Suzhou Artists Association of the Association Profile

Suzhou is China's history of traditional painting and calligraphy in the most brilliant city, as far as the era of the North and South Dynasties, there are Lu Tanwei, Zhang Shenyao, Gu Nuwang, Zheng Fashi and other masters of the art of more than ten, to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Suzhou painting is more in the age of its unprecedented splendor. Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Tang Yin, Qiu Ying, known as the "Ming Four Families", Shen, Wen created the "Wumen School of Painting". Dictionary of Chinese Art" lists 193 national painters at that time, Suzhou has 63 people, accounting for a few one-third. History calls Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Album, Wang Yuanqi, Wu Li, Yun Shouping as the "Six Families of the Qing Dynasty", in addition to Yun a person, all were then Taicang and Changshu people in the Suzhou prefecture, the first four people called "Four Kings", followed by the "Four Kings" and "Four Kings" and "Four Kings". The first four were called the "Four Kings", followed by the "Little Four Kings" and the "Later Four Kings". They influenced Chinese landscape painting from the Qing Dynasty to the present day.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the establishment of the Suzhou Literature Federation and the Municipal Art Association, Suzhou painters and calligraphers were organized for the first time, starting a new chapter in the history of Suzhou's fine arts.

At the exhibition of paintings on the 10th anniversary of the liberation of Suzhou in 1959, Yu Tongfu used traditional brushwork to express the new style of mountains and rivers. It was rare at that time that Zhang Jin used green landscape to express the late autumn scenery of Tianping Mountain; Xie Xiaosi's plums were strong and colorful; Gu Chonghua's wild geese; Liu Junran's fruits and vegetables; Chen Old Village's carp; and Wu Xilan's roses, all of them broke the original fence to varying degrees and added the flavor of life. During this period, Wu Yangtatsuki's "valley dusk" a painting, quite won the then leader of the ministry of culture, comrade zhou yang's appreciation, Wu Yangtatsuki is a famous painter Wu wait for the fall of the son of Wu Tao's grandson. When I was young, Fei Xin studied under the masters Feng Zikai and Chen Qiucao, focusing on sketching, and made a living by calligraphy and writing sketching textbooks for young children. At that time, he went to the life to observe and painted "Embroiderer" which was a very novel work. Xu Shiming's "Spring in Jiangnan" was published in "Fine Arts" magazine, and at the same time, together with Fei Xinmei's "Embroiderer," it was selected for the Third National Exhibition of National Paintings, which was a strong affirmation of Suzhou's national painting industry.

Before and after 1959, the reform and opening up period was the period of cultivating new force in Suzhou art circles. In the early liberation of suzhou traditional landscape painters, only zhang jin, zhang yisheng, xu shaoqing, wu yanshi, etc., since the 1960s, young painters gradually grow. Sun Junliang, Yang Mingyi, Liu Maoshan, Ma Bole they all depict the landscape of their hometowns, not confined to the ancient methods, with new ideas, showing a strong flavor of the south of the Yangtze River, is a contemporary in the country quite strong and influential famous landscape painters. In addition, Shao Wenjun, Gu Rongyuan, Hang Qingshi, Huang Zhong, Yao Su, Zhang Qingtao, Shen Mo, Chen Guibing, Sun Kuan, Zhang Ming, Wu Yichen, Yu Heng and so on. They not only inherited the fine tradition of the Wu School of Painting well, but also opened up colorful new spaces in their respective fields of art. Young painter Sun Kuan's landscape work "Jiangnan sky" in the 2005 Chinese painting hundred Jinling exhibition won the gold medal, for Suzhou national painting works in the national exhibition won the highest prize.

Suzhou figure painters, in the early stage, there are Du redrawing, to express the rural women and the People's Liberation Army's works. Zhang Xiaofei, Wang Xiji, Cheng Zongyuan and Gu Zengping, most of them focused on classical figures with beautiful lines and elegant and graceful images. Xu Huiquan, on the other hand, is a painter who has been exploring traditional painting methods since the 1980s and 1990s. His works are first painted with lines, with a strong sense of rhythm, and then matched with carefully painted screens, together with graceful bottles of flowers and elegant and eye-catching colors, which give them a kind of clear but thought-provoking mood. Zhou Ruomin's painting style has another kind of interest. His "Talking about Life" series are all very ingenious, and the colors are thick and rhythmic, with a sense of wholeness and folklore. Li Han, Huang Ai and Liu Jia are all university teachers, and their works are more from real life.

Suzhou bird and flower painting has developed greatly since the liberation of China, and Mr. Zhang Xinjia is one of the most influential artists in the country. In his early years, he was trained by Mr. Chen Mo, a famous artist in Jiangnan, and studied Ren Bonian, Xu Qingteng and Chen Baiyang. At the same time, he emphasized sketching and absorbed nutrients from life, and his works were admired for their clear and strong style. Mr. Zhang Jixin is one of the most outstanding disciples of Mr. Zhang Xinjia, and is now the Honorary Chairman of Suzhou Artists Association. Mr. Xu Yanshao, also a disciple of Mr. Zhang Xinjia, is now one of the major painters in Suzhou's bird and flower painting industry. Mr. Jiang Fengbai graduated from the National West Lake Academy of Fine Arts and was one of Mr. Pan Tianshou's favorite students, and after graduation, he was Pan Tianshou's assistant professor. Mr. Jiang devoted himself to the study of orchids and bamboos in ink and wash, and his works are emaciated and elegant. In his later years, he taught at the Suzhou Arts and Crafts School to train his students. Mr. Pan Yuyu was originally involved in watermark woodcutting, and later painted ink and watercolor opera characters, and in recent years, he has been working on flower and bird paintings. Mr. Yu Keqi asked for bird and flower paintings at the same time as his oil paintings. Mr. Zhu Xinsheng and Mr. Gong Yin's flower and bird paintings have a place in Suzhou's painting world. Zhang Zhong is the daughter of Mr. Zhang Xinjia, whose art has been passed down from his family, and is active in the field of flower and bird painting. Zhang Yingchun is a young and powerful painter who has been active in recent years and has often won awards. Yao Xinfeng, Wu Zhan Yuan, Wei Benxiong, Chen Rudong, Qin Xueyan, Wu Xiao in their respective creations show strength, for the creation of Suzhou painting active participants.

Suzhou oil painting, watercolor and pastel painting started very early. Yan Wenliang, Zhu Shijie, Hu Zuizhong pioneers in the front, and then there is Wu Shujiang such a great man followed by Wang Ren and Zhou Aizhen, Yu Keguan painted many good works. Lu satellite, Xu Haiou, Jiang Zhusong, Yao Buttercup, Wu Xiaoxun, Zhang Xinquan, Xu Qing, Peng Cainian and other young painters have been hard at work. Jiang Chun, Bei Xuemin, Huang Hai's watercolor painting has made great progress in Suzhou.

Suzhou's oil painting team has cultivated and introduced many excellent painters since the reform and opening up. In 2006, Wu Xiaoxun's work "Lamp-Light" won the Gold Medal in the Hundred Chinese Oil Paintings Jinling Exhibition, and Yao Buttercup's "Enjoying the Sunshine" won the Gold Medal in the Hundred Chinese Oil Paintings Jinling Exhibition in 2008, which is the highest award Suzhou's oil paintings have achieved in the nationwide exhibitions since the founding of the People's Republic of China. The works of Zhang Xinquan, Lu Satellite, Dai Jiafeng, Qian Liu, Zhang Huaoyao, Liu Changming, Wang Hui, Jin Wei, Zhang Yong, Wang Xianpei and other artists have also achieved excellent results in different exhibitions across the country over the years. And Lu satellite pastel "Taihu Lake fishing village" in the ninth national art exhibition won the gold medal, this is after Yan Wenliang, Hang Ming time after Suzhou's third in the national major exhibitions in the pastel painting of the highest award of the painter, is their overall strength, and make Suzhou's oil paintings, pastel paintings into a brand-new era, to enhance the status of the Suzhou oil pastel in Jiangsu and even the whole country. Suzhou's printmaking was originally based on the long-established Taohuayu New Year's Paintings. Printmakers such as Yang Mingyi, Pan Yuyu, Shen Minyi, Zhou Weiming, Wang Mian, Laosi, Wu Hongzhao, and Chen Shi were active in the printmaking circles of Suzhou, Jiangsu and the whole country in the 1970s and 1980s. They noticeable wind hair of Suzhou's watermark woodblock prints to a glorious position, a moment of painting fame spread far and wide, domestic and foreign masters are endless in the road, the famous "Gusu Autumn" printmaking exhibition, in the provinces and cities in the printmaking exhibition accounted for a large proportion of the exhibition. This is Suzhou other kinds of paintings are not.

After entering the 1990s, Gu Zhijun, Ling Junwu, Zhang Tianxing, Wang Yuchong, Zhu Qing and other printmakers of the new generation stood out, and won a number of prizes in various exhibitions in the country as well as in the provinces and cities.

With the vigorous development of art and design education in Suzhou colleges and universities, especially in the 30 years since the reform and opening up, the level of art and design in Suzhou has made great progress, and has formed an art and design team with a considerable standard. Jiang Zhusong and Hui Xixu both enjoy a high reputation in the industry and have planned very successful artistic images for many major economic and cultural events in Suzhou.

In the 21st century, as China's economic construction continues to develop and the Renaissance quietly proceeds, Suzhou's fine arts are bound to become more and more prosperous, and there will be more high-level painters. The river of art is immense, and Suzhou art will further create masterpieces with Suzhou characteristics.