Cao, whose real name is Mingya Medical Hall. His ancestral home is Shexian County, Anhui Province, and he is a descendant of Wei and Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms. 1936 was born in March in a scholarly family in Beijing. Cao Wenzhao, the sixth ancestor, was a second-class scholar in the twenty-fifth year of Qing Qianlong. He served in the criminal, military, industrial and household departments, and was named "Wenmin" from the official to the Prince of Taibao, the minister of the household department. As one of the presidents of Sikuquanshu.

Chinese name: Cao

Alias: Mu Zhi.

Nationality: China.

Place of birth: Beijing

Date of birth:1March 936

Occupation: painter

Representative works: Four Seasons Flower and Bird Scroll

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Cao, whose real name is Mingya Medical Hall. His ancestral home is Shexian County, Anhui Province, and he is the grandson of Cao Cao in the seventy-fourth generation. 1936 was born in Beijing in March, with a scholarly family. The famous "father and son are in love with the country" in Qing Dynasty is the direct grandson of (Wenminggong) and Cao Zhenyong (Wen).

Famous little freehand brushwork flower-and-bird painter studied under Wang Shensheng, Chen Banding, Gao Xishun and Wang Xuetao.

Official of Beijing Institute of Literature and History. Researcher, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Consultant of Painters Association of China Academy of Social Sciences; Director of Chinese Painting Research Association; Outstanding painter of Huaxia Art Center today.

Deeply influenced by scholarly family.

Cao Wenzhao, the sixth ancestor, was a second-class scholar in the twenty-fifth year of Qing Qianlong. He served in the criminal, military, industrial and household departments, and was named "Wenmin" from the official to the Prince of Taibao, the minister of the household department. As one of the presidents of Sikuquanshu. There are also achievements in poetry and calligraphy, such as 20 volumes of Shigu Yanzhai Wen Chao, 32 volumes of Shi Chao, 8 volumes of Lu Zhi Collection and 2 volumes of Shigu Yanzhai Trial Post. Qianlong relied heavily and went to Jiangnan many times, and he was accompanied by him. He also recruited Deng Laijing, a close friend of his fellow countryman, to display his talents, thus making a name for himself. The seventh ancestor Cao Zhenyong was a scholar in Qianlong period. Because of his father's legacy, he won the favor of Qianlong, and was awarded the title of "Zheng Wen" as a university student and minister of military aircraft in Wuying Hall. Three generations, Jia and Dao, are the representatives of political circles in Qing Dynasty. Once the monarch ruled for more than three months, it was spread as a beautiful talk in Huizhou.

Father Cao () was a painter and calligrapher in the Republic of China. He studied under Jincheng in his early years and was a member of the Chinese Painting Research Association. Later, Qian Jin 'an organized the "Lake Society Painting Association". In 1950s, he co-founded "Calligraphy Research Association" with Chen, Zheng Songxian and others, which contributed to the prosperity of calligraphy art and the revival of Chinese quintessence. He is mainly good at Wei Bei's calligraphy, and won the Six Dynasties inscriptions, which are broad, dignified, vigorous and powerful. He also accepted Zhao's combination of rigidity and softness, tactfulness and combination of letter and line.

Influenced by his family, he loved calligraphy and painting since childhood. He watched his father write lists and couplets, and he also imitated his father's handwriting to write big characters. At the age of eight, his father taught him the essentials of copying from the aspects of structure and brushwork, and later taught him to write steles, Yi steles and Zhao Weibei calligraphy.

Teachers teach and blend ancient and modern.

Because my father made friends with famous painters Wang Shensheng, Ma Jin, Wu Jingting, Wang Jilin, Chen Banding and Gao Xishun, he often had the opportunity to copy or listen to the teachings. At the age of nine, Mr. Wang Shensheng began to practice the traditional brush and ink techniques systematically by copying. The models used were the flower and bird scrolls in the Four Gentlemen by Mei Zhulanju and the South Painting of zhina by Japanese version. After five years of repetition, face to face, silent face to face, and Italian face to face, I initially understood the essence of ancient pen and ink and laid a solid foundation for painting. In 1950s, in order to further deepen the training of traditional pen and ink techniques, I spent more than ten years in the painting gallery of the Palace Museum. First, I carefully copied and studied Song People's Atlas and Yellow Birds with meticulous brushwork, and understood the techniques of line drawing and the essentials of coloring. Three years later, he transferred to the Song and Yuan Dynasties to copy the ink bamboo and plum paintings, with the aim of discovering the charm and artistic conception of pen and ink from the original works of the ancients. After that, I spent most of my time copying the works of representative painters of various schools of freehand brushwork flower-and-bird painting in Ming and Qing Dynasties, such as "Birds in the Shrub", "Plum-bamboo Double-pheasant Map", Chen Chun's "Flower-and-bird Picture with Ink Pen and Peony Picture", Xu Wei's "Flower-and-bird Picture with Ink" and Bian's "Bamboo Crane Picture". As well as painting scrolls and picture books by famous artists such as Shi Tao, Li, Zheng Xie, Wang, Zhao, Ren Yi, Xu Gu and Wu Changshuo. , has been copied five to ten times, so as to deeply understand the differences between household pens, ink, color and water, and understand the characteristics of various artistic styles in different periods and the changes of the same painter's techniques.

In painting art, it can integrate ancient and modern, learn from others' strengths, indirectly integrate ancient and western methods, innovate and develop traditional color techniques, emphasize the harmony and contrast between colors, and form rich expressive force and appeal on the screen, with beautiful and elegant painting style, simple and dignified colors and extraordinary purity. In calligraphy, he is good at elegant thin gold body and cursive script.

social activity

From 65438 to 0959, Wang Shensheng and Wu Jingting recommended to join the Beijing Chinese Painting Research Association. In the same year, the flower-and-bird painting "Starling Autumn Chrysanthemum" won the prize in the first Beijing Youth Art Exhibition. Other works have participated in the previous Chinese Painting Research Association's China Art Museum, Beihai Fangzhai and domestic and international exchange exhibitions, and have been widely collected.

1958 to 1960, participated in the excavation of Dingling, and completed the copying of the portrait of Emperor Wanli and silk patterns.

1967 At the invitation of Hunan Provincial Museum, he copied the silk paintings of the Western Han Dynasty and painted a lacquer coffin for Mawangdui No.1 Han Tomb. This is an important archaeological discovery since the founding of the People's Republic of China and provides valuable information for studying the painting art of the Western Han Dynasty.

1983 presided over the partial copying of Uighur Buddhist murals in Gaochang, Beiting, Xinjiang, and conducted a comprehensive study on the evolution and development of murals in this area and related areas.

1984 presided over the copying of the long scroll of the Eastern Han Dynasty tomb mural "Traveling by Car" unearthed in Xingyuan, Yanshi County, Henan Province, wrote copying notes and published picture books. From 65438 to 0986, he went to Yinchuan to preside over the illustration work of the Excavation Report of Xixia Porcelain in Lingwu Kiln, and wrote a paper "Decorative Art of Xixia Porcelain in Lingwu Kiln", which was published in China Archaeological Series.

1987, he presided over the three-year copying of the murals of the Northern Qi Emperor's Tomb in Zhang Wan, Cixian County, Hebei Province. This is the largest tomb of the Northern Qi Emperor discovered in China, which provides valuable information for studying the painting art of the Northern Dynasties.

200 1 1 Cao freehand flower-and-bird painting exhibition is jointly sponsored by Xinhua News Agency and Xinhua Painting and Calligraphy Institute.

200 1 entrusted by the expert group of National Cultural Heritage Administration, he went to Taiyuan, Shanxi Province to preside over the copying of the murals of the royal tombs of Beiqi Biedu.

Representative works and works

Representative works include Four Seasons Flowers and Birds Scroll, A Group of Cranes Map, Rare Birds and Flowers Scroll, Spring Plum Map, Autumn Pond Wild Interest and so on. Huge Xue Mei Tu and Peony Ribbon were collected by Zhongnanhai and Mao Zedong Memorial Hall respectively. The twelve volumes of Series of Freehand Flower-and-Bird Painting Techniques are published by People's Fine Arts Publishing House, which is a comprehensive and in-depth study of ancient painting theory and modern famous painting theory combined with teaching, and also a summary of teaching practice. Once published, it was widely spread. Cao's Teaching of Flower-and-Bird Painting (Part One) was published by Hubei Fine Arts Publishing House. In 2008, Cao's Collection of Freehand Flowers and Birds was published as a national gift to the heads of state who came to China during the Olympic Games.

social influence

He used to be a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In 2002, he was hired as a librarian of Beijing Research Literature and History Museum. Currently, he is a consultant of Painters Association of China Academy of Social Sciences, a director of Chinese Painting Research Association, and a special painter of Huaxia Art Center today. His works and artistic resumes have been published in dictionaries such as Imprinted Dictionary of Contemporary Calligraphers in China, Dictionary of Calligraphers in Past Dynasties in China, China Calligraphy and Painting Newspaper, China Culture Newspaper, People's Daily, Dida Special Issue and overseas editions, and his works have been reported and introduced many times, and his paintings have been incorporated into various albums such as Selected Artists of China and Works of Famous Calligraphers of China and Japan in the 20th Century.