Fan Zedeng
Fan Zedeng, a famous Hong Kong painter. Born in Suqian City, Jiangsu Province in 1926. Settled in Hong Kong in 1949. Now ninety-one years old. Fan Zideng is good at painting landscapes, flowers and birds, figures, and Buddhist statues, and he has many early meticulous works. After middle age, he became obsessed with Fanghu, Qingteng, Qingxiang and Bada. In his later years, he liked to paint large freehand paintings such as bamboo, ink and lotus. His splash-ink landscapes created wonderful scenes, which were elegant and refined, with varied brush and ink, superb, joyful and unrestrained, and smart and radiant. He is currently the president of the Hong Kong International Federation of Artists.
Chinese name: Fan Zideng
Birthplace: Suqian City, Jiangsu Province
Date of birth: 1926
Occupation: Painter
Main achievements: versatile painter, master of freehand brushwork
Representative works: "Our Lady of China", "After the Starfish"
Character introduction
Fan Zideng, courtesy name infant. Male, born in 1926, from Sucheng District, Suqian City, now lives in Hong Kong. He is a famous Chinese painter at home and abroad.
He began to learn painting at the age of 8. At the age of 12, he became a teacher of Dongtai painter Sun Shoushi. Later, he studied at the private Lize Traditional Chinese Painting Academy run by Li Fenggong in Guangdong Province. Graduated from the school in 1946. He settled in Hong Kong in 1949 and founded "Yongcui Painting Academy" and "Fun Yin Painting Society" successively. He became famous in the Hong Kong painting circle in the 1960s and was known as an all-round painter. In the 1980s, he was known as a master of freehand painting.
Famous Hong Kong painter, Fan Zedeng. Born in Suqian City, Jiangsu Province in 1926. Settled in Hong Kong in 1949. Now eighty-four years old.
Fan Zideng is good at painting landscapes, flowers and birds, figures, and Buddhist statues, and many of his early works were meticulous. After middle age, he became obsessed with Fang Hu, Qing Teng, Qing Xiang, and Bada. He often said: "If you don't follow the ancient methods and don't know the ancient methods and medicines, how can you introduce the old and bring out the new, use the ancient for the present, and innovation is the most important thing." In his later years, he paid more attention to the divine connection between the soul and the pen and ink. He liked to paint large freehand paintings such as bamboo, ink and lotus. His splash-ink landscapes created wonderful scenes, were elegant and refined, varied in pen and ink, superb, joyful, unrestrained, and smart, and were highly praised by the art world.
Fan Zedeng emerged in Hong Kong in the 1960s and was known as an all-around painter. In the 1980s, he was known as a master of freehand brushwork. His works enjoy high reputation overseas, in Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places. Some of his character works, such as "Our Lady of China" and "Queen of the Starfish", have been collected by the Pontifical Palace Museum in Rome, the Iranian royal family and cultural relics museums in the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Zhang Daqian, a great master in the painting world, once spoke highly of Fan Zideng as one of the three best painters in Chinese painting.
Fan Zedeng is currently the president of the Hong Kong International Federation of Artists. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in fine arts by the European Association of Higher Education Institutions for his special maturity. He is an honorary professor and library consultant of the Fine Arts Department of Shaanxi Normal University, and a Hong Kong Chinese poetry scholar. Honorary President of the World Alliance, consultant of the Chinese Calligraphy Art Research Institute, consultant of the Hong Kong Hongli Painting and Calligraphy Association, and senior academician of the Li Keran Art Research Association of Peking University, China.
Artistic Characteristics
He learned from Zhang Daqian in painting, and is good at the mixed painting method of splashing ink and splashing color. Regardless of craftsmanship and freehand brushwork, he can do whatever he wants, and his brushstrokes become interesting. He is good at poetry and painting, and is also good at calligraphy, making poetry, calligraphy and painting a trinity that complement each other. His fine brushwork figures, ladies, and Buddha statues are similar to those of Zhang Daqian in his early years. His landscape attainments are bizarre and fascinating, and his freehand flowers are innovative but not based on ancient methods, and are deeply artistically appealing. His sketches of peonies, peonies, and bamboo orchids have a transcendent and refreshing style, and are regarded as treasures by connoisseurs. The ink lotuses he painted are full of ink color, majestic and smooth, bold and vigorous, sophisticated and elegant, reaching the realm of the famous painters Ivy and Snow. Xue Huishan, a famous Taiwanese painting critic, commented on his paintings: "Fan is highly talented, his brushwork is full of aura, his style is elegant and elegant, and his charm is vivid. There is innovation in the tradition, and there is tradition in the innovation. After seeing his paintings, I am deeply moved. People feel fresh and transcendent.”
For more than 40 years, Fan has held many art exhibitions with his works in the United States, France, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other countries and regions. Some of his works are collected by the Papal Court in Rome, and some are collected by the National Heritage Museum of Singapore, the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, the "National" Museum of History, etc. His paintings are also collected by the former Shah of Iran and some collectors.
In 1993, he returned to mainland China for the first time and held personal exhibitions in Nanjing, Xi'an and other places, which were well received by domestic experts and all walks of life. Shaanxi Normal University appointed him as a visiting professor in the Art Department, and set up a "Fan Zideng Exhibition Room" in the school as a learning platform for students. During this period, he also visited his hometown of Suqian, gathered with people from the city's literary and artistic circles at the Municipal Cultural Center, and held lectures. He splashed ink and painted on the spot to express the friendship between his hometown and his hometown.