On February 24, 2024, Mr. Qiao Delong, a painter, connoisseur of calligraphy and painting, winner of the "Lifetime Achievement Award of the Nanhai Literature and Art Award", former director of the Hainan Provincial Museum, and a respected veteran of the Hainan art world, passed away in Haikou at the age of 83. ** Wang Jiaru (originally published in Hainan **, Hainan Weekly, March 4, 2024).
Qiao Delong's Chinese painting "Ten Thousand Pine Waves". In the Hainan art world, Mr. Qiao Delong has always been known for his masterpieces that express the history and humanities of Qiongdao and the folk culture of the Li nationality. As a realist painter with the spirit of the literati and a sense of mission of "writing to carry the Tao and painting as the voice of the heart", over the past decades, no matter how his personal social role changes, he has always taken it as his responsibility to carry forward the broad and profound spirit of Chinese art, adhered to the belief that "art comes from life and is higher than life", and integrated and dialogued the spirit of traditional Chinese brush and ink with the spirit of the times in the time and space of history and contemporary from the aesthetic perspective of contemporary people, and constructed an artistic language and schema with unique personal temperament. His works have participated in various national art exhibitions and held many personal exhibitions throughout the country and Southeast Asia. 
Mr. Jodron. Broaden the horizon of Hainan art creationMr. Qiao Delong was born in Guizhou in 1941, and his ancestral home is Sichuan. Over the years, the profound historical and cultural heritage of the southwest region and the subtle and colorful original ecological art of various ethnic minorities have not only forged his simple and gentle spiritual temperament, but also endowed him with a unique cultural vision and cultural vision, so that his artistic creation has great emotional power and historical thickness from the beginning. In 1984, he was selected for the 6th National Art Exhibition with three works, "Comfort Words", "The Mill's Daughter" and "Returning from the Mill", which became a good story in the art world. Maybe it's a kind of chance, maybe it's the call of the hot land and the sea in the distance. At the beginning of the establishment of Hainan Province in 1988, he resolutely gave up the excellent working conditions and environment, and with the pride and desire to seek a new artistic habitat, he joined the island where the conditions were not satisfactory in all aspects at that time, and actively participated in the exploration and construction of regional art in Hainan together with colleagues in the Hainan art circle, and became a broadener and witness of the development of Hainan art after the establishment of the province. Mr. Qiao Delong is elegant, modest, open-minded, knowledgeable and artistic. Whether it is in the field of Chinese painting figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, or poetry and calligraphy, calligraphy and painting appreciation, he is proficient in the humanities and all-round artist. In his more than 60 years of artistic career, he has served as the leader of the cultural department and the director of the Hainan Provincial Museum, no matter how busy the work is, he has maintained the original intention of artistic creation, in the busy schedule, tirelessly, over the mountains and mountains, deep into the Li village, with the perspective of history and art, the five branches of the Li nationality have been multiplied for generations on this hot land for a deep excavation, production methods, living customs, and created a grand scale of "Tapestry Map", as well as the "Song of Wuzhi Mountain" with a strong atmosphere of life series, "Icing on the Cake", "Mountain Fruit", "Mother and Son Love" and a number of other masterpieces that express the customs and human feelings of the Li people of Qiongdao have become a unique landscape in the Hainan art world.
The value of these works with the dual value of history, culture and art lies in the fact that they do not record various episodes of folk life in a superficial way and mechanically put on the cultural symbols on the surface, but excavate the regional spirit, human character characteristics, emotional dimensions, and spiritual codes hidden in the life scenes, and interpret them in a simple poetic way.
On the other hand, in terms of expression, he is not blindly cloning the "exquisite brush and ink" program of literati painting, or the current popular production routine of "deliberately seeking work", but in line with the essence of traditional brush and ink, integrating realism and freehand, tradition and modernity, and realizing the free expression of personal concepts with personalized brush and ink language.
Qiao Delong's Chinese painting "The Ballad of Chung Mi". It has "reverberation and resonance" with the thousand-year-old eastern slopeIf Qiao Delong's Li series of works is to root his spirit and soul in this hot land, to show the spiritual map of the Li compatriots, and to praise the people, land and original ecological civilization here with full and somber brush and ink symbols, then his later figure paintings such as "Su Dongpo Series" and "Ancient Literati and Scholars Series" are based on the aesthetic concepts, humanistic feelings of contemporary people, as well as the yearning and admiration for traditional elite literati, to interpret the indifferent and chic spiritual will of the ancient cultural elite. "A Pile of Smoke and Rain Ren Pingsheng", "Dongpo Xingjiao Map", "Huaisu Book Wall", "Calligraphy Song Four Families", "Eight Immortals and Four Screens" and other works will be their fairy wind bones, outstanding, beyond the earthly openness, high, tranquil and comfortable mental state of the pen, especially the large-scale huge historical painting "The End of the World: Dongpo North Return", the scene is grand, the atmosphere is magnificent, and it is filled with the Zhengda atmosphere of the thoroughfare. Through the images of many men, women and children with different shapes and spirits, the picture shows the touching scene of Su Dongpo's return to the Central Plains after three years of overseas depreciation. The work is profound and far-reaching, reflecting the artist's reinterpretation of this history from the dual perspectives of history and reality and his feelings of great reverence, and giving them new meanings. To a certain extent, the openness, grandeur, grandeur, and calm personality charm and talent of the thousand-year-old Dongpo have produced "echoes and resonances" through time and space with the painter's heart.
Explore the "new green landscape" in the evening
Entering the late stage of life, Mr. Qiao Delong not only continued his creation of figure paintings with various themes, but also carried out all-round exploration of landscape painting as a major topic, especially the magnificent "new green landscape" style is refreshing, and its uniqueness lies in the ingenuity of the rich life experience in Sichuan, Chongqing, Qianqiong and the four places of Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou and Qiong with the integration of the deep understanding of the steep green forests and the thousands of ravines in the north and south of the river, "painting with books, writing with heart, painting with love, and painting with the environment" His mental state makes his new landscape painting not only have the beauty of the vertical and horizontal brushwork, but also have the free realm of "moistening the spring rain, dripping with vitality, and the heart with the brush".
Mr. Qiao Delong is not only a person who is the embodiment of humanity, but also an elderly person with a high sense of responsibility. In addition to tirelessly carrying out artistic exploration, he also spared no effort to devote himself to the exploration and research of regional art in Hainan with Hainan artists, embodying the spirit and demeanor of a responsible scholar and becoming a model for Hainan art circles.
Qiao Delong's Chinese painting "Words of Return" has four screens. (Detail) This edition** is a data map.
Hainan**" 2024-03-04 Hainan Weekly layout.
Look at the clouds
See the mountains. Pearl Weekly's 2023 keyword "see the clouds", and the 2024 keyword is officially released - "see the mountain", thanks to the inscription of "Lifetime Achievement Award Winner" Qiao Delong.