Jiang Baolin's Early Experience

1942, Jiang Baolin was born in an ordinary peasant family in Penglai County, Shandong Province. Since childhood, his only hobby is painting. "Our family has been farming for generations, so it can be said that there is no culture, let alone painting. Until the beginning of our generation, my second brother Jiang Baoxing loved painting since he was a child, and I was influenced by him. Under his personal training, I embarked on the road of painting. " In primary school, Jiang Baolin carried a slate to school every day. He likes drawing and writing on it. Later, I went to junior high school and met Peng Jian, an art teacher, before I really started to take the road of Chinese painting. "When I first saw Mr. Peng Jian painting landscapes on rice paper with a brush, I felt very novel and shocked. From then on, I made up my mind to paint Chinese paintings. " Jiang Baolin described his feelings when he first came into contact with Chinese painting.

After graduating from junior high school, because life at home was very tense at that time, in order to save living expenses and support the family, parents were going to let Jiang Baolin take the technical secondary school exam. But Jiang Baoxing, the second brother, was determined to train Jiang Baolin to take the art road, so he took him to Qingdao. Because of his good homework, Jiang Baolin was admitted to Qingdao No.9 Middle School, which was a famous middle school in Qingdao at that time. At that time, after class in the daytime, Jiang Baolin attended the art activities in the workers' studio with his brother who worked in the Cultural Palace in the evening, and learned the basic knowledge of western painting such as sketch and color. Later, introduced by his brother, Jiang Baolin met two famous Chinese painting teachers in Qingdao at that time, He Baozhen from Qingdao No.1 Middle School and Chen Shourong from Qingdao No.2 Middle School, and worshipped them as teachers.

Jiang Baolin goes to his teacher's home once a week to learn Chinese painting, sketch, landscape, calligraphy and flowers. "So in high school, I laid a good foundation of western painting and Chinese painting, which had a far-reaching impact on my later artistic path." Jiang Baolin commented on this stage of learning. Because high school laid a solid foundation, Jiang Baolin was admitted to Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts with 1962 after graduating from high school. "At that time, only Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts recruited landscape classes, so I applied for Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, and the results were not bad. I was admitted as soon as I took the exam. " Jiang Baolin airily summed up his college education in one sentence, but the efforts and difficulties were unimaginable to ordinary people. You know, at that time, the landscape class of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts only recruited five people in the country, and the competition was fierce.