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Portrait of Liu Haisu
Liu Haisu, a representative figure of The Shanghai School of Culture, is a well-known Chinese and foreign painter and an educator who has devoted his life to the cause of art education.
Former site of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts (formerly known as "Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts").
He founded China's first fine arts college in Shanghai, which is of great significance.
First of all, this is the first initiative in the history of Chinese education to propose the concept of coeducation, slightly earlier than Peking University; Secondly, the art school introduced nude female models. "Nude models are a very normal teaching course in modern academies of fine arts, and although there was a background in the May Fourth New Movement at that time, it was impossible to sweep through a storm that swept through the Chinese feudal remnants that had been entrenched for thousands of years, so it was still very difficult for a woman to be a nude model in public."
Shanghai Meichuan Body Sketching Class
Shanghai Meizhuan opened the precedent of mannequins, leaving Liu Haisu on the cusp of the storm for a long time. In the beginning, the school often couldn't find a model, often when they came to negotiate and sign a contract, but as soon as they entered the classroom and asked the girls to take off their clothes, they ran away. Later, Liu Haisu had to do ideological work for them, and finally a young and middle-aged man boarded the modeling stage. In 1915, at the exhibition of works of the American College, because of the display of human body study, the principal of a girls' school named and insulted Liu Haisu as a "traitor to art". However, after Liu Haisu knew, he was not angry, he said: "I am an art traitor!" When I was doing an exhibition in Beijing, I was holding an oil painting exhibition, because at that time, China was painting Chinese paintings, and some people called me a traitor to art, but I thought it was very good, art must have traitors. ”
Shanghai Meizhuan plaster portrait sketching class
Third, the school pioneered the sketching curriculum and improved the learning method of Chinese painting that begins with copying. Finally, Liu Haisu also founded the first specialized art magazine in China. Liu Haisu believes that education must be closely linked to society, and this idea is also very groundbreaking.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he held various relief activities in Southeast Asia to support the domestic war of resistance. Some scholars highly praised him as "actually an active practitioner and developer of the ideas of the thinker, educator, revolutionary democrat and patriot Cai Yuanpei." ”
Liu Haisu "Guan HeTu"
Liu Haisu himself also has a high artistic achievement, technically, Zhu Gang once compared Van Gogh's sunflowers with Liu Haisu, believing that although there are some differences in the use of color, the basic shape, pen, and method are consistent. "He is the first generation of Chinese oil painters, and the earliest oil paintings in China were painted by European missionaries in the Qing Palace, but it should be said that Liu Haisu made Chinese oil paintings really go to the world."
Liu Haisu "Cloud Qi"
Liu Haisu also works as a Chinese painting, and the lines have the power of steel and iron bones. After diving into the ink method, the pen flew ink dance, and the courage was outstanding. In his later years, he used the splash color method, the colors were brilliant, and the temperament was majestic. He is praised by Westerners as "Master of the Chinese Renaissance" and "Lion of the Dongfeng Art World".
Liu Haisu's paintings often show the connotation of nationalization. Almost as Mao Zedong said in his appraisal of Lu Xun's essay, "like a gun and a dagger, piercing straight into the forces of darkness", painting is regarded as a "cultural weapon" that promotes its artistic concept and the spirit of Chinese painting. It is a "device" that propagates its artistic ideas and the unique feelings of home and country of Chinese literati. Through works, let national art stand tall in the forest of world art.
The so-called "traitor" may only be the forerunner of the times; This artist, who was once evaluated as "rebellious", is a literary and artistic master with great national representatives in the eyes of Westerners.
Past Highlights:
Guan Shanyue and Fu Baoshi
Ming Xuande Arabic cupola three-legged furnace
Modern painting - "Little Girl in Northern Shaanxi" Liu Wenxi