Zhou Xiang (187 1 ~ 1933), a native of Huang Du, was a famous painter in modern times. He is a pioneer and art educator of China oil painting art, and one of the founders of the transformation of China painting art from a traditional teacher to a formal art school education. Born in a scholarly family, I loved painting when I was a child in a private school. He studied under the famous Shanghai painter Yang Borun's landscape and beautiful figures. He returned to school with Hu Bishan, Yao Meibo, Jin, Zhou Cunbo and other celebrities. He works on landscapes, is also a picture of a lady, and is good at printing calligraphy. After the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, Glory went into exile and made a living selling paintings in Nagasaki and Tokyo. At that time, Japanese literary and art circles attached great importance to his paintings, which made him famous at home and abroad. Later, he went to Britain, France, Germany and other western European countries, made many foreign painters and learned western painting methods. In the thirty-third year of Guangxu (1907), he returned to China and set up a set painting workshop in Shanghai Baxianqiao, with 30 or 40 students. Famous painters such as Liu Haisu, Xu Beihong, Zhang Bingguang, Wang Yachen, Ding Quan and Chen Baoyi all received early education here. Later, he founded the Correspondence School of Chinese and Western Painting and Shanghai Oil Painting Institute, and engaged in art education while creating. He is the author of "Landscape Painting in Zhouxiang" in 4 volumes, which was written on 13.
Huang (1865- 1955), formerly known as Maozhi, was born in Shexian County, Huizhou City, Zhejiang Province, also known as Piaocheng and Pian Qin, whose real names were given to Xiang, Hongcuo and Huangshan. China, a pioneer in the history of modern art, has the reputation of "the first master of using ink since ancient times". His painting style is rich and changeable, which contains profound national cultural spirit and aesthetic orientation of natural beauty. For decades, Huang's paintings have been widely concerned by the art world, and gradually released great energy, which has influenced the painting circles in China today. Its artistic value is all-round. In addition to his landscape paintings, flower-and-bird paintings are also extraordinary, and the achievements of calligraphy cannot be taken lightly; He also has his own theoretical construction of painting; Its seal cutting, philology and archaeology have also made great achievements. Huang is indeed a scholar-type artist. He won't just paint history. Because of his outstanding contribution in the art history, Huang was awarded the honorary title of "China People's Excellent Painter" by the state on the occasion of his 90th birthday. His works include: A Study on the Origin of Huangshan Painters, A Random Talk on Lu Hong's Paintings, Analysis of Ancient Paintings, Compilation of Paintings, Compilation of Jinshi's Paintings and Calligraphy, and Essentials of Paintings. He and he edited the Fine Arts Series and Quotations of Yellow Painting.
Liu Haisu (1896 March16-1August 7th, 994), formerly known as Yun, No. 1March, 896, from Fengyang, Anhui, and Changzhou, Jiangsu. Good at oil painting, Chinese painting and art education. Engaged in art education and creation for more than 70 years, he has deep attainments in Chinese painting, oil painting, calligraphy, poetry, art theory and so on. He is familiar with Chinese and western arts and is brave in exploration and innovation. Traditional Chinese painting attracts traditional elites, pays attention to sketching, learns from nature, bullies the city, is good at landscapes, flowers, birds and animals, and likes to splash ink on paintings. The painting style is bold and unrestrained, bold and vigorous, mellow and simple, colorful and unique, and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. 191211and Wu, (predecessor of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts) founded the first modern art school in China. He has served as president, honorary president and professor of Nanjing Art Institute, and honorary chairman of Shanghai Artists Association. Consultant of China Artists Association, member of the Standing Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Cambridge International Biography Center awarded "Outstanding Achievement Award". Italian European Institute awarded the "European Palm Gold Award". He has published Liu Haisu's Painting Collection, Liu Haisu's Oil Painting Collection, Liu Haisu's Traditional Chinese Painting and Interpretation of Learning Painting.
Xu Beihong (1July, 89519 ~1September 26th, 953), Han nationality, was born in Yixing, Jiangsu, China. The founder of modern art in China, an outstanding painter and art educator, is famous for drawing horses. I studied poetry and calligraphy with my father since I was a child. 19 12 17 years old, she worked as a drawing teacher in Yixing girls' junior normal school. 19 16 entered the French Department of Fudan University in Shanghai and taught himself sketching while working. He studied in Japan and France, traveled to western European countries and studied western art, and returned to China from 65438 to 0927. He successively served as the director of the Fine Arts Department of Shanghai Nanguo Art Institute, professor of the Art Department of Central University and dean of Peking University Art Institute. Since 1933, China's art exhibitions and solo exhibitions have been held in France, Belgium, Italy, Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union. Xu Beihong's works are the fusion of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign techniques, showing superb artistic skills and extensive artistic accomplishment. It is a model of making the past serve the present and making foreign things serve China. It plays a great role in the history of China fine arts and is good at sketching, oil painting and Chinese painting. His greatest achievement in oil painting is to combine the light and color expression of impressionism with the rigorous and perfect modeling of classicism. He integrated western artistic skills into Chinese painting and created a novel and unique style. His sketches and oil paintings are permeated with the charm of Chinese painting. In his creation, he followed the principle of "learning from nature and seeking truth". Most of his works are based on real life, or learn from the past to express patriotism and humanitarian feelings. His creative themes are extensive, and landscapes, flowers and birds, animals, people, history and myths are all lifelike. His masterpieces, such as Tian Heng 500, Mourn for Me Later, Chinese painting Jiufanggao and Gong Yu One Mountain, are full of patriotic feelings and sympathy for the working people, showing their indomitable perseverance and indomitable spirit, and expressing their anxiety about national peril and yearning for bright liberation. His frequent paintings of galloping horses, lions and morning chickens give people vitality and strength, showing an exciting positive spirit. In particular, his "Running Horse" is world-renowned, and has almost become the symbol of modern painting in China. Xu Beihong has been devoted to art education for a long time, and has made unparalleled and far-reaching contributions to the construction of the fine arts team in China and the development of the fine arts cause in China.
Lin Fengmian (1900— 199 1), formerly known as Lin, was born in Meixian County, Guangdong Province, and loved painting since childhood. At the age of 9, he went to France to work and study. He first studied western painting at Tyrone School of Fine Arts in France, and then transferred to the National Academy of Fine Arts in Paris for further study. He is a world-renowned master of painting, the earliest advocate and the most important representative of "the combination of Chinese and Western", and the pioneer and pioneer of art education in China. After returning to China from 65438 to 0925, he served as president and professor of Beiping Art College. 1926 was invited by Cai Yuanpei, president of the University of the Republic of China, to be the director of the Art Education Committee of the University of the Republic of China. 1927, Lin Fengmian was invited by Cai Yuanpei to establish the National Academy of Fine Arts (China Academy of Fine Arts), the first art institution in China and China, as the president. He advocated eclecticism, reconciled Chinese and Western arts, and personally created a highly personalized lyric painting style with the flavor of the times and national characteristics, which provided practical development ideas and style models for modern painting in China, and was also a pioneer with innovative pioneering spirit in practicing the integration of Chinese and Western cultures in the 20th century. Lin Fengmian's view on the integration of Chinese and Western cultures played down the traditional concept of pen and ink to a certain extent, and at the same time began to pay attention to forms and materials, which greatly enriched the creative features of China's paintings in the 20th century and provided a topic for Wu Guanzhong, He Liu and other successors to learn from and discuss in depth. In this sense, he can really be regarded as the enlightener of modern painting art in China. Lin Fengmian is a master of modern painting in China, an outstanding art educator, the founder of China Academy of Fine Arts, and a well-deserved master in the history of modern painting in China.
Qi Baishi (1864- 1957), a native of Xiangtan, Hunan Province, was named Chunzhi, alias Huang, and Wei Qing, whose name was Lanting, alias Baishishan, so he went to the world in the name of Qi Baishi. There are a large number of pen names and self-names, such as Da Qi, Mu Ren, Mujushi, Hongdousheng, descendants of the former residence in the Tang Dynasty, borrowing Shan Weng, borrowing the owner of Yin Shan Pavilion, sending Garden, Pingweng, sending Pingtang Owner, President of Longshan, the rich man of three hundred lithographs, and the owner of Bai Shu Pear Flower. One of the top ten painters in the 20th century, a world cultural celebrity. He is a famous master of calligraphy and painting and calligraphy seal cutting in China in the 20th century. He used to be a professor of Beijing National Academy of Art, honorary professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts, honorary president of Beijing Painting Academy and chairman of China Artists Association. He was awarded the title of "China People's Artist" and won the World Peace Council 1955 International Peace Gold Award. Representative works include Twelve Pages of Flowers, Grasshoppers and Insects, White Grass Stone Carving, etc. He perfectly unified the spirit of Chinese painting with the spirit of the times, which made Chinese painting attract international attention. In his works, flowers, birds, insects, fish, landscapes and figures are all refined and new, creating a simple and fresh art world for the history of modern painting in China. He successfully conveyed the modern artistic spirit of Chinese painting with classic pen and ink interest, benefited from classical style and was good at innovation, so his paintings can directly touch people's hearts and convey the wisdom and philosophy of life to all beings in the world. His landscape paintings express his confidence and profound understanding of artistic innovation, and his figure paintings are good at expressing emotions. He integrated simple and elegant calligraphy and vigorous brushwork into figure painting, and perfected the expression of the inner expression of the characters. -From the Internet