Fu Baoshi, Biography of a Master Painter
This Biography of Chinese Master Painter Fu Baoshi is part of a continuing series of articles about Fine Asian Art, Antiques and Antiquities. This series on Master Chinese Painters and Calligraphers is brought to you by Asian Antiquities, purveyors of exceptionally Fine Chinese, Japanese, Korean Art, Antiques and Antiquities. http://asian-antiquities.com
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Fu Baoshi, or Fu Pao-Shih, (1904-1965) was a Chinese painter from Xinyu, Jiangxi Province. He went to Japan to study the History of Oriental Art in the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1933. He translated many books from Japanese and carried out his own research. In painting itself, he brought Japanese visual elements to the Chinese ink painting tradition.
He was the Director of the Jiangsu Province Chinese Painting School and a Vice-Chairman of the Federation of Chinese Artists. He also taught in the Art Department of Central University. His works of landscape painting employed skillful use of dots and inking methods, creating a new technique encompassing many varieties within traditional rules. He was able to create an old, elegant style through his integration of poetic atmosphere and painting techniques. He has held many personal exhibitions in China and has won favourable comments.
Fu had strong feelings towards the land of China. During his travel to many places, he recorded the splendors of the rivers and mountains, drawing inspiration from nature and becoming the representative landscape painter of his time.
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