Yan Zhiyang (1883— 1962), whose real name is Zi Yang and Yang Zhi, was called Lu Yue. People from Yangfengang Village, Bazhou City, Hebei Province (originally from Jinghai County, Hebei Province). I studied calligraphy with my father since I was a child. 12 years old, apprenticed in Yangliuqing, the hometown of New Year pictures, and then studied in Hubei Armed Forces School. After graduation, I lived in Tianjin for a long time, painting, worshiping China samurai club Li Cunyi and studying martial arts. 1909 drew textbook illustrations in Tianjin Zhili Library Bureau, 19 12 worked as an editor of pictorial magazine in Tianjin People's Daily, and worked in Tianjin Education Department to improve New Year pictures. 192 1 Join Tianjin Painting and Calligraphy Charity Association and engage in poverty alleviation and relief work. 1937 quit the village. 1957 or so participated in Tianjin, Hebei and national art exhibitions for many times. He is the author of Calligraphy Guide, Yan Zhiyang's Painting Collection, Reading Lu's Poetry Collection, etc.
Yan Zhiyang was born in a scholarly family, and his father Yan Xuan Bing is a respected local celebrity. The Jinghai County Records of the Republic of China said that he was "good at rhyme and happiness". Yan Zhiyang has been "rooted in family studies" since childhood. After studying under Mr. Anci, he wrote poems. /kloc-When he was 0/2 years old, he studied painting flowers with a country painter and painted New Year pictures in Yangliuqing. After that, Yan Zhiyang's painting skills mainly came from self-study.
As a teenager, Yan Zhiyang studied at Wu Bei School in Hubei Province. The next year, he left school and returned to the north. He traveled to famous mountains and rivers, copied and sketched, and accumulated a lot of painting materials. After returning to Tianjin, Yan Zhiyang still made a living by selling paintings and studied martial arts with Li Cunyi, a China samurai club in Tianjin. After Mr. Li's death, Yan Zhiyang undertook the task of organizing the China samurai club. The biography of the northern warriors published in the Republic of China wrote that "the Chinese warriors will stand for more than ten years, and those who are not slightly depressed after being robbed will be strong."
Yan Zhiyang studied martial arts with Mr. Li Cunyi. "I like swords for more than ten years. All good swords, two swords, eight diagrams swords, dragon swords, thirty-six swords, serial swords, ten swords and thirteen knives are exquisite and experienced. " He made many intimate friends in his life, and his teacher Li Cunyi had the deepest influence on him.
Yan Zhiyang is versatile and his paintings are the most famous. His paintings are mainly freehand brushwork and meticulous brushwork; Seiko figures are also good at landscapes and flowers, and all kinds of subjects are involved. In figure painting, there are not only celebrity anecdotes, historical allusions, literary stories and fairy tales, but also chivalrous stories, women who are just scholars, children playing, fisherman Shu Ren and portraits of real people.
Yan Zhiyang lives in Hebei Park (now Zhongshan Park) in Tianjin, where he paints, practices martial arts and works. Later, he moved with the Wushu Association and lived in Tianjin Ye Jing Temple and Taolin Primary School. Contemporary Hua Shikui and Liu Kuiling are both good friends in the field of calligraphy and painting, and they have created some works together. In the early days of the establishment of Tianjin Municipal Art Museum, at the invitation of Yan Zhikai and Jiang Puruo, he held a solo exhibition in the Art Museum and went to Japan for exhibition. The art museum made a biography of his camera and wrote: "Yan Daosheng, Zi Yang, Hao Lu, from Hebei. He is good at calligraphy and painting, fencing, singing and quiet by nature. He doesn't show people what he can show, his family is poor and he is self-sufficient in painting. Therefore, he is famous for his paintings and his landscape paintings. He wants to learn from Chen, but he is ambitious and ambitious. Mr. Li Dazhao praised Yan Zhiyang's literary works. He once asked Jiang Prajna to write a letter, hoping to meet Yan Zhiyang, but he never got it.
After 1937, Yan Zhiyang returned to his hometown, lived in seclusion in the countryside and retired from Tianjin painting circles. The turbulent social life made Yan Zhiyang always live among floods, military disasters and bandits. 1942, hundreds of paintings and calligraphy works, precious ancient books and family property were all burned and kidnapped by bandits. After his death, 200 of his masterpieces were also burned.
Yan Zhiyang is a painter with noble national integrity. 1940 or so, Yan Zhiyang once lived in Jinghai County. Some Japanese officers heard the name of Yan Zhiyang's painting and came to ask for it. All were rejected by Yan Zhiyang. Japanese officers were so angry that they took Yan Zhiyang to the Japanese military station and forced him to start writing. Yan Zhiyang then drew a picture of a German dog, which was a fierce German dog. The Japanese officer was very happy and didn't know about it. This incident was passed down as a much-told story by the people of Jinghai County.
Yan Zhiyang is generous and devoted his life to charity. As early as 192 1, Yan Zhiyang participated in the Tianjin Painting and Calligraphy Charity Association, and held a charity sale for the victims who had flooded into Tianjin in recent years. From 1924, the Jinghai area in Tianjin suffered the second direct service war. At that time, the people lived in poverty and their minds were blocked. In order to enlighten the people's wisdom and educate the people's customs, he used seven spare rooms in the ancestral hall to set up a "Jiazi Reading Newspaper" and ordered a large number of books and newspapers for the people to read, which was well received by the people. 1936, just as the Japanese army was about to invade China on a large scale, he scrimped and saved, donated more than 2,000 silver dollars, and built 16 bungalow schools by using the abandoned site of the old temple in Yangfen Port, which was later expanded to 32, and trained students from generation to generation.
Yan Zhiyang studied hard all his life, was indifferent to fame and fortune, disliked socializing, was simple and generous, and lived a comfortable life. In his later years, he praised Laozi and Zhuangzi even more, compared himself with Tao Qian, built a hedge in the East, and took pleasure in the quiet and detached pastoral life. Although his temperament negatively affected the promotion of his artistic reputation, it nourished his high taste in painting. Unfortunately, most of Yan Zhiyang's fine paintings in his later years were burned at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, and only a few were handed down from generation to generation, so it is difficult to see the whole picture.
Judging from the existing works, Yan Zhiyang not only learned from Chen Hongshou, a master at the end of Ming Dynasty, but also absorbed the strengths of famous artists such as Geqi in the middle of Qing Dynasty, "Shanghai School" and Ren Bonian in the late Qing Dynasty, and integrated his calligraphy brushwork and martial arts into calligraphy and painting, which not only showed profound traditional skills, but also was full of new ideas, forming a detached style with profound charm and vitality. His brushwork is concise and smooth, his pen and ink are rich and varied, his colors are bright and elegant, his characters are vivid and tall, and his scenery is natural and distant, giving people rich aesthetic enjoyment.
The late famous painter Wang Xin commented that Yan Zhiyang was a buried painter, and his later works can be compared with any painter of his time.
-Bazhou Culture