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Huang Binhong
Landscape painter and art historian who spent thirty years editing art publications in Shanghai, co-edited the Meishu congshu with Deng Shi, and in old age built his landscapes from layer upon layer of ink.
Mural of the event “Renewal of Ink Painting”, which this person took part in.
In the late Qing and early Republic Western painting and modern art schooling reached China, and the debate over whether Chinese painting needed reform grew heated. In 1919 Qi Baishi left Hunan to settle in Beijing, where he sold paintings in Liulichang but at first struggled to make his way. His friend Chen Shizeng urged him not to follow his predecessors; Qi changed his style and created his bold red-flower, ink-leaf manner, and Chen took his work to a joint Chinese-Japanese painting exhibition in Japan, where all of it sold. In 1928 Lin Fengmian founded the National Academy of Art at Luo Garden by West Lake in Hangzhou, and that autumn Xu Beihong, heading the art college in Beiping, engaged Qi as a professor.
Also known as Personal name Huang Zhi · Zi Pucun · Hao Yuxiang
Huang Binhong, personal name Zhi, courtesy name Pucun and sobriquet Yuxiang, took the name Binhong in middle age. His family came from She county in Anhui, and he was born in Jinhua, Zhejiang, in 1865. From 1907 he spent thirty years in Shanghai editing the Guocui xuebao and the Shenzhou guoguang ji, co-edited the Meishu congshu with Deng Shi, and wrote Guhua wei and a study of the Huangshan painters. In 1937 he went north to Beiping, lecturing at the painting institute of the Palace antiquities exhibition office, and stayed until the autumn of 1948, when he took up a professorship at the National Academy of Art in Hangzhou. His landscapes drew on Song and Yuan painting; in his last years he built them up from layer upon layer of accumulated and broken ink. Among his works is Clearing Mist over Lakes and Hills. He died in Hangzhou in March 1955.
Life and times
Dates 1865–1955
- 1919Renewal of Ink PaintingTook partage 54