Professor Maksimov is a famous oil painter in the former Soviet Union and a foreign expert invited by our government to teach in China after the founding of New China. 1955- 1957, presided over the teaching of "Horse Trainer Class" in the advanced oil painting class of Central Academy of Fine Arts. At that time, the "Horse Training Class" concentrated the first generation of the best young and middle-aged oil painters in New China, and their students later became the bridge of oil painting in China, including Jin Shangyi, Zhan Jianjun, Hou Yimin and Wei Chuanyi.
At that time, after the founding of New China, it attached great importance to the development of oil painting art. At that time, China and the Soviet Union had a good relationship, so the Ministry of Culture entrusted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to invite Big Brother to "help this". After several selections, the other party finally decided that Professor Maksimov, a two-time Stalin Prize winner, would be responsible for the teaching of this training course. This class is not easy to test. 36 top students from several key art colleges and art workshops in China went to the Central Academy of Fine Arts for examination and selection, and finally 2 1 student was selected. Professor Wei Chuanyi is fortunate to be one of them.
Professor Wei Chuanyi clearly remembers that in this training class, he first took professional courses such as oil painting and sketch, and then re-examined the history of China art and the history of western art. What makes Professor Wei Chuanyi most nervous is that he will take an examination of the history of the Soviet Union. For Professor Wei Chuanyi, this course is completely unknown. Therefore, Professor Wei Chuanyi had to concentrate on this course. After reading through the textbook, Professor Wei Chuanyi circled the key points by himself. As a result, he really got two in the exam. The last level is the oral examination, with Maksimov himself as the examiner. Professor Wei Chuanyi answered four questions in the first exam. Every question is answered like a stream. Maksimov said to the professor, "He answered very well, so I won't ask."
During more than two years in China, Maksimov created dozens of portraits and landscapes with their own characteristics, which became a rare work of a European professional oil painting novice in China at that time. It took him a year to solve the problems of color and sketch taught by Professor Wei Chuanyi, and then another year and a half to help students finish their graduation creation. Under the guidance of Professor Maksimov, the students received systematic and comprehensive oil painting skills training from plaster to human body, from sketch to oil painting, from indoor work to external light training, and from composition draft to creation.
Professor Wei Chuanyi is the vice monitor. He said that Professor Maksimov was the most influential teacher in his life. He brought a complete teaching style of Russian oil painting and incorporated a unique method into the teaching. During 1957, Professor Wei Chuanyi's graduation creation "Rest Day" and his work "Street" were exhibited in an oil painting training class of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and "Rest Day" was also published in People's Daily. Thanks to Professor Wei Chuanyi's efforts, he has made admirable achievements.
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At that time, to enter the "horse trainer class", it was necessary to go through extremely strict screening and examination. Why was Professor Wei Chuanyi selected? This has to start from the beginning.
1928 In May, Professor Wei Chuanyi was born in a poor family in Daxian County, Sichuan Province. His father was a small trader, and his hard life made him break down from constant overwork, while his mother died when Professor Wei Chuanyi was three years old. Young Professor Wei Chuanyi doesn't even have a pair of shoes in snowy days. He is naked and barefoot, his hands are swollen and his ears are rotten with cold. However, in this poor family, Professor Wei Chuanyi discovered a huge fortune, including three rare hall sticks and a mustard seed garden. Professor Wei Chuanyi is curious and fascinated by his elegant calligraphy and profound artistic conception of Chinese painting. As soon as he was free, he practiced according to the copybooks of Liu Gongquan and Huang Tingjian, and gradually realized the beauty of "Liu Gu Huang Shi".
194 1 year, Professor Wei Chuanyi graduated from primary school, but his family was poor and could not afford to continue his studies. The sensible Professor Wei Chuanyi knew his father's helplessness and pain, and decided to complete his studies on his own. He borrowed money from his classmates, secretly ran to the county seat without telling his family, and entered Daxian Simple Rural Normal School at public expense, winning the first place.
Professor Wei Chuanyi cherishes this hard-won learning opportunity. Turn off the lights in the dormitory at night. After his classmates fell asleep, he slipped into the classroom, closed the doors and windows, covered the kerosene lamp with a lampshade and reviewed for two hours in the dark. In the morning, I get up an hour earlier than others to review my lessons; Spare time and holidays are spent trying to figure out and practice calligraphy and painting. "An inch of time is worth an inch of gold", because of his efforts, his grades in normal schools have always been among the best in four years.
Many famous teachers like teaching Chinese painting.
Some people say that a book is like a man, and what he says will be done. Professor Wei Chuanyi has long known the year of destiny.
In normal school, Professor Wei Chuanyi had the honor to meet two teachers, He Ling, who were the first teachers of Chinese and Western painting of Professor Wei Chuanyi. Zhang Fengzhu graduated from Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and is a student in Wu Changshuo. He is very accomplished in poetry, calligraphy, painting, printing and seal cutting. Huang is good at western painting, especially at sketching and charcoal painting. Under their guidance, Professor Wei Chuanyi's talent for painting and calligraphy was quickly revealed.
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, a group of well-known domestic cultural figures and artists fled to Sichuan, which provided Professor Wei Chuanyi with the opportunity to consult many famous teachers. For example, Zhang Daqian's students once asked Professor Wei Chuanyi to copy some original works. With his artistic talent, he's "Xiao He has come to the fore".
One year after graduating from normal school, Professor Wei Chuanyi went to Chengdu to study Chinese painting with Professor Liu Jiming. Later, with the encouragement and support of teachers such as Hong, Professor Wei Chuanyi was admitted to Sichuan Provincial College of Art with 1947.
During his five years in Sichuan Art College, Professor Wei Chuanyi has laid a broad and solid foundation in Chinese and Western painting and applied art. Mr. Li Youxing's watercolor painting, gouache painting, oil painting by Mr. Bai (a Belgian oil painter), works by Mr. Bi Jinji and Mr. He Fanghua all have great influence on him.
65438-0952, Professor Wei Chuanyi graduated with honors and stayed on as a teacher.
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Professor Wei Chuanyi suffers from leukopenia. Besides working in spite of illness, whenever he has time, he will read poetry, literature and history, Chinese and foreign painting theories, and practice China's calligraphy and painting and seal cutting.
Professor Wei Chuanyi said that for a painter, sketching in the wild is as important as reading a group of books. He often takes students to sketch in the wild and experience life. From 65438 to 0959, he went to Jiang Jie River, a noble province, to collect information about the Red Army's long March crossing the river, and created a military historical oil painting "Forcing Crossing the Wujiang River"; 1965 went to Tibet to paint murals and sketch; During 1966, he was shipwrecked in the rapids when he went to Dadu River to inspect and sketch. Professor Wei Chuanyi often goes back and forth by boat between the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, Wuhan and Shanghai-Nanjing for visiting and sketching. Observe the lotus flowers everywhere, take photos according to different seasons and absorb the nutrition of life; Until June 2004, Professor Wei Chuanyi was 76 years old, and he still went to Xinjiang to participate in the "National Famous Painters Caring for Xinjiang Education and Poverty Alleviation Activities". He believes that the source of art lies in life, just as he once wrote in a poem: "From life, the heart comes from one vein." Painting in innocence wins the merits of nature. "In recent years, he has not been afraid of lofty hypoxia. He has traveled to Tibet, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia and other places, collecting opinions, getting close to nature and life, enriching himself, broadening his horizons, constantly exploring in art and introducing excellent works.
Teaching creation promotes each other.
Zhang Fengzhu once left a message to Professor Wei Chuanyi in the graduation album of normal universities: "Learning before learning is insufficient, teaching after learning is difficult", which became his motto all his life.
Professor Wei Chuanyi has rich experience in art education. He has taught in sichuan fine arts institute for a long time, and helped students create oil paintings with his profound oil painting skills. In 1982, he supervised 18 students, including Hecheng, who graduated from Class 77 of sichuan fine arts institute Oil Painting Department. They broke through many constraints and created a number of realistic oil paintings with true feelings, which shocked the China painting circle in the 1980s.
In the early 1980s, there was no Art Education Institute in Fujian. Comrade Xiang Nan, then secretary of Fujian Provincial Party Committee, and the leaders of Xiamen University planned to set up an art education college in Xiamen University, and invited Professor Wei Chuanyi to set up it. At that time, Professor Wei Chuanyi taught in sichuan fine arts institute and served as the vice president of Sichuan Academy of Poetry and Calligraphy. Comrade Xiangnan is worried that Professor Wei Chuanyi will not come to Xiamen, especially through Professor Wei Chuanyi's cousin and his old friend Wei Chuantong in Yan 'an. My cousin said to Professor Wei Chuanyi, "Brother, you are still young and you should contribute to the SAR. Although there will be difficulties at the beginning, this job will definitely give you a comprehensive exercise. " My cousin's words made Professor Wei Chuanyi determined to transfer to Xiamen University.
From 65438 to 0985, Professor Wei Chuanyi was transferred from sichuan fine arts institute to Xiamen University, presided over the establishment of the first art education college in China, and became the dean of the art education college of Xiamen University. One of his students told reporters that Mr. Wei Chuanyi has been engaged in teaching and writing for a long time, and he has also gained vitality and inspiration from his students. Professor Wei Chuanyi's son said, "Father's devotion to his students far exceeds his concern for us."