Chen Danqing

Chen Danqing

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Chen Danqing, male, native to Liang village, Sanhe Town, Taishan City, Guangdong Province, was born in Shanghai, the people's Republic of China in 1953 and graduated from the Central Academy of fine arts. Artists, writers, literary critics.

From 1970 to 1978, he was a famous "educated youth painter" in southern Jiangxi and Northern Jiangsu. In 1980, he made a sensation in the art circles at home and abroad with his group paintings of Tibet, which became the beginning of subverting the educational model and tracing back to Europe, and was recognized as a classic with epoch-making significance. Besides painting, he published more than ten literary works.

Chen Danqing's painting style and writing style are elegant and simple; his wise and frank temperament is full of unique personality charm.

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Overview of characters

Character experience

Chen Danqing loved painting since childhood. When he graduated from junior high school and was a 16-year-old child, he was exiled to the countryside during the cultural revolution.

From 1970 to 1978, Chen Danqing moved from southern Jiangxi to northern Jiangsu. Far away from relatives, he still insisted on self-study painting in the hot life and labor. During the period, he created the comic strip "frontier defense line", "Weijia's conduct", oil painting "tears over the harvest field" and so on, and was selected into the "Army art exhibition" and "National Art Exhibition". At that time, he had a certain influence and became a famous "educated youth painter". Chen Danqing belongs to junior high school culture, self-taught, and has made remarkable achievements in many fields.

In 1978, he was admitted to the graduate class of oil painting of the Central Academy of fine arts, which gave him a diploma.

In 1980, Chen Danqing became the top figure in Chinese art circles with his epochal oil painting "Tibet group paintings", which caused a great sensation and has been lingering ever since. He graduated in 1980 and stayed in school to teach.

In 1982, Chen Danqing resigned and moved to the United States.

In 2000, Chen Danqing returned to China and was employed as a professor and doctoral supervisor by the Academy of fine arts of Tsinghua University.

Chen Danqing resigned in October 2004 because he could not agree with the dogma and rigidity of the education system. Once again, it caused a stir in the society and aroused great concern.

Art enlightenment

Copying Poker

When Chen Danqing was born in 1953, his father, Chen zhaochi, named him "Danqing" because he loved Wen Tianxiang's poem "to leave Danxin to shine on history"; the next year, his youngest son was born and named "Danxin". Chen Danqing grew up in the Shikumen lane along Shimen road in downtown Shanghai. He loved painting since childhood. "I've wanted to be a painter since I was a child. I'm bored, but it's very clear." Chen Zhaoqing, my father, said, "I love literature and art at first. My father taught me to love literature and art."

When Chen Danqing was 4 years old, his father was labeled as a "rightist". Because his grandfather Chen Dizhong was a student of Huangpu Military Academy, his family's books and picture albums were swept away. Chen Danqing was so sad that he didn't say a word all day. His father comforted him by saying that he could go to the park and the road to paint without copying the album. Then one day, my father picked up a playing card with the masterpiece Italian girl, a Russian painter living in Italy, on the back. He took it home and gave it to Chen Danqing to copy. He drew it vividly.

New to oil painting

When Chen Danqing was 14 years old, he began to follow the school's art teachers to paint Chairman Mao everywhere. I boarded the scaffold and painted on several meters of iron sheet or wall. In two years, I drew more than 120 portraits of Chairman Mao. The biggest one is Wujing chemical factory, which is located on the outskirts of Shanghai and near the East China Sea. Chen Danqing was invited to paint the picture of Chairman Mao with two painters. Chen Danqing painted during the day and copied Da Vinci and Michelangelo at night.

Chen Danqing's first "oil painting" is a landscape painting of Leviathan copied with the pigments given to him by others. It is painted on a small cardboard coated with "fish skin glue" in Shanghai. After the painting was finished, he was very proud. He immediately lifted it up and looked at the light bulb to appreciate the reflection of the oil painting, but there was no light. Later he knew that it was gouache. Because a lot of materials were sent to Shanghai, Chen Danqing had the opportunity to copy the oil painting materials from Europe. When he first saw the atlas of world art history, he was very excited. All of these laid the foundation for his future paintings of Tibet.

Going to the mountains and the countryside

Exiled youth

In 1970, 16-year-old Chen Danqing graduated from junior high school and was exiled during the cultural revolution. The 16-year-old child, far away from his family, began to move around the poor rural areas of Southern Jiangxi and Northern Jiangsu. It was almost a bolt from the blue to cancel his Hukou in Shanghai. Chen Danqing left the old lane of Shimen all the way in Shanghai, where he once fought, painted, fought crickets and climbed the roof. Chen Danqing said, "it's a very desperate memory. I think it's all blacked out. I grew up in Shanghai metropolis, and then there was an oil lamp. We three boys crowded in a bed. I remember being almost awake all night. A few catties of mice scurrying on our quilts all night. The next morning it rained, and the sound of the rain on the tiles was very blank. Then he came out with a cigarette in his mouth and looked at the rice field, the mountain where it rained in April. He was desperate and his mind was empty. "

the water is deep and the fire is hot

"It's very hard to plant seedlings in the field. The ground in the mountain is sand. Stretch into the paddy field shaking, the blood is light, continue to transplant seedlings. But when I came back from transplanting rice seedlings, I had a look at Pushkin in the mosquito net. It was a great pleasure. I am good at farm work. I can plant well and carry the burden. I can carry 100 Jin of millet, which is heavier than the same weight. Ten li mountain road does not change shoulders. I can walk up the mountain, down the mountain, in the pond or on the stone. Pick the granary, golden granary, very beautiful. There's so much grain in the granary. I'll pour in 100 Jin of it and it's gone. "

At the age of 20, Chen Danqing went to the countryside of Jiangpu Shiqiao commune in Northern Jiangsu Province to jump in the queue. In nearly a year's time, squatting in the village office of the urn factory painted nearly a thousand urn. Extremely depressed, he often drinks with the old carpenter on pickles. At the age of 22, Chen Danqing had been jumping in the queue for six years, striving for the number of stevedores recruited by Nanjing commercial bureau. I filled in the form, passed the physical examination, and was rejected at the last minute. Because he is an educated youth in Shanghai, if he was recruited, he would occupy a quota of educated youth in Nanjing. He saw the lucky man crowded in the car and drove back to the city, driving alone in the heavy rain, with a high fever and serious illness.

gradually enter blissful circumstances

In art, Chen Danqing appeared very early.

During the period from 1970 to 1978 when he settled in the countryside, he always insisted on self-study painting in the extremely bad life and labor. When I was 20 years old, I was transferred to Jiangxi publishing house to take part in comic classes. I painted comic books every day. I was very happy that I didn't have to farm. I wanted to be a comic artist from now on.

In 1973, Chen Danqing published three or four comic books, including "frontier defense line" and "flying snow to welcome spring";

In 1974, he was transferred to the provincial oil painting class and began to paint revolutionary oil paintings. His first oil painting was "veteran and junior". In 1974, Chen Danqing asked his family for 40 yuan to travel from Jiangxi to Shanghai, and then changed trains to Beijing to watch the national art exhibition. Going to Beijing for the first time is like going to New York, Paris, and the Chinese Art Museum. It's like going to the Louvre, soaking all day in front of a few paintings.

In 1975, Chen Danqing created illustrations for the novel qingshibao. In March 1975, Chen Danqing went to northern Jiangsu to jump the queue again. At that time, his oil painting and sketch skills were quite solid, and his works caused a great shock in Nanjing art circle. one

In 1976, Chen Danqing created a large-scale oil painting "letter to Chairman Mao".

First visit to Tibet

In 1976, Chen Danqing was seconded to Tibet as a talent for creative work, and entered Tibet for the first time. Tibet had a decisive influence on Chen Danqing. First, he found a special theme in the "Cultural Revolution" - the theme of ethnic minorities, which also laid the foundation for his second trip to Tibet in 1980 to create "Tibetan paintings"; second, after Mao Zedong died, he could draw tragedies and people crying. Because there should be no tragic scenes during the "Cultural Revolution", all workers, peasants and soldiers should be red with laughter. Therefore, Chen Danqing's early representative works, large-scale oil painting "tears over the harvest field" and "march into Tibet", were born, and were selected in the national art exhibition and the whole army art exhibition respectively in 1977;

In 1977, he created the comic book "Zhou Enlai in Tianjin in his youth";

In 1978, he was invited to write the comic book Weijia's conduct. These works had a great influence at that time. Chen Danqing was already a famous "educated youth painter" in the whole country, and reflected with the educated youth painters in Beidahuang.

Tibetan paintings

Tracing and subversion

In 1978, Chen Danqing was admitted to the oil painting graduate class of the Central Academy of fine arts.

In 1980, in preparation for graduation, Chen Danqing went to Tibet for a second time to experience life, creating seven oil paintings and a stack of sketches. The seven oil paintings are: mother and son, shepherd, pilgrimage, one of entering the city, two of entering the city, shampoo and Kangba man. Later, it was conventionally referred to as "Tibet group paintings". At this time, Chen Danqing was only 25 years old.

In 1980, Chen Danqing's "Tibetan paintings" caused a great shock in the art and literary circles, and all literary and art newspapers and periodicals competed to publish and comment. "Tibet group of paintings" established its Chinese art mileage

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