Yan Jiyuan, born in Pingming, alias Su Zhen Laoren, Laoji, Jigong and Jiangzhou, 190 1 was born in Neijiang, Sichuan. Member of China Artists Association, Honorary Dean of Chongqing Chinese Painting Academy, Vice Chairman of Sichuan Artists Association, Vice Chairman of Sichuan Buddhist Association and Standing Committee of Sichuan CPPCC. He used to be vice chairman of Chongqing Artists Association and vice president of Chongqing Chinese Painting Academy.
At the age of seven, Yan Lao studied calligraphy and painting, classical poetry and Wei and Jin calligraphy with his father. And at school, I read a lot of ancient and modern paintings and learned theoretical skills. He embarked on the road of calligraphy and painting art and established his own style. Mr. Wang's artistic realm is unique and profound, and he dabbles in a wide range. Poetry, book, painting and printing are four in one. In his paintings, he emphasized the relationship between calligraphy and painting, and thought that calligraphy and painting were of the same origin and mutually rooted. Painting is the principle of calligraphy, and books are the method of painting. Yan Lao's works, whether landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, animals, insects, calligraphy, meticulous seal cutting, insects. In his artistic career of nearly a hundred years, he has deep friendship with Guo Moruo, Zhang Daqian, Zhang Shanzi, Yu Youren, Xie Wuliang, He Xiangning and Xie Yucen. , and had a great influence on his artistic life.
He is a master of strict painting style, and his paintings have great influence not only in China, but also in the United States, Japan, Singapore and other countries and Hong Kong and Taiwan. On Chairman Mao's 70th birthday, at the invitation of Guo Moruo, he made a Chinese painting "Red Sun Pine Garden" as a gift, which was deeply loved by Chairman Mao. 1964, an art exhibition was held in the auditorium of Beijing CPPCC. After the exhibition, President Zhu De said that "there is a Zhang Daqian overseas and a Yan Jiyuan at home" and held an exhibition of paintings in Beijing Military Museum 1993, which caused a sensation. From 1997 to 200 1, Mr. Yan Jiyuan exhibited in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shantou, Shunde and Shenzhen, all of which were great successes.
2011/At 7 o'clock on the evening of February 20th, Yan Jiyuan, a famous Chinese painter, who is known as "painting a fairy in a hundred years", died of hypertension and respiratory failure caused by severe pneumonia and coronary heart disease in Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital at the age of1/kloc-0. [ 1]
On the afternoon of February 1 1 1, relatives of Yan Jiyuan and people in Sichuan calligraphy and painting circles paid tribute to the body, which will be transported from Chengdu, Sichuan to Chongqing that night. This time, Yan Lao's coffin returned to Chongqing just to sleep with his wife. On the morning of February 13, the farewell party of Yan Lao's body will be held in Chongqing Jiangnan Funeral Home. [2]