Most of the Tushanwan Orphanage was received after the liberation, but the row of bungalows in the Picture Department was maintained until 1966.
Yu Xianggong's real name is Yu Kai, born in 1892, a Catholic Jesuit monk, and it is customary to call the monk Xianggong, a native of Wuyuan, Jiangxi, who speaks authentic Shanghainese. He has been in charge of the primary school for many years, and the peach and plum are all over the world. After the school was nationalized, he came to Tushanwan to take charge of the affairs of the drawing department.
Watercolor painting "Wuyuan Creek Waterfall" by Yu Kai.
Chinese painting "Four Seasons Strip Screen" by Yu Kai.
Yu Xianggong was a painter and a very good calligrapher, and he still has a painting that my father gave him when he got married in 1939. He was indifferent to fame and fortune, had very few hand-me-down works, and basically did not get involved in various social activities in the art world, only to see a document, which recorded that he had held a "Raising Funds for Primary School Students and Poor and Sick Primary School Teaching Grants Yu Kai Collection New Year Cards Exhibition" in early 1948. The participants included almost all the celebrities in Shanghai at that time, including Jin Zhonghua, Xia Yan, Zhao Puchu and many other prominent figures after the liberation, which shows his appeal and activity ability.
He has an amazing memory. The students who came out of the Likes Primary School, after seeing each other for many years, were able to call him by name, and he said that he could remember the names of at least 3,000 students.
Tushanwan Art Gallery (early 20th century).
He loves nature and often takes his students out into the wilderness, often on foot. He likes to catch insect self-made specimens, and there is a taxidermy room in the Zosi Primary School. I heard him say that when he was young, he went back to his hometown of Wuyuan with a French priest to visit his old mother, and on the way he walked through a hill, and suddenly found a tiger in front of him, and the two hurriedly climbed to a big tree and watched the tiger slowly walk underneath. They also caught an extra-large butterfly in the mountains, which was brought back to the French Entomological Museum by the priest and named it Danilao Yu. Dani is always Yu Kai's Christian name.
In the late autumn of 1961, he took a few of our Tushanwan students to Suzhou, from Lingyan Mountain to Tianping Mountain, and shuttled on the mountain paths. On that day, a strong cold air arrived, and it was almost dusk, and at a glance, I saw a blood-red maple leaf swaying in the sunset under the mountain, which was a spectacle. He exclaimed repeatedly: It is really worth the trip to have its own merits with the red maple in Xishan, Beijing.
I didn't read well since I was a child, but I loved to draw. So shortly after he was transferred out of Classy Elementary School, my father asked me to bring a letter to Tushan Bay to meet him. The letter said that I was close to painting by nature, and hoped that he would teach me how to draw, and that he would be strictly disciplined. Since then, I have embarked on the path of painting.
Tushanwan preserves the most complete set of Western painting art education materials since the Renaissance, I started from the initial pencil drawing lines, and used thickness, depth, and density to draw the shape of the object, especially to draw the texture of the object. Every time I go to the Yuxiang Guild, I will give me one or two drawings, first give a little demonstration, and then bring it back and copy it over and over again, until it is ripe, and then I will hand in my homework. He was very serious and always had to find faults, sometimes almost harshly. When you're done, give me a new pattern. In this way, I spent 6 years sketching in pencil. Later, painting watercolors and oil paintings almost came naturally.
Apprentices at Tushanwan Art Gallery are learning the art of painting.
I have been a child who is not afraid of heaven and earth since I was a child, but whenever I go to Tushan Bay with the picture I draw, when I see Yu Xianggong, it is like a mouse seeing a cat. He never said anything good about my paintings in front of me, which made me nervous and unwittingly, and unconsciously planted the seed that artistic perfection is never-ending. Years later, I learned that he used to boast about my paintings in front of others. The painting skills I laid in Tushanwan when I was a teenager, especially the discipline that I felt in awe of my mentor Yu Xianggong, have benefited me for life.
He died in the fall of 1984. Two months later, I was allowed to hold a solo exhibition in the Federal Republic of Germany, which was exhibited in several cities, and the response was overwhelming. During this period, I visited the Louvre Museum in Paris and other places, which lasted a year and two months. To this day, I am still one of the few poor painters in society, who regards art and painting as life. The pursuit of excellence and perfection is my lifelong goal, which is due to the influence of Yu Xianggong's education since I was a child, and I can still be alone in today's world of fame and fortune.
The author of this article is a painter from Tushanwan).
The last descendant of Tushan Bay - Ye Zhaosheng
Painter introduced
Ye Zhaosheng, even if he was born and raised in Shanghai, few people know that there is such a person. However, in the past 30 years, Ye Zhaosheng's solo exhibitions have toured Europe many times, and they have visited the most important countries in the history of world art, such as Germany, France, and Italy. His oil paintings bring a sense of déjà vu and reunion to Europe, where contemporary art is prevalent, and set off a new wind.
Ye Zhaosheng, born in Shanghai in July 1942, his study of painting is fundamentally based on the European tradition, because when he was young, he studied under Yu Kai, the last director of the Tushanwan Art Museum, and became the last successor of the Tushanwan Art Museum. In the 60s of the last century, he successively studied under Liu Haisu, Yan Wenliang and Zhang Chongren, three art masters, eclectic, especially the essence of Liu Haisu's oil paintings, with unrestrained brushes, bold colors, or thick and intense, or random swaying. Ye Zhaosheng's oil paintings are also delicate and picturesque, and the picture is full of poetic feelings. Some of them incorporate the lines of Chinese gongbi painting, or present the modern taste of abstract painting.
Today, Ye Zhaosheng, who is over the age of age, is still working tirelessly to paint. From his works, we can feel the painter's thoughts and talents, his tireless pursuit of art, and his indifference in dealing with the world. In his oil paintings, we can vaguely touch the development of oil painting in Shanghai over the past hundred years.
Painting appreciation
Oil painting "Girl with a Hat".
Oil painting "Riverside Farmhouse".
Pencil sketch "Portrait of Teacher Yu Kai".
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Text: Xuhui Cultural Tourism.
Author: Ye Zhaosheng.
Editor: Qiu Caihong.
Proofreading: Geng Jieyu.
Reviewer: Wei Li.
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