Zhou Yongjian (1March 1952-May 2008) was born in Nanchong, Sichuan Province. 1969 settled in Guxian District, Yuechi County, Sichuan Province. 1978 graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Suzhou Silk Vocational and Technical College. After that, he worked in the design room of Nanchong Silk Factory and Chongqing Silk Factory. /kloc-0 was transferred to Chongqing Publishing House in March, 1985, and served as the deputy director of the art editing room of Chongqing Publishing House in May, and took charge of the overall work of the art editing room in June. 1987+065438+ 10 served as the director of the art editing room. 1992. Judge of "China Young and Middle-aged Calligraphy and Seal Cutting Exhibition".

Chinese name: Zhou Yongjian.

Nationality: China.

Date of birth:1March 952

Date of death: May 2008

Occupation: Master of Calligraphy Tutor

Graduation school: Suzhou Silk Vocational and Technical College

Main achievements: painting and calligraphy creation.

Representative Works: Zhou Yongjian's Calligraphy, Zhou Yongjian's Calligraphy and Painting Collection and Zhou Yongjian's Calligraphy Collection.

Personal experience

Since 1986, Zhou Yongjian has served as the editing and publishing judge of China Young and Middle-aged Calligraphy and Seal Cutting Exhibition, China Couplet Calligraphy Exhibition, China Calligraphy and Seal Cutting Exhibition and China Calligraphy Lanting Award. Deputy Director of the Jury of China Cursive Calligraphy Exhibition, China Calligraphy Seminar and China Calligraphy Lanting Award and Theory Award. He is currently a director of China Calligraphers Association, deputy director of the cursive professional committee of China Calligraphers Association, vice chairman of Chongqing Federation of Literary and Art Circles, chairman of Chongqing Calligraphers Association, professor of Southwest University College of Literature, master tutor of calligraphy, and deputy editor-in-chief of Chongqing Publishing Group.

In May 2008, Zhou Yongjian died of illness at the age of 56. During his serious illness, he spent all his life's income and donated 1 10,000 yuan to set up the Chongqing Calligraphy Award Fund to encourage the inheritance of cutting-edge calligraphy art. As the former deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of Chongqing Publishing Group, Zhou Yongjian has made great achievements as the chief planner and editor of books. Among them, the series "Printed Style of China in Past Dynasties" won the nomination of the 5th National Book Award and the first prize of the 1st Art Book Award in China.

Zhou Yongjian has been engaged in calligraphy creation and theoretical research of calligraphy and painting for nearly 30 years. His calligraphy works have participated in China Calligraphy Seal-cutting Exhibition, China Young and Middle-aged Calligraphy Seal-cutting Exhibition, China Couplet Exhibition, China Cursive Calligraphy Exhibition, China Art Museum's First Nomination Exhibition of Contemporary Famous Calligraphy, the First All-China Representative Calligraphy Exhibition, and Paris Modern China Calligraphy Art Exhibition. Zhou Yongjian's works are collected by national cultural and artistic institutions such as the Palace Museum and China Art Museum.

Zhou Yongjian published more than 300,000 words of calligraphy and painting monographs and comments in national journals such as China Calligraphy, Art History, Wenyi Bao and China Art Bao, and published more than 100 works of calligraphy and painting. Employed by China Calligraphers Association, he served as a judge of the National Youth Exhibition for seven consecutive sessions and as a judge of the China Couplet Exhibition for three sessions. 1987 In May, at the invitation of the Singapore Calligraphers Association, he was assigned by the China Calligraphers Association to give a lecture at the "Singapore Calligraphy Camp". 199665438+February, participated in the "China Sixth Literature Conference" as a representative of the Literature Conference.

Main work

He has published albums of works such as Zhou Yongjian Calligraphy, Zhou Yongjian Calligraphy and Painting Collection, Zhou Yongjian Calligraphy Collection and Zhou Yongjian Calligraphy and Painting Art; Monographs "Overview of Lishu" and "Zhou Yongjian Calligraphy Collection"; Prose collections such as "The Finger of the Wind and the Discrimination on the Claw of Snow Mud" and so on. Another work was included in the national key publishing project "The Complete Works of Modern Fine Arts in China-Calligraphy Volume".

Calligraphy characteristics

Zhou Yongjian's official script is concise and agile, which mainly comes from the Taishan Mountain Valley and the four-mountain cliff stone carvings, gaining its opening momentum, but also with a simple and straightforward feeling. His pen is centered, rigid and flexible, peaceful and simple, and his style is simple and easy to escape. From the back of its shape, it seems to be supported by Buddhist and Taoist cultures, which is quite a bit of a saint. This is essentially different from some official calligraphers who write Han bamboo slips close to Han bamboo slips, seeking simplicity with simplicity, seeking simplicity with simplicity, being confident with success, being proud of elegance, becoming complacent with smallness, abusing dry brushwork, destroying brushwork, and thinking that they are naive.

Zhou Yongjian's cursive script is impressive, freely written, with alternating dry and wet ink, like a thread wrapped in cotton and iron, which releases a rich emotional world, contains tension and tenacity, and has no tired habit of slipping, and is sublimated on the basis of seal script. The root of this is the system of the two kings, who are well versed in the principle that the pen is expensive and the front is used. At the same time, it is hidden and exposed, and it is used on both sides. The ink color is gorgeous and the breath is almost intoxicating. Most of the forms are fans and paintings by Song people. Its lines are full of musical rhythm, which has surpassed the aesthetics of calligraphers in Ming and Qing Dynasties to some extent.

Art life

In May 2008, Zhou Yongjian died of illness at the age of 56. During his serious illness, he spent all his life's income and donated 1 10,000 yuan to set up the Chongqing Calligraphy Award Fund to encourage the inheritance of cutting-edge calligraphy art. As the former deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of Chongqing Publishing Group, Zhou Yongjian has made great achievements as the chief planner and editor of books. Among them, the series "Printed Style of China in Past Dynasties" won the nomination of the 5th National Book Award and the first prize of the 1st Art Book Award in China.

Zhou Yongjian is a famous calligrapher. Through decades of unremitting exploration and research on ancient calligraphy art, he published two academic monographs on calligraphy, An Overview of Official Calligraphy and An Analysis of Feng Zanqin, with 350,000 words of papers and artistic comments. Two art albums, Zhou Yongjian's Calligraphy Works and Zhou Yongjian's Calligraphy Works, were published, and more than 200 paintings and calligraphy works were published in national newspapers such as People's Daily, China Calligraphy, Art Watch, China Calligraphy and Painting Newspaper and other works published by various publishing houses. His calligraphy works have also participated in many national and international calligraphy exchange exhibitions, such as China Calligraphy Exhibition, the First All-China Calligraphers Exhibition and the Third Tokyo International Calligraphy Exchange Exhibition.

Zhuang said in the preface to the collection of calligraphy and painting: "It is not easy to concentrate on learning art at this time, but it is difficult for those who are materialistic and not depressed. It is difficult to learn art forever, but it is clear. He is self-reliant, so he is a person I often cherish and hold more hopes and expectations. "

Yuan Yi Zheng Hui

In today's book world, Zhou Yongjian, deputy director of the Academic Committee of China Book Association and chairman of Chongqing Book Association, is a typical person with his own personal accomplishment, literary accomplishment and accommodating life realm. Zhou Yongjian has made outstanding achievements in calligraphy, painting, writing, calligraphy organization and editing, and his versatility and enterprising spirit are admirable. Looking at the art of literature and art, I admire his outlook on life and life practice of "proving wisdom with art"

Anecdotes of characters

Writing a book and a new concept of literature and art

Zhou Yongjian's "An Overview of Official History" written in his early years has shown strange knowledge, and the comments on calligraphy and painting in "On the Orchestral String and Piano" are particularly eloquent, insightful and harmonious. His Sketch of Painting Art in Yuan Dynasty, Three Masters of Modern Painting, Sweeping the Dust and Seeing the Truth, and Xu Wei's Sketch of Painting Art are fresh, clear and far-sighted, which makes his artistic theory more relaxed. His new work, Zhou Yongjian's Collection of Paintings and Calligraphy, is a combination of painting and calligraphy, which fully reflects his artistic achievements in recent years.

Zhou Yongjian's artistic orientation, like his attitude towards life, is a symbol of his personality, which is characterized by a "clear and thick" style, which is refined, deep, steady and elegant. His calligraphy is based on the remains of Tang people in Jinyun, and he is proud of the inscriptions. He is beautiful and energetic, and his methods and meanings are interrelated. He is clumsy, broad-minded and harmonious. He is like a man, and his ambition truly reflects his spiritual cultivation of "the unity of art and Taoism" and "proving wisdom with art" Judging from the creative mentality, Zhou Yongjian advocates "normal mind", that is, "leisure" and "leisure" and pursues "true interest"; Judging from the principle that the artist is based on the world, he advocates the artistic essence of "taking great wisdom", "all things are natural" and not assimilating with the secular world, and advocates that "those with discerning and authentic quality are close to the Tao"; From the perspective of grasping art, he advocates eliminating "legal obstacles" and "psychological obstacles", pursuing "true wisdom and great wisdom" characterized by "communication", based on "understanding" and "getting through" as a means; From the perspective of artistic style, he paid more attention to the literati interest of "lightness", "purity" and "elegance", advocated the style of academic research, advocated learning to cultivate art, and practiced it, which promoted the reading atmosphere of Chongqing Book Association. He has always regarded reading and learning as a means of "seeking wisdom" and "being ignorant of things". His theory has opened up a new field, where we can see his wisdom and insight.

Nourishing the heart and the orientation of the times

Zhou Yongjian's calligraphy and painting are very good, his methods are noble and ancient, and he is not fashionable. He has devoted a lot of efforts to orthodox books that are disdained by contemporary book circles, and the quaint truth rate of the upcoming Recommended Season Direct Table shows his efforts to make the past look brand-new. In addition, the wantonness of its big grass and the solemnity of its monument can be seen in the legacy of ancient sages. He believes: "The unity of mind and art shows the importance of people's spiritual cultivation. The level of spiritual cultivation is verified by intelligence, determination and the realm of life. Another kind of verification is the externalization of the mind-the scattered gas lattice in calligraphy works. Here, we can further realize that the spirit in calligraphy is actually the reflection of human life breath and life state in calligraphy. In this way, the arguments that' human success is art' and' character is a book' have an accurate correspondence. "

In Xuan Ming's Inscription and Postscript, he wrote: "Wen Gang asked Yu Shu Dao how to improve it, and Yu Yue said that it is strange and strange, which varies from book to book. It is also clear, elegant and charming. Strange, pull out the vulgar to flatter, surprising cases also; Ancient, poor law, ancient quality. Strange, but also interesting and comfortable. The books I know well are well-founded, and he can rely on them. He Guzhi's theory is short and long, and there are different opinions! " His theory of "singularity" is enough to enlighten fools and make them wise.

Cultivate one's morality and cultivate one's nature, and make good connections.

Zhou Yongjian's calligraphy and painting art is the result of his comprehensive cultivation. The ancients said that "the heart has eternal thoughts, and the wrist shows the potential of Wan Li", which is not empty talk. The "quietness" in his book is manifested in the charm of Wei and Jin dynasties, and he is carried away, neither violent nor vigorous. In the modern interpretation of classical calligraphy and painting, he also pays attention to the visual impact of aesthetics, such as making books with wrapping paper, advertising paper, calendar paper and other materials to obtain novel artistic charm. Zhou Yongjian has made great achievements in education, publishing, association and creation. His overall success depends on his extraordinary "determination" and "understanding", so he is very busy and tired, but his mind is clear.

Zhou Yongjian is very popular in calligraphy because of his modesty and prudence, respect for the old and love for the young. The ancients said that "an upright man walks without orders". Chongqing Book Association has enviable cohesion, artistic vitality and good image, which is related to Zhou Yongjian's solid work style and personality charm. Zhou Yongjian said in "Reading Ma Shixiao's two cursive scripts": "Calligraphy is an art, and I am afraid that there is one thing that I should have besides studying, and that may be spiritual freedom and purity." This sentence clearly shows what he holds and abides by. Looking at his rich academic education and artistic practice, we can better understand the unique advantages of his outlook on life and art.