Marx (2021)
"The Gift to Abba" (1976 Annual Printed Edition Nationwide)
Siberian Tiger (Siberian Tiger) (2019)
"Eight Juntu" (2019)
Reading the Newspaper to the Old Lady (1973)
Farming (1974)
Caring for National Affairs (1974)
On the Runway Line (1975)
Little Riders of the Prairie (2020)
Sun Wangping is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, an artistic committee member of the China Contemporary Art Magazine Society, a member of the Hulunbuir Artists Association, a member of the Inner Mongolia Elderly Calligraphy and Painting Association, a university culture, and a member of the Communist Party of China. Born in Manzhouli in 1957, he moved to Hailar with his parents after the age of 7. For more than half a century, he has experienced the budding, maturity and development of learning to paint, and most of his paintings are full of infinite love for the motherland and the people.
Sun Wangping majored in Chinese language and literature at university, and the correspondence college majored in legal psychology. Personally, I think that although he did not study fine arts, his paintings were very professional.
Sun Wangping has loved painting since childhood. When he went to elementary school, his art grades were all full marks. When he was in middle school, his painting level improved by leaps and bounds, often drawing posters for the class and posters for the school's billboards. He would draw pictures from the movie into page after page of pictures, and when bound into a book, like a villain book. In order to let him get systematic learning, his mother led him to Find Ma Yibai and Zhang Shoujiang, the art editors who had never met in Hulunbuir Daily at that time. Ma Yibai was a volunteer during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and Sun Wangping's mother was a hygienist in the Battle of Menglianggu of the East China Unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. With this fate, coupled with Ma Yibai looking through Sun Wangping's painting books, he felt that he had a high level of understanding and agreed to teach him to learn painting. Sun Wangping has made faster progress under the guidance of Teacher Ma and Teacher Zhang. Since elementary school, middle school, going to the mountains and going to the countryside, returning to the city to work until now, he has created thousands of works, including sketches, drawings, Chinese paintings, oil paintings, gouache and so on.
Sun Wangping's adolescence was an era of admiring heroes, and the patriotic education he received from an early age determined his aesthetic orientation. Therefore, in the embryonic stage of his learning to paint, he began to paint a series of heroic figures such as Lei Feng, Wang Jie, and Liu Yingjun. His figure paintings involved almost all heroes and were testimonies of that era. His sketches "The Great Communist Fighter Lei Feng", "Carry Forward the Revolutionary Tradition and Look Forward to a Better Future", "Ten Million Lei Feng Growing", "Farming", and "Rolling Thunder Hero Luo Guangxie" were created in the early 1960s and 1970s, expressing the author's admiration for heroes and praise for zhiqing. At this time, his painting level was still in its infancy, and his understanding of color was only in its infancy, so it was mainly based on modeling, and the techniques were sketching, white drawing and sketching.
Based on a 1958 comic strip by Du Fengrui, a hero of the Fujian Frontline Air Force, it was created in September 1971 and is one of sun Wangping's earliest surviving works. From the cover, it can be seen that his juvenile use of rigid lines, inaccurate shapes, immature colors, and the innocence and immaturity of his works have the innocence and immaturity of youth, but it is undeniable that these works truly reproduce the era of advocating heroes.
While praising heroes, Sun Wangping is good at describing ordinary primary and secondary school life, seeing the truth in the ordinary, and carrying forward the spirit of the times of unity, fraternity and hard work. Among them, works such as "Tug-of-War Competition", "Final Examination", "Concern for National Events", "Friendship First Competition Second", "On the Track Line" and other works are representative works of this kind of theme. Among them, the two works of "Friendship First Competition Second" and "Running to the Line" are the works of Sun Wangping who are more mature in the use of color, marking that Sun Wangping's paintings have begun to mature.
Sun Wangping was diligent and studious, and he devoted a lot of energy to accumulating materials and paintings. Thousands of sketches were drawn at the primary and secondary school levels, documenting the streets of Hailar in the 1970s and the simple and beautiful life of the local people. 1974 and 1975 were the peak of Sun Wangping's creative years in middle school. In 1974, the 25th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the whole country celebrated, Sun Wangping's New Year painting "On the Side of the Road" participated in the 25th anniversary of the National Day art exhibition at the Hulunbuir League Exhibition Hall in October of the same year, and was selected to represent the Hulunbuir League to participate in the Heilongjiang Provincial Art Exhibition.
In August 1975, Sun Wangping responded to the call of the state to go up the mountains and go to the countryside to work as farmers in the third squad of the Victory Production Brigade on the outskirts of Hailar. Before leaving, he created the New Year painting "Gift to Abba", which is based on the real scene of tianjin Zhiqing production and life in the Xinbalhu Right Banner Grassland of the Krulun River Basin of the Hulunbuir League from 1967 to 1969. The painting was selected by the Hulunbuir League Cultural Center, and in November of the same year, he accompanied the study class to the Party School of Haixing Commune, Hailun County, Heilongjiang Province to participate in the provincial Annual Painting Study Class, and under the guidance of the provincial Annual Painting Selection Expert Group, revised many times, and finally completed the creation of the work, and on behalf of the Hulunbuir League, he was selected to be sent to Heilongjiang Province (at that time, Hailar was under the jurisdiction of Heilongjiang Province) to participate in the provincial Annual Painting Exhibition and won the award. In January 1976, it was published by Heilongjiang Publishing House, distributed as a New Year painting throughout the country, entered thousands of households, and was included in the "1976 Annual Painting Reduction". These two New Year paintings went out of Hulunbuir to face Heilongjiang Province and the whole country, which is a sign of the mature stage of Sun Wangping's painting.
When Sun Wangping went to the countryside, he was busy with field production in the spring, summer and autumn, and engaged in hard labor such as sifting sand and cutting birch poles up the mountain in winter, usually 10 hours a day. After work, he used the precious time of half an hour of rest in the field every morning and afternoon to sketch the members and intellectuals. In a few years, he drew several pen sketches of nearly a thousand pages, and he also developed a strong painting skill. Most of his paintings at this time were mainly based on publicizing labor models and encouraging members and young people to carry out labor competitions. After he was transferred to the propaganda department of the brigade, he began to draw propaganda posters on agricultural themes and arrange agricultural harvest exhibitions, becoming a semi-production propagandist. His paintings of "I Am a Commune Breeder", "Agricultural Dazhai", "Chairman Mao's Swim in the Yangtze River" and other huge murals inspired the production enthusiasm of the majority of members and intellectuals, and became the eternal memory of people in that era.
After the reform and opening up, Zhiqing returned to the city. Sun Wangping entered the national security department, and later worked in the front line of public security until retirement. His works during this period, whether in terms of shape or color, have been deeply developed, forming their unique style. Sun Wangping has long been engaged in criminal investigation simulation portrait work, and has participated in cracking a number of major criminal cases. In the process of handling the case, Sun Wangping effectively combined the art of painting and criminal investigation technology, providing a more intuitive reference for the rapid detection of cases. As one of the forensic techniques, the simulated portrait requires not only superb painting technology, but also accurate depiction of the characters depicted. His superb simulation portrait skills, as one of the technical means of criminal investigation, played a great role in the successful cracking of the case. This work requires not only skill, but also requires the painter to master many disciplines such as human physiology and human osteology. To this end, Sun Wangping taught himself theoretical knowledge such as "Skeletal Science" and "Teaching Of Boliman's Human Body Structure Painting". Sun Wangping's artistic style belongs to both his own genre and the contemporary realist figurative style. Because Sun Wangping has the foundation of simulated portraits and the accumulation of knowledge of human physiology, he especially has a good grasp of the charm of the characters, and the character images he writes are almost the same as those of real people. He integrated the "vivid qi rhyme" and "bone method with pen" from the ancient Chinese art critic Sheikh's "Six Laws Theory" into his paintings and elevated them to a higher level. People who have admired Sun Wangping's works feel that his characters have more spirit and vitality than photos. In painting, Sun Wangping studies the eye structure of human figures and animals from the perspectives of human physiology, skeletal science, forensic science, anatomy and optics, and applies it to art and makes great efforts in portraying "eye light". In the past twenty years, he has repeated the practice of drawing the eyes of a human figure tens of thousands of times.
Sun Wangping has participated in many exhibitions of fine art calligraphy works held by the Inner Mongolia State Security Department and the Public Security Department and won awards. His masterpieces of public security themes, "Frontline Criminal Police", "Great Training of Soldiers", and "Probationary Police Officers", were selected for the "70 Years of the Founding of the People's Republic of China" fine art calligraphy works exhibition of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Public Security Department and are being exhibited at the Inner Mongolia Art Museum. "Frontline Criminal Police" is a criminal police theme work created by the author based on his own experience in the police for more than 30 years, praising the heroic achievements of the frontline criminal police in maintaining social stability. "The Great Training" celebrates the public security border troops, which are assigned to the National Immigration Department, and the formation of the troops is history, but their feats of maintaining the security of the national border will forever be recorded in the annals of the republic. "Trainee Police Officer" praised the public security frontline assistant police. All three works were exhibited as gifts for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
After Sun Wangping retired, he systematically studied the "History of Chinese Art" and "History of World Art", delved into theoretical knowledge such as the color design of Chinese painting, and tried to integrate Western oil painting techniques into the creation of Chinese painting. He studied the painting techniques of famous predecessors, such as gu kaizhi, the eastern Jin dynasty painters Gu Kaizhi, the Tang dynasty painters Yan Liben, Zhang Xuan, and Zhou Fang, the modern painters Xu Beihong and Jiang Zhaohe, as well as the French Impressionist Renoir, the Russian realist masters Repin and Surikov. But he does not follow the old path of others, only to learn from it, aiming to explore his own painting characteristics.
Sun Wangping is good at drawing tigers, horses, dogs and other animals. Han Gan of the Tang Dynasty, Li Gonglin of the Song Dynasty, Liu Jijian of the modern and contemporary era, and other famous artists who painted tigers and horses were different from them. In order to paint the animals more realistically and more vividly, he absorbed the relevant knowledge of biology, studied and classified the nine major tiger species in the animal kingdom, and looked at his tigers, which could distinguish between the Siberian tiger in the alpine region (also known as the Siberian tiger), the South China tiger in the subtropical region and the Sumatran tiger in the tropics. In terms of painting method, Sun Wangping figured out the method of heavy color painting with raw rice paper, and integrated a little freehand fun, which is unique. The tiger drawn in this way is vivid and textured, as if jumping on the paper, as if it has vitality.
Sun Wangping's paintings have lasted for more than half a century, painting is the composition of his life, and his works are his beloved. His work is solid and acclaimed. He said: "I am 90 points of hard work, plus 10 points of talent. "The reason why Sun Wangping's paintings can convey the spirit is because in his own way, he finished the university majoring in painting, which is a university without a campus, in the field, in the birch forest, by the ice river, in the mud house, in the laughter of the zhiqing labor, in the daily work of the police camp, he graduated with excellent results. Sun Wangping used his exquisite painting skills to better serve the daily work of national security and public security, he was loyal, trustworthy, loyal to the party, and loved the people, and was awarded the titles of outstanding communist party member and advanced worker by the party committee of the hailar district public security sub-bureau for many times.
In December 2019, Sun Wangping's masterpiece of animal painting "Shangshan Tiger" won the third prize in the "Exhibition of Poetry and Calligraphy works for the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China" sponsored by CCTV Calligraphy and Painting Channel and the East-West Artists Association in Haidian District, Beijing.
From March to May this year, Sun Wangping spent two months creating 26 portraits of historical figures in the founding of the Communist Party of China, and held a charity exhibition at RT-Mart Shopping Plaza in the old town of Chengmai County, Hainan Province, to present the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Sun Wangping personally served as a narrator, so that the masses who came to the exhibition not only received the study and education of party history, but also appreciated art. On the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Sun Wangping created more than 10 portraits of people, and from October 11 to 21 this year, he participated in a 10-day exhibition of paintings of historical figures of the founding of the party held by the party committee of the community in the community of Worship Temple in Zhengyang Street, Hailar District. In the century-old history of the Communist Party of China, countless heroes and heroes have emerged, and each painting of historical figures has an endless story. It is understood that Sun Wangping was the first party member painter in Hulunbuir City to publish his own works to publicize the history of the party, and he was also the first party member painter to serve as a docent. The party members of the community who come here every day, fire rescue personnel, and school students have expressed their deep education, so that they love the Communist Party of China even more, love the motherland, and cherish the hard-won peaceful life.
Sun Wangping's paintings, especially his ultra-realistic aesthetic art style, are deeply loved by people and collected by many people. Nowadays, after retirement, Sun Wangping has more time to engage in the painting career he loves, and with his dedication and obsession with the art of painting, his works will definitely bring people more expectations.