Where is Gong Xueyuan from?

Gong Xueyuan (December 1940 - ), character Shen, number Shiting. He is a native of Guanghan, Sichuan. In January 2014, he was appointed as a member of the Provincial Government's Cultural and Historical Research Center. Associate researcher of literature and history. He is a member of the Sichuan branch of the China Art Association, a director of the China National Painters Association, a researcher of Chinese Buddhist culture and art, and a painter of the Sanxingdui Painting and Calligraphy Institute.

Chinese Name: Gong Xueyuan

Nationality: Chinese

Nationality: Han

Birthplace: Guanghan, Sichuan Province

Date of Birth: 1940

Occupation: Painter

Graduated from: Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Department of Chinese Painting

Representative Works: Individual Album of 100 Masters of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting

Word: Shen

Biography

Gong Xueyuan's works have been published in large domestic and foreign newspapers and magazines, and he has published five personal albums. Has been in Mianyang, Shenzhen, Hainan, Hong Kong and other places successfully organized individual exhibitions. Published by the relevant publishing house in sichuan guangdong famous personal collection (calendar), "Chinese painting and calligraphy hundred" personal album, in the "people's daily", "people's political consultative conference newspaper", "China international aviation", "China calligraphy and painting newspaper" and other special reviews on the publication of the works, to participate in the national provincial level and above and abroad exhibition works more than 300, more than 40 articles at all levels of newspapers and magazines review. Dictionary of Chinese contemporary artists, Chinese literati biographies, Chinese ink and ink famous exposition, Chinese senior expert dictionary, Chinese poets dictionary and so on have been passed on.

Gong Xueyuan was the dean of calligraphy and painting in Mianyang City, vice chairman of the Association of Artists, a member of the Sichuan Provincial Cultural and Historical Research Pavilion, a director of the Chinese Painters Association, a researcher of the Chinese Buddhist culture and art, a member of the Beijing Shibai Art Research Association, a member of the Sichuan Branch of the China Art Association, a member of the Sichuan Mohua Art Research Association, a painter of the Sanxingdui Calligraphy and Painting Institute, an adviser to the Fenggang Calligraphy Association of Dongguan City in Guangdong Province, and an adviser to the Contemporary Peasants Calligraphy and Painting Association of China, Advisor of Mianyang Municipal Art Association and Mianyang Elderly Painting and Calligraphy Research Association.

Gong Xueyuan, a painter of Mianyang, Sichuan Province, who is known both at home and abroad for his paintings of ladies, is known as the "Gong Beauty of Sichuan". He is based on the fine traditions of classical Chinese national art, but also absorbed the essence of the Western classical art of painting; not only focusing on their own brush sharpening, but also heavy artists outside the painting practice, adhere to the shape of the God, the collection of all the strengths of both landscape and birds, or paintings of ancient and modern characters, can be depicted vividly, jumping off the paper, has been the famous painter Lou Shibai's highly regarded. The ladies in his pen are vivid and clear, Zhong Kui is as bold as a rainbow, and Guan Shiyin has won the reputation of "Gong Beauty in Sichuan".

Artistic History

Artistic Enlightenment

66 years ago, Gong Xueyuan was born in Guanghan, Sichuan Province. Like other rural children at the time, his childhood was spent with "mud". Near Gong Xueyuan's home was a century-old temple where more than a dozen statues of bodhisattvas were enshrined. He often dug mud from the paddy fields and bamboo forests near his home, and then took it to the temple to make clay figures in the likeness of the statues. In addition, he also burned those works that he thought were satisfactory to make the so-called "ceramic statues" with firewood.

Practicality

In 1958, at the age of 18, Gong Xueyuan carried 20 eggs as food and traveled alone from Guanghan to Chengdu to take the exam for the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, where an impromptu piece of artwork impressed experts who were present at the time for this "mud legged" child from the countryside. Gong Xueyuan was admitted to the Chinese Painting Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.

After graduation, Gong Xueyuan was assigned to work at the Zitong County Cultural Center. He still insisted on pragmatic painting skills in addition to his busy work. Every time he went to the countryside to engage in rural work, he would always carry a drawing board, once there is free time to start practicing painting. He also made his own brushes and tied them to three or four pounds of heavy iron brush to practice line work. In order to study and protect ancient art works, he once stayed in the tomb of Wang Xi, a Ming Dynasty sergeant, for more than three months, copying 180 mural works.

Personal Achievements

Famous overseas for his paintings of ladies

Gong studied under Xiao Jianchu, Zhang Daqian's son-in-law, and copied many of Zhang's Dunhuang mural manuscripts, paintings of ladies and ancient masterpieces. During his nearly fifty years of painting career, he created thousands of works. His famous works such as Li Taibai, Princess Bathing, Zhong Kui, Ladies, Guanyin, etc. are representative of his works. With the solid foundation of tradition, he blends the strengths of the East and the West, forming an artistic style of comprehensive development of poetry, calligraphy and painting. "Every brush stroke is a treasure, every brush stroke is a model". Gong Xueyuan's profound attainments in Chinese painting have won high praise from experts and seniors in the industry. Xu Wuwen, a famous scholar and calligrapher in China, praised Gong Xueyuan as "having a clear wind and moon in his chest and a Wu belt and Cao clothes in his wrist"; the late Sun Zhuli, a famous painter, commented after seeing his paintings: "Gong's paintings are natural, and there is a spirit in the scrolls". Gong Xueyuan's works are y loved by the public, he has held personal exhibitions in Mianyang, Shenzhen, Hainan, Hong Kong and other places. He has published a number of poetry, calligraphy and painting monographs, and dozens of works have been collected by well-known museums at home and abroad. The United States, France and Southeast Asia and other important people from all walks of life in more than 30 countries and regions, most of the collection of his works. 1989, as a birthday gift to Deng Xiaoping's "Qiankun Longevity Diagram" is quite praised by Deng Xiaoping and treasured; 2000, the work of the "Makou Zhu Shou" as a state gift to the former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela; a "big belly can tolerate ancient and modern affairs, smiling mouth always open words Unification" of the "Laughing Buddha" made Jiang Weiguo applauded. Gong Xueyuan has also been included in the Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Artists, the Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Artists, and the Dictionary of Chinese Literary Artists.

Social evaluation

So, modest, and let him be respected

Mention of Gong, many people familiar with him will say: "Gong old man is very kind, simply a 'Maitreya Buddha'".

"In the self why not the true face, to the people always have a big belly". This is Gong old in the self-created "Maitreya Figure" in the inscription, but also his decades of standards for people. He said, a painter to have a literati style and craftsman's work, to reject the "three gas", that is, small gas, rigid gas and vulgarity. Gong old man has many admirers to visit, door to door for calligraphy and ink treasures of people in an endless stream. He was never extravagant, still living in an ordinary residential building, still clean meals and vegetarian diet, living in a simple house. He was kind and warm to people. Whether ordinary people or the rich and famous, he always treats them with courtesy and keeps his promise. He said: "In the eyes of a painter, there is no difference between high and low, there is only the difference between the sparseness of a friend and the sparseness of a friend. As long as love my painting, I regard him as a soulmate." Over the decades, Gong Lao is such a simple, modest, and peaceful attitude to face life. For this reason, he is highly respected.

Currently, in his late 70s, Gong is still writing. "I will continue to maintain abundant energy and high creative passion to show better paintings as well as more of me to the many knowledgeable people who like my works." Gong said with passion.

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