What Is a Painter?

Yao Zhizhong , male, born in Xiaoshan in 1940, four years of university education, major in mechanical engineering. In art, he began to learn painting at the age of four. For decades, in addition to his own special research, he has also been under the guidance of many teachers from the former Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art). Good at Chinese painting, acrylic painting, gouache painting, ancient architectural painting, group painting, etc. With a long period of research, exploration, and creation of Chinese painting, he has a solid basic skill, which makes each of his works, especially landscape paintings, staggered with ink and brush strokes; scratches are dense and dense; cliffs, rivers, and clouds are lined up properly; landscapes In between, the movement is suitable, the close view is fine, and the long view is rough; from a macro perspective, it has a strong visual impact; the creative techniques show vividly the form, the spirit, the meaning, and the feeling; fully show the profound meaning of oriental art. Most of the works in this art exhibition are very characteristic of the times, such as "Qianjiang Early Summer", which has more imagination and full play of personality. His Chinese painting blends with the flavor of Western painting, which is quite new

Yao Zhizhong

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Yao Zhizhong , male, born in Xiaoshan in 1940, four years of university education, major in mechanical engineering. In art, he began to learn painting at the age of four. For decades, in addition to his own special research, he has also been under the guidance of many teachers from the former Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art). Good at Chinese painting, acrylic painting, gouache painting, ancient architectural painting, group painting, etc. With a long period of research, exploration, and creation of Chinese painting, he has a solid basic skill, which makes each of his works, especially landscape paintings, staggered with ink and brush strokes; scratches are dense and dense; cliffs, rivers, and clouds are lined up properly; landscapes In between, the movement is suitable, the close view is fine, and the long view is rough; from a macro perspective, it has a strong visual impact; the creative techniques show vividly the form, the spirit, the meaning, and the feeling; fully show the profound meaning of oriental art. Most of the works in this art exhibition are very characteristic of the times, such as "Qianjiang Early Summer", which has more imagination and full play of personality. His Chinese painting blends with the flavor of Western painting, which is quite new

Chinese name

Yao Zhizhong

place of birth

Xiao Shan

date of birth

1940

representative work

"Qianjiang Early Summer"

In 2000, his paintings have won the Huabiao Cup Gold Award, the Provincial Creation Award, etc .; some of them have been selected as the "Chinese Century Art Masterpieces Expo". He was awarded the title of Super Calligrapher by the World Chinese Culture Research Center and the China Art International Exchange Center. Since 1970, some works have been collected by people at home and abroad. After retiring from the Science and Technology Development Center of the Xiaoshan Science and Technology Commission, he has also engaged in the research of acrylic paintings of ancient buildings. The paintings have stayed in Hangzhou Oriental Cultural Park and relevant domestic famous temples for the world to watch. He is currently a member of the Chinese (American) Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Association, a member of Hangzhou Scientific Artists Association, a consultant and painter of Hangzhou Xiaoran Painting and Calligraphy Institute. Since 2010, he has been employed as a State Guest Special Artist for the State Council, and has been rated as a first-class painter. During the Shanghai World Expo, his paintings were also identified as national gifts purchased by the Shanghai World Expo.

The paintings were included in the "National Gift Recommendation and Procurement Manual". It was also listed as one of the cover characters by the "Guide to the Collection of Contemporary Chinese Art" edited by the Cultural Management Society of the Ministry of Culture. It was recommended as a master artist and hired as a consultant. The series of works are displayed in the United Nations exhibition hall of the Shanghai World Expo, and the works are listed as national gifts presented to the heads of states.

Yao Zhizhong started to learn painting at the age of four, and his life was inextricably linked to painting. His paintings have been appraised by many domestic masters for form, spirit, meaning and affection, and his Chinese paintings have also added unique innovative elements. The works are self-contained and widely praised in the industry.

Revealing Artistic Gifts from Life and Painting

Yao Zhizhong was born in 1940 to a family of intellectuals on the Qiantang River. Since childhood, he has liked graffiti on paper.

One evening when he was four years old, he was playing by the Qiantang River, holding a stick to draw a boat on the ground. Near the end of the drawing, the people next to him asked, was there no one on board? He thought about it, first wrote a "big" character in the blank space on the boat, then drew a circle under the "big" character as the head, and then added the facial features and limbs, a living villain was formed.

Looking back on the past, Yao Lao lamented that in this life he was destined to be inextricably linked to painting:

During school, Yao Zhizhong's talent for painting was highlighted. Whether copying or sketching, he had never received formal study, and he painted vividly. In 1950, he and several classmates studied sketching for several months in the Cultural Center, which is the most professional training he has ever received in his life.

Later, in response to the call, Yao Zhizhong, who loves painting, chose to major in mechanical engineering when he applied for college. But in college, he didn't give up painting for a moment. In a few years, oil painting has been very good.

After graduating in 1962, Yao Zhizhong went to the Xiaoshan Porter to do propaganda work. That year, Xiao Shan established the first amateur art troupe, of which 13 were recruited by the arts group, and 6 were graduates of the major. In the years that followed, Yao Zhizhong continued to paint Western oil paintings while working. Although his life was normal, it was interesting.

Two years after giving up his pen, he switched from oil painting to Chinese painting

I thought life would go on like this, but an incident that happened in 1970 disrupted Yao Zhizhong's originally peaceful life.

In 1970, one of Yao Zhizhong's oil paintings was taken to Hangzhou for exhibition. However, after the exhibition, other people's paintings were brought back, but his paintings were not found. Yao Zhizhong found the person in charge of the event and asked the painting where it was going, but the other party said, "If you lose it, you lose it. I don't know where the painting went. Who would want that Western painting?"

His paintings were so ignored, but the hard-drawn things were regarded as trash. Yao Zhizhong was hit hard, and for a while he was very depressed. He put down his paintbrush and planned to stop painting in this life.

After all, painting is a favorite of Yao Zhizhong's life. Two years later, he picked up the paintbrush again, and this time decided to enter a field he had never touched on, Chinese painting. In Yao Zhizhong's opinion, Western painting is mainly oil painting, and the "situation" required for painting is relatively large. Materials such as canvas, gouache, and paint must be prepared. Chinese painting also requires pen, ink, and paper, but it is relatively simple. Having said that, it is not easy to paint a good Chinese painting. Yao Zhizhong started to buy books and study, and repeatedly copied famous paintings. In continuous learning, he gradually integrated western painting skills into Chinese painting.

Yao Zhizhong said that the main tones of Western paintings are black and white and gray, which pay attention to the sense of light, three-dimensional, and strong perspective. Most of them are realistic portrait paintings; Chinese paintings are mostly freehand, and their content is mostly landscape. He ingeniously merged the two together, showing the characteristics of the times, but few people appreciate it, and think that his paintings are not neutral or foreign. Although distressed by this, he still insisted on his own style.

Unique painting style received critically acclaimed paintings

For decades, Yao Zhizhong has always insisted on the style of Chinese painting combining Chinese and Western styles. Each of his paintings contains a story.

In 2007, in order to draw a "Xianhu Lake Panorama", he ran to the lake every day to observe and sketch, and the wind and rain never stopped. After two months, I used more than half of the sketchbook, and often I draw late at night. After five revisions, the work was finally completed, and now the painting is still hanging on the wall of his bedroom. In the summer of 2009, Yao Zhizhong received an unusual call. The other party told him that the organizing committee of the China Asia-Pacific Cooperation Center was selecting a guest ceremony, and his paintings were initially selected. He hoped that he would send a few more paintings for the final evaluation. At first, Yao Zhizhong thought that the caller was pulling advertisements. The other party explained for a long time before he opened the web page provided by the other party with doubt, and then believed.

Yao Zhizhong subsequently posted the past 10 works. Fan Zeng, Liu Dawei and others praised Zhang Zhang as good paintings and fine works. His Chinese paintings blended with the flavors of Western paintings, revealing the natural beauty and being unique. In January 2010, Yao Zhizhong was named a special guest artist for Chinese guests.

Yao Lao said that he was 70 years old in 2010. In addition to enjoying his old age, he will spend most of his time painting attentively and strive to leave more spiritual wealth.

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