Famous contemporary Chinese calligraphers: Ouyang Zhongshi, Shen Peng, Wang Yong, Shi Kai, Chen Jincheng, Yan Gongda, Lin Xiu, Zhang Hai, Zhang Xuguang, Wang Dongling.

A brief introduction to the art of famous contemporary Chinese calligraphers: Ouyang Zhongshi was born in Feicheng, Tai'an City, Shandong Province in 1928.

Famous scholar, educator, calligrapher and calligraphy educator.

Professor and doctoral supervisor at Capital Normal University.

Director of the Chinese Calligraphy Culture Research Institute, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, consultant to the Chinese Calligraphers Association, and member of the Chinese Painting Research Institute. Ouyang Zhongshi is both a scholar and an educator.

In the early 1950s, young Ouyang Zhongshi was admitted to the Philosophy Department of Fu Jen Catholic University. A year later, he entered the Philosophy Department of Peking University, majoring in the history of Chinese logic, and became a student of the logic master Jin Yuelin.

In 1954, Ouyang Zhongshi graduated from Peking University and began to work in grassroots education in middle schools.

He has taught various courses in middle schools and is highly respected by his students.

In his long-term practice of teaching in middle schools, he has actively and deeply thought about some long-standing problems in Chinese teaching. He has used his keen vision and discerning thinking, as well as his unique and profound understanding of the characteristics of Chinese language and characters, to propose

A scientific Chinese language education reform plan was developed and piloted in middle schools, which achieved remarkable results and received unanimous praise from all walks of life.

Facing Ouyang Zhongshi is like facing a thick book, which makes you respect, think deeply and leave you with endless taste.

However, the current price is already high. If you can find works priced below 5,000 yuan per square foot, you can invest and collect them.

Shen Peng, whose name is Jieju.

Born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province in September 1931, he served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, consultant to China Art Publishing House, and editor-in-chief of "Chinese Painting and Calligraphy".

He is currently the honorary chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association.

Mr. Shen Peng is good at cursive calligraphy, and can use both official and regular script styles.

The cursive writing is mainly in the style of the Tie School. He has conducted in-depth research on the inscriptions of the Han and Wei dynasties and the works of calligraphers from the Song Dynasty such as Mi Fu. Regarding his cursive writing, he was mainly inspired by Huaisu's "Dacao Qianwen" and softened his own official script writing style to form his own style.

The cursive script has strong characteristics of the times and personal style.

He is one of the few contemporary cursive calligraphers who has reached considerable heights.

Mr. Shen Peng should be ranked first in Beijing in addition to Qi Gong.

The quoted price of Mr. Shen Peng's works is: 10,000 yuan per square foot. The market price of works after 2000 is around 6,000 yuan. It is recommended that collectors buy works priced below 5,000 yuan per square foot.

Mr. Shen Peng's calligraphy works will not only have high collection value in the future, but also have great room for appreciation.

Wang Yong was born in Beijing in March 1948.

A native of Taiyuan, Shanxi.

In 1979, he was admitted as a graduate student by professors Li Keran and Liang Shunian of the Department of Chinese Painting of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in landscape painting, calligraphy and seal cutting. He received guidance from Ye Qianyu, Liang Shunian and others. In 1981, he won the first prize of Ye Qianyu’s scholarship at the graduate graduation exhibition and

Stay in school to teach.

He is currently a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, director of the Calligraphy Art Research Office, deputy director of the Seal Cutting Art Committee of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, and deputy director of the Jury Committee for the National Young and Middle-aged Calligraphy and Seal Cutting Exhibition.

His works have been exhibited and published many times at home and abroad, collected by many art galleries and museums, and several special collections have been published.

He is currently a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, a member of the Chinese Artists Association, and the vice chairman of the Oriental Art Exchange Society.

Mr. Wang Yong is "the founding figure of contemporary Chinese calligraphy." He and Shi Kai, He Yinghui, Wo Xinghua and other leaders of "popular calligraphy style" and "heavyweight figures in Chinese calligraphy circles" are known as "popular calligraphy style" leaders.

Mr. Wang Yong's calligraphy orientation is mainly folk calligraphy. He has widely absorbed "epitaphs", "cliffs", "slips", "tiles", "gold seals", "brick inscriptions", "ding inscriptions" and "Qin Dynasty".

"Quan" and so on. In terms of the breadth of folk calligraphy, it is unparalleled in the world.

Although Mr. Wang Yong is a controversial figure in today's calligraphy world, his influence on "contemporary calligraphy" - "popular calligraphy style" is unparalleled.

Mr. Wang Yong's status, knowledge, influence, printing, calligraphy, and painting are among the best.

Mr. Wang Yong's calligraphy works are currently about 8,000 yuan per square foot. The market price: early works (referring to the 1990s) are about 4,000 yuan. He is one of the calligraphers whose prices have increased rapidly in recent years.

From a collection perspective, it is also one of the must-have books for collectors.

Shi Kai, born in 1951, is from Fuzhou City, Fujian Province.

His original surname was Liu and his alias was Ji Zhou. He changed his surname to Shi after engaging in art career.

It can be said like this: Mr. Shi Kai is a top figure in China's seal world.

His sealing style has influenced contemporary sealing circles.

As early as the mid-1980s, the seal world was known as a "three-legged tripartite", that is: Wang Yong stood tall in Beijing; Han Tianheng lived in the sea; Shi Kai led the coquettish people in southern Fujian.

Mr. Shi Kai is also one of the leaders of "popular calligraphy style", and he is even more controversial in today's calligraphy circles.

Mr. Shi Kai's calligraphy has a strong personality of being lonely and unique. Some people say that Shi Kai's calligraphy is like a ghost painting, giving people a mysterious feeling. Because his calligraphy personality is so strong, it is even different from any contemporary calligrapher.

Keep distance.

In fact, the analysis of Mr. Shi Kai's calligraphy is also very traditional, especially in his early works.

He was more influenced by the calligraphers of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. His calligraphy can be seen everywhere under the influence of Huang Daozhou and Fu Shan.

Shi Kai's seal cutting, calligraphy, painting, and poetry are all excellent. Shi Kai is undoubtedly the most creative calligrapher who can inherit the tradition.

It will become a great thing in the future.