Brother Yiman
□ Fan Yang
Dean Man Weiqi is a good person, I call him Brother Man.
Dean Man is also a warm-hearted person, who can greet everyone and help friends when doing things.
Brother Man doesn't smoke or drink. Brother Man likes to sing, his voice can be cracked, the volume is high, and the singing sound around the beam is resounding through karaoke.
Brother Man likes to sketch, and often leads a team to paint all over the mountains, and I also follow him all over the green mountains, and I have gained a lot of manuscripts and harvests. Those who are full of brothers are also good friends.
Brother Man paints clear water and green mountains, full of composition, and uses juicy green, which is called "maintaining green", Brother Man can paint big works, has two brushes, and is a well-known figure in the contemporary Chinese painting world.
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Let me talk about Brother Man's work: he can do things, he can maintain things, and he can satisfy everyone. It is worthy of the three words "full, maintained, and rising".
Brother Man's personality is warm and kind.
The Chinese Painting Institute of the Chinese Academy of Arts was set up by President Man, who did his best to maintain it, and also did his best to satisfy the leaders and the masses. President Man has always served as the executive vice president, executive affairs, and is doing practical things.
Later, Brother Man established the Chinese Ink Painting Academy, served as its president, and hired me as its vice president.
The Chinese Ink Painting Academy has united many famous Chinese painting artists, and has done many exhibitions, sketches and academic activities, and its achievements are obvious to all. Later, when I heard that Brother Man was sick and hospitalized, Mr. Pan and I went to visit him in the Air Force Hospital.
I thought that Brother Man's body would be able to carry it, but who knew that the illness would come like a mountain. Sometimes the stronger the man who looks, the more he is really not as resistant to drag as the sick and crooked weak.
The last time I saw Dean Man was at Uncle Dong Hao's "Painting Opera" exhibition, and Brother Man still greeted his friends with a friendly smile, but his face was a little worse. After a while, I led a team to collect wind in other places, and the news came that Brother Man had passed away and lost his friend, and I was lost.
Dean Man has been gone for a year, and when he talks about the days when he thinks of us together, he remembers it vividly.
The people and things will remain in the memories of friends for a long time.
Fan Yang 2024.5.28
Fan Yang
Deputy Director of the Chinese Painting Professional Committee of the China National Academy of Painting
Doctoral supervisor of the Chinese Academy of Arts
Doctoral supervisor of Communication University of China
Doctoral supervisor of the Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology
Editor's note:
June 12, 2024 is the 1st anniversary of Mr. Man Weiqi's death, and student Tie Feng invited Mr. Man's former friends to write an article to reminisce about the past and offer his remembrance. I would like to commemorate Mr. Man Weiqi with the memorial essays of all my teachers and friends.