Facing the Authenticity of Life

Du Juemin, a teacher of Central Academy of Fine Arts, a first-class national level artist, one of the first PhDs of Central Academy of Fine Arts, revealed his outstanding talents in the contemporary figure painting industry by the his Master degree’s graduation work. The giant painting (1800     

Ontologically Speaking... Some Reflections on the Paintings of Fan Bo

In February of this year, the Guangdong Museum of Art held a symposium entitled “Techniques of the Visible： Painting in Media-based Reality”, at which the art historian and curator Gao Shiming posed the following question： “How can we imagine a future of painting in a context of post- painting art history？”     

Impression of Yu Honglin

正The charm of Chinese painting lies in the creative expression of one’s own artistic discovery and feeling,thereby turns the genuineness of life into perfect artistic reality.It is a way to enter the painting world,which I discovered when I walked closer to the landscape of West Beijing shown in Yu’s painting.Yu,born in West Beijing,is one of the middle-aged painters I know well.He studied geology at first and had previously been down into deep underground mines.If there is anything     

Resume of Guo Zuchang

Guo Zuchang , MALE Born in December 1974, Chang De, Hunan Province Graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2007, received a master’s degree The oil painting department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts second studio lecturer. Main representative works: the warm heart seriesThe important exhibitions: 2012 : "The Painting--Chinese Youth Oil Painting Exhibition" "Visible Poetry--The Second Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition" excellence award 2011: "Open consciousness--Institute of Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition" 2010: "Research and Transcendence--The Second Chinese Small Paintings"     

Great Skill Engenders Bravery and Skill Grows with Bravery——Character and Painting of Mr.Ren Changjiu

正In the contemporary artistic circle,it is not rare for a person at the age of knowing his destiny to start learning painting and be a professional.It is also not at all surprising that one close to 60 years old starts to study painting art in a professional art school.Yet,we will consider the idea and action too naive like The Arabian Nights or a fool's paradise,if one of our friends just starts learning painting for only three or four years,abandons his family and career,goes to Beijing alone to find no     

Ma Gang： Tibet Is a Window

One afternoon, in Canggu Temple in Tibet, where flowers were in full bloom, I sat facing Ma Gang, a painter, and began an interview over a pot of sweet tea. Ma＇s simple yet straightforward opening remarks helped me to overcome my prudence and hesitancy. It was in this way that his stories begun ... Ma Gang＇s oil painting ＂Mao Zedong Met Richard Nixon＂ is an important work in the Artwork Creation Project on National Significant Historical Subject. Besides, in 1989, he contributed his works ＂Responding to Our Times＂ and ＂Eyes＂ series to the UNESCO charity auction to restore the Great Wall and save Venice.     

Silent String Sounds——Huang Ming’s Oil Paintings

Huang Ming’s oil paintings are clearly categorized as still lifes according to the classification of traditional painting. Since the Renaissance, painters have not paid much attention to still-life paintings compared to painting creation of religious or historical themes. The reason is that still-life paintings belong to a small category in the painting field and they only present limited images and contents, which cannot fully demonstrate the painters’ exceptional artistic abilities and extraordinary techniques. Thus, still lifes are often not the favor of painters and sponsors. However, important reforms and changes in watching experience in art history can often be realized by     

Brief Introductionof Zhu Baoping

Zhu Baoping, with a pen name of "Big Red", was born in Beijing in July 1958.He is currently a landscape painter of the Painting and Calligraphy Institute of The Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution and a specially engaged senior researcher of Zhongyuan Calligraphy and Painting Research Institute.Enlightened by Mr. Gao Hong, a famous oil painter, he began to learn painting in his boyhood. In 1979, he became a student of Mr. Yao Youduo, a     

Depict a better mood

In the language of contemporary painting, the conceptualization of a gradual replacement of the art itself seems to be reduced to an unprecedented bottom line requirements for color, shape and composition of fi ne art and other art forms the boundary is increasingly blurred. In such the air environment, in order to     

View Grandeur by Details and Fill Feelings in Scenery

正Chen Chenyi is one of my very valued painters.For many years,he has been assiduous in painting.Influenced by his family since childhood,he possesses profound artistic cultivation and solid basic painting skills.His pursuit in Chinese painting is refl ected in his constant exploration in the artistic conception of the painting’s general     

Grinding Ink Life of Li Pingye

正Grinding ink was an important step of painting and writing for Chinese literati in ancient times.Painter Mr.Li Pingye has been grinding his ink for nearly 80 years.It is diffi cult to tell whether he has been grinding ink or the ink has been grinding him.This famous contemporary Chinese traditional painter has experienced innumerable frustrations and sufferings of life.     

Shi Xiaobo,Painter Flamina Mountains from the

Ifirst met Shi Xiaobo in his studio in Yanjiao. It was still a roughcast house .of three rooms without any decorationand looked a little shabby. There were his recent landscape creations on all the walls, including Bai Haba, which is near his hometown： Tuyugou＇s old villages on the southern slope of the Flaming Mountain. The tableau was profound, ancient and simple, with a sense of silence. It reflected his special emotion to his hometown. Tile beam of sunshine in the painting looked all the same, day after day, for thousands of years, shining till the end of the time on the same scenery with various people passing by. It made me to feel a kind of faint helplessness.     

Invisible Reality——A large scenery in the mind of contemporary humanity

Zhuang Zhong is a painter who shows his artistic character in his early stage among oil painters born in 1970’s. Dated back to 1 994 before he graduated from university,his The First Snow since the Winter Solstice was awarded as an Outstanding Work in the Eight National Fine Art Exhibition. It not only made him an outstanding person among painters of the nearly same age,but also made him stand out in the field of oil painting in Jiangsu. The reason The First Snowfall since the Winter Solstice attracts people’s notice lies in that the picture plane turn ordinary mountains and champaign     

Li Bin： Learn and Implement in Earnest the Fundamentals of the Recently Concluded Annual Sessions of the NPC and CPPCC,and Carry out Population and Family Planning Work in a Down-to-earth Manner（Excerpt）

Li Bin, Minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, recently pointed out that the most important action we can take to implement the basic ideas of the recently concluded annual sessions of NPC and CPPCC is to carry out population and family planning work in 2008 in a down-to-earth manner according to the deployment and requirements of Premier Wen Jiabao＇s Report on the Work of the Government,     

News in Brief： China is the Only Country Having Attained a Millenium Development Goal （MDG） in Reducing Half of Its Poverty-stricken Population

On March 5, 2008, Li Baodong, head of the Chinese Delegation and ambassador, announced that China had become the only country attaining a Millenium Development Goal （MDG） in reducing half of its poverty-stricken population and having realized its program for popularizing basic education ahead of schedule. He made the announcement in his speech in the general discussion at the 7th Plenary Session of the UN Human Right Council, Geneva.     

Servile Straw Mat and Precious Memory——Impression of Huang Ming’s Still Life

Almost in the same period of time, I was acquainted with Huang Ming, Fan Bo and Lei Bo. Five years ago, Huang Ming was a neighbor of Fan Bo when he lived in Beijing. So, if I visited one of them, the other one would be called to join the gathering. It was interesting to discover although they had totally different personality and style of painting, they had one single commonality in the form of expression, which gave me the deepest impression. Their paintings showed two core elements. In many paintings of Fan, you would see a withered tree and a man under the tree; while in many of Huang’s paintings, you would see an aged object and a straw mat underneath.     

The person with a little ugly in Guo Zuchang's painting

正The people in the painting of Guo Zuchang with a little ugly ordinarily, it seems have a bit difficulty to accept for many person who are used to see the people who is handsome or beauty, in their eyes, the artist of fine arts draw the people ugly in the paintings is unreasonable. There is no wonder they can't understand it, "rather ugly don't charm" is the inertia prevailing in the fine arts in China, some people are drew by the painter as a apparition come out of hell. Currently ugly is fashionable, the man in de street just has a little aesthetic knowledge and     

Landscape and Sketchin

Choosing landscape painting as the main way of my own ＇artistic creation is a process from unconsciousness to self-awareness. 1 had beautiful ideal for art when I was a student. After graduation, 1 gradually devoted my attention to landscape paintings due to many practical limitations,     

Brief Profile of Wan Shaojun

wan Shaojun, male, was born in March 1971 in Lujiang City of Anhui Province. He obtained his bachelor degree in oil painting and gradtmted from the Department of Fine Arts of Anhui Normal University in 1993; obtained his master degree in oil painting and graduated from the Deparulaent of Fine Arts of Central University for Nationalities in 1998;     

Calligraphy and Stippling Transform Shanshui Realm——Appreciation of Xie Yuanxin's Landscape Painting

正Chinese landscape paintings have been adored by many people since the ancient times.In the art world with a riot of colors,Shanshui(landscape painting)can carry painters’interests,personalities and ideals more suitably,subtly and distantly.I have known Yuanxin for many years so I have some knowledge about his paintings,his philosophy,and the effort