Qin Zhongwen

Qin Zhongwen

Qin Zhongwen, (January 26, 1896 - June 23, 1974) Mingyu, born in Zunhua County, Hebei Province, is a modern Chinese painter, art historian and art educator. He is a famous landscape painter and a member of China Artists Association. His landscape painting patriarchal system in the early Qing Dynasty "four kings", back to the Yuan Dynasty four, and good at ink and bamboo, but also fine calligraphy. Before liberation, he taught in the school of art, Peking University, Jinghua Academy of fine arts, and Peking National Academy of art, and wrote a book on the history of Chinese painting. After liberation, he served as a painter and committee member of Beijing Academy of painting. A collection of Qin Zhongwen's works has been published.

Personal resume

Qin Zhongwen, formerly known as Qin Yurong, was named Zhongwen. Later, he took Qin Yu as his pen name. He was from Liangzihe village. His studio was named Qunfeng Fucui house. He was born in Liangzihe village, Zunhua County, Hebei Province on January 26, 1896 and died in Beijing on June 23, 1974. Modern Chinese painters, art historians, art educators. I like painting since I was a child. I first copied the biography of mustard garden paintings, the painting of zhizhai and the paintings of ancient and modern celebrities. He joined the Department of law and politics of Peking University in 1915. He studied calligraphy and painting from Mr. Zhang Haoru and was instructed by he Lvzhi, Chen Shizeng, Tang Dingzhi and Jincheng. In 1918, he took part in the Chinese painting research society sponsored by President Cai Yuanpei and in 1920, he took part in the Chinese Painting Research Society founded by Jincheng and others as a researcher, trying to copy ancient famous works. His landscape paintings were first learned from Xigang, huangguyuan and daijiushi in the late Qing Dynasty. After in-depth study of the early Qing Dynasty Gong Xian, Cha Shibiao and other works. Therefore, Mr. Wang has laid a very deep foundation in the history and art of calligraphy and painting. His paintings are rich in depth, simple and quiet, and rich in culture from technique to implication. He became famous earlier than Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong and others. He was one of the important representative painters of traditional northern school in China who adhered to the principle of pen and ink. After graduating from Peking University in 1921, he successively taught in the school of art of Peking University (formerly Peking Art College), Jinghua Academy of fine arts and National Peking art college. After liberation, he successively held the posts of painter, committee member of Beijing Academy of painting and professor of Tianjin Academy of fine arts. He is a member of China Artists Association, forthright and frank. In 1947, when he was a teacher in Beiping Art College (formerly National Beijing Art College), he had a heated argument with Professor Shou Shigong and Professor Li Zhichao about the difference between Xu Beihong and his teaching ideas of Chinese painting in art college. He opposed Xu Beihong's teaching method of "taking sketch as the modeling basis of Chinese painting" in the teaching and creation of Chinese painting. After the summer vacation of that year, the three were dismissed by Xu Beihong. This is the "three professors event" which caused a sensation at that time. Since then, it has been neglected politically. In the mid-1950s, he wrote an article to argue with Wang Xun on the issue of Chinese painting, and tried his best to maintain the traditional painting methods and characteristics. During the cultural revolution, he was persecuted. According to Guan Ruizhi, a senior contemporary landscape painter and traditional Chinese painting theorist who worked for Qin Zhongwen in his early years, Qin Zhongwen's traditional Chinese painting "flock of chickens" was designated as "black painting" by the Ministry of culture in 1974, and was identified as "a great strategy to maliciously attack the educated youth to go to the countryside". Finally, Mr. Qin died of depression in the autumn of 1974. He was the only "black painter" who was persecuted to death. In 1978, Mr. Qin Zhongwen and other "black painters" were completely rehabilitated politically.

Creative process

Qin Zhongwen has studied and imitated ancient paintings seriously, and is a Chinese painter with profound brush and ink skills. He is also familiar with poetry, good at calligraphy, left the history of painting works, so his understanding of the traditional art of painting in-depth and through.

Before the age of 50, Qin Zhongwen's paintings mainly imitated the ancients. Later, he integrated sketching and tried to break through the norms of the ancients and create his own appearance. From the late 1950s to the early 1960s, his works are the most and more mature, such as sketching on the road to Sha Feng, rain in Minshan, Yueyang Tower and natural danger in Wujiang River. He used the forthright temperament of northerners to master the skills of the southern style landscape painting. His pen was strong and powerful, and his ink method was subtle. He could show his broad and powerful spirit in a small painting. He is also good at using regular script to draw ink and bamboo. His style is clear, vigorous and simple. He has published selected works of Qin Zhongwen, collected landscape paintings of Qin Zhongwen, selected paintings of Qin Zhongwen, etc.

Qin Zhongwen is good at landscape and ink bamboo, especially famous for ink landscape. Its landscape, combined with wangshigu and wumojing, also dates back to song and Yuan Dynasties, and strives to integrate the southern and Northern sects. It likes to use small axes to split the Cun, and the scenery is simple, with strong and thick strokes. After liberation, there were many sketches from life, but the basic style remained unchanged. Qin Zhongwen is good at poetry and art history research. He compiled the history of Chinese painting in 1930, which is one of the important art history works in the first half of the 20th century.

His works also include Yueyang City, clouds at the clear foot of the mountain, and great rivers and mountains (in cooperation with Hu Peiheng).

In the early 1950s, Zhuang toured Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, Shanxi and other places in the capital, creating a large number of new works reflecting the beauty of nature and human nature. In his later years, he also painted flowers and birds. Ink bamboo, ink plum is also unique, extraordinary charm. Qin Zhongwen studied the ancient art in his early years. After 50 years old, he started from the tradition, integrated into the sketch, broke through the ancients' stereotype, changed the style of painting, and formed his own unique artistic style. By the early 1960s, his landscape paintings had reached a state of perfection; Qin Zhongwen, with the forthright spirit of the northerners, controlled the expression techniques of the southern style landscape paintings, and showed a broad and powerful spirit within a short distance. In his many years of artistic career, Qin Zhongwen has repeatedly studied ancient painting seriously. Especially after he entered the Chinese Painting Research Association founded by Jincheng in 1920, he benefited a lot from Jincheng's collection of famous paintings and antiquities. A long time of appreciation and research laid a solid foundation for his traditional painting, making him gradually become a Chinese painter with profound skills. Qin Zhongwen is not only good at landscape painting, but also familiar with CI, calligraphy and historical works. His understanding of traditional Chinese culture and art is deep and penetrating.

Appreciation of works

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