Research On Xu Zihe And His Chinese Painting

In the last century,Chinese painting was influenced by the changes of domestic society and the trend of thought in western art,which led to unprecedented changes in artistic concepts and creation.Inspired by the spirit of The Times,a group of artists with a sense of social responsibility and determination to forge ahead have realized that only by innovating traditional Chinese painting in line with The Times can they embody the artist’s artistic responsibility.Therefore,when painters create in the social environment of the new era,they always adhere to the creative spirit of being diligent in thinking,brave in practice and brave in innovation.At the same time,they are also actively exploring the new requirements,new tasks and new ideas of Chinese painting in the new historical period,which is also worth paying attention to.At the end of the 20 th century in Anhui painting,Xu Zihe is an extremely influential painter,and as one of the "eight old" painters in Anhui,Anhui traditional painting inheritance and development of innovation made a positive contribution,but also laid a certain foundation for the development of contemporary Anhui painting Chinese painting.Xu Zihe has been an artist for more than 60 years,and his skills are pure and profound.He was trained by Cao Biao,Qian Tieshou two painters,its painting can be described as melting ancient shuo today,fine brushwork and good at freehand brushwork,writing more landscapes,flowers and birds,figures,especially landscape,flowers and birds.His painting art starts from tradition,but is not limited to established methods.The beauty lies in that he can freely come in and out of tradition and modernity,and can often create new ideas from himself,so his painting style is quite distinct.We can really feel this from his many living works.In his landscape paintings,most of them depict Huangshan scenery.He has visited Huangshan for several times to have a view of Huangshan scenery,full of famous mountains and rivers in the South of the Yangtze River,and experienced the spirit and beauty of the landscape of the motherland.Over the decades,he has accumulated nearly ten thousand pieces of painting manuscripts.Xu Zihe painted Huangshan,mostly from Huangshan pine,a stone,a cloud painting,gradually appreciate the essence of Huangshan,and eventually formed its unique style of painting.His Huangshan paintings are simple,natural,and fresh,and many of his masterpieces also give people a sense of grandeur,but also exudes a strong atmosphere of The Times and bright personality color.In addition,he also created a large number of figure paintings,flower and bird paintings full of the spirit of The Times,these works are enough to reflect his artistic creation concept of "brush and ink follow The Times,and brush and ink from nature".Xu Zihe enjoys a high reputation in Anhui painting circles in the 20 th century.Moreover,as an educator,his achievements in fine arts education are obvious to all.This paper aims to Xu Zihe paintings,after combing existing text information system,combined with his era environment,a teen experience and participate in art activities such as the depth of their paintings are interpretation and analysis,and then to Xu Zihe painting style and its artistic achievement is relatively comprehensive,system and in-depth research,Strive to form a more comprehensive and objective cognition and evaluation of Xu Zihe’s painting art.