Zhuang Zhong＇s ＂Perplexities＂ and ＂Free-from-Perplexities＂

No More Perplexities at Forty Confucius says:"At forty,I no longer sufferedfromperplexities."Although the 39-year-old painter Zhuang Zhong is about to be"free from perplexities",he is still suffering from"perplexities."Fortumately,his"perplexities"are not the fear of being lost and confused,but a desire for knowledge,a passion for creativity and courage to surpass himself.. The painter sitting opposite me seemed to be more interested in music than painting. He said he is learning Guqin(a seven-string plucked instrument).To begin with,he kept listening to the music played by masters. Meanwhile,he had collected some valuable     

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     

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     

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     

Communication,Creation and Psychological Implication——A Conversation with Ren Chuanwen

An artist who knows the art of communication I had a pleasant communication with Ren Chuanwen. I often meet some artists, who are good at expressing themselves with his familiar art forms but not with his own words, or totally living in his own spiritual world and talking without pause ignorant of the feeling of his listeners.     

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.     

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     

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.     

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.     

Yage–Approaching the Summit Of Art in the World

Fan Jingma,a tenor who passed the 50-year-old birthday had not seen through his destiny.Was the old saying of knowing one’s destiny at f ifty not true on myself?–Fan could not help but asked himself confusedly.Probably from that day,what his own destiny is becomes a question Fan thinks about all the time.After nearly a year,one day before his51-year-old birthday,Fan dated me for     

Family Planning Benefits Reproductive Health——Case Study of Shanghai

Reproductive health is a new concept put forward by the international community in recent years. In April 1994, WHO defined reproductive health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its function and processes. The concept gained international recognition at the International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in September 1994. Based on the global repro…     

Study on Time Expectancy of Care for Daily Living of Chinese Elderly

According to the data of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey(CLHLS)and applyin g methods of Sullivan and multistate life table,this paper examines the time expectancy of care for daily living of Chinese elderly and its proportion in their elderly life.The results find that there exists a signifi cant gender gap of the expectancy,which the male at 65averagely are expected to have four to five care years while the female at 65averagely are expected to have seven to eight care years.The time expectancy for slight care of daily living is longer than that for sever care.Additionally,there is no significant difference between urban elderly and rural elderly.However,as age increases,the time expectancy for slight care goes down while that for sever care stabilities at a constant at different ages.The time expectancy for different types of care and its proportion in the rest of life are significantly various.The study points out that the establishment and improvement of care insurance system and the elderly care service are very necessary.     

Seeking Buddha

The Wine Buddha The aroma of wine fills the air.Buddha is in the swirl of wine,and will not sink.The perceived submergence is only in our imagination.On a day that is warm and sunny,everything seems as usual! But the sinking is taking place,in our mind. Human beings will sink,be it in water or in air.While sinking,most human beings will long for Buddha’s salvation;however, there are a few,who would sink calmly achieving unexpected enlightenment.It is always believed that at the end of the rope, Buddha will stretch out his hand to rescue our lust soaked hearts. The bitter sea is boundless;if you turn around,the shore is there.But the shore is     

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     

China’s Urban Population Exceeding Half: Challenges and Responses

China’s urban population exceeded rural population for the first time in Chinese history,reaching 51.27% in 2011.However,the level of urbanization has been exaggerated.If deducting the landless peasants under forced urbanization and migrant workers being not treated equally in the cities,China’ s actual urbanization level stood at 41.6% .There are challenges ahead.For example,an urban social value system has not been established in our society; we don’ t have a clear understanding of the role of cities and how to develop a city; urban management has not prepared well for urbanization development; and there is a long way to go in achieving equal treatment for all of the Urban residents.To cope with the challenges of urbanization,we need to improve the quality of urbanization,correctly understand the role of urbanization and its substance,follow the law of the urban development,and to explore building of an urban culture system.     

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？”     

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,     

Population and Family Planning Fund Included in Government Budget

China will further the reform of the population andfamily planning financial investment system byincluding the population and family planning fund in the government budget, said Zhang Weiqing,Minister of the National Population and FamilyPlanning Commission, at a July teleconference onRewarding Outstanding Organizations andIndividuals in the Anti-SARS War. As one of its ten objectives for the year 2003, theNPFPC is working closely with the financialdepartment to draft a concrete pla…     

Rosted Leaves Redder Than February Flowers——Thoughts after Reading Mr. Yu Honglin's Painting Collection

正A day in mid-May this year,Mr.Yu Honglin came to the Oriental Painting and Calligraphy House with his latest published painting and calligraphy collection book.It makes me very excited to share his artistic achievement with you.Mr Yu’s creation style is skillful,confi dent,substantial and vivid.In my opinion,both painting and calligraphy pay attention to brushwork.Meaningful lines are the original starting point of arts.Use Mr.Yu’s seal