I was reduced to a green building
According to today's standards, most of the people who study art are from relatively well-off families, but this is a big mistake for Pan Yuliang.
Because her father is just a felt hat maker, the family's economic income is barely enough to make ends meet on the meager income earned by her father making felt hats and selling them and her mother's embroidery sales.
With the loss of his father at the age of one and his mother at the age of eight, Pan Yuliang's life began a tragic script, his uncle who was orphaned by his mother was an addict, and in order to pay off the arrears, he actually sold Pan Yuliang, who was only 14 years old, into the Qinglou!
At that time, Pan Yuliang was still surnamed Zhang, and when she was brought to the old bustard in the Qinglou, her body had developed and she was slightly plump.
But with a pair of squinting eyes, thick lips, and a lion's nose, she was disgusted by the old bustard, and she immediately rejected Zhang Yuliang's uncle's deal, feeling that this good-looking girl could not eat the bowl of rice in Qinglou.
But because of her uncle's insistence on buying and selling, the old bustard finally left Zhang Yuliang and bought her for the price of two loads of rice.
Zhang Yuliang, who fell into the Qinglou, knew very well what would happen to being in the Qinglou, and in order to get out of this predicament, she ran away many times in the following days, but each time she was caught back and tortured by the bustard.
In the most serious case, when the bustard saw that she was not allowed to eat oil and salt, he actually put a cat in her pants, and then took the whip and whipped her leg.
The cat in the pants was whipped and scratched out a series of ravines of different depths on Zhang Yuliang's legs, which made Zhang Yuliang suffer all the time!
But even in such a tragic day, Zhang Yuliang still did not give in, she was always unwilling to serve people with Israel, so that the old bustard could not do anything about her.
In the end, the old bustard invited her to ask a master to teach her the dulcimer and play the ball, and Yuliang also studied hard and practiced hard, with these skills, she soon became a "Qingqi person" in the Qinglou who only sold her art and did not sell her body.
Fate seems to have written the definition of her life for Zhang Yuliang, an ill-fated woman: like duckweed on the water, she will perform in this green building all her life.
Freedom, Happiness, Dignity...... , these things that she has as a "person" will have nothing to do with her.
This is Zhang Yuliang's next life, and it is also in that era. The tragic fate of the vast majority of women who fell into the Qinglou, few of them can turn the tables against the wind.......
Second, you have to meet a lover and usher in a turning point
The days in the Qinglou were dark, and Zhang Yuliang sang and played the piano here, spending the dark night when he was 14 to 17 years old.
But the goddess of fate did not forget this girl with a sad background after all, and she finally ushered in the dawn of redemption for herself.
One night at the age of seventeen, Zhang Yuliang, who was already a famous prostitute, was called to a banquet to sing and cheer up.
At this banquet, she noticed the protagonist of the banquet, Pan Zanhua, the newly arrived customs superintendent.
Completely different from ordinary guests, he did not play frivolously with them for the women in the Qinglou, on the contrary, he stayed away from them.
Pan Yuliang, who had been observing the words and expressions in the Qinglou for a long time, immediately realized that this person was not an ordinary guest, and the opportunity to escape from the fire pit that he had been waiting for for a long time might have come.
So, she made a bold move.
"It's not love the dust, it seems to be mistaken by the front edge. Flowers fall and bloom from time to time, and the monarch of Lai Dong ......" finished playing and singing a sad and poignant "Fortune Operator", and she successfully attracted Pan Zanhua's attention.
After some conversation, Zhang Yuliang left a deep impression on Pan Zanhua, and the two gradually became familiar with each other when they met a confidant.
Zhang Yuliang's miserable life experience, unfortunate encounters, and arrogance caused Pan Zanhua's heart to ache, and he secretly made up his mind to bring her out of this darkness.
Finally, Pan Zanhua scraped together, ransomed Zhang Yuliang, and took her out of the cage that had trapped her for three years.
In Shanghai, Zhang Yuliang held a simple wedding with Pan Zanhua as Pan Zanhua's concubine, and became lifelong partners in the presence of relatives and friends.
After marriage, Zhang Yuliang did not enter another cage from one cage, because her husband did not care about the age and birth gap between the two, and had given her enough love, understanding and respect.
He taught her to read and write, told her about the world she had never seen, and invited her teacher, Hong Ye, to teach her to learn professional painting.
"Lovers are like flowers", Zhang Yuliang, who settled in Shanghai, changed his surname to Pan with his husband's surname, and grew vigorously under the careful watering of his husband.
Her artistic talent was fully discovered, and her art teacher was very optimistic about her artistic talent, and praised her with great appreciation: "This woman, once she is carved, will surely become a dazzling vessel." ”
Third, the beginning of the edge, suffered criticism
And Pan Yuliang's next performance really verified the remarks of her teacher Hong Ye, she is going farther and farther on the road of art, even if it is accompanied by controversy, slander and contempt along the way, it can't hide her brilliance.
After following Hong Ye to study art for more than a year, Pan Yuliang let Pan Zanhua see an unexpected effect: in just over a year, she was admitted to Shanghai Art College!
Pan Yuliang, who studied at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, was influenced by the Western art style of the time, and began to come into contact with nude sketches of the human body, and fell into an obsession with such paintings.
In order to make a good nude sketch, she sneaked into the bathroom to steal pictures of other people's bodies, not realizing that this was extremely ill-conceived and inappropriate.
After being discovered, Pan Yuliang was beaten and abused by others, and soon after, her background as a prostitute was also revealed, and for a while, Pan Yuliang was boycotted by the teachers and students of Shanghai Art College.
Only the principal Liu Haisu insisted on supporting this woman with excellent talent and hard work, and he did not want to bury her talent in the field of art, and decided to send her to study in France.
Her husband also supported sending her to study abroad, even if the newly married couple had to face separation.
On the other side of the ocean, in France, Pan Yuliang gave full play to her artistic talent, and tried her best to silently absorb the nourishment of art here.
During the eight years of studying in France, in order to pursue her dream, she started from the Sino-French University in Lyon, France, and was admitted to the National Academy of Fine Arts in Paris.
In the end, she was even admitted to the National Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, and was the first Oriental to be admitted to the Roman royal family in Italy.
After being abused and boycotted by the Shanghai Art School, Pan Yuliang began to shine in France, and her paintings continued to improve, and her works were exhibited at the Rome Art Exhibition.
A group of bigwigs gave a very high evaluation of her works, Xu Beihong once said: There are only three people in the Chinese painting world who can be called painters, and one of them is Pan Yuliang!
Fourth, after returning from studying abroad, I left sadly
After 8 years of studying abroad, Pan Yuliang gave herself a beautiful turnaround, and she is no longer the controversial female college student who was born as a prostitute.
At this time, she was a well-known foreign painter, and both the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and the Central National Academy of Fine Arts wanted to invite her to be a professor.
However, this kind of turnaround and counterattack only lasted for a short time. Soon, because of her former prostitute background and painting style, she once again aroused overwhelming ridicule and contempt.
At that time, nude painting was not appreciated in China, and Sun Chuanfang, the superintendent of Shanghai, and Liu Haisu, the painter, started a huge battle.
And this battle implicated Pan Yuliang, who is purely art-oriented, because she actually held a personal nude painting exhibition called "Song of Spring" at this juncture.
As a result, it is conceivable that Pan Yuliang suffered from unprecedented malice in this exhibition, the name of her art exhibition was maliciously speculated, and her works were discarded and wantonly destroyed.
What's more, on her work "Portrait of a Strong Man", "A Prostitute's Praise to a Prostitute's Client" was unceremoniously written!
This exhibition hit Pan Yuliang hard, and his life was not peaceful after returning to Shanghai Art College to teach.
Her background is still a powerful weapon for people with intentions to attack her, and the teachers and students in the school also sneer at her.
After studying abroad for 8 years, he won glory for the country abroad, but after returning to China, he was greeted not with flowers, but with accusations and controversies one after another, which made Pan Yuliang initiate the idea of returning to France again.
Perhaps, in overseas foreign lands, she can be understood and respected by people, but at the same time, she is reluctant to part with Pan Zanhua again.
But after seeing her return to China and being criticized, Pan Zanhua saw it very openly, he couldn't bear to see his wife being criticized in China, he wanted to let her go, so he sent Pan Yuliang on a ship to France.
At the wharf of the Huangpu River, this couple, who gathered less and separated more, reluctantly separated after complaining to each other, and with a pocket watch left by Pan Zanhua, she returned to the country that made her a success.
Fifth, return to France and create more glory
Soon after returning to France, Pan Yuliang set three rules for himself: not to become a foreign citizen, never to fall in love, and never to sell paintings.
It was 1937, an eventful day, and Pan Yuliang, who lived in a rented basement in Paris, sometimes even had problems with her livelihood, but she always adhered to these three principles and persisted in pursuing her dreams.
Hardship and hardship, Yuru is successful. Finally, Pan Yuliang's artistic achievements reached a new height, her works were exhibited in many European countries, and her paintings even entered the Louvre and were banned from leaving the country by the French authorities.
In 1959, she was awarded the Prize d'Orré by the French government, the first woman to receive this award.
She wanted to share this joy with her husband, but shortly after the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, she was told that Pan Zanhua had long since died......
The light that saved her in the first place is gone, and for Pan Yuliang, Pan Zanhua is not only her husband, but also her salvation, her Bole, and her mentor.
Pan Yuliang, who learned the bad news, cried like a child in public, and soon after she fell seriously ill, and in the last days of her life, she only relied on art to support her, and continued to insist on artistic creation in France alone.
In 1977, Pan Yuliang's life was about to come to an end. Before she died, she told her stepson: put on a cheongsam for her burial, all the paintings she left behind were transported back to China, and all the relics were handed over to the Pan family.
Seven years later, her last wish was fully realized, and more than 3,000 posthumous works were all shipped back to China, and many works were collected in various museums and art galleries in China.
brief summary
Because of her prostitution background, Pan Yuliang has been repeatedly controversial on the road to art, and people are more talked about than her achievements in the field of art.
But from an orphan girl to a young prostitute, to a college student, and even an artist who went abroad, she has verified with her life: after all, fate is still in her own hands, not in other people's mouths!
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