Kong Boji’s profile

Born in February 1932 in Shangyu, Zhejiang.

In 1944, he studied painting as a teacher.

Graduated from Shanghai Zhonghua Vocational School in 1948.

In 1952, the 20-year-old Kong Baiji saw the paintings of Monet, Cézanne and Matisse for the first time from old magazines and began to create prints.

Taught at Shanghai Theater Academy in 1956, and served as director and associate professor of the Fine Arts Department of Shanghai Theater Academy.

In 1964, Kong Baiji was sent to the countryside and all his paintings were burned.

In 1986, he was called an "emerging master" by the "Japan Art Yearbook". In the same year, he went to the United States, where he stayed for 19 years.

“I’m not very used to such an occasion.” On June 28, in the Wang Dawei Photography Studio of Shanghai Hongqiao Art Center, the painter Kong Baiji, who is over 70 years old, will invite Chen Danqing and Chen Danqing to paint with him. Artists such as Xia Baoyuan and Wei Jingshan stayed in the studio and left alone.

The eight artists who painted together that day were once very popular in the Chinese painting world in the 1970s and 1980s. They have been separated for many years and have little contact. Kong Baiji, who has been living in the United States for 20 years, has returned to China for the first time. . When everyone started discussing the theme of this collective painting, Kong Baiji, who was not used to painting in a noisy environment, left quietly after hurriedly completing a still life sketch.

Kong Baiji once served as the director of the Stage Design Department of Shanghai Theater Academy, and participated in the sensational "Twelve Painting Exhibitions" in 1979. Although he has rich social experience, Kong Baiji still said that he is not good at communication: "Painting is painting. I don't like to form cliques, and I am not used to participating in social activities such as rallies and parties." Kong Baiji is for 7 Returned from the solo exhibition that opened at the Shanghai Art Museum on the 10th. Except for a few old friends and former students, he informed no one else. Despite this, many people still came to congratulate him after learning the news, such as musician Tan Dun and his wife and Shanghai Museum director Chen Xiejun and his wife. There was no opening ceremony, and the guests entered the museum one by one to admire the paintings in silence.