Dong Shouping is a shining pearl in the Chinese painting world

Mondo History Updated on 2024-01-29

Dong Shouping (1904-1997) is a famous contemporary freehand painter and calligrapher. The original name was 揆kuí, the word harmonic bo, and later Mu Nantian Yun Ge Yun yùn Shouping was renamed Shouping, a native of Du Shu Shù Village, Hongdong County, Linfen Fén City, Shanxi Province. He graduated from Nankai University in Tianjin in his early years. Famous for painting pine, bamboo, plum and orchid, in his later years, he was known as the giant of Yellow Mountain, painted landscapes with the theme of Yellow Mountain, and was also good at calligraphy.

Dong Shouping was born in a family of poets and calligraphers, his great-grandfather Dong Jitang was a famous calligrapher in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and won the penmanship of the two kings. It was a short-term position in the Hanlin Academy during the Ming and Qing dynasties of China. Selected by the people who have passed the imperial examination in the Jinshi to serve as a close minister of the emperor, responsible for drafting edicts, explaining scriptures for the emperor, etc., is one of the important ** of the Ming cabinet auxiliary ministers). His grandfather, Dong Zhihuan, was a Qing Hanlin and was famous for his poetry and books. The Dong family has a rich collection of cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings, and is famous overseas. Dong Shouping has been influenced by his family since he was a child, loves calligraphy and painting, and studied his own. After painting flowers at the beginning, he studied landscapes, especially for painting plum bamboo and the scenery of Yellow Mountain.

The landscape painting scroll is mostly based on the old pine of the strange peak of Huangshan Mountain, which is not limited to the shape of the peak stone, but seeks the unity of the whole charm, and enjoys the reputation of "Dong Mei", "Shouping Bamboo" and "Huangshan Giant" in the painting world. In addition to the "Dong Shouping Memorial Hall" in China, Dong Shouping's works are also collected by major art museums.

His calligraphy art is full of personality, vigorous and vigorous, simple and chic, both divine and shaped, and bold, showing his noble spiritual realm, profound knowledge and upright and open-minded character. His works have been exhibited at home and abroad for many times, and have been collected by art galleries and museums at home and abroad. Received the Fuji Art Medal.

In addition to his extraordinary attainments in calligraphy, his skills in painting are also fascinating and reverie. Dong Shouping likes to paint plum blossoms and bamboos on weekdays. Especially cinnabar red plum is his stunt.

There is a painting of Dong Shouping's "Ink Bamboo" in the Xinjiang Spring and Autumn Art Museum. It is 45cm wide and 68cm high. Dong Shouping's green bamboo, the pen and ink are concise and clean, firm and lofty, the composition is ethereal, and the calligraphy is rich and simple. The ink pine written is full of life, the pen and ink are vigorous, and the complexity and simplicity are suitable.

Dong Lao can make an impact in one field, in addition to his excellent skills, for him, his charm lies in his indifference to fame and fortune, self-cleanliness, and helping others, which are all good Xi developed in childhood.

In 1923, when Dong Lao was studying at the Beijing Esperanto School, he was going to return to Jin to visit his relatives during the summer vacation, but because he met a classmate from Yenching University who could not go back to his hometown in Sichuan to visit relatives without travel expenses, he resolutely decided to give up his plan to go home to visit his relatives and gave the money to this classmate to let him go home. During his lifetime, he participated in various voluntary exhibitions, pen clubs, charities, and disaster relief activities, and donated countless words and paintings.

The greatest thing is his pure patriotism. In 1941, he donated the proceeds from the Sichuan Art Exhibition to support the Anti-Japanese War. In his later years, Chen Binfan, vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, often asked him to paint in order to promote tea culture, and most of the ink was hurriedly taken away before it dried. In 1994, there was a once-in-a-century flood in South China, and six units including Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" launched a charity sale of famous calligraphy and paintings. At that event, a total of 207 calligraphers, painters and sculptors donated 200 works, and the total amount of charity sales was 240HK$90,000, and Dong Shouping's "Wind and Rain Bamboo" was subscribed by Ms. Bao Beiqing, the daughter of Bao Yugang, the chairman of Shenghua Service***, for HK$290,000, setting a record for the charity sale.

With his outstanding artistic achievements, Dong Shouping has left an immortal mark on future generations. His works show his pursuit of beauty and unique artistic style. Whether in the field of painting or calligraphy, Dong Shouping has become a bright star in the contemporary art world with his unique creative concept and exquisite skills. His works not only make people think more deeply about art, but also make people full of beautiful expectations for life. Whether it is the development of contemporary art or people's pursuit of beauty, Dong Shouping's artistic achievements will always shine in the long river of history and become a model for future generations to learn and Xi.

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