Inscription: Xu Hua, born in 1971, is a native of Qingyang, Gansu Province. He is a member of the Chinese Artists Association, a doctor of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, the vice president of the Youth Painting Institute of the Shaanxi Academy of Chinese Painting, the vice president of the Huashan Painting Institute, a member of the expert database of the Ministry of Education, a distinguished professor of the Yan'an Cultural Center, a member of the Third Theory Committee of the Shaanxi Art Museum, and a member of the Chang'an Painting Society. He has been engaged in the teaching, creation and theoretical research of Chinese painting for a long time. He has published more than 200 paintings, more than 40 papers, and five personal monographs. His works have been selected for many provincial and ministerial exhibitions, and his papers and works have been published in "Fine Arts", "Literature and Art Review", "Art Education", "Northwest Fine Arts", "Art Circle", "Chinese Art" and other publications. He has published "Contemporary Chinese Painting Library, Flowers and Birds, Xu Hua", "Chinese Contemporary Painting and Calligraphy Masters: Xu Hua - Huashan Atlas", "Analysis of Landscape Painting Techniques", "The Great Road as the Wind: Research on Shi Lu's Painting", "Wang Wei Research", "Ink Face to Face" and other works.
There is such a painter in Shaanxi who has loved painting since he was a child. After graduating from the China Academy of Art, he received a doctorate degree from the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. After teaching at the Northwest University for Nationalities for 24 years, he came to Yan'an, the holy land of revolution, on the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi. His artistic creation is inseparable from the great rivers and mountains and natural scenery of the motherland, whether it is in the Northwest Desert, the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, or on the top of Mount Hua, the Loess Plateau have left his footprints of artistic creation, he is the legendary painter Dr. Xu Hua.
She has loved painting since childhood
Xu Hua was born in Qingyang, Gansu Province, where the fragrance of his homeland and the nourishment of folk art forged the life of an artist. He has lived in Baoji, Shaanxi since he was a child, and has been influenced by the birthplace of Zhou culture, and has laid a relatively deep foundation of traditional culture. His father worked on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and his mother was a teacher at the school, so it can be said that she was also a left-behind child. When he was a child, he lived with his grandfather for the most part, and his enlightenment came from the four screens of bamboo hanging in his grandfather's house. When he was in middle school, his father saw that he liked painting very much, so he bought him two albums, "Mustard Seed Garden Painting" and "How to Paint Landscape Painting". It is precisely because he likes to paint, coupled with the nourishment of his hometown culture and art and the influence of his parents, that through his unremitting efforts, he was admitted to Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts with the first place in Gansu Province. Since then, he has embarked on the road of painting art. In 1998, he completed his graduation work "Sunrise in the East and Rain in the West", and won the second prize of the "Second Gansu Province New Artists and New Works Exhibition".
Xu Hua's family photo in 1982
Xu Hua sketches in Paris
Ikuei Kinjo
After graduating from Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, Xu Hua was fortunate to be notified by Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jiangyin Painting and Calligraphy Institute, Jiangyin Huaxi Village and other units, but he finally chose to teach at Northwest University for Nationalities, which was closer to his parents. In the process of teaching, he is good at thinking, teaching students according to their aptitude, and demonstrating in person, which has been well received by his classmates. Over the years, he has cultivated many artistic talents, some of whom have been admitted to doctoral degrees, some of whom have taught at universities, some of whom have engaged in art-related work, and some of whom have made extraordinary achievements in the art of painting. After teaching at a university, he devoted himself to the study of painting and art theory, and his first theoretical research took six years to complete, interviewing more than 20 influential artists in the country. From today's point of view, this work is also thoughtful and insightful. Later, he successively wrote "Shi Lu Research", "Analysis of Landscape Painting Techniques", "Wang Wei Research" and other works, which further promoted his painting creation. In 2006, he published the paper "Sunshine, Air, Water" and the monograph "Face to Face with Ink", and won the third prize of social science achievements in Gansu Provincial Colleges and Universities. He also created a large number of paintings such as "Ink Dunhuang", "Scenic View of Qujiang", "Late Autumn in the South", "Top of Xiyue", "Combination of Landscapes, Flowers and Birds", and some of his works won awards.
Mirror of Heaven
Morning light
Chang'an further education
Xu Hua never stops on the road of painting art. In 2002, he was admitted to the graduate class of landscape and landscape of the Department of Chinese Painting of the China Academy of Art, during his graduate studies, he met many painting artists in China, and these famous artists and everyone also made him feel greatly influenced, and he had a deeper understanding of how to paint Chinese painting well. During this period, he also made the direction of his artistic pursuit of painting more clear. His essays "The Wind and Bones of Qingqi", "Great Art, Great Academy of Fine Arts, and Great Freehand" were published in Art Life and other publications. And created and published works such as "Longshang Snow Ji Map". In 2008, he was admitted to Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts to study for a doctorate, during which his papers "Tang Dynasty Line Carved Courtyard" and "Thought is the Soul of Art" were published in art education magazines. In July 2012, he completed his doctoral dissertation "The Wind on the Avenue: A Study of Shi Lu's Painting" and received a doctorate degree in fine arts. He has published works such as "Mountains and Rivers", "Crane Creek in Nanshan", etc., and his ceramic work "Hundred Herbs and Three Flavors" won the first "Contemporary Top Ten Famous Kiln Innovation Award", and published "Chinese Contemporary Calligraphy and Painting Masters. XU Hua. Huashan Atlas" and other albums.
Catalogue of monographs published by Dr. Xu Hua
Catalogue of monographs published by Dr. Xu Hua
The Holy Land writes prosperously
Dr. Xu Hua was supposed to teach at a university and work as an art editor at the Shaanxi Academy of Chinese Painting, but why did he come to Yan'an, northern Shaanxi, when he didn't work in a big city with superior conditions? He said: On the one hand, when I was still very young, I could already see what I would look like when I was old, and I still had many dreams that had not been realized. On the other hand, Yan'an is the holy land of the Chinese revolution, and during the revolutionary war years, groups of revolutionary youths and artists risked their lives to come to Yan'an for the sake of the revolutionary cause, and we should learn from them. I also deeply love the hot land of Yan'an, the topography of Yan'an is very unique, worthy of art to express, I am willing to explore in this yellow earth, I hope to have a new breakthrough in the creation of painting art. In the more than two years since he came to Yan'an, he has traveled all over the mountains, ravines, ditches and bumps of Yan'an, and used artistic techniques to vividly express the mountains and rivers of Baota Mountain, Zaoyuan, Yangjialing and Yan'an, the revolutionary memorial site. In particular, he combined freehand flowers and birds with landscape paintings, and created the work "Spring to Yan'an", in which he painted swallows and pagoda mountain together, which is the first time I have seen that pagoda mountain can be expressed in this way, which is very lyrical and beautiful. In the past two years, he has also published papers such as "All Things Are Beautiful: Let Feelings Break Out of the Ground" and "Research on Qi Baishi's Flower and Bird Paintings". He has created a large number of paintings and works of art, such as "Sunrise in the East", "Moonlight in the Jujube Garden", "Storytelling in Northern Shaanxi", "The Grace of the Rivers and Mountains", "Autumn Visit to Liangjiahe", "Sunshine in Midsummer", "Mountain Flowers Fluttering", "See Nanniwan Again" and so on. He blended flowers and birds into the landscape, which made people shine.
Spring arrives in Yan'an
Midsummer sunshine
Ink dyes Mount Taihua
A mountain and a painting, a river and a river. Xu Hua's landscape painting works combine the majesty and thickness of the northern landscape with the elegant and beautiful brushwork of the southern landscape, as if his fair and elegant appearance is wrapped in a resolute and simple aspiration. The simple and calm brushwork, the ethereal and magnificent composition, and the strange and tranquil style express the painter's feelings about the natural scenery and tell the painter's rich feelings. In Xu Hua's eyes, Huashan is a painting of heaven and earth set up ink Danqing, he marveled at the magnificence and magic of Huashan, sighed at the mystery and mystery of Huashan, Huashan is undoubtedly a valuable wealth for artistic creation, not only to stimulate the theme and inspiration of contemporary Chinese painting, but also to inherit and develop the spirit of traditional culture, therefore, Huashan is his eternal creative motif. He said that Huashan is a living fossil of Chinese landscape painting, and Huashan was born out of thin air, with a heroic posture that rises to the sky, a kind of righteous atmosphere, and an endless freehand spirit. Huashan is me, I am Huashan. Xu Hua's Huashan is full of weather, unique and upright, and it is the god of gathering mountains in its large form. He created classic paintings such as "Taihua Waterfall", "Ink Dyeing Huashan", "Huashan Autumn Color", "Huashan Rain", "South Peak Clouds", "Chess Pavilion in the Rain" and other classic paintings.
Qiushan Autumn Color
Huashan rain
Spring comes with the fragrance of flowers and birds
One flower is one world, one bird is one paradise. When Xu Hua was studying at the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, he was deeply immersed in the artistic spirit of the "Chang'an School". Therefore, Xu Hua's current painting style takes into account the artistic characteristics of both the Northern School and the Southern School. In recent years, in addition to creating landscape paintings, Xu Hua has also painted a large number of flower and bird paintings. Art is the re-creation of the whole world in one person, and his works of flowers and birds are colorful and elegant, flashy and elegant, giving people a refreshing feeling. Looking at the green leaves and red flowers he painted, they are full of greenery and have a unique flavor, which constitutes his personalized artistic language, which is really intriguing. His paintings such as "Peace and Wealth", "Spring Blossoms", "Flower Shadow Shake in the Wind", "Auspicious Years", "Shandandan Flowers Bloom" and other works are unpretentious, sunny and elegant, and extraordinary, which are pleasing to the eye.
Spring
The year is auspicious
Xu Hua is a person who regards the art of painting as life, and I want to evaluate that he has a broad vision, high vision, a unique painting style, a high level, and a low-key work with good character. To sum up his artistic life in his own words, it is far more important for an artist to choose the right artistic path than to work hard. Huashan seal stone, Yanhe inks mud, a light press, is Chang'an. Life is picturesque, and there are no regrets. Finally, I would like to send a message to Dr. Xu Hua in two sentences: the painting world is leaping and the ink is sprinkled with style. Wonderful hand Danqing Huashan Song, masterpieces are outstanding; Literary and artistic pacesetter, keep up with the times. With great ambitions, work diligently, and bravely climb the peak of art.
Shandandan flowers bloom