Hu gentian

Hu gentian

Hu gentian (September 1892 June 1985), male, Han nationality, alias Hu Zhiqiu, is a member of the Democratic League of Kaiping, Guangdong Province. He graduated from university. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the fourth Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of the fifth and sixth Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference. Hu gentian has successively served as the director of Guangzhou literature and History Research Institute, vice chairman of Guangzhou Municipal Committee of China Democratic League, vice chairman of Guangdong Branch of China Artists Association, honorary director of China Calligraphers Association, etc.

Personal profile

Hu gentian, formerly known as Yugui, was born in Tangbian village, Ruliang Township, Kaiping County, Guangdong Province in September 1892. Kaiping is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in Guangdong Province. Hu gentian's father is an overseas Chinese worker in the United States. Hu gentian entered a private school at the age of 8. He learned the earliest art nourishment from traditional calligraphy and old style poetry. Although he did not use a brush before he was 15 years old, there was a Huang Shoushan painting shop near his home in Baihe market, which often attracted him to stop and watch. At the beginning of the 20th century, the United States implemented the anti Chinese policy. Hu's father lost his job and his family lost support. Hu had to drop out of school to work as a small handyman in the Baihe market grocery store. Later, he joined the doctor's uncle to work as a handyman in the medical bureau. In the spring of 1906, the first primary school of Kaiping county was opened in the east gate of Cangcheng county. Hu gentian's elder brother was employed as a teacher, and 14-year-old Hu gentian became the first group of students. Later, Hu gentian studied in the attached middle school of Guangdong Normal University and the graphics and engineering specialty of Guangdong Normal University. Hu gentian was the enlightener and pioneer of modern art education in Guangdong. He received systematic western art education in Tokyo Art School from 1915 to 1920, and then returned to China. In 1921, he founded chishe Art Research Association in Guangzhou, which was the first Western Painting Association in Guangdong. In the same year, he founded Guangzhou Municipal Art School, which was the pioneer of modern art education in Guangdong. After 1949, Hu gentian was appointed director of Guangzhou Museum, director of Guangzhou literature and history research Museum, etc. he took the five storey building of Yuexiu mountain as the site of Guangzhou Museum, which was completed during his term of office.

Biography of characters

In April 1913, after graduating from Guangdong Normal University, he worked as a primary school teacher in Guanghai Town, Taishan County, Guangdong Province;

In the winter of 1914, he went to Tokyo, Japan, and got the western painting major of Tokyo fine arts school;

From 1915 to 1920, he received systematic western art education in Tokyo Art School;

In the spring of 1920, he graduated from Tokyo Art School and returned to China;

In 1921, he founded chishe Art Research Association in Guangzhou and Guangzhou Municipal Art School in the same year;

In October 1921, in charge of the preparatory work of art school;

On April 26, 1922, he served as the dean of Guangzhou Municipal fine arts school and presided over the daily school affairs;

In 1926, he was the president of Guangzhou Fine Arts School;

In 1949, he was the director of Guangzhou people's Museum;

In 1953, Hu gantian, Chen Danian and others prepared to build the Guangzhou literature and History Research Institute and served as the deputy director;

In September 1962, he was the director of traditional Chinese painting major of Guangzhou University of Arts and history;

In 1979, he was the director of Guangzhou literature and History Research Institute.

Characters and deeds

In December 1978, Hu gentian learned that the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held, and he radiated incomparable enthusiasm and energy. He took the lead in supporting the policy of reform and opening up, and called on the broad masses of people in the literary and art circles to actively participate in this magnificent cause. In December of the next year, the Guangzhou municipal Party committee and government decided to hire Hu gentian as the director of Guangzhou literature and History Research Institute to create a new situation for the development of literature and history in Yangcheng. Regardless of his 87 year old age, he readily agreed. In the face of the situation of a hundred wastes waiting to be revived, Hu gentian devoted himself wholeheartedly to the restoration of the Museum of literature and history with his amazing energy of "flying hard regardless of the year". He mobilized and organized the librarians to actively write history for Guangzhou, and successively completed the compilation of Guangzhou Centennial chronicles and Guangzhou nearly Centennial education historical materials, which filled the gap in the modern chronicle of Guangzhou. At the same time, in line with the new requirements of reform and opening up, he took the initiative to tap the potential of the museum, encouraged the members of the museum to make use of their overseas relations to do a good job in invigorating the economy of Guangzhou, and successfully assisted the municipal government in introducing a number of economic projects, contributing greatly to the opening up and economic development of Guangzhou.

In September 1981, Hu gentian was elected vice chairman of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference. As an old member of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference at the beginning of liberation, he was very good at the work of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, and also gave special support to it. Hu gentian, combining his actual work and personal experience, focused on the literature and historical materials work of the CPPCC, and devoted a lot of effort to it. Hu gentian took the lead in organizing the history of chishe, the first group to study western art in Guangzhou, together with Chen Qiushan and Feng gangbai in the early 1920s after he returned to China; participating in the preparation of the first art exhibition of Guangdong Province jointly held by Guangdong provincial government and Guangzhou municipal government; initiating the establishment of Guangzhou Municipal Art School; and He has written many literary and historical materials, such as the whole story of chishe Art Research Association, the storm of the first Guangdong Art Exhibition 60 years ago, and the storm of the establishment and development of the first public art school in China. At the same time, based on his rich experiences and experiences in the second revolutionary war, the war of resistance against Japan and the war of liberation, he wrote manuscripts such as "Haizhu night moon" and "recalling Xu Chongqing". He introduced the historical anecdotes, geographical attractions and famous works of Guangzhou in the newspaper, providing a large number of highly valuable "three relatives" (personal experience, personal relationship) for "Guangzhou literature and history" Historical materials.

It is Hu gentian's lifelong ideal to promote the prosperity and development of Guangzhou and China's fine arts. In 1982, the Guangzhou Academy of painting was established, and he took the initiative to donate a number of famous picture albums to the Academy. In 1984, he donated more than 170 oil paintings that he had created for decades to Guangzhou Art Museum. At the same time, he also worked as an old friend Mr. Guan jin'ao, an overseas Chinese in France, who contributed seven French oil paintings in his personal collection to Guangzhou Art Museum. Hu gentian is good at traditional Chinese painting, especially in painting figures, landscapes, trees and flowers. He stands tall, strong and fragrant. His main works include the painting of refugees, a guard and Huangshan lotus peak. His art papers, such as "Japanese art grew up in the cradle of China", "on realistic painting" and "the development of Western painting in China", have a great impact on the development of Chinese art. He also published a collection of Hu gentian's works.

In his later years, Hu Gen Tian unfortunately suffered from glaucoma, cataract and other eye diseases, but he still actively participated in all kinds of art exhibitions and painting activities. In the second half of 1984, Hu gentian's eyes were completely blind. However, for the large-scale calligraphy and painting exhibition in Guangzhou during the Spring Festival of 1985, with amazing perseverance, rich imagination and accurate judgment ability, he replaced his eyes with God and expressed his feelings with ink, he completed the last work of his life - "picturesque rivers and mountains", with the signature inscription "94 blind man". In June 1985, Hu gentian was in danger, but on his bed, the old man still insisted on participating in the evaluation of the new eight sceneries of Yangcheng. At that time, the old man knew that there was not much to come and he had difficulty breathing. However, he still gave his own opinions in the form of oral instruction, and told his daughter Hu Yueming to compile a letter to the jury of "eight scenes of Yangcheng", faithfully fulfilling his final duty as a judge.

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