Brief introduction of Huang Banruo.

Huang Banruo (190 1~ 1968), whose real name is Jianbo, whose word is Prajna, and whose nickname is "Four Innocent Zhai Zhu", is from the source of Chashan, Dongguan, Guangdong. He lost his father when he was 3 years old, and went to Guangzhou with his mother to live with his uncle Huang Shaomei. What did Huang Shaomei (1886 ~ 1940) learn from painting in his early years? His painting style is smart and elegant, especially good at figures, fine appreciation and simultaneous seal cutting. Huang Shaomei had a stage name in Guangzhou at that time, and he co-founded Current Affairs Pictorial with Pan Dawei and others. yellow

Prajna paramita was influenced by art since childhood and became interested in painting, but his uncle did not support it at first and told him that painting could not be eaten as a meal. /kloc-When he was 0/0 years old, he took out an uncle's paintings of Badashanren, copied them, covered them with sweet potatoes and put them on the street for sale. Someone paid 10 yuan for one. Uncle and his friends Pan Dawei and Pan Zhizhong began to pay attention to Huang Banruo's works, saw his persistence and understanding, and began to lead him into the art hall.

19 12 years, Pan Dawei invited Huang Shaomei to dress up as a beggar and go to Foshan and other places to beg, experience life and understand society. Huang Banruo also invited him to go with him. The three of them put on rags, painted their faces with ashes, joined the begging team, chatted with the refugees, sat on the floor, cooled the leftovers and came back in three days. After returning to China, Pan Dawei and Huang Shaomei created a picture of refugees based on their experiences on the way, which caused a sensation in the Guangdong art world.

Huang Banruo and David Pan have been friends ever since. Pan Dawei took part in the revolution in his early years. He was famous for burying 72 Guangzhou uprising martyrs in Honghuagang and changing Honghuagang into Huanghuagang, which means "writing a game-writing protocol". After the Revolution of 1911, Pan was promoted to the governor of Guangdong by party member, but he hated his former "comrades-in-arms" who fought for power and profit in officialdom, and resolutely retired to concentrate on painting. Pan Dawei died in Hongkong on 1929, and Huang Banruo mourned. His couplet said: "As iron as the sky, there is no such pen in the whole country;" The trick is to be a monk for a day and hit a bell for a day. " Pan Da, nicknamed Iron Cang, gained a wonderful dharma name after his conversion. The combination of literary works and popular tastes accurately summarizes Pan's position in art and revolutionary activities, and also shows Huang's profound skill.

Art advertising display kung fu

Huang Dade compiled the Collection of Huang Banruo's Fine Arts, the first of which was the Practical Advertising Law. This article was written in the early 1920s. Huang Banruo is not only a pioneer of art advertisement in China, but also a theorist.

When Pan Dawei founded Current Affairs Pictorial on 1905, he began to use a lot of advertising pictures. In fact, it is earlier than Li Shutong's Pacific newspaper 19 10 years. 19 13 Pan Dawei returned to Hong Kong from Shanghai, and Jane, the boss of Nanyang Tobacco Company, hired him as the director of the advertising department of the company. At that time, the competition between British American Tobacco Company with foreign capital and Nanyang Tobacco Company with national capital was fierce, and Nanyang Tobacco Company was almost bankrupt in the competition. Pan Dawei presided over its advertising department, and soon opened up the situation with advertising, which made Nanyang Tobacco Company stand firm in the competition and achieved great success. Pan Dawei is a genius in advertising. He has many unique skills and has made great contributions to art advertising.

With the continuous development of business, Pan Dawei invited friends who run Current Affairs Pictorial to participate, and Huang Banruo was also invited to paint advertisements for Nanyang Tobacco Company for a long time. At that time, in order to promote sales, each pack of cigarettes was accompanied by a "doll paper", and a set of cigarettes could be exchanged or collected. Many of these "doll papers" were written by Huang Banruo, who laid the foundation for drawing a set of "doll papers" and copying a large number of Xiu Xiang paintings, such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms, A Dream of Red Mansions and Water Margin.

Later, Nanyang Tobacco Company published a monthly brand "Calendar of Famous Paintings", all of which were traditional Chinese paintings. The authors include Pan Dawei, Huang Shaomei, Pan Zhizhong and Huang Ruo, and their themes are landscapes, flowers, people, birds and animals. This set of "Calendar of Famous Paintings" was very popular after its publication, and it was even used as a teaching material for learning Chinese painting. Huang Miaozi later recalled: "I remember that there was a line drawing Chinese painting on the advertising calendar of Nanyang Tobacco Company hosted by Mr. Pan Dawei every day. Every few pages are opened, there is a plum blossom, kingfisher or Buddha statue painted by Huang Banruo. At that time, my heart was full of admiration and envy. "

The "Huang Zhi Controversy" has a great influence.

Huang Banruo became an active figure in Guangzhou painting circle when he was in his twenties. 1923 Guihai cooperative painting society was established with eight people including Zhao, Lu, Pan Zhizhong. 1925 Due to the increase of painters, the painting society was renamed as Guangdong Traditional Chinese Painting Research Association. The Chinese Painting Research Association is dedicated to promoting traditional painting and maintaining the quintessence of China art, and its meeting place is located in Renyue Hall of Liu Rong Temple. Pan Dawei joined this group in his later years and initiated and led a fierce debate with the eclectic school (later called Lingnan School). Huang Banruo is a pioneer in the debate of Chinese painting research.

Since the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Guangdong's painting style has been in a downturn, and orthodox Chinese painting has been impacted by eastern and western painting and "new Chinese painting" at that time. After returning from Japan, Gao, Chen founded the eclectic school on the basis of Ju Lian's flower-and-bird paintings and under the influence of Japanese painting style. In view of the frequent introduction of "New Chinese Painting" in different exhibitions, he wrote the article "The Difference between Plagiarism and Creation" in his prime, and pointed out the problems of "Plagiarism" and "Plagiarism" in the works of "Two Highs and One Chen" positively. 1926, Gao organized a "New School Painting Exhibition" in Guangzhou, and instructed Fang Rending, a student, to meet the challenges. Fang Rending had not gone to Japan at this time. Out of respect for his teacher, he went into battle in disguise and responded to Huang Banruo with the article "New Chinese Painting and Old Chinese Painting", accusing the Chinese Painting Research Association of being conservative.

On March 1 day, Huang Banruo, at the behest of Pan Dawei, published "Is the New School Painting China's Dress?" In the new era of national news, he fought back. Subsequently, the two sides launched a heated debate on the understanding of traditional literati painting, painting sketch, reference and plagiarism, Chinese and Western painting and Japanese painting. This debate lasted for half a year, which is the famous dispute, also known as the dispute between the old and new painting schools. Later, through the mediation of Ye Gongchuo, the two sides of the dispute temporarily ended the dispute. This debate has gone beyond the specific topic of discussion and is of great significance in the history of modern art in China.

A reputation for public neglect of private interests.

1939 On the eve of the 8th anniversary of the September 18th Incident, the China Cultural Association was established in Hongkong and decided to hold the Guangdong Cultural Relics Exhibition. Ye Gongchuo is the director of the exhibition organizing committee, and he hired Huang Banruo as a member of the executive committee.

In the whole preparatory process, Huang Banruo has the greatest responsibility and the heaviest workload. After more than four months of intense preparation, the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Relics Exhibition was opened in the Fengpingshan Library of the University of Hong Kong on February 26th, 1940, and the effect was unexpectedly good. During the 9-day exhibition, more than 200,000 Chinese and foreign tourists came to visit, leaving precious and unforgettable memories. Thanks to the effective organization of Huang Banruo, not one of the more than 2,000 exhibits lent by more than 65,438+050 collectors was damaged or lost. After the exhibition, Huang Banruo, Ye Gongchuo, Jian Youwen and Xu Dishan jointly edited and published three volumes of * * * 3 million words of Guangdong Cultural Relics, which left a precious cultural heritage for future generations.

1947 65438+1On October 29th, the China Cultural Association and the China-Britain Society jointly held the "China Ancient Cultural Relics Exhibition", which was actually organized by several collectors such as Huang Banruo and Zheng Defen. The preparatory work is still hosted by Huang Banruo, and the exhibition will be held in Jeffery Northcott Teachers College for five days. At that time, * * * collected more than 1000 exhibits from collectors in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

On February 3, the exhibition ended, and the collectors went home with the exhibits. In the early morning of February 4th, Huang Banruo and a group of friends returned to Guangzhou from Xi 'an with their cultural relics. An hour before sailing, the stern of Xi 'an suddenly caught fire, and almost all the other collectors on board escaped alone. Undaunted by the crisis, Huang Banruo gave up his private collection and brought only the most valuable ancient paintings, including Mo Zhu by Wen Tong and Ghost Painting by Luo Liangfeng. In the Xi 'an fire, * * * 127 people died, and more than 30 people were missing and injured. Huang Banruo's selfless act was a much-told story in the art world at that time.

Learn from others and succeed naturally.

Huang Banruo's early painters imitated the ancients and copied the original works; In the later period, it was natural to learn from the law, mainly mountains and rivers. Dare to explore and innovate in the use of ink and wash. He once said to his student Lv Shoukun, "I think it is foolish to divide his paintings into southern schools, northern schools, meticulous paintings, Italian paintings, academic paintings or literati paintings. From the perspective of today's world, if art belongs to the whole world and artists want to contribute art to mankind, then why should we point out what school it is? "

There are "Little Huangshan Pavilion" and "Four Innocent Zhai" in Huang Banruo. The former is because 1933 visited Taihu Lake with a small yellow wax stone shaped like Huangshan Mountain, and the latter is because of Niu Shihui's flower map. Niu Shihui was a painter in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. His Painting of Flowers was inscribed with the following words: "May my life be four innocent, one is green hills, the other is old friends, the third is books collection, and the fourth is flowers." Huang Banruo was overjoyed when he bought this painting, so he named his study "Si Wu".

Since 1956, Huang Banruo has been invited back to the mainland for sightseeing and sketching every year, and has participated in many May Day and National Day celebrations held in the State Council. There are also many excellent sketches in China. 1956, Premier Zhou Enlai invited him to work in the Palace Museum, but failed because of the outbreak of the "Cultural Revolution". 1968, Huang Banruo died in Hongkong. From 65438 to 0997, the China Artists Association, the Cultural Relics Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Guangzhou Art Museum jointly hosted the exhibition "Huang Banruo Art World", which was a great success. Huang Banruo's works were highly praised by art circles and art critics.