Who are the Wa painters and photographers?

Xiao Weian, the first Wa painter in our city, was officially launched on the occasion of Teacher's Day. A series of natural, simple and ecological paintings show people Wei Xiaoan's love for life and hometown, and show Wei Xiaoan's hard-working and solid basic skills.

Wei Xiaoan, 54, is an associate research librarian at Simao Cultural Center. 1975 graduated from Kunming Normal University (now Yunnan Normal University) majoring in fine arts, and studied under Ding Shaoguang, Yao Yongmao and Ye Gongxian. As a Wa painter, Wei Xiaoan is good at oil painting and printmaking, and has created a large number of works reflecting the natural ecology and life of the Wa people. Among the 80 works on display this time, there are sketches, line drawings, woodcuts, ink paintings and more oil paintings. There are the Miniature Series of Wa People's Style Ink Paintings which won the Ding Shaoguang National Art Exhibition Excellence Award, the oil painting The Sound of Mountain Springs which won the second National Hundred Flowers Award Art Exhibition Excellence Award, the oil painting The Daughter of Later Generations which won the first and second prizes in the provincial art exhibition, and the fog chasing the sun, etc. Some are pictures, others are abstract. Wei Xiaoan said that holding a solo exhibition has been his wish for many years. Today, with the approaching of Teacher's Day, this wish has finally come true. Holding an art exhibition at this moment is to report the achievements to teachers and the society, repay the training and education of teachers, and say thank you to teachers.

Wei Xiaoan is currently the vice chairman of the Council of China Art Network, the director of China Minority Art Promotion Association, the member of Yunnan Branch of China Artists Association, and the invited painter of Yunnan National Painting Academy. "The Sound of Wooden Drum" and "Washan Lullaby" won the first and second prizes of provincial dance beauty design. The oil paintings Jing Zhi, Li Pinglian and Woodcut Fantasy were collected by the Central Palace for Nationalities, the ink painting Five Lights and Seven Colors was collected by the International Liaison Department and the Organizing Committee of the 97 Hong Kong Return Art Exhibition, and the print Guo was selected to be exhibited in the China Modern Print Art Exhibition at the Japanese Priests Museum, with the Wa People's Dwellings in structure sketch and the oil paintings Between Heaven and Earth I and II. The album was compiled into Who's Who of Modern Artists in China, Who's Who of Contemporary Artists in China, and Dictionary of Famous People in World Painting and Calligraphy.