Autumn and Winter Check-in Challenge Ya Ming (1924-2002), a native of Hefei, Anhui Province. The original surname was Ye, the name Bing, the number Jingzhi, and later changed his name to Yaming. His publications include "Visiting the Soviet Union", "Yaming Anthology", "Yaming Paintings", "Three Hunan and Four Rivers", "Yaming's Recent Works", "Contemporary Famous Chinese Paintings-Yaming", etc.
When Yaming was dying, he wrote a sentence on his sickbed: "It is the greatest regret that Chinese painting has not been able to paint a famous name." These are his last words, and they clearly tell us what he was thinking in the last days of his life, and he was a person who regarded Chinese painting as life.
At the age of 78, his life is really not long, but a real painter, in addition to his own life, also has another kind of life - artistic life. It was a life that was much longer than one's own life. From this point of view, Shi Tao and Bada Shanren are still alive, Qi Baishi and Fu Baoshi are of course even more alive, and Yaming has not left us.
Ya Ming's statement that he "failed to paint a famous painting" in Chinese painting is not an ordinary humble statement, but his lifelong insight, because he is relative to a big goal. In his chest, Chinese painting is a long and endless river, a continuous dragon's back.
The young Yaming, who only went to elementary school and experienced the grief of losing his father, shouldered the burden of family life at the age of 13. At the age of 15, he joined the New Fourth Army, engaged in wartime propaganda in the army, engaged in the creation of popular paintings, and was also responsible for educating prisoners of war. After the battle of crossing the river in 1949, when he went to Wuxi at the age of 25 to serve as the editor-in-chief of the "Southern Jiangsu Peasant Pictorial", he began to really get in touch with Chinese painting and Chinese painters. At the age of 29, he was transferred to Nanjing, and soon was appointed to prepare for the establishment of the Jiangsu Branch of the China Artists Association, the Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Traditional Chinese Painting and the Jiangsu Provincial Art Exhibition Hall, and began to take full responsibility for leading the art work in Jiangsu.
At the end of the 50s of the last century, his works "Morning Fog of Taihu Lake", "Stone Trench Officer" and "Merchant Picture" were born, and then "Iron and Steel Factory Group Painting", "Seedling Walking", "Discharge" and "Seaside Life" and other masterpieces also appeared one after another. These Chinese paintings, which are mainly figures, have the tradition of brush and ink, the interest of life, the style of the times, and also have Ya Ming's personal characteristics - concise brush and ink, the echo of the beauty of form and form, and the sense of lyrical poetry.
In the 10 years from 1953 to 1963, Ya Ming grew from an outsider to an accomplished Chinese painter who "couldn't hold a brush" ("Ya Ming's Autobiography"), realizing the transition of life as a poor boy, a soldier, and a painter. This is a miracle in the Chinese painting world, let's call it the "Yaming phenomenon".
In the Chinese art world, people once put Ya Ming alongside Shi Lu and Huang Zhou, because they all came from the revolutionary ranks, and they all started the creation of Chinese painting after the liberation and made outstanding achievements. However, Ya Ming joined the New Fourth Army at the age of 15, and Shi Lu at the age of 15 entered the Chinese Painting Department of Chengdu Oriental Art College, and then worked as a teacher.