The third character of the painter Chen Shizeng is read: Zeng [zēng]
Chen Shizeng (1876.3.12-1923.9.17), also known as Heng Ke, also known as Xu Taoist and Huaitang, A native of Yining, Jiangxi (now Xiushui County, Jiangxi Province), he is a famous artist and art educator.
Chen Shizeng was born into a scholarly family. His grandfather was Chen Baozhen, the governor of Hunan, and his father was the famous poet Chen Sanli. In 1902, he traveled to Japan to study. In 1909, he returned to China and served as the director of education in Jiangxi. From February 1911 to April 1913, he was invited by Zhang Jian of Nantong to teach at Tongzhou Normal School, specializing in natural history courses. In 1913, he went to Changsha No. 1 Normal College to teach, and later went to Beijing to serve as editor and examiner. He has successively served as a professor at the Women's Higher Normal School, Beijing Higher Normal School, and Beijing Fine Arts College. In September 1923, he returned to Nanjing to attend the funeral of his mother. Unfortunately, he contracted an illness and died at the age of only 47.
Master Chen was good at poetry, calligraphy, and especially good at painting and seal cutting. On the basis of inheriting the techniques of Shen Zhou of the Ming Dynasty and Shi Tao of the Qing Dynasty, his landscape paintings focused on learning from nature and drew creative inspiration from the natural landscape; his freehand flower and bird paintings were recently learned from Wu Changshuo, and the freehand brushwork of the distant Ming Dynasty artists Xu Wei and Chen Chun, etc., have a strong painting style Refreshing and vigorous, full of interest; character paintings are outlined with freehand brushwork, focusing on verve, and have the documentary quality of sketches and comics. His books include "Mr. Chen Shizeng's Posthumous Ink" (10 volumes), "Mr. Chen Shizeng's Posthumous Poems" (volumes 1 and 2), "History of Chinese Painting", "A Short History of Chinese Art", "Research on Chinese Literary Paintings", and "Collection of Seals of the Dye Cang Room". "wait.