Zhu fan

Zhu fan

Zhu fan (1931-2006): also known as tie min, born in Ninghe County in 1931, studied in the Fine Arts Department of North China University in 1979 and graduated from Hebei Academy of fine arts. He studied under Gu Yuan, Wu Guangyu, Li Qi and Huang Zhou. Member of China Artists Association, director of Tianjin Artists Association, director of Tianjin daily, etc. His works are included in the dictionary of famous Chinese Calligraphers and painters. He has published Zhu fan's stage sketch collection, etc. Wang Xuezhong, a famous calligrapher, wrote a preface to the selected paintings. The famous painter Sun Qifeng wrote an inscription: "a panoramic view of a generation's dancing.".

In the early days of the founding of new China, Zhu fan actively participated in comic books and other popular paintings, such as white tiger company, which was created and published for Shanghai Fine Arts Publishing House in August 1954, and red birch letter, which was his early little-known comic books, was also created and published for Shanghai new Arts Publishing House in January 1956. Later, he began to create comic books for Tianjin Fine Arts Publishing House The projects include "in the big family" (1956), "water source" (1958), "high strength enameled wire" (1959), "Ma Guorong who is willing to think and do" (1959 cooperation), "dragon tail" (1960), etc.; in addition, the New Year picture "family planning changes customs" and so on. Zhu fan has also painted some comic books for art publishing houses in other provinces and cities, such as "farmer scientist" (Hebei), "underground vanguard" (Liaoning), "can think and do it" (Liaoning), etc. In the 1970s and 1980s, Zhu fan was the director of the Art Department of Tianjin daily. After his busy work, he still insists on creating comic books. For example, he cooperated with other Tianjin painters to complete the "car" (Jinmei, 1977), "Pegasus tracking" (Jinmei, 1981), "Story King Gallery" (Xinlei, 1985-1994) and so on. Zhu fan's comics, his painting style, is to follow the traditional Chinese line drawing creation, also take the road of realism. After decades of popular painting, Zhu fan developed his superb skills in controlling figure painting, and made brilliant achievements in creating stage figure painting in his later years. In July 2006, "Zhu fan dance figure painting exhibition" was held in Tianjin, displaying 52 dance figure paintings created by famous figure painter Zhu fan who just passed away. Careful visitors and people in the industry will find that Zhu fan, who has become a master of figure painting, has completed thousands of years of tempering and mastering of figure painting from popular art painting, especially comic book creation, which has laid a solid foundation for the painter's figure painting creation in his later years. Seeing his figure painting, he has rich expression, vivid expression, accurate modeling and easy to handle In recent years, he is familiar with the painting foundation of comic books. As an expert said: an excellent serial painter must be a good character painter; and a good character painter may not be an excellent serial painter. Painter Zhu fan started from comic book painting and finally became an example of a figure painter, which once again proved the iron rule of success in the art world.

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