He is good at China's flower-and-bird painting. Studied under famous painters such as Li, Li, Li, Li and Li. He also has a deep research on the works of Ren Bonian and Zhang Shuqi. At the same time, he widely absorbed everyone's strengths and established his own family. Innovating on the basis of inheriting tradition, rigorous and simple, fresh and elegant, with distinctive artistic characteristics and rich life atmosphere; In particular, the painted white grapes and white rattan flowers combine freehand brushwork, sketching and dyeing, with novel ideas and real experiences.
Chinese name: Fang Fengfu.
Nationality: China.
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Place of birth: Zhongxian County, Chongqing
Date of birth:1September, 937
Occupation: teacher
Graduate school: Music Department of Southwest Normal University.
Main achievements: Good at China flower-and-bird painting.
White grapes and white rattan flowers
Representative Works: Grape, autumn scenery.
brief introduction
Fang Fengfu, a native of Zhongxian, Chongqing, was born in September 1937. He is currently a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Chongqing Southwest University, a member of China Artists Association, an art consultant of the United Nations Artists Association, the director of the Painting and Calligraphy Sculpture Professional Committee of China Cultural Relics Society, the director of the Tourism Friendship Center of China Artists Association, the director of the China International Painting and Calligraphy Research Association, and the honorary president of Beijing Pangu Art and Calligraphy Institute.
He is good at China's flower-and-bird painting, and has studied under Professor Li, Li, Li, Li, Li, Li, Li and Li. He absorbed the strengths of major painters and established his own family. On the basis of inheriting the tradition, it is innovative, rigorous and simple, fresh and elegant, with distinctive artistic characteristics and rich flavor of life, especially the painted white grapes and white rattan flowers, which combine freehand brushwork, sketch and smudge, and have new ideas and real experiences.
As early as 1950s, he entered the Music Department of Southwest Normal University (now Southwest University) to study music as a junior candidate in Sanhe Middle School in Zhongxian County. One year after the change of voice, he transferred to the Fine Arts Department to study plastic arts (five-year junior college). 1960, a serious natural disaster occurred in our country, and the school leaders asked him to graduate early and stay in school. Engaged in administrative work in the department of fine arts, first in the department office, then in the reference room (in fact, engaged in some odd jobs unrelated to the major), 1976+00 officially took up his teaching post in June, engaged in his dream art teaching work. In the early 1960s, natural disasters occurred frequently in China. 1960 in the second half of the year, the school transferred Fang Fengfu to engage in productive labor and participated in various physical activities at school during the day, which made him physically and mentally exhausted. In the evening, he was sent to look after the pigsty (the night watchman for short, to prevent pigs from being stolen). He slept with pigs for more than four months (1960 10 to 196 12) and felt a lot. In the winter night, accompanied by pigs, the cold wind roared, the dung smelled everywhere, and the wind and the moon knew each other. The past is hard to remember, but you remember it clearly. Fang Fengfu has just stayed in school, and has no social status and right to speak in the Fine Arts Department, so he is marginalized. 196 1 March, 2008, was sent to work in Xishan Ping Farm in Chongqing (the notebook was originally marked with an attached teacher, but the name was changed and it was required to be replaced). At that time, many people looked down on him, and an old professor even said, "Fang Fengfu is not the material for painting, but only a labor force at most." . This gentleman's remarks are too blunt and mean for a young teaching assistant who has stayed in school for a short time, which is detrimental to people's self-esteem. It was this sentence that completely stimulated his soul. From then on, I made up my mind to make some achievements and do something to prove that I am a plastic material in the field of painting. During the Cultural Revolution (Southwest Normal University moved to Liangping and Zhongxian respectively), at the criticism and self-criticism meeting held by Zhongxian Fine Arts Department, the old professor knelt in front of Fang Fengfu to admit his mistake and asked him to forgive him. Fang Fengfu said: No need, people should have dignity. Don't do this. He immediately picked up the old gentleman and said: "I don't hate you, but I want to thank you for sending me this sentence. It inspires and spurs me to study harder, study harder and be a better person. "
Because Fang Fengfu has only been transferred from the Music Department to the Fine Arts Department for two and a half years, his knowledge is narrow, his foundation is weak, his skills are poor, and he has no creative ability. In order to make up for his serious lack of professional knowledge and Chinese painting skills, he humbly learned from the old teachers in the department and often copied Mr. Su's template paintings. From 1962 to 1964 in the first half of the year, for more than two years, Fang Fengfu shut himself in a distribution room less than 20 square meters almost every night, which was both his dormitory and his studio. Here, regardless of the severe winter and heat, I am hungry and burn the midnight oil, and have written more than 200 fine paintings by famous artists such as Su Baozhen, Zhang Shuqi, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing. Mainly based on Mr. Su Baozhen's paintings, in which he spent six Sundays and six nights completely copying a giant flower-and-bird painting masterpiece "Flower and Bird" created by Su Baozhen (referred to as "Hundred Birds Map" for short) (it is a blessing to be well preserved now). This painting is nine and a half pieces of rice paper, with hundreds of birds and dozens of flowers. Very wonderful (Su Baozhen's original painting was burnt down during the Cultural Revolution). This painting has become a precious work, and it also shows Fang Fengfu's copying ability and basic skills when he was young.
At that time, the relevant leaders of the Fine Arts Department knew that Fang Fengfu was learning flower-and-bird painting from Su Baozhen, so they appointed cadres and students to supervise him and refused to let him learn from him. It is said that Su Baozhen was an intellectual in the old society and had historical problems. We should prevent him from corrupting young people and ask him to draw a clear line with him. You can imagine how difficult it was for him to teach himself painting at that time. At that time, he was very upset, lonely, silent and seldom spoke. His heart is trembling, his thoughts are extremely contradictory, and he is faced with both internal and external pressures. In order to learn painting secretly, in order to hide people's eyes and ears. After dinner, he usually goes to the piano room of the music department to practice playing the piano. Just after 10, I quietly and hurriedly returned to the symbolic power distribution hut with a flashlight or by the starry sky. A person, silently learning all kinds of template paintings. Fang Fengfu didn't go home once during the five-year winter and summer vacations (but he was homesick all the time). I asked teacher Fang what the reason was. He was silent for a while and said: As a remote and poor peasant child, one is that he has no money, and the other is that he wants to make up more lessons and study more during the holidays. Then take part in some social work at school and earn some money to subsidize the family. This is his real idea, long-term and artistic.
Heaven rewards diligence. At that time, Fang Fengfu was young and full of passion. He only sleeps for more than three hours every night, and often stays up all night. Dai Yue wears stars and studies hard day and night. Therefore, it undoubtedly laid a solid foundation for his later teaching and political reform in his later years.
Major achievements
Early Spring in Renchen, a large-scale collection of fine paintings by modern and contemporary painters in China, which was published by Higher Education Press, was recently published in Beijing.
This album is a comparison and study of modern and contemporary Chinese paintings. 14, an artist who has made outstanding contributions to the exploration and development of China's paintings, has spanned three periods from the late Qing Dynasty to the present, and concentrated on displaying more than 200 fine paintings.
There are: Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Huang, Pan Tianshou, Zhang Daqian, Fu Baoshi and Ye. It also includes painters such as Sun Qifeng, Huang Yongyu, Liu Wenxi, Yang Zhiguang, Liu Dawei and Kong Zhongqi who are still active in art education and Chinese painting. Among them, the only China painter selected in Southwest China is Fang Fengfu from Zhongzhou (retired professor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Southwest University and member of China Artists Association).
The editor selected 19 masterpieces of Fang Fengfu from the collection. Among them, freehand grape paintings such as Talents in the Western Regions, Drunk Autumn and Expectation are the most eye-catching. It is not easy to be included in this list. It shows that he has achieved relative independence and richer aesthetic connotation in the relationship between painting language and pen and ink. In terms of technical performance, he works at the end of the pen, and his pen is excellent. A fruit, a basket, a vine, a leaf, a scene, a stroke and an ink are all like notes. Form your own rhythm on the screen, the relationship between pen and ink and objects is looser and rougher, and the brush strokes are further enlarged; From small pen to small ink, to big ink, the trend is big. The technique of expression has developed from freehand brushwork to freehand brushwork, and there are more and more subjective elements that directly express one's personality and feelings through brushwork, and personalized exploration has been highlighted.
Read Fang Fengfu and interpret his life pursuit and works for more than 70 years. Available: "Life, Education, Art, Diligence, Love, Dedication" 12 words, summed up by 6 key words. The most valuable thing for Fang Jia is diligence, thinking and ambition; Constantly seeking innovation and change, he also developed experimental methods in his later years, changed his creative thinking, and devoted himself to the creation and research of freehand flower-and-bird painting. And put forward the artistic idea of "breaking cocoon at the age of 70" New thinking, new ideas; Start from scratch, go forward bravely, and the world is wide. "Reform in recession" is a milestone and academic significance for Fang Fengfu. His enterprising personality and ambition are commendable and have attracted the attention of academic circles. Art Watch published the comments of Professor Qiu, an art critic and doctoral supervisor of the School of Fine Arts of Southwest University, on his views and hard exploration. Professor Sun Qifeng, who is 92 years old, has written another peak of Southwest Painting School. Shao Dazhen, an art critic, commented on The Pulsating Grape House, Lang's literary theory, Fruitful Branches, Wan Li Fragrance from the United States and Mexico, Chen Danqing and a series of articles all commented on his paintings. Mr. Wu Guanzhong, the late master of painting, also commented on his achievements. "It proves that painters entertain people with art, study by virtue, learn from inner beauty, paint with new ideas, carry forward the nation and paint endless articles with the heart of the nation."
Fang Fengfu works silently in his experimental field. One step at a time, one spark, his freehand flower-and-bird painting has taken a solid step. He is the inheritor and disseminator of traditional Chinese painting. He is good at freehand brushwork of flowers and birds, and he studied under Su Baozhen. Learn the law, trace back to the sages, and also dabble in and study the works of Ren Bonian and Zhang Shu _. On this trip, we didn't stick to a routine, but benefited from many teachers.
Looking at Fang's works in the early and middle period, frankly speaking, the imitation trace is heavier. Lack of personalized painting elements, but also too beautiful and too sweet. After that, I felt something, so I read it carefully and delved into it one by one. Grapes, wisteria, lotus, flowers and birds made in his later years; The vines are grandiose, the granules are dripping, the bloom is extraordinary, and the birds are singing in spring; Quite frank, erratic and clever.
Vast art, exploring infinity. Virtue is high, and studious people are far away.
Peel the cocoon and find its trace. In the long river of grape painting in China, Xu Wei, a painter in the Ming Dynasty, Wu Changshuo, a painter in the late Qing Dynasty, Qi Baishi, Zhang Shu _, Wang Xuetao, Su Baozhen and Fang Fengfu are all unavoidable figures. Fang Fengfu has been an artist for more than half a century. Grapes draw the most, study the hardest and have the greatest influence. He loves grapes, grows grapes, eats grapes and paints grapes. Over the years, he has enjoyed it and has a lot of experiences and insights. For many years, he devoted himself to painting in Dongfeng Pavilion under Jinyun Mountain, without asking Wen Da (in Fan Dian). He is obsessed with copying classic feather flowers and devoted himself to sketching, creation, teaching and research. Under his pen, he drew thousands of sketches and grapes. Such as ink-wash grapes, colored grapes, vine grapes, shelf grapes, potted grapes, tray grapes, Bashu grapes, Xinjiang grapes, Romanian white grapes, French grapes and so on. The workers are meticulous and the liberators are crazy. In a word, the large-scale pictures are breathtaking, with various forms and lingering fragrance in the paintings.
After retirement, Mr. Fang Fengfu devoted himself to studying painting and his hometown mountainous area. He donated hundreds of thousands of yuan of his manuscript fees, paintings, books and picture books more than 60 years ago to his alma mater, Xiaohe Guanba Town Central Primary School, Liyu Village, Guanba Town, Zhongxian County, for building school buildings, setting up scholarships and enriching school books and materials.
This is a beautiful day to express your feelings, it's too late. The age of 70 is another turning point in Fang Fengfu's art.? If you are poor, you will think about it, and you will not lose your ambition. " He worked tirelessly, thinking day and night, getting up early and going to bed late, working eight hours a day, never stopping writing, never leaving his paintings, and always maintaining a firm enterprising spirit. Its teaching stage, career stage and art stage are increasing day by day. In Fang Fengfu's own words: "My creative climax and maturity is in 10 years after retirement". After retiring from the post of art education, he worked harder and made unremitting efforts to learn from foreign teachers and won the hearts of the people. And long-term in-depth life, carrying heavy luggage and painting tools, walking in zoos, botanical gardens, parks, orchards, collecting wind and sketching. I have traveled more than half of China and 10 many Eurasian countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions.
His feet were covered with mud and his forehead was soaked with crystal sweat. The grapes in his works are also like songs, and the autumn is full of flowers, giving people peace and melody. Exactly: The fragrance of fruit floats in Wan Li, and the characters are more romantic.
Achievements and honors
Fang Fengfu's works have participated in many major exhibitions and competitions at home and abroad, and won many awards. Over the past 30 years, his works have been exhibited in Romania, Albania, Canada, the United States, France, Australia, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan Province Province, Macau and other countries and regions, as well as Tianjin, Beijing, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Chongqing. More than 30 framed works, such as Blooming Autumn Colors, Pale Vines Covered with Pearls, Warm Spring and Fragrant Fruits, are the Japanese Central Workers' Welfare Agreement, the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tiananmen Gate, Zhongnanhai, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, Ziguangge in the State Council, Sichuan Hotel in Beijing, Gouyutai State Guesthouse, Great Hall of the People Hotel, the reception hall of Premier Beidaihe, and the meeting room of government ministers in the State Council. At the same time, many works were presented as diplomatic gifts to some politicians and social elites in more than ten countries and regions such as the United States, Moscow University of the former Soviet Union, Bologna University of Italy, Germany and Japan. Rong Baozhai has exhibited her works all the year round.
Fang Fengfu published three editions of Fang Fengfu's paintings, including How to Draw Wisteria, Techniques of Freehand Flower and Bird Painting, White Crane in the Morning, and Fang Fengfu Grape Painting Collection. He has served as a judge of national art exhibitions and calligraphy exhibitions for many times, and his personal biographies and academic achievements have been successively included in more than 40 famous works such as Who's Who in the World, Dictionary of International Professors of Contemporary Painting and Calligraphy, World Art Collection (China Volume), Ziguangge Painting Collection in Zhongnanhai, Painting Collection of Chairman Mao's Birthday/Kloc-0: 00th Anniversary and Painting Collection of Tiananmen Gate. Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House published Fang Fengfu Grape Painting Collection, Southwest Normal University Publishing House published Freehand Flower and Bird Painting Techniques, and Guizhou Education Publishing House published a series of techniques on how to draw wisteria for him. State key publishing houses such as People's Publishing House, China Fine Arts Publishing House, People's Daily Publishing House and Rong Baozhai Publishing House have published 60 Yu Ben (ministerial) paintings, picture albums, works and skill books (including three, five and multi-person collections) for him.
An exhibition was held in China Art Museum from August 27th to September 6th, 2008. On August 20 10, Chinese painting won the gold medal of Shanghai World Expo.
August 201/kloc-0 participated in the 11th China cultural and artistic exchange exhibition, and won the title of "outstanding contemporary artist", the gold medal and the "China Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cultural and Artistic Exchange".