Shocked to hear that Mr. Liu Guoshu passed away, I was sad and wept!
The picture of visiting my husband in ......the hospital two months ago is vividly vividAlthough he was originally weak, he still cared about the development of the school, did not forget to tell me again and again, and took care of me more carefully. With this entrustment, I traveled through the busy affairs of the college, and planned to visit my husband again at the end of the year, when I was welcome for the new year, but I did not think that that visit would be the last goodbye to him.
Painful loss of my teacher, the sorrow of the long song, the world whimpered!
Three generations of oil painting teachers in Sichuan and the United States took a group photo at Liu Guoshu's home in 2018. (From right to left: Liu Guoshu, Zhang Fangzhen, Luo Zhongli) reporter Xie Zhiqiang remake.
Mr. Liu Guoshu is not only an important founder of promoting the teaching and talent training of oil painting at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, but also a generation of sages who promoted the cause of modern Chinese higher art education towards nationalization and Chinese characteristics. Mr. Lu Lan Lan, inherited Qihe, he has been rooted in the west all his life and has been deeply engaged in the teaching of oil painting at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. As the early person in charge of the Chuanmei oil painting major, he devoted a lot of effort to teaching. After the construction and development of oil painting teaching, he has always taken the cultivation of virtue and cultivation of talents as his primary missionHe cherishes talents and gives students the greatest tolerance and support for creation, teaching and scientific research. Today's remarkable achievements in Sichuan Mei oil painting are inseparable from the long-cherished wish and model set by Mr. Sichuan in the teaching of oil painting.
Walking with the times, Mr. Liu Guoshu not only fused the realist art concept of combining art and society into the roots of Sichuan American oil painting, but also practiced the artistic expression of the times and depicted the people's creative ideas with a distinctive personal style. His works such as "Delivering Rice" (1953), "The Red Army Arrives in Northern Sichuan" (1957), "Flying to Capture the Luding Bridge" (1959), "County Party Secretary" (1964), "Dismissal" (1965) and other works have been widely disseminated, which have had a profound impact on the development history of Chinese oil painting and the lineage of Sichuan aesthetics, representing the level of Chinese realist thematic oil painting, and have exemplary significance for the creation of realistic oil painting in Sichuan and Chongqing.
Mr. Liu Guoshu is a monument to the memory of the past and the United States, and it is the backbone of the times that flourishes and students look up to. He attaches great importance to the harmony and unity of artistry and reality, and his tireless enthusiasm for education and artistic character of excellence will deeply influence and inspire our generation and future generations.
Ambition in the way, in the arts, the way is immortal, the art lasts forever, Mr. eternal!
The author, Pang Maokun, is the president of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute).