Yang Xiangxian’s character profile

Yang Xiangxian

Yang Xiangxian is a professor at the Fine Arts Department of Qufu Normal University and a famous contemporary painter. In 1991, "Yang Xiangxian's Painting Collection" was published. In 1992, he was hired as a visiting professor by Stockholm College in the United States to teach Chinese flower and bird painting and calligraphy. Good at freehand painting of flowers and birds. The composition is rigorous. The writing is concise. Pure and elegant. His calligraphy style is free, lively and lively, with a graceful rhythm, which complements the picture and is quite charming. He attaches great importance to the study of tradition and has made great achievements in traditional Chinese painting, especially flower and bird painting, for his predecessors.

Chinese name: Yang Xiangxian

Alias: Yang Xiangxuan

Nationality: Chinese

Ethnicity: Han

Birthplace : Ninghai County, Zhejiang Province

Date of birth: February 1937

Date of death: March 18, 2011

Occupation: Famous contemporary painter

Graduation institution: Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts

Representative work: "Yang Xiangxian Painting Collection"

Introduction

Yang Xiangxian: (1937.2-2011.3.18) Also known as Yang Xiangxuan. Male, Han nationality, born in February 1937 in Ninghai County, Zhejiang Province. Professor of the Fine Arts Department of Qufu Normal University and a famous contemporary painter. Yang Xiangxuan is mostly used for seals. In 1959, he was admitted to the Chinese Painting Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. Specializing in flower and bird painting, the schooling lasts for five years. The courses offered in the first and second grades are compulsory courses, including figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, fine brushwork, and freehand brushwork. The class teacher is Teacher Gu Shengyue. In the third grade, he took elective majors (figures, landscapes, flowers and birds). At that time, he chose the unpopular major of flowers and birds. Teacher Lu Yifei taught Gongbi and part-time writing. Teacher Zhu Lesan teaches freehand brushwork. The fourth and fifth grades are taught by teachers Zhu Lesan and Wu Xiongzhi, and teacher Lu Weizhao teaches classical literature and calligraphy. (Later, classical literature was taught by Mr. Zhang Zuan), and Mr. Pan Tianshou taught painting theory. Died in Jinan on March 18, 2011.

Life

After graduating in 1964, he stayed at the school to teach. Yang Xiangxian first went to the countryside to practice and engage in social education. After returning, he worked as a teaching assistant, and soon the Cultural Revolution began. There was nothing to do in school, so he was transferred back to his hometown in 1971 to engage in mass culture at the Cultural Center of Ninghai County, Zhejiang Province, and changed his career to photography. In just ten years, I went up to the mountains, to the countryside, to the sea, and traveled to every corner of my hometown.

In 1981, he was transferred to the Fine Arts Department of Shandong Qufu Normal University and taught flower and bird and calligraphy classes. Before retirement, he was a professor in the Fine Arts Department of Qufu Normal University.

Works

In 1991, "Yang Xiangxian's Painting Collection" was published. In 1992, he was hired as a visiting professor by Stockholm College in the United States to teach Chinese flower and bird painting and calligraphy.

Yang Xiangxian is good at freehand paintings of flowers and birds. The composition is rigorous. The writing is concise. Pure and elegant. His calligraphy style is free, lively, and lively, with a graceful rhythm that complements the picture and is quite charming. Paying great attention to the study of tradition, he has made great achievements in Chinese painting, especially flower and bird painting, for his predecessors. Especially in freehand flower and bird painting, the ancient people's interest in pen and ink and artistic conception of the painting have reached an insurmountable peak. Yang Xiangxian's paintings are quiet, subtle and full of fun. He is good at using lines, and with just a few strokes, he can outline the charm of flowers and plants. The colors of his brush and ink are elegant, fresh and clear, beautiful but not charming.

01 Qixiangzhai Collection

319 Four Screens of Flowers and Birds

317 Botanical Garden Sketches

316 Four Screens

315 Four Screens Screen

312 Tea is fragrant

310 Flowers and birds

306 Crane

304 Radish and green vegetables

300 Lotus green Bird

299 Lotus Kingfisher

275 Four Screens

241 Lotus

186 Luffa Bird

172 Peony

27 Chrysanthemum

Appreciation of works