profile of contemporary China painter

Wu Guanzhong's precious photo collection (1)(2 photos) Mr. Wu Guanzhong

Wu Guanzhong was born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province in 1919. He is a famous contemporary painter China, an outstanding China painter, an oil painter, a China artist and an art educator. He graduated from the National Hangzhou Art College in 1942 and once taught in the Department of Architecture of the National Chongqing University. In 1946, he was admitted to the Ministry of Education to study abroad at public expense. In 1947, he went to the Paris National School of Fine Arts and returned to China in the autumn of 195. He taught in the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University, Beijing Institute of Art and Central Academy of Arts and Crafts. Wu Guanzhong is one of the representative painters of modern China painting in the 2th century. He devoted himself to the exploration of nationalization of oil painting and modernization of Chinese painting, and formed distinctive artistic characteristics; He has held many solo exhibitions in China Art Museum, and successively held exhibitions in art galleries and museums in Hongkong, Singapore, the United States, Britain, France and other countries. In 2, Wu Guanzhong was elected as a member of the Communication Academy of the French Academy. He was not only the first China artist to win this honor, but also the first Asian to hold this position. Mr. Wu Guanzhong's paintings combine the essence of western painting and Chinese painting, and his pen is concise. In his later works, he often likes to shape with points and lines, creating his own unique interpretation and interpreting the beauty of nature. Life is like his hard experience, and he has been pondering for a long time ... And his articles are also educational, simple and unpretentious, and can be seen and gained a lot. At the same time, Wu Guanzhong's works have hit record highs in the auction art market; As the last public auction work before his death, in Hanhai Spring Auction in 21, in 1974, he made a long oil painting "The Map of the Yangtze River in Wan Li", which was sold for 57.12 million yuan. At 23: 57 on June 25th, 21, Mr. Wu Guanzhong died in Beijing Hospital at the age of 91. Tsinghua University's obituary issued on 26th said: China's outstanding artist, art educator, party member, member of the Standing Committee of the 8th, 9th and 1th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Wu Guanzhong < P >, consultant of China Artists Association, communication academician of the Art Institute of the French Academy, honorary doctor of literature of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and comrade Wu Guanzhong, a professor of Tsinghua University, died at 23: 57 on June 25th, 21. According to Wu Guanzhong's last wish, no farewell ceremony or memorial service will be held; Tsinghua University will hold a memorial service for Professor Wu Guanzhong.

Personal resume

Born in Yixing City, Jiangsu Province in p>1919. In 1926, he attended Wu's primary school. In 193, he entered the elementary school of E Mountain in Yixing County. In 1931, he graduated from primary school and was admitted to Wuxi Normal School. Wu Guanzhong's Precious Photo Collection (2)(16 photos) In 1934, he completed three years of normal junior high school and enrolled in the Electrical Engineering Department of the industrial school entrusted by Zhejiang University. In 1935, he entered the National Hangzhou Art College. In 1936, he entered the National Hangzhou Art College to study western painting, Chinese painting and watercolor painting. In 1937, when War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, President Lin Fengmian led all the teachers and students and left Hangzhou with the people. In 1938, he graduated from the High School Attached to Art College and was promoted to this scientific oil painting, where he studied with Chang Shuhong and Guan Liang. At the same time, I also study Chinese painting. In 194, he transferred to Chinese painting and became a student in Pan Tianshou, copying many fine paintings of past dynasties. In 1941, he was still obsessed with the color of oil painting and turned back to the oil painting department. In 1942, he graduated from National Hangzhou Art College. In 1943, the first solo exhibition was held in Shapingba Youth Palace, Chongqing, Sichuan. In 1946, he won the first prize in painting for studying abroad at public expense. In 1947, he studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. In 1948, his works participated in Paris spring salon exhibition and autumn salon exhibition. In 195, he returned from studying abroad and taught in Wu Guanzhong's masterpiece collection of landscapes at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (2 pieces). In 1953, he served as an associate professor in the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University in 1956, taught at the Beijing Institute of Art in 1964 and taught at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts in 197. During the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to work in rural areas of Hebei in 1973 and transferred back to Beijing to participate in the creation of hotel paintings in 1978. In 1979, the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts hosted the Exhibition of Wu Guanzhong's Works, and in 1987, he was elected as the executive director of the China Artists Association. In 1991, the Hong Kong Art Center hosted the Retrospective Exhibition of Wu Guanzhong, and in 1992, the French Ministry of Culture awarded him the highest honor in French literature and art. In 1992, the British Museum broke the convention of only exhibiting ancient cultural relics and held the exhibition of Wu Guanzhong, a painter of China in the 2th century, for the first time. And solemnly collected Wu Guanzhong's huge new work "birds of paradise" in color ink. In 1993, it was held at the Senecio Museum in Paris on August 31st, 27, and Wu Guanzhong was at the seminar.

Wang Yongji's "Going to the World —— Wu Guanzhong's Sketch Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Ink Paintings" was awarded the "Paris Gold Medal". In 1994, he was elected as the Standing Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In 2, the "Wu Guanzhong Exhibition" hosted by the Ministry of Culture was selected as the Communication Fellow of the Art Institute of the French Academy, and he was the first China artist to receive this honor. This is also the first Asian to hold this position since the establishment of the French Academy nearly two hundred years ago. On December 26th, 26, the Chinese University of Hong Kong awarded Professor Wu Guanzhong the title of "Honorary Doctor of Literature". In August, 27, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House published The Complete Works of Wu Guanzhong, who died in Beijing Hospital at 23: 57 on June 25th, 21 at the age of 91

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Wu Guanzhong's works < He made great contributions to modern painting in China. For a long time, he has tirelessly explored the different aesthetic concepts of the two artistic languages of eastern and western painting, persevered in the creative ideas of "nationalization of oil painting" and "modernization of Chinese painting", and formed distinctive artistic characteristics. He persistently guards the true feelings of "in the motherland, in his hometown, at home and in his own heart" and expresses the aesthetic needs of the nation and the public; Wu Guanzhong's works have high cultural character. Since 198s, his artistic concept and painting creation have adapted to the historical development and the needs of the times, and promoted the evolution and development of China's modern painting concept. Wu Guanzhong has made great achievements in art creation and art education, devoted himself to the exploration of nationalization of oil painting and modernization of Chinese painting, and enjoyed a high reputation at home and abroad. He has held many solo exhibitions in China Art Museum and more than ten major cities in China, and successively held exhibitions in Singapore National Museum, Hong Kong Art Center, Chinese Cultural Center in San Francisco, Birmingham Museum, Kansas University Art Museum, St. John's Museum and Detroit Museum in New York, British Museum, and Senecio Museum in Paris. More than 5 kinds of personal paintings have been published, and more than 1 kinds of personal collections include Wu Guanzhong's Talks on Art, Wu Guanzhong's Essays, Beauty and Ugliness, Scenery of Life and Wu Guanzhong's Collected Works.

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1. There is only one choice in life. I support groping in the direction I think, and I will not cry when I go astray. I will learn from the past. 2. Few painters go to artists, most of them are painters, who can publish their works. For the sake of fame and fortune, they are busy with survival and have stopped learning. There are fewer and fewer people who work hard like everyone else. 3. The whole society is impetuous, and publications, newspapers and books are impetuous when you open them. There are many galleries and intensive exhibitions. This is not so much a cultural prosperity, but rather a novelty and bluffing for a job, which is not the same as the simple mind of artistic creation that has feelings. 4. Art comes from the heart and inspiration. There is no place to buy and sell the heart and inspiration, and the artist has no occupation. 5. Being talented is like being pregnant. As long as you are pregnant and you are not afraid of not having children, you are afraid of not being pregnant. So I run outside every day, hoping to get pregnant. 6, pen and ink is equal to zero: out of the picture, individual lines and colors are zero. Pen and ink are not stylized things.

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After graduating from junior high school of Wuxi Normal University, Wu Guanzhong was admitted to Zhejiang University as the agent of provincial advanced industrial vocational school. In 1936, Wu Guanzhong and painter Zang Boliang entered Hangzhou Art College and studied Chinese and Western painting from Li Chaoshi, Chang Shuhong and Pan Tianshou. Graduated in 1942 and served as a teaching assistant of National Chongqing University. In 1946, he went to France to study at public expense. From 1947 to 195, at the Paris Higher School of Fine Arts, J? Professor Sufuerpi studied oil painting in the studio; At the same time in a? Lott studied in the studio, and studied art history at the Louvre Art History School, with excellent results. Wu Guanzhong returned to China in the autumn of 195. He has taught in Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University Department of Architecture, Beijing Institute of Art and Central Academy of Arts and Crafts. He is currently a professor at Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts (Central Academy of Arts and Crafts), the executive director of China Artists Association and the standing committee member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. During the 195s and 197s, Wu Guanzhong devoted himself to the creation of landscape oil paintings and explored the nationalization of oil paintings. He tried to combine the intuitive vividness of European oil painting depicting nature, the richness and delicacy of oil painting colors with China's traditional artistic spirit and aesthetic ideal. He is good at expressing the scenery of water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, such as the new green in early spring, the thin mist, the cottages by the water, the white walls with black tiles, the harmonious and fresh colors, and the quiet and beautiful realm, which makes the picture have a lyric appeal. Since the 197s, Wu Guanzhong has gradually taken part in the creation of Chinese paintings. He tried to use China's traditional materials and tools to express the modern spirit, and explored the innovation of Chinese painting. His ink painting is novel in conception and unique in composition, and he is good at expressing poetic meaning through the interweaving of points, lines and surfaces. He likes concise objects and expresses the musical rhythm of nature and corresponding psychological feelings in a semi-abstract form. It is not only rich in oriental traditional interest, but also has the characteristics of the times, which makes the viewer feel refreshed. As an art educator, Wu Guanzhong pays attention to the cultivation of students' artistic personality. As a thoughtful artist, he is diligent in writing, with unique arguments and vivid and fluent words. Among them, the views on abstract beauty, formal beauty, form determines content, and life and art should be like a kite, which have caused controversy in the art world.

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Mr. Wu Guanzhong's work "Lu Xun's hometown"

is nearly 9 years old. Seeing that his works are getting higher and higher in the auction market, Wu Guanzhong uncharacteristically donated his works to major art galleries. He clearly felt that the more his works were understood by the next generation. Therefore, his works should be left as much as possible in the art museum for future reference. This emaciated southern old man carried on his own continuation of Lu Xun's spirit and commitment to social responsibility with strong spirit. Because in his view, to embark on the road of art is to be martyred. He also said that to do art well, he still needs pain, and his heart will always be entangled in it. During his lifetime, Wu Guanzhong kept mentioning that the beginning of his artistic career was due to a sentence by Zhu Dequn. Before 1936, he probably never thought that he would become a painter in the future. Before that, he studied in the provincial industrial vocational school, which was entrusted by Zhejiang University. He hoped to make a great achievement in industry. But a three-month joint military training among freshmen changed his fate. At that time, Zhu Dequn, who was studying at Hangzhou Art College, was at the head of the queue because he was big. Wu Guanzhong, a little man at the end of the queue, chatted with him and knew that Zhu Dequn was studying painting. Wu Guanzhong said, "I like painting, too." Zhu Dequn suggested that he give up his major in electrical engineering and take him to visit Hangzhou Art College. Wu Guanzhong described the great changes in his life brought by that visit in his autobiography "I am negative for Dan Qing". "I saw pictures and sculptures that I had never seen before, and I was strongly impacted by a strange world. I began to face beauty. Beauty has such charm that she easily hit a young heart. She captured many virgin prisoners and willingly enslaved them for her. At the age of seventeen, I fell at her feet and threw myself at this wonderful and beautiful universe. " I have lived in Beijing for 6 years, but Wu Guanzhong's accent has not changed. During the interview, Wu Guanzhong will also stop and ask: Can I understand what I said? In fact, this persistence is also manifested in its daring to speak and dare to confront, which may be related to its worship of Lu Xun. In the "Cultivation and Dedication-Donation Works by Wu Guanzhong" held by China Art Museum in 29, the image of his spiritual father Lu Xun and weeds appeared in the work "Weeds". Wu Guanzhong told reporters, "I admire Lu Xun very much. I once said a ridiculous thing: 3 Qi Baishi can't compare with one Lu Xun. At that time, there were many attacks on how Qi Baishi compared with Lu Xun. I'm talking about social function. Without Lu Xun, the bones of China people would be much softer. " When the reporter visited Wu Guanzhong's home last year, there were cows made by sculptor Xiong Bingming in his home, from which it is not difficult to see Wu Guanzhong's admiration for Lu Xun's spirit of "bowing down and being a willing ox". The most direct performance of inheriting Lu Xun's tough guy spirit is that he constantly fires at some artistic phenomena. In 1979, Wu Guanzhong, who held a solo exhibition at the China Art Museum, was elected as the executive director of the China Artists Association at that year's Literary Congress. At the first Council meeting, Wu Guanzhong opened fire on "politics first, art second", and no one in the whole meeting dared to take his words. Later, Wu Guanzhong wrote his years' thinking about art as the formal beauty of painting, the plastic arts can not be separated from the beauty of human body Wu Guanzhong

, and about the abstract beauty, etc., systematically expounded his views and proposed to fight a "war of art liberation to create a new style". In 1992, after Wu Guanzhong's "Pen and Ink Is Zero" was published in Ming Pao Weekly, it attracted widespread attention in the art world. Art critic Jia Fangzhou told reporters that the art world in China was still relatively confined in the 198s, but Wu Guanzhong dared to speak out his own innovative words without any concern. "He was the enlightener of modern art in China." Wu Guanzhong's painting life has staged countless painting burning events. In the 195s, Wu Guanzhong created a set of landscape paintings of Jinggangshan. Later, he looked at the original works at hand and felt dissatisfied, so he burned them continuously. Then, in 1966, at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, he destroyed all the hundreds of works he painted after returning to China and burned them. In September, 1991, when Wu Guanzhong sorted out his home paintings, he also destroyed hundreds of unsatisfied works, which was called "burning luxury houses" by overseas people. Wu Guanzhong's explanation for this heroic act is to keep the paintings that tomorrow's experts can't find fault with. While burning paintings, Wu Lao was even more unambiguous about the appearance of forgeries until he went to court. In November, 1993, 74-year-old Wu Guanzhong sued two auction companies for infringement in auctioning the fake Mao Zedong Artillery Command, demanding that the other party stop the infringement and publicly apologize. In the end, Wu Guanzhong won the case, and since then Wu Guanzhong has been fighting against forgeries. On December 11, 25, an oil painting "Pond" signed by Wu Guanzhong was auctioned at Beijing Hanhai Auction Company. On July 1, 28, it was personally identified by Wu Guanzhong.