Dong Shouping (1904- 1997) is a famous contemporary painter and calligrapher. Formerly known as Yan, the word "He" was renamed as Dushu Village, Hongtong County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province. He graduated from Nankai University in Tianjin and Oriental University in Beijing in his early years. Known for painting pine, bamboo, plum and orchid, he was known as the Huangshan Giant in his later years. He painted landscapes with Huangshan as the theme and was good at calligraphy.
His paintings are inspired by nature, starting with sketches, using vivid pen and ink, supplemented by a high degree of artistic generalization, seeking similarity and emphasizing the spirit of the object. Cinnabar and red plum are stunts; Ink bamboo is elegant and graceful, concise and magnificent, with ethereal composition and unique style; His landscape is very famous, mostly taking the old pine of Huangshan Qifeng as the theme. The picture scroll is not limited to the shape of the peak stone, but seeks the unity of the overall charm; Mosong is full of vitality, vigorous and simple.
Dong Shouping related introduction
Mr. Dong Shouping is not only a painting and calligraphy artist, but also a well-deserved philosopher and aesthetician. He is a monument in the history of painting and calligraphy in China with comprehensive techniques and profound cultivation. He devoted himself to painting and calligraphy in the vicissitudes of decades, leaving thousands of historical masterpieces, which have always been quiet and clear. His painting style is vigorous and simple, with precise layout, fresh and elegant, taking nature as a teacher without violating the ancient law, and has outstanding personal innovation in style.
His works are known as "Winter Plum", "Shou Pingzhu" and "Huangshan Giant" in the painting world, which embodies the harmonious unity of philosophy and aesthetics, perfectly reproduces the essence of harmonious coexistence between man and nature in literati paintings, with both the natural artistic conception of poetry and painting and a modest and mellow literati painting temperament and Confucian demeanor. It shows his noble spiritual realm, profound knowledge, upright bearing and magnanimity.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Dong Shouping (painter).