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She is an outstanding Chinese painter of fine brushwork and heavy color, and she is also a well-known female general.
Although she never married, she depicted romantic and poignant love stories such as "The Legend of the West Chamber", "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", "Peacock Flying Southeast", "The Legend of the White Lady" and "Life and Death Card" with her unique delicate feelings of women.
She has been fond of painting since childhood, and at the age of 15 she joined the Chinese Painting Research Association, where she studied under Wu Jingting, Xu Yansun, Wu Guangyu and other famous artists. She is talented, intelligent, hard-working, and her painting style is especially influenced by Qiu Ying and Chen Laolian. Serifold, among which there are not many women. And the female painter who is known as a master with a "Legend of the West Chamber" is only Wang Shuhui.
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The work is more famous than the person
"The Legend of the West Chamber" won the first prize in the 1963 National Comic Book Creation Awards. At that time, it was reprinted seven times in a row, with a total of more than 400,000 copies.
There are two kinds of artists, one is that the person is more famous than the work, and the other is that the work is more famous than the person. Wang Shuhui belongs to the latter group.
People who grew up reading villain books and are now over thirty or forty years old must be no stranger to Wang Shuhui's comic books, such as "Mulan in the Army", "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", "Peacock Flying Southeast", "Life and Death Card", "Yangmen Female General", "The Legend of the West Chamber" and other villain books have been popular for decades and have been continuously reprinted so far; "The Card of Life and Death" and "The Legend of the West Chamber" have also been printed and distributed in the form of New Year paintings, decorated on the bedside walls of ordinary people's homes, and are very popular.
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"Get out of the way and go your own way"
Wang Shuhui is the inheritor of traditional Chinese comic book art and the pioneer of comic book in the new era. Wang Shuhui's comic book creation originated from the traditional technique of Chinese line drawing, and combined with the anatomical perspective method of Western painting, thus forming a unique artistic style and greatly improving the artistic expression of comic strips.
Wang Shuhui's comic book works are mainly ancient ladies, the characters in the painting are subtle and slightly exaggerated, the line drawing is vigorous and powerful, the ink is clean, the color is bright and elegant, sweeping away the decadent painting style since the Ming and Qing dynasties, and opening a new generation.
In her words, she "detoured the road and went her own way", pursued the pure Chinese classical aesthetic taste, and pursued the vivid charm of "to the majority" in the "subtle" fine brush and heavy color paintings, which made her a master of comic books.
Shen Yaoyi, the creator and painter of the comic strip "Red Ribbon on the Earth", said that Wang Shuhui's "The Legend of the West Chamber" is a classic, representing the level of comic book creation in that period and has milestone significance. Wang Shuhui's works are a brand. Her painting style and taste have influenced a group of people.
Comic book painter Chen Huiguan's impression of Wang Shuhui is: the body is thin, small, a little short, and the body is not very good, but the wrists and arms are strong, look at her works, the line drawing is solid, and those who see her paintings will admire it.
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Never married
There is no fame or fortune in painting
Wang Shuhui lived a frugal life, worked hard all his life, and devoted his life's emotions and efforts to the cause of painting art. She is very rigorous in her creation, and she finishes no more than 50 comic strips every year.
As the son of the comic book master Ren Shuying, Ren Menglong worshipped Wang Shuhui as a teacher at the suggestion of his father. "Mr. Wang is not very sociable, but after taking us as apprentices, she took a group photo with us at the Gulou Photo Studio and had dinner together at the time-honored restaurant Heyi Zhai in Di'anmen.
Ren Menglong recalled that Wang Shuhui lived in a small courtyard in Xisi Hutong before his death, and the house did not see sunlight all day long, and there was only a small window. There was a single bed and a small table in the room, which could not be more frugal, and guests could only sit on the bed when they came. "Under such conditions, how can she draw so many fine works? It's hard for us to imagine that there is such a gentleman who has no extravagant expectations for life, and all he thinks about is to draw and paint well. ”
In Ren Menglong's eyes, "Mr. has never married, but he is a person with rich feelings and love." One year, during the Spring Festival, he and his lover took their three-year-old child to pay New Year's greetings to his husband. The gentleman was very happy to see the child, held him in his arms, taught him to read "one to two or three miles, four or five smoke villages, six or seven pavilions, eighty or ninety flowers", and also took out paper and pen, while drawing and said: "The T-character does not come out, hang hydrangeas on both sides, do not eat for three days, and become a monkey ...... for four days" amused the child haha. Ren Menglong said that this situation made him see the childlike innocence, love and patience of the old gentleman.
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It has the atmosphere of the times
There is also the essence of traditional culture
Wang Shuhui is also good at depicting legendary heroines, such as Mu Guiying in "The Female General of Yangmen", Hua Mulan in "Mulan in the Army", etc.
As a master of a generation of Gongbi heavy color figure painting, the subject matter and content of his Gongbi works are mainly historical figures, story and legend figures, ancient ladies, etc. The style is mainly to boldly borrow the techniques of Western painting, which can not only paint the atmosphere of the times in traditional techniques, but also maintain the essence of traditional Chinese culture.
Throughout Wang Shuhui's works, there is always a deep sense of silence and detachment in her paintings, perhaps Mr. Wang has placed all his feelings on her pen, and she also enjoys the sweetness of love with her characters.
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Comic book "The Legend of the West Chamber"
Recorded in the annals of art history
In 1953, after the promulgation of the new marriage law of the People's Republic of China, the People's Fine Arts Publishing House handed over the task of creating the comic book "The Legend of the West Chamber" to Wang Shuhui. But no one would have imagined that this comic strip, which came out a year later, would become a masterpiece recorded in the history of new Chinese art.
Experts commented that the characteristics of the comic book "The Legend of the West Chamber" in this set of 16 color books are: the characters are vivid, the environment is full of poetry and picturesqueness, the colors are elegant and beautiful, and the lines are smooth and strong. In order to paint this group of works, Wang Shuhui devoted almost all his decades of experience in painting ladies' paintings, and also invested his own rich emotions. Ten years later, this work won the "First Prize in Painting" at the 1st National Comic Book Creation Awards.
West Chamber Stamp Collection, album, ink and color on paper
In 1979, during the Fourth National Cultural Congress, stamp designer Liu Shuoren, on behalf of the director of the stamp design and issuance bureau, proposed the idea of designing the stamp "Legend of the West Chamber" to Wang Shuhui. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China to the present 30 years, the stamps issued by the mainland have not been based on classical literary works as the theme, although they are still painting ladies, but specially painted for stamps, Wang Shuhui has never painted. She thought about her schedule and promised to finish it by the end of the following year.
At the end of 1980, Wang Shuhui finished painting four stamps of "The Legend of the West Chamber".
On February 21, 1983, the special commemorative stamp "The Legend of the West Chamber" was issued, and that year, Wang Shuhui was 71 years old.
The story of "The Legend of the West Chamber" originated from the legendary novel "The Legend of Yingying" by Yuan Zhi in the Tang Dynasty, which narrates the love between the scholar Zhang Hui and the late Xiangguo's daughter Cui Yingying, who lived in the Pufu Temple at the same time.
Later, Zhang Heng went to Beijing to take the exam and became a high-ranking official, but he abandoned Yingying, causing a love tragedy. It is also said to be an autobiographical novel or story written by Yuan Zhen under the guise of Zhang Sheng.
This story was more widely circulated in the Song and Jin dynasties, and some literati and folk artists have adapted it into rap and drama, and Wang Shifu's many miscellaneous dramas "The Legend of the West Chamber" were processed and created on such a rich artistic accumulation.
Historically, the beautiful wish of "may all lovers in the world become dependents" has become the theme of many literary works, and "The Legend of the West Chamber" is the most successful drama depicting this theme.
1. First encounter: During the first year of the Tang Dynasty, after the death of Cui Xiangguo, his wife Cui and daughter Yingying returned to their hometown for burial, and stayed in the Pufu Temple in Hezhong Prefecture.
2. Borrowed box: After seeing Yingying, Zhang Sheng decided to stay in the temple and look for an opportunity to meet her. So he went to the abbot and begged the elder to rent a room in the temple for a while, so that he could quietly study the scriptures, and the elder agreed to rent him a room in the west wing.
3, trouble: Zhang Sheng came out of the abbot, happened to meet the matchmaker, and after greetings, he told her: "Xiaosheng's surname is Zhang Minghui, the word Junrui, twenty-three years old, has not married a wife, but I don't know if your young lady has a ...... match" The matchmaker didn't wait for him to finish, robbed him a few words, turned around and left.
4, and poetry: In the evening, the warbler went to the garden to burn incense with the matchmaker as usual, Zhang Sheng saw it, and casually chanted a poem, wanting to impress the warbler, the warbler listened to it and praised the good poem again and again, and said softly and casually: "The Lan boudoir is deeply lonely, and there is no poetry to spend the spring. ”
5. Bandits: Soon, the military general Sun Feihu heard that Yingying was beautiful, and led 5,000 people to rob, the whole temple was frightened, Mrs. Cui was helpless, and said that if there was anyone who could retreat from the thief, no matter who would match Yingying with him as his wife, Zhang Sheng wrote a letter to Du Qu, the general of the White Horse, and relieved the siege of Pufu Pei Temple.
6. Invitation: Mrs. Cui was overjoyed and asked Zhang Sheng to move to the study in the courtyard. The next day, she asked the matchmaker to invite Zhang Sheng to the banquet, Zhang Sheng thought that the old lady had hired him and Yingying, and he was not excited.
7, Lai Marriage: At the banquet, the old lady suddenly changed her hexagram and asked Yingying to be commensurate with Zhang Sheng's brothers and sisters, Zhang Sheng heard this, as if he poured a scoop of cold water on his head, and was surprised, Yingying was also deeply dissatisfied with his mother's decision.
8. Listen to the piano: Since then, Zhang Sheng has been discouraged, and every night he plays the piano in front of the window to relieve boredom, he plays the song of Sima Xiangru's pursuit of Zhuo Wenjun's "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix", and also said: "Mrs. is ungrateful, but Miss shouldn't bear me!" The warbler listened outside the window and couldn't help but shed tears.
9, Chuanjian: Zhang Sheng was ill because of this, Yingying asked the matchmaker to visit, Zhang Sheng entrusted him with a letterhead, Yingying replied, hinting at Zhang Sheng in the poem, asking him to go to the garden to meet her tonight.
10, go to the appointment: The matchmaker thought to herself, Yingying pretended to be in front of her, but asked Zhang Sheng to meet in the letter; She deliberately didn't say anything, it depends on how Yingying hides it from her when the time comes. That night, she went to the garden with Yingying to burn incense as usual, but saw Zhang Sheng jump off the wall.
11, Lai Jian: Unexpectedly, Yingying temporarily changed the hexagram because she didn't break the matchmaker, she reproached Zhang Shengdao: "Zhang Sheng, I burn incense here, what are you doing here for no reason, Mr. saves his life, he should repay it, but now that he is a brother and sister, why do you have this thought?" ”
12. Bedridden: Zhang Sheng couldn't stand this torture, and he was so sick that he couldn't get out of bed from the next day.
13, ask the sick: Yingying was worried about Zhang Sheng's illness, and wrote a letterhead, and asked the matchmaker to send it to Zhang Sheng, Zhang Sheng read the letterhead, and jumped up with joy, saying that the lady said that the lady did not sleep, and was afraid that the matchmaker was unstable, and the matchmaker asked what was going on, and Zhang Sheng told her that Yingying personally visited him in the study tonight.
14, good period: At night, Zhang Sheng heard the knock on the door, and hurriedly opened the door, only to see the matchmaker gently push the warbler in, the lovers experienced many twists and turns and lovesick distress, and finally broke through the cage of feudal etiquette and became a hundred years old.
15, copy red: After a long time, Mrs. Cui learned that when she tortured the matchmaker, the matchmaker had to tell the truth in full, and blamed Mrs. Cui for her untrustworthy mistakes, Mrs. Cui was poor in words, so she had to agree to them to become husband and wife, but put forward new conditions, that is, Zhang Sheng must go to Chang'an to catch the exam, and only after getting the official can he come back to marry Yingying as his wife.
16, farewell: Zhang Sheng was forced to be helpless and went to Chang'an to take the exam. One wants him to be well protected by the autumn breeze of the pommel horse along the way, and the other wants her to cherish it in the lonely boudoir. Later, Zhang Sheng won the champion and finally married a happy couple with Yingying.
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