Cui Zifan

Cui Zifan

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Cui Zifan (1915-2011) used to be Cui Shangzhi. He is from Laiyang, Shandong Province. From 1940 to 1945, he served as the senior commissioner of the Dong'an military college. After 1949, he successively served as political commissar of Beijing hospital and director of Survey Bureau of Ministry of urban construction of the State Council. In 1956, he was vice president and Secretary General of Beijing Academy of traditional Chinese painting. Member of China Artists Association, director of Beijing Artists Association. He was fond of painting when he was young, and was encouraged and guided by Qi Baishi. He is good at freehand flower and bird painting. He is good at drawing on the advantages of other artists and innovating on the basis of inheriting tradition. He is also good at landscape painting. The theme of the work is extensive, the composition is concise and general, and it has a distinctive style of ancient simplicity and vigorous. The works are collected by China Art Museum, Tianjin Art Museum, Beijing Museum, Shandong Museum, Chinese Painting Research Institute, Central Academy of fine arts, Beijing Painting Academy, and museums in the United States, Canada, Sweden and other countries. Works include "Lotus myna", "sparrow loquat", "goldfish" and so on. Published "Cui Zifan painting selection", "Cui Zifan works anthology" and many other works. He has held many personal exhibitions.

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Cui Zifan (1915-2011.6.15) was born in Laiyang County, Shandong Province. His scientific name is Cui Shangzhi. He changed his name to Cui Zifan when he was in middle school. In the summer of 1935, Cui Zifan met Mr. Zhang Zilian, who was teaching fine arts in a rural normal school in Yanzhou. Zhang is a flower and bird painter of little freehand brushwork school. He once studied painting from Wu Changshuo, a great master of Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and graduated from Shanghai Art College. From Zhang Zilian, Cui Zifan appreciated the charm of Chinese flower and bird painting for the first time. In the autumn of 1951, Cui Zifan went to Liulichang. It happened that the mounting Master Liu Jintao was very friendly with Qi Baishi, so he took the initiative to introduce him. In this way, Cui Zifan was lucky to go to No. 15, kuache Hutong, Xicheng to meet Mr. Qi, who was 87 years old. Master Baishi's instruction made Cui Zifan learn painting with Zhang Zilian in 1935. He joined the revolution in 1937. From 1940 to 1945, he studied in Yan'an Anti Japanese military and Political University and Yan'an senior party school. From 1945 to 1950, he served as Deputy Commissioner and Commissioner of Nanhai Commissioner's office of Jiaodong District, Shandong Province. He has successively served as the Commissioner of Nanhai Office of Shandong Jiaodong District, political commissar of Beijing hospital, director of survey and Survey Bureau of Ministry of urban construction of the State Council, and vice president of Beijing Chinese Painting Academy (now Beijing Painting Academy). He is now a member of China Artists Association and President of Beijing Chinese flower and Bird Painting Research Association. Cui Zifan, a famous contemporary Chinese painter, died at his home in Laixi City, Shandong Province at 1:48 a.m. on June 15, 2011 at the age of 96.

Artistic experience

Mr. Cui loved painting when he was a child. Under the guidance of Mr. Zhang Zilian, an art teacher in middle school, and Mr. Qi Baishi, a master of Chinese painting, Mr. Cui laid a good foundation for Chinese painting. During his more than 20 years working in Beijing Painting Academy, he studied and studied Chinese freehand flower and bird painting systematically. After leaving the post of administrative leadership, he concentrated on the creation of freehand flower and bird painting. In 1981, Magnolia myna won the first prize in Beijing Art Exhibition. He has held individual exhibitions in Beijing, Sweden, Denmark and other places, and has participated in large-scale exhibitions at home and abroad for many times. In 1986, he held a large-scale solo exhibition in the Academy of Chinese painting. Wu Zuoren, Li Keran, ye Qianyu, he Haixia, Zhang Ding and other art giants all visited and spoke highly of them. In 1991, the Cui Zifan Art International Foundation was established in Shandong Province. In the same year, he was rated as an artist with outstanding contributions by the state. He has published a collection of excellent works of Cui Zifan, a contemporary Chinese artist, and a study of Cui Zifan's art. In 1994, he donated 122 pieces of his fine works to the China Art Museum, which was awarded by the Ministry of culture of the people's Republic of China. In the same year, Cui Zifan art museum was opened in Qingdao City, Shandong Province. Here, the main works of the author and his collection of treasures of famous artists in the past dynasties will be permanently displayed. Cui Zifan is a famous flower and bird painter at home and abroad. He loved painting when he was young, and was enlightened by Zhang Zilian, a middle school art teacher who was a disciple of Wu Changshuo. In the early 1950s, he met Qi Baishi, a master of Chinese painting, and won the praise of him. Qi Baishi encouraged him to say, "your painting is really freehand. Don't follow my painting, just follow your own painting style.". Zifan's paintings were born out of Chinese literati paintings, but they did not have the banality of literati paintings. Although most of his subjects have been painted by predecessors, they have changed from modeling to connotation. His paintings are imbued with the flavor of the times and new artistic vitality. But the "naivety", naivety, humor and exaggeration in his writing all reflect his ardent pursuit and deep love for new life and nature. He integrated zhuanli and xingcao into his creation. His pen was full of cadence and vigor. With ink, thick and light, great momentum; with color, cool and warm, both thick and light, the pursuit of a "elegant" word. Cui Zifan's unique flower and bird world is composed of his distinctive nationality, strong sense of the times and strong interest in life. In terms of age, he is rare, but in terms of art, he is in the prime of adolescence. In the first ten years, he made breakthroughs in the creation of flower and bird painting and created a new world. He plans to work hard for another ten years to make new explorations and pursuits in art.

Chronology of people

His original name was Cui Shangzhi, and his breast name was Chongxi. He was born in cuijiabu village, Laiyang County, Shandong Province in 1915. father: Cui Keqing, mother: Zhang, both plain and upright poor farmers. He went to the village primary school in 1921. Influenced by the picture reading textbooks, he became fond of writing and painting. He often used lime water to practice calligraphy and painting on the table. After that, he studied in a private school for five years and continued to write in red. in 1926, arranged by his parents, he married Chen's daughter. Divorced in 1945. He studied in the second senior primary school of Laiyang County in 1931 and graduated the next year. In Yantai, "Wen Wei Po" published "Qingming Festival feeling", against the feudal old ethics. He was admitted to Shandong Zhaoyuan middle school in 1933. He wrote "feelings on September 18" to oppose Japanese imperialism's invasion of the three eastern provinces and the humiliation of the country. He transferred to Laiyang middle school in 1934. In the summer of 1935, he met Mr. Zhang Zilian, the freehand flower and bird painter of Wu Changshuo school, and learned freehand flower and bird from him. After graduating from Laiyang county middle school in 1936, he taught in sun Shou town primary school. He began to sign his name with Cui Zifan. He took part in the Anti Japanese and national salvation movements on December 9 and December 16. In his works "the rain is coming, the wind is full of buildings", "Liu Yan" and "the painting of mother and son", he expressed his worries about the future and destiny of the country and the nation, as well as his indignation at the Japanese invaders. The Anti Japanese war broke out in 1937. He took part in the vanguard of Chinese national liberation and organized Anti Japanese armed forces to oppose the aggressive war of Japanese imperialism. In 1938, he successively served as the instructor of the seventh brigade of the third army of Shandong people's Anti Japanese and national salvation army, the political commissar of the 22nd brigade, and the deputy chief of the Democratic Movement section of the Political Department of the fifth detachment of the Eighth Route Army of Shandong Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1938. His daughter Cui Hongying was born in September 1939. He went to Yan'an after he was injured in 1940, studied and graduated from Yan'an military and Political College and Yan'an senior party school. He has successively studied dialectical materialism, historical materialism, theory of practice, theory of contradiction, etc. It laid the philosophical foundation of dialectical materialism. He returned from Yan'an to work in Shandong in 1945. He has successively served as director, Deputy Commissioner and Commissioner of Nanhai Commissioner's office of Jiaodong District, Shandong Province. in the cruel war of 1947, eight family members sacrificed their precious lives for the liberation of the people. In December, she married Ms. Li Yixuan, who works in Nanhai middle school. in 1949, the eldest son of the new people's livelihood. In 1950, he was transferred from Shandong to Beijing hospital political commissar. In 1951, his second son Xincheng was born. In 1952, accompanied by the mounting artist Liu Jintao, he paid a visit to Qi Baishi. Old man Baishi looked at the works he had brought with him and said humbly, "Comrade Cui, your paintings are really freehand. There are still some paintings I can't let go of. Don't learn from me (some of the works I've brought with me learn the painting method of Qi school). Just follow your painting method and you can draw well. ". And exhorted "draw often, don't leave it behind. "Later, old man Baishi wrote" true freehand brushwork, Zifan painted Baishi "on the picture of rooster brought by Cui Zifan. From then on, Cui Zifan often visited the old man's home in Baishi and asked for advice. Sanzi Xinsheng. In August, he was transferred to the director of the office of the National Bureau of statistics. In 1954, he served as the director of the survey and Survey Bureau of the Ministry of urban construction of the State Council. Four sons, new four lives. In 1956, the State Council decided to establish the Beijing Chinese Painting Academy. In October, the Ministry of culture of the people's Republic of China participated in the preparation of the first National Painting Academy in New China, Beijing Chinese Painting Academy. Since then, there has been a good talk in Beijing Art Circles from "volunteering" to "abandoning officials to become artists". In 1957, Beijing Chinese Painting Academy was officially established. He has successively served as secretary general, vice president and Secretary of the Party committee. He began his art career of "working and studying", that is, painting while working. I personally asked Qi Baishi to be the honorary president of the Academy. In 1958, more than 20 paintings, such as chrysanthemum and crab, were presented to the soldiers of the Fujian front-line people's Liberation Army. Beijing Academy of Chinese painting held a Chinese painting class. He wrote yangliubage for Xue Yongnian. When visiting the art joint exhibition of the three northeast provinces in 1960, he should be invited to paint for Jilin, Shenyang, Angang and other places. He wrote chrysanthemum Magpie in 1961 and participated in Beijing Spring Festival Painting Exhibition. Selected from PLA pictorial. In 1962, at the invitation of Shandong Art Association, he worked with Li kuchan, Wang Xuetao and Wu Jingting

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