Founded on May 11, 2014, the exhibition coincides with the 6th anniversary of the museum, and the art museum in a city is like a book and a painting in a home, allowing you to glance at it casually in your leisure time. Art needs to be accumulated slowly, and it takes time to do a good job in an art museum.
Watercolor is a kind of Western painting, which began in the early 15th century and developed greatly in Britain in the 18th century, and in the early 19th century, the British established the Watercolor Painters Association, and a special watercolor exhibition appeared. Developments have also taken place in the other hundred countries of Western Europe. In modern times, Chinese overseas students have brought this kind of painting back to China. Because China has a long tradition of ink painting and similar techniques, it is easier for Chinese painters to accept.
This exhibition brings together the works of more than 20 representative Chinese watercolor painters from the collection of the Zanyi Oil Painting Museum, born between 1880 and 1935. After the early appearance of tongcao painting in the thirteen lines of Guangzhou, Chinese watercolor painting entered its embryonic stage in Shanghai, and the first generation of Chinese watercolor painter Xu Yongqing (1880-1953) cultivated by foreign missionaries in Shanghai's "TushanWan Painting Museum", which is known as the "cradle of Western painting", is exhibited in this exhibition with his original watercolor moon card in the early 20th century. In addition, this exhibition will also exhibit some of the watercolor works of Yan Wenliang (1893-1988), the watercolor works of Yan Wenliang (1893-1988), the watercolor works of Ni Yide (1901-1970), and the watercolor works of Tang Yunyu (1906-1992) "Autumn Scenery"; in the growth period of Chinese watercolor painting, a group of watercolor painters who later achieved great achievements emerged, and their works have begun to show a trend of diversified development, reflecting the achievements of Chinese watercolor painting in the long term. It was the first climax in the history of China's watercolor development. The painters of this period exhibited in this exhibition include: Chinese watercolor pioneer Zhang Meisun (1894-1973), Li Yongsen (1898-1998), Li Jianchen (1900-2002), Pan Sitong (1904-1980), Zhang Chongren (1907-1998) and so on. In the development period of Chinese watercolor, the above painters had new achievements, and the painters who grew up from the revolutionary war and with the new China injected new vitality into Chinese watercolor painting, such as Song Buyun (1910-1992), Feng Faqi (1914-2009), Mu Jiaqi (1917-2011), Tu Ke (1916-2012), Harding (1923-2004), Yu Changgong (1930-1962), Zhu Naizheng (1935-2013) and other works are exhibited in this exhibition.
In addition, the exhibition also exhibits the works of Qingdao watercolor pioneers Lü Pin (1918-1990), Yan Wenzheng (born 1926) and Tao Tianen (1927-2009), who were born before 1930.
The exhibition will run from May 11, 2020 to June 10, 2020.
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Yan Wenliang, Landscape, Watercolor, 42x20cm, 1941
Yan Wenliang (1893-1988), born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, is a famous Chinese painter and art educator. As a pioneer of modern art, Yan Wenliang, along with Xu Beihong, Lin Fengmian and Liu Haisu, has had a profound influence on the Chinese painting world in recent times. His artistic path began with traditional Chinese painting, and then came into contact with Western painting, dabbling in drawing, watercolor, oil painting, accumulating deeper, and he integrated the aesthetic taste of the East with Western expression to create a unique artistic style.
In 1911, he entered the drawing room of the Commercial Press to study Western painting, in 1922 he founded the Suzhou Academy of Fine Arts with Hu Chuzhong and Zhu Shijie, in 1928 he entered the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, in 1932 he returned to China and presided over the teaching of the Suzhou Academy of Fine Arts, and after 1953 he served as the vice president of the East China Branch of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, an advisor to the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, an advisor to the China Artists Association, and published "Yan Wenliang Painting Collection", "Oil Painting Series", "Ouyou Sketches" and a watercolor painting collection "Suzhou-Hangzhou Landscape", etc., and authored "Suzhou-Hangzhou Landscape". Perspective for Fine Arts" and "Color Trivia".
Zhang Meisun, "Parker", watercolor, 24x37cm, 1970
Zhang Meisun (1894-1973) was one of the first pioneer watercolor painters in China and a pioneer in watercolor education in China. His young name was Fu Zhong, and he later changed his name to Meisun (梅孙) and was called Duke Of Elk. Haining, Zhejiang. In 1917, he assisted Zhou Xiang in opening the Chinese Art College, and succeeded the Dahua Art Company and the Shanghai Fine Arts and Painting Society. In 1924, he co-founded the Dahua Art Company with his friends, and at the same time organized the Shanghai Fine Arts and Painting Society. Later, he joined the White Goose Painting Club and taught at Kunfan, Qingxin and other girls' middle schools. In 1928, he was appointed as an art inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Education Bureau. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, he entered the Shanghai Municipal Art Museum. Since 1949, he has served as the editor of Xuelin Bookstore, New Art Publishing House, and Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House. In his later years, he was hired as a librarian at the Shanghai Museum of Culture and History. He is a member of the China Artists Association. Zhang Meisun's painting style tends to be natural, insists on landscape sketching, advocates the creation of teachers, and the painting style is simple. The watercolor paintings he has made like to use dry painting methods, and draw on the traditional landscape painting artistic treatment methods in China, and the brushwork has national characteristics. The watercolor paintings "Snow in the People's Park" and "Three Pools of The Moon" are both collected by the National Art Museum of China. He has published "Meisun Watercolor Painting" and "Meisun Watercolor Painting Proben" and so on.
Lee Wing Sen The Bund Watercolor 39x54cm Age unknown
Li Yongsen (1898-1998), a native of Changshu, Jiangsu Province. China's first generation of pioneer watercolor painters, born in Jiangsu in 1898. He graduated from Suzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1924. He specializes in watercolor painting. From the late 1920s to the early 1950s, he successively served as the art editor of Pacific Pictorial, the packaging art designer of China Chemical Industry Society, the professor of the Pattern Department of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, the vice president of Suzhou Art College Shanghai Branch, and founded the China Industrial and Commercial Art Writers Association. Since 1953, he has successively served as the head of the art team of the Daily Chemical Company of the Shanghai Light Industry Bureau, a professor of the Shanghai Institute of Light Industry, and a professor of Tongji University and Shanghai Meizhuan. He is a member of the China Artists Association, a director of the Shanghai Branch of the Artists Association, the honorary president of the Shanghai Watercolor Research Society and the Shanghai Pastel Painting Society, and a librarian of the Shanghai Museum of Culture and History. In 1988, the Shanghai Art Museum held an exhibition of watercolor paintings donated by Li Yongsen and Shao Liangyun.
Li Jianchen, Peace Park Clock Tower, watercolor, 36x26cm, 1970
Li Jianchen (1900-2002), also known as Li Ruhua, was a native of Beigou Village, Songcun Township, Neihuang County, Henan. Artist, art educator. He is known as "the founding master of Chinese watercolor painting" and "the father of Chinese watercolor painting". Li Jianchen's watercolor paintings created their own theoretical system, created a group of watercolor paintings of the times, promoted the development of Chinese watercolor painting, promoted chinese watercolor painting into the international watercolor painting world, and was praised at home and abroad as "the founding master of Chinese watercolor painting" and "the father of Chinese watercolor painting". At the same time, he is also good at Chinese painting and oil painting, and is known as "Master of Chinese Painting", "Master of Oil Painting" and "Master of Art Education". He has been engaged in art creation and art education for nearly 80 years, and has cultivated several generations of talents for China's architecture and art cause, peach and plum all over the world, excellent works, rich works, high moral respect, and enjoys high prestige at home and abroad. Li Jianchen once served as the vice chairman of the Jiangsu Artists Association, the president of the Jiangsu Watercolor Research Association, the honorary president of the China Watercolor Association, the director of the International Watercolor Association, the chairman of the Asian Painting Society of the International Watercolor Federation, and the honorary chairman of the Australian Artists Association.
Li Jianchen, Tai'an Dai Temple, watercolor, 63x43cm, 1989
Ni Yide, "Rest", Watercolor, 20× 23.7cm, 1940
Ni Yide (1901-1970), ni Yide, as the first generation of oil painting masters in China, was an influential figure in the early Western painting movement, and from the perspective of his talent and talent, life experience, mental nature and temperament, it can be said that "the text is like its person, and the painting is like its heart". He spent his life in pursuit and exploration of a unique painting art, using simple lines and bright colors to reflect the simple rural and urban life of the people of Jiangnan.
Born in Hangzhou in 1901, Ni Yide overcame his family's opposition and inability to afford tuition fees in 1919 and was admitted to the Western Painting Department of Shanghai Meichuan. During his studies, he studied hard and devoted himself to the theoretical research of Western painting. After graduating in 1922, he stayed in the school and joined the studio of the Russian painter Putsysky to continue his research and study. In 1927, he studied in Japan and entered the Kawabata School of Painting in Tokyo. In 1928, he returned to China to engage in art education. In 1931, together with Pang Xuanxuan and others, he initiated the organization of the "Decisive Lan Society". He has successively served as a professor, the first vice president, the director of the National Artists Association, the vice chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Artists Association, and the editor-in-chief of Fine Arts Magazine. He has written books such as "Introduction to Western Painting" and "Research on Watercolor Painting". It has played a certain role in promoting the introduction of European painting theory and painting techniques and the development of China's oil painting industry. He is good at painting landscapes, and his books include "Painting People's Feet", "Art Talk", "Modern Art", "Outline of Western Art History", "Western Painting Research", and "Western Painting Series". The collection of novels "Autumn of Xuanwu Lake", "Coast of the East China Sea", "Lily Collection" and so on.
Pan Sitong, The Bund, Watercolor, 20x30cm, 1962
Pan Sitong (1904-1980), a native of Xinhui City, Guangdong Province, was one of the famous watercolor painters in early China. In 1922, he was admitted to the Western Painting Department of the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, and graduated in 1925. In 1923, he and Chen Qiucao and others founded the "White Goose Painting Society" in Shanghai, and in 1934, it was renamed the "White Goose Painting Preliminary School", and there were as many as 2000 to 3,000 students who studied there, including a group of artists who later achieved great achievements such as Fei Xinmei, which can be said to have had a great influence. From 1929 to 1931 he was a professor at the Department of Western Painting at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. In 1935, he collected his works into the "Si Tong Watercolor Collection" and published it. After 1955, he taught at the East China Branch of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art) for a long time, and at the same time devoted himself to the creation of watercolor paintings. Since the 1960s, Pan Sitong has roamed the Huangshan Mountains and eastern Zhejiang, and has opened up new trails in watercolor landscape painting, reaching the point of pure fire in technique. For example, the scene of stone bones, clouds and transients, and the transient light of the sky, the pen is colored, and another path is opened up, and the texture and sense of space are expressed bright and natural, and there is a sense of ethereal beauty.
Tang Yunyu, Autumn Scene, Watercolor, 36x27cm, 1956
Tang Yunyu (1906-1992) female. A native of Wujiang, Jiangsu, he settled in Shanghai. She was one of the female painters who was active during the Republic of China period. In his early years, he graduated from Shanghai Shenzhou Girls' School majoring in fine arts and western painting. On December 22, 1927, the "Tang Yunyuyang Painting Exhibition" was held in Shanghai. In 1928, together with Wang Jiyuan, Zhu Qizhan and Pan Yuliang, he founded the Yiyuan Painting Research Institute. Dongdu studied in Japan and his works have been selected for the Tokyo Exhibition. In 1930, he went to France to study oil painting at the École d'Arte école Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and was successively selected for the French National Spring Salon, the Autumn Salon and the Duerli Salon in Paris. In 1929, he participated in the "First National Fine Arts Exhibition".
In the mid-1920s, the fledgling Tang Yunyu came to prominence in the Western painting world of Shanghai, competing with famous artists such as Liu Haisu, Wang Jiyuan and Ni Yide with the pen of a towel, and was known as one of the "Four Female Masters of Oil Painting" in Shanghai (the other "three masters" were Pan Yuliang, Guan Zilan and Cai William). By the 1930s, Tang Yunyu had successively gone to Japan and France to specialize in oil painting, and his artistic techniques and expression had gradually matured, so the dual background of studying abroad was extremely rare in the art world at that time. In 1941, Tang Yunyu returned to Shanghai from Hong Kong and was hired by Shanghai Xinhua Art College and Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts to teach oil painting. In the 1940s, he held a solo exhibition at the Daxin Art Gallery in Shanghai. He moved to the United States in his later years.
Zhang Chongren, "Study Work", double-sided watercolor painting, 26×38cm, 1980
Zhang Chongren, "After the Reconstruction of Yaoxian Yaowang Temple" ("Study", back, double-sided watercolor painting, 26×38cm, 1980
Zhang Chongren (1907-1998), a native of Shanghai, is a famous artist who specializes in sculpture and painting. According to the French Ministry of Culture, among the French-speaking countries of the world, there are about 1 billion people who know the name Zhang Chongren.
In 1914, he entered the photographic and plate making room of the Tushan Bay Art Workshop with an Irish tutor to learn sketching and French. In 1931, he studied sculpture in Belgium, studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, and graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium in 1935. In 1936, he held an exhibition in Shanghai and opened the "Chong Ren Studio". He has served as a professor at Zhijiang University, a professor of Shanghai Meizhuan, the deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Branch of the China Artists Association, and the director of the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Creation Studio. He has published "Selected Sculptures of Zhang Chongren" and "Selected Watercolors of Zhang Chongren", and his work "Proletarian Revolution Creates the People's Republic of China" has won the first prize of Shanghai Commemorative Sculpture.
Song Buyun, "Covered Bridge", watercolor, 38x26.5cm, 1956
Song Buyun (1910-1992), alias Xiaochu, was a native of Weifang, Shandong. Song Buyun is a famous Chinese artist, art educator and art activist, a leading figure in early Chinese oil painting and watercolor painting, and one of the pioneers in spreading Western painting art to China. He is one of the founders and important founders of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, an outstanding master in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese art, and is known as the master of Chinese style and "Tao Sheng".
Song Buyun specializes in Chinese painting, watercolor painting and oil painting. In his early years, he studied at Weifang Wenhua Art College, Beiping Jinghua Academy of Fine Arts, and National Hangzhou Art College. He studied in Japan in 1934 and graduated from the Faculty of Art at the University of Tokyo in 1937, majoring in oil painting. After 1940, he taught at the Art Department of Chongqing National Central University, lecturer of Chongqing National Art College, associate professor of Peking National Art College, and in 1946, at the invitation of Mr. Xu Beihong, he jointly initiated the "Beiping Art Writers Association" with Wu Zuoren as a standing director. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as an associate professor and professor at the Central Academy Special librarian of the Central Research Museum of Culture and History. His works include the Chinese paintings "Heavy Evening Love in the World", "Wanshou Tu", and the watercolor painting "Jingyuetan".
Gan Changling, "Street Scene in the Rain", watercolor, 28x50cm, 1950s
Born in Hong Kong from 1911 to 1991, Gan Changling (1911-1991) loved painting since childhood, and later studied painting with Mr. Xu Yongqing, a pioneer of Chinese watercolor painting, and was deeply influenced by the watercolor painting techniques of the Combination of China and the West. Later, he moved from Hong Kong to Macau in 1954 and began to work in art design, art creation and art education. He studied at the English-Chinese College in Hong Kong. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he studied painting with Xu Yongqing and moved to Macau in 1954. One of the founders of the Macao Academy of Fine Arts, he founded the Macao Academy of Fine Arts with other artists in the late 1950s and mid-1970s; he joined the Macao Summer Garden Calligraphy and Painting Society and the Macao Fine Arts Association, and participated in the exhibition of fine art works of the two paintings over the years. He died in Hong Kong. Created around the 1950s, this "Street Scene in the Rain" depicts a Hong Kong market in the rain, whether it is the flow of people with umbrellas or the vendors and customers who buy and sell in the rain on the street, bringing the audience a kind of noisy market reality. Simple and unpretentious, but full of rich breath of life, it appears realistic and vivid. This work is a realistic work, and the painter restores the strong popularity of Hong Kong in the middle of the last century through ordinary and common pictures, bringing the audience a heavy sense of historical vicissitudes and characteristics of the times. The color of the whole picture is calm and accurate, creating a clear light and shadow effect, but the simple picture gives people a warm visual enjoyment. It is as if people are in the city of that year, and they are intoxicated and yearning.
Feng Faqi, Qingdao Huashilou, Watercolor, 26×38cm, 1977
Feng Faqi (1914-2009), a famous oil painter in modern and contemporary times. Alias "Luo Feng", Anhui Lujiang people. At the age of 19 (1933), he was admitted to the Art Department of the College of Education of Nanjing Central University with the first place, and was trained by Xu Beihong, Yan Wenliang, Lu Sibai, Pan Yuliang and other masters. After graduating from the Central University in 1937, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, he joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (later reorganized into the Eighth Route Army) and went to Yan'an, the holy land of revolution. Later, he moved to Wuchang Art College in Jiangjin County (present-day Chongqing) in Sichuan Province to teach. In 1940, he joined the Anti-Enemy Drama Team and engaged in painting creation activities, and held six solo exhibitions during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. His patriotic works were widely acclaimed. In 1942, he was appointed as an associate researcher of the China Academy of Art, in 1943 he was appointed as an associate professor of the National Institute of Social Education, and in 1946 he accompanied Mr. Xu Beihong to Beiping to participate in the founding of the Peking National Art College.
After the establishment of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1950, he was hired as a professor, the first head of the painting department and the head of the oil painting department. He has always adhered to the artistic beliefs established in his youth to art for life. In 1957, he was wrongly classified as a "rightist", but in 1979 he was rehabilitated, restored to the party, transferred back to the Central Academy of Fine Arts to teach, and resumed the post of head of the oil painting department. He is a member of the China Artists Association, an advisor of the China Oil Painting Society, an honorary chairman of the Xu Beihong International Art Research Association, and the chief consultant of Xu Beihong Art Academy.
He has created a large number of works full of realism, such as "Yandang Mountain", "Catching Lice", "Morning Meeting of the Drama Team", "Nanjing Massacre" (cooperation), "Suzhou Coupling Garden", "Changbai Mountain Tianchi", "Xishuangbanna Maiden", "Portrait of Lady Lu Xiaguang", "Warm Winter", "Years" and so on. Among them, the huge oil painting "Liu Hulan On Righteousness" created in the 1950s is the most famous, which is treasured by the National Art Museum of China and is known as one of the "double bi" in the collection.
Tu Ke, Nanjing Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, watercolor, 27x20cm, 1978
Tu Ke (1916-2012) was born in Rong'an, Guangxi. In 1935, he was admitted to the Hangzhou National Art College majoring in Western Painting. In 1949, he entered Shanghai with General Chen Yi and was ordered to establish the "Shanghai Fine Arts Factory". From 1953 to 1963, he founded the "Shanghai Academy of Painting" and the "Shanghai School of Fine Arts". He has successively served as the president of Suzhong Pictorial, the vice president of Jianghuai Pictorial, the art director of East China Pictorial, the director of fine arts of Shanghai Cultural Bureau, the provost of Shanghai Art College and the director of the Department of Oil Painting and Sculpture, the vice president of Shanghai Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, the vice president of Guangxi Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, and the director of China Artists Association. Tu Ke devoted himself to the study and exploration of oil painting landscapes and founded the "Subtropical Painting School". The work is refreshing with its new modern consciousness, simple decorative composition, subtle and elegant lyrical tones. Lines, imagery, pen and ink, and exaggerated rhythms are organically integrated, and the expression techniques of watercolor painting, Chinese painting and decorative painting are skillfully integrated into one furnace to build a skillful and perfect painting style.
Mu Jiaqi, "Fragrant Garden", watercolor, 34x54cm, 1995
Mu Jiaqi (1917-2011) Beijing native. Manchu (with white flag). Good at mural painting and oil painting. In 1941, he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Faculty of Arts of Nihon University, specializing in oil painting and mosaic murals, and studied under Mr. Katajiro Uchiha and Mr. Uchida Iwa. From 1942 to 1948, he successively served as a professor in the Art Department of the School of Education of Nanjing Central University, a professor at the Beijing Art College, and a professor and head of the Fine Arts Department of Jilin Changbai Normal University. After 1949, he was a professor and director of the Theoretical Teaching and Research Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. From 1980 to 1983, he also served as the art director of the mural studio of the Beijing Academy of Painting, and in 1983, he also served as the consultant of the Department of Arts and Crafts of the Beijing Arts and Crafts Corporation. He is a member of the China Artists Association, a member of the China Old Professors Association, an honorary president of the Baixueshi Art Research Society, and an honorary director of the Changbaishan Calligraphy and Painting Society. It is famous for its Western art history, oil paintings and glass mosaic murals. He has participated in many beauty exhibitions sponsored by tianjin artists association and Beijing artists association. A variety of works have been published and many works have been exhibited or adopted.
Harding Huangpu River Pier Watercolor 27x37cm Age unknown
Harding (1923-2004), alias Ha Bi Shi, Hui, a native of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. He is good at watercolor painting and oil painting. In his youth, he was taught by Mr. Zhang Chongren. In the 1940s, he became a famous portrait painter in Shanghai. In the 1950s, he founded "Harding Studio" and taught at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. Beginning in 1978, Harding concentrated on watercolor figures. In the 1980s, he was a first-class artist of Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute, a member of the China Artists Association, and a director of the Shanghai Artists Association. In 1986, as a member of the delegation of Chinese artists, he went to many African countries to investigate and hold painting exhibitions. In 1988, he held the "Harding Painting Exhibition" at the Shanghai Art Museum. In 1989, he was appointed as a member of the Selection Committee of the 7th Fine Arts Exhibition of Watercolor Gouache. In 1991, he went to the United States and settled in Los Angeles. He is the author of "How to Draw Portraits", "How to Draw Pencil Drawings" and "Selected Paintings of Harding". As a contemporary watercolor master, Mr. Harding has a wide influence on the Chinese art world; his "Harding Studio" has become a private teaching institution set up by very few professional painters after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
He Muqun, Caprice Iii, Comprehensive Material on Paper, 46x32cm, 1974
Born in Shanghai in 1924, He Muqun has lived in Taiwan, Brazil, Spain and other places, and has won high praise and reputation in the art critics circle in São Paulo, Brazil. In 1965, he settled in Paris and studied painting at the Academic Grande Chaumiere, where he won the laurel of the 1968 Women's Salon in Paris. Under the guidance of Mr. Pan Yuliang, he has held solo exhibitions in Madrid, São Paulo, Brazil, Goetheburg, Sweden, Paris, Bourgogue Provincial Cultural Center, Taipei, Shanghai and Hong Kong from 1960 to 2001. From 1964 to 1994, he participated in important painting exhibitions in São Paulo, Campinas, Belgium, Italy, Paris, New York, Germany, France, Frankenstein, Norway, Taipei, Taiwan, and won various awards. From 1996 to 2002, he held two exhibitions at the Shanghai Art Museum. His works are collected by the National Library of Paris, the French Ministry of Culture, the Shanghai Art Museum, the Taiwan Hill Art Foundation and other institutions.
In the long arch, "The Garden Downstairs", watercolor, 27x20cm, 1958
Yu Changgong (1930-1962), a native of Shandong. In 1947, he entered the National Suzhou Art College. In 1948, he entered the West Lake Art Institute of Ni Yide in Hangzhou to study painting. In 1949, he entered the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, and graduated in 1953 to stay on as a researcher. In 1957, after graduating from the Maximov Oil Training Class of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, he returned to the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts to teach. His representative works are oil paintings "Xian Xinghai in Northern Shaanxi" and "Construction Site After Rain". He died young and was hailed as a fallen new star.
Zhu Naizheng, "Lonely Boat", watercolor, 41x56cm, 1980s
Zhu Naizheng (1935-2013) was a native of Haiyan County, Zhejiang Province. Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1958 and was supervised by Mr. Wu Zuoren, Ai Zhongxin, Wang Shikuo, etc. In the spring of 1959, he was assigned to qinghai province and worked on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for 21 years. During this period, he successively served as the vice chairman of the Qinghai Provincial Artists Association and a member of the Standing Committee of the Qinghai Provincial People's Congress. In the spring of 1980, he was transferred back to the Central Academy of Fine Arts to teach. He once served as vice president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, deputy director of the Academic Committee of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, professor and graduate tutor, director of the China Artists Association, and director of the Oil Painting Art Committee. Vice Chairman of the China Oil Painting Society, Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Wang Youlong, "Returning with a Son", watercolor, 33x43cm, 1981
Wang Youlong, born in Shanghai, graduated from East China Art College under the tutelage of Zhou Bichu and Chen Qiucao. After graduation, he taught at Shanghai First Textile Industrial School. He is a member of the Chinese Watercolor Society. His works have participated in many domestic and foreign art exhibitions.
Xu Yongqing" Qingdao Landscape Painting Poster 1930s-40s
Xu Yongqing (1880-1953) was a pioneer of Watercolor painting in China, known as the "First Person of Watercolor Painting in China", a native of Shanghai. He lost his parents at an early age and was adopted by the Shanghai Xujiahui Catholic Church Orphanage, which was attached to the painting room and learned drawing, watercolor and oil painting from Liu Bizhen and foreign painting teachers. At the age of sixteen, he entered the TushanWan Printing House, which also belongs to xujiahui Catholic Church, to engage in illustration creation and binding design. He specializes in watercolor painting and oil painting. In 1913, he presided over the drawing department of the Shanghai Commercial Press, and the trainees included Hang Xiaoying, He Yimei, Jin Meisheng, Jin Xuechen, Ge Xianglan, etc., all of whom learned drawing, watercolor painting and oil painting from him. At the same time, he was employed by shanghai academy of fine arts to teach Western painting. A large number of pencil sketches and watercolor drawings are painted in the middle, which are published by the Shanghai Commercial Press and Youzheng Bookstore as a copy of the drawings of primary and secondary school students. He is good at painting landscapes and is not good at painting characters, so he often cooperates with Zheng Mantuo in monthly card painting to make up for the scenery. After the Japanese invaded Shanghai, they went to Hong Kong with their families and continued to teach Western painting. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he once returned to Shanghai and later moved to Qingdao. He has published "Watercolor Painting Sketching Method" and so on.
Most of the watercolor painters in the Republic of China period took over the painting of watercolor moon cards, of which Xu Yongqing was known as the master of the moon cards. As the most prosperous treaty port in Shanghai, the monthly card is the most effective advertisement for commodity sales, and the demand is very large. Therefore, when we look at the works of watercolor painters in the Republic of China period, we will find that they were almost all involved in the painting of the monthly cards. Many watercolor painters make a living by painting monthly signs and training in watercolor.
Xu Yongqing "All Walks of Life Please Light Asia Fire Oil Foreign Candles" Monthly Card 1925
Lü Pin, Autumn Colors, Watercolor, 26x36.5cm, 1956
Lü Pin (1918-1990) is a famous watercolor painter of the older generation in China, the elder and founder of Watercolor painting in Shandong.
Born on April 29, 1918 in Muping, Shandong Province, Lü Pin received art enlightenment in Qingdao at the age of 8 and later studied at the Jinghua Academy of Fine Arts; he co-founded the Qindao Painting Society with Zhao Zhongyu in 1938, becoming the first society of Emerging Art in Qingdao and promoting modern art through a series of exhibitions and seminars. In 1949, Lü Pin presided over the establishment of the private Qingdao Fine Arts College and served as its principal. In 1956, he was recruited to teach in the Art Department of Shandong Normal University. After 1958, he taught at Shandong Art College and Shandong Art College, successively serving as the director of the Talent Teaching and Research Department, the deputy director of the Department of Fine Arts, and the professor of Shandong Art College. He was the first chairman of the Shandong Artists Association, a director of the China Artists Association, a standing director of the East China Artists Association, the founder and first president of Shandong Watercolor Painting, and the honorary chairman of Shandong Science Popularization. His watercolor style had an important influence on qingdao's art community.
Lü Pin " Jiangnan Water Town " Watercolor , 44x34cm , 1960s
Born on April 29, 1918 in Muping, Shandong Province, Lü Pin received art enlightenment in Qingdao at the age of 8 and later studied at the Jinghua Academy of Fine Arts; he co-founded the Qindao Painting Society with Zhao Zhongyu in 1938, becoming the first society of Emerging Art in Qingdao and promoting modern art through a series of exhibitions and seminars. In 1949, Lü Pin presided over the establishment of the private Qingdao Fine Arts College and served as its principal. In 1956, he was recruited to teach in the Art Department of Shandong Normal University. After 1958, he taught at Shandong Art College and Shandong Art College, successively serving as the director of the Talent Teaching and Research Department, the deputy director of the Department of Fine Arts, and the professor of Shandong Art College. He was the first chairman of the Shandong Artists Association, a director of the China Artists Association, a standing director of the East China Artists Association, the founder and first president of Shandong Watercolor Painting, and the honorary chairman of the Shandong Science and Art Association. His watercolor style had an important influence on qingdao's art community.
Tao Tian'en, "Sunset On Old Street", watercolor, 53x37.5cm, 1980s
Tao Tianen (1927-2009), alias Tian En, was a native of Penglai, Shandong. He was a director of the China Watercolor Society, the honorary president of the Shandong Watercolor Society, and one of the pioneers of Watercolor in Qingdao. In 1946, he was admitted to Shandong University as a draftsman. In 1949, he was appointed as a teacher of Qingdao Academy of Fine Arts, in 1953 he was appointed as an officer of Qingdao Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, in 1954 he was appointed as the head of the art team of Qingdao Daily, and in 1979 he was appointed as the deputy director of Qingdao Arts and Crafts Research Institute, a senior arts and crafts artist, and an adviser to Qingdao Artists Association. In 1956, he won the third prize of the National Youth Art Exhibition. His works include "Uncle Navy Is Good", "Bibi Whose Bowl Bottom is Cleaner", "Song Qingling Statue" and so on. His work "Chao" was included in the Complete Collection of Modern Chinese Art and Watercolor Volumes.
Yan Wenzheng " Spring on the Seashore " Watercolor 52.5x38 1990s
Yan Wenzheng, male, born in 1926, the word Zhaoqing, zai number "side building". A native of Pu County, Shandong Province (in present-day Henan Province). The founder of Qingdao watercolor painting. He is currently a professor of Qingdao Institute of Education, a member of the China Artists Association, a director of the China Watercolor Painters Association, an honorary director of the Shandong Artists Association, an honorary president of the Shandong Watercolor Painting Society, an honorary chairman of the Qingdao Artists Association, and an honorary president of the Qingdao Painting Academy. He is good at watercolor painting and Chinese ink painting. Mr. Yan Wenzheng is an influential painter and educator in the art world in China, and one of the founders of watercolor painting in Shandong. The China Federation of Literary and Art Circles awarded the title of "Outstanding Artist". As an outstanding representative and strong promoter of Shandong watercolor painting, Since the 1950s, Yan Wenzheng's works have been published in the state and various newspapers and magazines and participated in exhibitions at all levels, and his paintings are calm, bold, sincere, watercolor paintings are full of water color and fresh, rich and rich, charming, and self-contained, while Chinese ink paintings follow the tradition and are not bound by the law, the pen and ink are smooth, and the water is innocent. Painting is compatible with Chinese and Western, widely involved in watercolor painting and Chinese ink freehand painting and other art fields, watercolor painting "Wind and Rain Pier" was selected into the "Complete Collection of Chinese Modern Art", "In Front of the Window" was selected as "Chinese Watercolor Painting", "Laoshan Mingxia Cave On the Way" was invited to participate in the "Chinese Centennial Watercolor Exhibition", and his works have been exhibited and published abroad. The watercolor "Qingdao Zhanqiao" was selected to be included in the Complete Collection of Modern Chinese Art (Watercolor Volume). He has published "Selected Paintings of Yan Wenzheng Gouache", "Collection of Yan Wenzheng Paintings", "Techniques of Watercolor Painting", "Sketches of Yan Wenzheng", etc., and his personal biography is "Chasing Dreams for a Lifetime".
Yan Wenzheng " Wind and Rain Trestle " Watercolor 47.5x34 1990s