China's economy, led by scientific and technological innovation, and the Chinese painting industry will surely ride the wind and waves along the road of higher quality, more efficient, fairer, more sustainable and safer development, and achieve steady and far-reaching results.
Tracing the history of China's Chinese painting collection for thousands of years, in the current season of high inflation, modern and contemporary painting and calligraphy collection, as a new favorite of calligraphy and painting investment, has a unique artistic charm, potential value-added space and good collection value, is a market worthy of the attention and participation of investors and collectors. So in the field of modern and contemporary painting and calligraphy collection investment, whose calligraphy and painting works are more favored?
Through face-to-face interviews and surveys, professional data screening, digital fusion analysis, insight and selection from eight dimensions, such as painting innovation, collector reaction, market performance (dynamic), popularity, spirit, integrity and painter's virtue, and the grand launch of the top 100 popularity index rankings of famous Chinese painters in the Chinese painting world in February 2024 has attracted the attention of many art lovers. On this list, a total of 100 famous contemporary Chinese painting artists were selected, and their works have high appreciation potential and collection value in the Chinese painting collection market.
It is worth mentioning that this normalized and fresh data comparison is enlightening. In particular, the ranking of the top 20 successive variables is not only a mirror of Chinese painters' continuous efforts to surpass themselves, but also a confirmation of the emergence of talents in the Chinese literary circle and a bright future.
The top 20 Chinese painters in the February 2024 list are: Fan Zeng, Cui Ruzhuo, Han Meilin, Jia Youfu, He Jiaying, Lu Yushun, Zhu Guoguo, Shi Guoliang, Feng Yuan, Zhang Lichen, Guo Shifu, Jia Guangjian, Chen Jialing, Wu Yueshi, Fang Chuxiong, Huo Chunyang, Yang Mingyi, Wang Xijing, Zhou Shaohua, Yu Jigao.
Fan Zeng can be called the leader of China's calligraphy and painting industry today, he studied in the Department of History of Nankai University and the Department of Art History of the ** Academy of Fine Arts, and later transferred to the Department of Chinese Painting, where he studied under Jiang Zhaohe, Li Kuchan, Li Keran, Guo Weihui and other giants. His paintings are good at white drawing, especially freehand characters, advocating the "one painting theory" of Shi Tao, a famous monk in the early Qing Dynasty, advocating "poetry as the soul, book as the bone", the painting pen is strong, the lines are concise, and the charm is vivid.
Fan Zengren is like his painting, quite the style of the ancients, generous and heroic, talking about history and Confucianism. "I'm obsessed with painting, and I can write. Occasionally, it is a rhetoric, quite expressive. Good reading history, a little through the changes of the past and the present. This is his comment to himself, his 24 words seem modest, a bit of pride in the past. Fan Zeng's "arrogance" has long been discussed in the calligraphy and painting circles and academic circles, but in his opinion, this is actually the self-confidence of Confucianism that is "unyielding", "For example, I once said, 'Domestic white drawing, may be compared with me, there is no one who is better than the right', and Fan Zeng is too crazy in the newspaper, in fact, this is a fact, isn't it?" How is this arrogance? I think a person who seeks truth from facts should be respected, not criticized. ”
In his early years, he took the masters of the past dynasties such as Shi Tao, Bada Shanren, Wu Changshuo, Fu Baoshi, etc., and later worshiped under the master of Chinese painting Li Kuchan, and his calligraphy was taught by the calligrapher Zheng Yuxian. Since the 80s of the 20th century, he has collected the fine paintings and calligraphy of the masters of the past dynasties, including the fine paintings and calligraphy of the masters from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties to the modern and modern times, and the number is quite large. In recent years, he has published works such as "Collection of Chinese Modern and Modern Famous Painters: Cui Ruzhuo", "Complete Works of World Famous Painters: Cui Ruzhuo", "Cui Ruzhuo's Freehand Flower and Bird Collection", "Cui Ruzhuo's Landscape Painting Collection", "Documentary of the Creation of the Lotus Style", "Cui Ruzhuo's Discussion of Art", "Cui Ruzhuo's Grand View", etc.
In his late teens, he still talks passionately about his three dreams: one is to inherit, carry forward and surpass in art, the second is to surpass Picasso and Van Gogh in the art market, and the third is to set up the "Ruzhuo Humanities and Arts Award", which surpasses the Nobel Prize.
As a first-class artist in China, he not only designed two rounds of zodiac commemorative stamps, but also the designer of Fuwa, and has attainments in painting, calligraphy, sculpture, design, ceramics and other artistic fields.
Han Meilin's art is integrated into the journey of time, and it also points to the philosophy of life. The small animals in his brushes are innocent and cute, and they will be attracted just by looking at them. But who would have thought that this old man has experienced poverty, war, and ten years of catastrophe, and half of his life can be described as bumpy and difficult, but what he wants to express most in his works is still pure love, which is precious in the current social environment.
Jia Youfu is an accomplished landscape painter in China, who has devoted himself to the creation of landscape painting art and the theoretical study of Chinese painting for decades, and has gone deep into the Taihang Mountains for more than 30 times to observe and perceive life and nature, and his paintings have gradually formed a secluded and mysterious aesthetic style and language style of landscape painting. At the same time, Professor Jia Youfu has also been engaged in the teaching practice and research of landscape painting for a long time, and has gradually established a set of landscape painting teaching system that meets the requirements of the progress of the times.
He Jiaying's Gongbi characters are always people never get tired of looking at them, and despite the passage of time, their charm remains. Those quiet and elegant girl images always have a kind of transcendent nobility and innocence that is not deep in the world. He Jiaying has created a new road of modern gongbi that is not only traditional but also has the aesthetics of the times, which has been recognized by all walks of life with a new classic attitude and is highly sought after in the art circle.
Lu Yushun is not only an outstanding artist, but his three series not only express three different human orientations, but also three aspects of his style and schematic exploration. From a historical point of view, we can roughly outline the trajectory of such an ideological evolution: from the clear taste of "Quietly Watching the Eight Wildernesses", to the classical spirit and homeland narrative of "The Poetry of the Tang Dynasty", and then to the exotic humanistic beauty of "European Sketch", Yu Shun has completed a mysterious spiritual cycle in a large number of works, and at the same time completed the construction of a new landscape style system.
Zhu Guoguo, good at mountain buffalo, eagle and other animal paintings, his calligraphy works won the Milan World Expo Gold Award, his original style was transcribed by the painting world as a master of painting art. Mr. Zhu's finger ink painting is another master of finger ink painting after Mr. Pan Tianshou, and his works have been collected by Mr. Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Cao Dewang, Chairman of St. Petersburg State Museum and Fuyao Glass. Mr. Zhu was a cattle herd in his hometown in his childhood, and he used shadang paper to make pen strokes, and his huge landscapes were admired by the world. You likes to paint animals, and the cows and eagles in his paintings are both cute and cute and imposing. It was commented by a famous critic that "the cow eagle of the view is both smart and cute, and domineering, seeing that it is in words, and the painting is alive"! With his unique self-created painting style, Mr. Zhu Guoguo has been rated as a master of Chinese painting who can create a school of Chinese painting by the Chinese painting circle.
Only those who have received the "Three Great Altars" can become an official monk. In **, Shi Guoliang has seen and painted a team of Tibetans with their bags on their backs, shaking the bell, taking a step and knocking on a long head, knocking until the place where the Buddha lives.
When it comes to Feng Yuan, his most distinctive label is the creation of figure paintings on major historical themes and contemporary real-life themes. Nine years of arduous and confusing life as a young intellectual, like the imprint of life, provided Feng Yuan with a rich life experience at the bottom of the society, deepened his understanding of history and people, laid his creative attitude of paying attention to society, life and people, and endowed his works with enthusiastic and ambitious, profound and vast style characteristics, as well as a unique Chinese spiritual atmosphere.
10, Zhang Lichen
In the field of contemporary Chinese painting, Mr. Zhang Lichen is the banner of freehand, the leader of freehand flower and bird painting, and the teacher who has achieved great results in reconstructing the inheritance system of Chinese painting. Zhang Lichen is also an outstanding art educator, he has taught and presided over the teaching of the Department of Chinese Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts for many years, and has made important contributions to the improvement and perfection of the teaching methods of Chinese painting at the Academy of Fine Arts.
In the creation of the most difficult freehand flower and bird paintings, he expressed the full spirit and abundant feelings that his predecessors did not have, and realized the transformation of the traditional artistic conception of brush and ink to the composition of modern brush and ink. While effectively strengthening the visual ability of freehand flower and bird painting, it endowed the freehand flower and bird painting with a high-pitched and interesting inner spirit, thus pushing the freehand flower and bird painting to a new situation on the basis of the predecessors.
He is well-known for his freehand flower and bird paintings, and is also good at landscapes, calligraphy, seal carving, poetry and Western paintings, etc., and has a deep accomplishment in opera. Mr. Guo Shifu's flower and bird paintings, a comprehensive collection, have a wide origin, from the modern Wu Changshuo, Pan Tianshou, Qi Baishi, Zhu Qizhan and other great masters, tracing Yangzhou Erli, Bada, Ershi to Qingteng Baiyang, all for their own use, Wei as a family. His painting style is majestic and simple, quaint and upright, majestic and unstained with fierce habits, free and easy and has the quality of loyalty. Where a flower and leaves, an inch of grass and stone, all of them are deeply rational and reasonable, and they are extremely modal, and they have not fallen into a slippery and crazy style under the banner of "innovation", which is really a model for the field of contemporary Chinese freehand flower and bird painting.
To achieve the realm of purity, Jia Guangjian's real and one-form objects and most of them are large scenes, focusing on a very wide range, and it is easier to create a clear and pure realm in the painting. In addition to the technical treatment, it is also necessary to choose the subject matter. His lotus series is especially evident in his creations in this realm. The lotus flowers painted by Jia Guangjian are mainly double-petaled lotus flowers, and this kind of painting image reproduces a pure world.
Chen Jialing initially studied figure painting, and in the 80s, he began to absorb the techniques of ancient Chinese murals and foreign watercolors, and after repeated research and practice, he created a new school of modern Chinese painting with Chinese philosophy, impressionism, abstraction and expressionist characteristics.
In Chen Jialing's brushwork, his lines, color blocks, ink methods, and aura can be automatically transformed into any picture, but they have their own language, attracting the audience's critical eyes with his unique "Ling style" artistic attainments. As an outstanding painter of the older generation who received a typical traditional education, what is worthy of admiration is his magnanimity and tolerance, the combination of thought, passion, affection, courage, physical strength and wisdom, and his innovative Chinese painting is quite a strong stroke in the contemporary art world.
In the inheritance system of contemporary literati painting tradition, Mr. Wu Yueshi and his creation are indeed an important town that cannot be bypassed. Whether it is in terms of his brushwork imagery or the so-called spiritual temperament, Mr. Wu not only expounds his predecessors, but also has more creations and inventions in his own personality category. This is also an important reason why he has become a leader in the field of traditional literati painting.
Mr. Wu has made achievements in Chinese painting, including landscapes, flowers and birds, and figures, and has made great achievements in his profound traditional cultural accumulation, elegant and leisurely life and simple and honest personality. The vividness, individuality, and elegance of his works have not only become an empty echo of the "literati painting tradition", but also provide a reference for the current painting world with different concepts. At the same time, it also pointed out a bright new way for the development and prospect of Chinese painting!
15, Fang Chuxiong
Fang Chuxiong's art was influenced by the art of the Shanghai School and the art of the Lingnan School. In terms of brush and ink technology, there is a legacy of the Shanghai School, and in terms of aesthetic tendency, it is closer to the traditional elegance and vulgarity of the Lingnan School of painting. His flower and bird paintings pursue a high level of spiritual taste and emphasize the difficulty of artistic expression, and take the lead in opening up a new look of Lingnan flower and bird painting, forming a realistic flower and bird painting style that integrates Chinese and Western techniques. It not only inherits the meticulous brushwork and wild taste of the Song Dynasty flower and bird paintings, but also integrates the realistic techniques of Western classical painting, enhances the expressiveness of the picture, shows a new aesthetic orientation of flower and bird painting, and leads the continuation of the Lingnan School of painting in the new era with a new style of flower and bird painting.
16, Huo Chunyang
Since 1976, when he became famous for his huge work "Mountain Flowers", Huo Chunyang has been teaching in the Chinese Painting Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, devoting himself to flower and bird painting, and has become one of the most representative freehand flowers and birds of contemporary times. Huo Chunyang pursues the artistic conception of painting, and expresses a deep and broad artistic conception with a simple image.
17, Yang Mingyi
It is known as "the first person to discover Zhouzhuang". Yang Mingyi is good at landscapes, mostly painting with the scenery of water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and his brushwork is dripping, the style is fresh and elegant, and it is full of strong lyricism and local flavor. He pioneered a new generation of ink painting in the Chinese town, creatively expressing the rich charm of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, forming a distinctive and unique personal painting style, which has won high praise and wide praise from the art circles at home and abroad, and has a huge influence. Since the 80s of the last century, Yang Mingyi's works have been selected for many national art exhibitions and important international exhibitions, and he has held nearly 40 personal exhibitions in Asia, the United States and Europe, and published more than 40 kinds of albums and anthologies. In 1982, his works were selected for the first Chinese Spring Salon Exhibition in France. Since 1988, his works have entered the world-renowned Christie's and Sotheby's international auction houses in New York, becoming one of the few painters in China to enter the internationally renowned auction houses. In 2018, he won the "Highest Artistic Achievement Award" in Belarus, becoming the first Chinese to receive this award.
18, Wang Xijing
Wang Xijing's artistic achievements are worthy of praise from the world, and his creation of historical figure paintings has a unique personality. In addition, mountains, rivers, flowers, birds, beasts, insects and fish are also everywhere. The objects he paints are clear in the spirit, beautiful in the bones, beautiful in the quality, light in the taste, in the spirit, beautiful in the heart, and powerful in the chest. The painter stares at the touch of art in the deep tracing of national traditions, he explores the ancient from the carved stones, and explores the simplicity and nourishment from the murals. He is based in the ancient city of Chang'an, and the ancient silk fabric is his favorite dream song, and this cultural accumulation and historical origin have cast the soul of his art. It is this kind of dabbling in and absorbing the ancient traditions that makes his art more national and contemporary characteristics, and his devotion to tradition in exchange for the grace of tradition for him is the dialectic and true meaning of art.
Zhou Shaohua is a Chinese painter and theorist. He is the founder of the "Momentum School" of Chinese ink painting, and is committed to the transformation of Chinese ink painting from traditional to modern forms. His 1982 work The Soul of the Yellow River was the first work to be considered a transition to modernity, a landmark masterpiece. It not only marked a major turning point in Zhou Shaohua's personal artistic journey, but also a revolutionary breakthrough in the history of modern Chinese art, triggering a wave of innovation in Chinese ink painting. In the following decades, this painting led to an unprecedented development of Chinese ink painting, and even spread to other fields such as literature, **, and stage art.
The Soul of the Yellow River created a new situation in Chinese ink painting, and Zhou Shaohua and Wu Guanzhong also became the figures of the year in the innovation of Chinese ink painting, known as the "Northern Wu and Southern Zhou".
20, Yu Jigao
Yu Jigao's painting achievements lie in the content and form of breakthrough and innovation, Gongbi heavy color flower and bird painting not only inherited the spirit of the two masters of Master Bouldering and Chen Zhifo, but also has its own innovation and characteristics, rigorous composition, fine brushwork, superb techniques, bright colors, clear primary and secondary "Jigao style" auspicious flowers and birds, for Chinese flower and bird painting to open up a fresh and elegant new artistic conception.
Mr. Yu Jigao's brushwork not only reveals the traces of inheritance and smelting, but also accommodates the feelings of new life in the new era, which is warm, vivid and full of interest. Exploring the inner artistic laws of Chinese painting and summarizing the experience of the painters of his masters, Mr. Yu Jigao's works are characterized by the pursuit of character and the fullness of emotion of the times.
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