Nie Nanxi (1934 February-201kloc-0/July 7) is a famous master of Chinese painting. Professor, School of Art, Hunan Normal University. Member of China Artists Association. People from Nanxian County, Hunan Province. His works include Tibetan Women, Going to the Field, Excellent Pictures and Love in Wuling. He has published Selected Sketches of Nie Nanxi and Selected Paintings of Nie Nanxi in China.
On July 8, 201/year, Nie Nanxi, a member of China Artists Association, died of illness in Changsha, Hunan, at the age of 77.
Chinese name: Nie Nanxi
Nationality: China.
Birthplace: Hekou Town, Nanxian County, Hunan Province
Date of birth:1February 5, 934
Date of death: July 8, 2065, 438+0 1
Occupation: education, art and painting.
Representative works: Miao Song
Character experience
Born in Nanxian County, Hunan Province,1February, 934. I study painting in Changsha Huazhong Vocational Art School. 1958 graduated from Chinese Painting Department of Zhejiang Fine Arts Institute, professor of Fine Arts Institute of Hunan Normal University, librarian of Hunan Literature and History Research Institute, and member of China Artists Association.
He has served as the second art member of the Art Education Committee of the State Education Commission, member of the expert lecture group, dean of the Art College of Hunan Normal University, director of the Fine Arts Department, vice chairman of the Hunan Artists Association, and chairman of the Hunan Fine Arts Education Research Association. Enjoy the special government allowance of the State Council.
Engaged in higher art education and Chinese painting creation all his life. Works such as Tibetan Women, Going to the Field, Youtu, Love in Wuling, New Life and New Archaeological Discoveries participated in provincial art exhibitions, national art exhibitions and overseas exhibitions, and many works were collected.
He has published Selected Sketch Figures of Nie Nanxi, Selected Paintings of Nie Nanxi China, Selected Calligraphy of Nie Nanxi in Chu Dynasty, Nie Nanxi's Flower and Bird Painting and Nie Nanxi's Freehand Flower and Bird Painting, etc.
65438-0990 gave lectures and held art exhibitions at St. Norbert College in the United States. In 2004, he held an art exhibition in new york, USA, and held many solo and joint exhibitions in China. His life story has been recorded in the Directory of Professors in Colleges and Universities in China, the Dictionary of Biographies of British International Celebrities and the Dictionary of Contemporary Painters in China.
1934 was born in Hekou Town, Nan County, Hunan Province, and his ancestral home was Hanshou County. His father named Nie Nanxi "Fantasy". When he entered a private school, his husband named Nie Nanxi "Luan Qi", which means that Luan Island can't hold thorns. Because it was difficult to write, it was changed to Lanxi. Until I joined the work, I felt that the word "LAN" was feminine, so I changed it to "Nancy" and it has been used ever since. 1945, Nie Nanxi went to study in a small class in the center of Shashi, Nanxian County. After graduation, he was admitted to Nanshan Middle School in Beijinggang, Huarong County for one year, and 1949 was admitted to Huxi Middle School in Nanxian County. Because of his love of painting and writing since childhood, and the influence of painting teachers in primary and secondary schools on Nie Nanxi,1July, 950, he was admitted to Changsha Huazhong Higher Vocational Art School to study.
1950 10 Unable to maintain due to family difficulties, I continued to study, which coincided with the admission of Zijiang Cultural and Art Troupe of Shaoyang District Committee to Changsha. Nie Nanxi handed them a painting and it was accepted. The Art Troupe assigned Nie Nanxi to work in the Dance Art Troupe. Five students graduated from Huazhong Vocational Art School. Together, they painted landscapes, posters and sketches of advertisements, which had a great influence on Nie Nanxi, especially Tang Zhixiang, who later retired from Hunan Daily, was Nie Nanxi's mentor. 195 1 year, the art troupe went to Xinning county to participate in land reform, and Nie Nanxi was assigned to a poor peasant family to eat and live. Although his life is hard, he also gets exercise. 1952 After New Year's Day, Nie Nanxi was transferred back to Shaoyang. Nie Nanxi participated in the exhibition of Shaoyang prefectural committee and Hunan land reform successively, and was responsible for painting and arranging exhibits until the end of the exhibition.
1952 Rebuild Hunan Culture and Art Service, and appoint Nie Nanxi and Feng Baocheng as Art editor. At that time, Xiangxi Miao Autonomous Prefecture was established, and the organization sent them to reflect this grand occasion. After arriving in Jishou, accompanied by a cadre of the autonomous prefecture government, I walked to Jiang Shan, Duoxi and Heku in Fenghuang County to experience life. Nie Nanxi and Feng Baocheng jointly painted two New Year pictures: sending delegates and delegates back. At that time, the color printing was backward, so they drew the ink line draft first, and then colored it after looking for ink Yin Gao. This is the earliest painting published by Hunan Popular Reading Press. 1953, the provincial cultural bureau was established, and Nie Nanxi and Feng Baocheng went to the art studio of the cultural bureau. Later, Xu Fan, Niesang and Chen Baiyi were transferred. Together, they promoted the cartoon of Marriage Law and posted it in the whole province. At that time, we studied Comrade Mao Zedong's speech at the Yan 'an Forum on Literature and Art, and invited them to experience life in the countryside and release their thoughts. So I went to Xiangxi for the second time, went to Baiyan Township, Huayuan County, and lived with Zhang Yousheng, the leader of a Miao-Han mutual aid group. Nie Nanxi created the New Year picture "Zhang Miao Nursery" with the local Miao-Han Nursery as the theme, which was published in Xinhu Xiangbao. 1954, Nie Nanxi and Xiao Shaoshan Agricultural Cooperative experienced production for half a year, drew an ink painting "Return from Night School" and published it in New Hunan Daily. 1July, 954, Nie Nanxi went to Hangzhou to apply for the East China Branch of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and was admitted to the second year of Chinese Painting Department. After entering school, Nie Nanxi made rapid progress under the guidance of famous professors such as Zhuang Ziman, Hu Shanyu, Song Zongyuan, Pan Sitong, Pan Yun, Gu Kunbo, Deng Bai, Pan Tianshou and Zhu Lesan, and created works such as Catch the Scene, Tibetan Girl and Mother. Grab the field, Tibetan girl. /kloc-0 was exhibited in the First National Youth Art Exhibition in March, 1957, and was selected as the "China Young Painters Exhibition", and then exhibited in the Soviet Union, Czech Republic and Mongolia; Catch the Field was also printed as an adult painting by Shanghai Photo Publishing House, and Tibetan Women was published in Fine Arts and Beijing Daily.
1958, Hunan institute of literature and art was established by the provincial cultural bureau, and Nie Nanxi returned to Hunan in May of the same year to participate in the preparatory work of the institute. In June, I presided over the farmers' art creation class in Nanyue Temple, and created a set of comic books of the Great Leap Forward in Hengshan County with the students, and trained some farmers' painters. The student who is still engaged in art work in Hengshan County today is Liao. Hunan College of Literature and Art starts in August. The school is located in the former Changsha Normal University, without any equipment, and everything starts from scratch. Therefore, he participated in the procurement of equipment and went to Shanghai, Hangzhou and other fine arts departments to ask for teaching plans, teaching outlines, teaching materials and so on. Soon, the school was renamed Hunan Art College, which enriched the teaching staff and established departments of music, art, literature, books and information. The Department of Fine Arts is headed by Huang and deputy director by Nie Nanxi, who leads students to paint murals in the streets, take part in labor and open schools. Nie Nanxi also participated in the Social Education Task Force of the Provincial Cultural Bureau, and went to Lianyuan Iron and Steel Plant to draw a long scroll of iron and steel smelting, which was published in the first issue of Hunan Pictorial. The long scroll participated in the provincial art exhibition and was collected by the provincial museum. 1960 The teachers and students of the whole hospital were decentralized to Mangshan Forest Farm in Yizhang County, and Nie Nanxi was appointed as the political instructor of the Art Department. But soon after the decentralization, because the Great Hall of the People needed two paintings, the Provincial Cultural Bureau transferred him back to Changsha to participate in this work. Nie Nanxi painted Chairman Mao's inspection of Hunan peasant movement, and Chen Baiyi painted Chairman Mao's return to Shaoshan. Later, these two paintings were not delivered for some reason and were collected by the provincial museum.
Nie Nanxi
Hunan Art College was founded less than three years ago, but it was cancelled due to the adjustment of national departments. The original art department and music department were merged into Hunan Normal University to become the art department. Students have also adjusted, with only two grades, divided into four classes: Chinese painting and oil painting. Since then, teaching has been on the right track, and everything is taught according to the training objectives of normal universities. After entering teachers' college, he served as the director of Chinese painting teaching and research section. 1962, promoted to lecturer. In addition to teaching, Nie Nanxi created a meticulous painting of Cotton Picking Music in Guangxingzhou, Yueyang County in 1963, which was published in Hunan Literature in 1964, and was published as a New Year picture by Hunan People's Publishing House. 1965, several teachers went to Shaoshan irrigation area to sketch and drew many sketches of people and scenes, two of which were published in Hunan Daily 10 and 12. I also drew illustrations for Xiu Xiang, a character in the serial novel "Fighting Bandits in Xiangxi" by Hunan Daily, and for the serial novel "Enemy at the Gates" by Changsha Evening News. Hunan People's Publishing House published my cartoon "General He Long's Empty City Plan". In addition, he also participated in the creation of the comic book Li Dingguo and so on. This is the best time for me to create.
After the Cultural Revolution began, Nie Nanxi was censored and criticized. However, because of his good skills, he was assigned to write quotations from Chairman Mao on the wall, hold classes to paint the glorious image of Chairman Mao, and co-organize the "July 21" Fine Arts University with Changsha Cultural Center to participate in the investigation of the educational revolution in the school and the province.
1970, the art department opened a pilot class for students of workers, peasants and soldiers. Nie Nanxi taught the course "Applied Art" and wrote the handout "Basic Patterns" in a short time. 1972, Nie Nanxi was reinstated as the director of the teaching and research section. 1975 during the excavation of mawangdui No.1 tomb, Chen Baiyi invited him to draw a long scroll of new archaeological discoveries, which lasted for half a year and was successful. This painting was exhibited at the national popular science exhibition and won the prize.
1979, Nie Nanxi won the second prize at the Hunan Art Exhibition celebrating the 30th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, which was collected by China Exhibition Company and published in the second issue of 1982 Chinese Painting. In August1year, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House published my "Stealing the Golden Bell", which is a cartoon of Journey to the West. 1982 to 165438+ 10 to 65438+February, the Provincial Artists Association held a meticulous painting meeting in Nanyue Temple, and Nie Nanxi painted Miao Song, five grains, new life and excellent paintings. These four works were exhibited in the 1993 Hunan Gongbi Painting Exhibition held by the Central Art Museum. Five Grains was published in the fifth issue of Hunan Pictorial, Miao Song was published in the eighth issue of National Pictorial, Pinyou Tu was selected for the sixth national art exhibition, and Xinsheng was collected by Shenzhen Museum.
1991September, Nie Nanxi was promoted to associate professor and served as deputy director of the art department. 1April, 1984, Minister of Fine Arts. During his tenure, the scale of the art department continued to expand and a new art teaching building was built. Later, the fine arts department was divided into two, and the fine arts department and the music department were established. I am the head of the art department. During this period, Nie Nanxi engaged in administrative work and academic research, and successively wrote many papers, such as Talking about the Teaching of Meticulous Figure Painting, Enlightenment of Several Meticulous Paintings, and New Flowers of Ancient Art.. These papers were published in newspapers and periodicals, and some of them won prizes all over the country. They also undertook the task of "research on the overall reform of art education in normal universities" issued by the State Education Commission. The teaching achievement won the third prize of Excellent Teaching Achievement of Provincial Education Commission 1989. Nie Nanxi 1987 was promoted to professor. 1990 The State Education Commission hired me as a member of the Art Education Committee.
Main work
Nie Nanxi's life was dominated by meticulous painting, but he began to paint freehand flowers and birds, landscapes and finger paintings in the 1980s, and many of his works were published. Among them, Wuling Qing participated in the Eighth National Art Exhibition, and Lotus participated in the National Teacher Art Exhibition. The article "Abstract Symbols and Procedures of Chinese Painting" written by Nie Nanxi was included in the Proceedings of the 65th anniversary of Chinese Painting Teaching in China Academy of Fine Arts. 1990 10 was invited to give a lecture at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin, USA, with the theme of "Abstract symbols and procedures of Chinese painting" and hold a solo exhibition. 1993 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House published the book Selected Characters of Nie Nanxi, and was invited to hold a solo exhibition in Fenghua, Zhejiang Province in June of the same year. 1995 Taiwan Province Taibei Library exhibited 30 pieces of his works.
He used to be the dean of Hunan Normal University Art College, the vice chairman of the Provincial Artists Association and the president of the Provincial Art Education Research Association. 1993 10 began to enjoy the special government allowance issued by the State Council. /kloc-0 was hired as a librarian of Hunan Provincial Museum of Literature and History in April, 1996.
social influence
Nie Nanxi, an outstanding meticulous painter, also painted a lot of freehand brushwork for the needs of teaching, but he devoted most of his life to exploring the formal language of meticulous painting. He is one of the founders of Hunan meticulous regional style, and his artistic achievements are mainly meticulous. After 1980s, Nie Nanxi gradually gave up meticulous painting and turned to explore the formal language of freehand brushwork in ink and wash because of his eyesight. In the subject matter, flowers and birds and landscapes are the mainstay, in the form, pen and ink are the mainstay, and techniques such as rubbing paper, painting and washing are widely used to make texture. After nearly ten years of exploration and efforts, he has made remarkable achievements, not only creating hundreds of freehand brushwork in ink and wash, but also covering everything from majestic to sketching in picture books. But also formed the basic style characteristics of the painter, and successfully realized the transition and transformation from a meticulous painter to a freehand painter.
Nie Nanxi,/kloc-graduated from Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Fine Arts) in the 1950s. He always thought that cameras could not replace sketches, and all his paintings were based on sketches. This emphasis on the importance of sketch is consistent with his aesthetic standards of "life breath" and "real and vivid" for decades and the influence of Chinese and Western realism in the 1950s, which determines the basic characteristics of Nie Nanxi's freehand brushwork: although pen and ink are the main form, pen and ink are never for pen and ink, but he tries to reproduce the image, expression and state of the depicted object through the change and expressive force of pen and ink, and pursues the freshness and life breath of painting as a whole. Even though his paintings of eagles, goldfish, squirrels and lotus flowers have symbolic characteristics beyond the natural image, they are still real and vivid. The most representative is the squirrel he painted.
From 65438 to 0990, Nie Nanxi gave lectures in the United States at the invitation of St. Norbert College in Wisconsin, USA. There are many squirrels running around and jumping in the Woods of the school campus, which is rare in the forests of China. With emotion, he drew an ink squirrel and some sketches. After he came back, he created nearly 100 works with squirrels as the theme. In the painting, the squirrel is modeled in pure ink, with light ink for the head, body, legs and tail, and thick ink for the finishing touch pen and claws. The head, body and thick tail are all symbolic exaggerations, but the painter still tries to reproduce the dynamic expression of each squirrel. Whether jumping, jumping, climbing, eating pinecone cherries alone or competing with each other, it is real and vivid, full of life interest, and adding plantains, branches and other habitat plants to add realism to life.
Traditional ink freehand brushwork is centered on pen and ink, which naturally forms three types, so there are three different evaluation criteria for ink painting. As long as we don't give up the pen and ink center, ink freehand brushwork painters must choose one of three. What choice to make depends on three factors: the painter's innate character, that is, his spirit; The painter's knowledge accomplishment and painting aesthetic concept; The influence of the cultural state of the painter's time on the painter's individual. "Realistic and vivid" and "life breath" are the mainstream of China's modern painting aesthetics, which have great influence. Too many characteristics of the times will inevitably dilute the artist's individual artistic personality. Therefore, expressing the times in personality has become the goal of the painter's efforts and the track of his artistic course, which can not be achieved by an article, but through continuous exploration and efforts. As far as personal style is concerned, painters can be divided into scholar (literati) type and spiritual type. Because of the knowledge requirements of China painters, most painters tend to be scholars. There are very few painters who are truly spiritual. The choice of "two living in one" is not freely dominated by the painter's subjective will, but a natural behavior formed in the long process of creation.
As far as Nie Nanxi's personality is concerned, he is more inclined to be a spiritual and natural painter, which is rare among contemporary painters. It takes time and wisdom to transform his casual psychological characteristics into a picture of spiritual nature with artistic beauty. Today's art is a very hard and difficult undertaking, and it is difficult to gain much without the investment of energy and time. Art is gradually perfected and beautified in the process of exploring time. Moreover, spiritual painting is not a random act, and the charm of spiritual feeling can only overflow with the beauty of pen and ink, and the beauty of pen and ink form is also a long-term tempering process. Like many contemporary painters, he was deeply influenced by the aesthetic concept of "life breath" era. Today, it is more like a chain that binds the painter to express his spirit; Long-term meticulous painting and rigorous and neat creative habits have entered the subconscious, which has also become an obstacle for painters to splash ink boldly, thus making it difficult to reflect the artistic spirit of spiritual painting. The change of subject consciousness and concept, and more importantly, decades of ups and downs of knowledge cultivation have not worn away Nie Nanxi's unique personality brilliance. We have reason to believe that with the passage of time and the efforts of painters, the contradiction between ideas and spirit caused by constraints and obstacles will be gradually solved. After an excellent meticulous painter, a freehand painter with distinctive style, exquisite brushwork and compelling spirit will stand proudly in the world.