Zhou Yongjia's chronology of art

1934 was born in gaizhou city, Liaoning province on February 26th. 1952 was admitted to Fuxian normal school in Liaodong province, and 1956 graduated. In the same year 1 joined the navy. He taught himself to paint in the army and became a sailor since he was a child, which is quite influential in the whole army and the whole country.

General Zhou Yongjia has gone through an extraordinary artistic course. "I chose the sea, and the sea chose me." This is Zhou Yongjia's heartfelt words after joining the army and becoming an artist. As a marine artist, Zhou Yongjia loves the sea, ships, islands and oceans. He has been rooted in the coastal areas of Wan Li for many years, trekking in military ports, mountains, islands and fishing villages, and always regards life as the source of creation and the soul of art. It is the vigorous, majestic and eternal vitality of the sea, the broad mind and indomitable character of sailors and fishermen that have cast his unique artistic character and personality, which is deeply loved by the officers and men of the army and the people. The image of reef is the overlap of sea rock and waves, and it is an inseparable unity of the two. Throughout the ages, no one has carved on the rocks. No one imposes his will on rocks except the waves. At the same time, Zhou Yongjia feels that he is both a sea rock and a wave, but he also feels that he is both a sculpture and a sculpture. He couldn't figure out how he got mixed up with the sea gods, sea monsters, sea monsters and sea monsters on the reef. He was the first person in history to carve the sea on rice paper with ink. General Zhou Yongjia is a famous "marine painter" in contemporary China painting circles at home and abroad.

1958- 1975 is his initial creative stage. During this period, he did not learn the basic skills of re-creation, but learned from creation, traveled all over the northern coast, drew thousands of sketches and sketches, collected a lot of relevant materials, and ideologically established the sea as the media circle of creation.

From 65438 to 0958, Zhou Yongjia started amateur artistic creation, and successively served as propaganda officer, deputy director of the club and deputy section chief of the Cultural Department of the Navy Lushun Base. The painting group once composed with Ran Maokui, Zhao Yuxian and others is called "Lang Zhuohong", which is known as the "warrior painter" and is famous inside and outside the military. The creative work "Fisherman's Spring" was published in the magazine of Chinese Painting.

1959 Created "Battle Alert" and was selected for the second art exhibition of the whole army.

1In July, 960, Zhou Yongjia attended the Third National Literature Congress on behalf of the creative group of Lang Zhuohong, and was elected as a member of the presidium and director of the Third Artists Association. He was cordially received by party and state leaders such as Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and Zhou Enlai.

The Eye of the Motherland created by 1962 was selected for the third art exhibition of the whole army and was collected by the Military Museum.

1975, the cartoon Fengyun Island and the poster were published.

1978 —— 1984 entered the primary stage of professional creation, and further studied the basic skills of Chinese painting, starting with indoor sketch, focusing on solving problems such as pen and ink, modeling, color and composition. Drawing on the artistic path of famous artists at home and abroad, I had an epiphany on the works of Xu Gu, Eighth National Congress, Qi Baishi and Huang.

From 65438 to 0978, he was transferred to the literary studio of the Navy North Sea Fleet as a full-time painter and began to engage in professional artistic creation. He has served as deputy head of the creative team of the political department of the North Sea Fleet of the Navy and director of the creative office of the North Sea Fleet. He assiduously studied the creative path of artists at home and abroad, constructed the artistic space of the sea, and grasped the intersection of art and life.

65438-0982 held five solo exhibitions in Liaoning and Shandong. The representative work "Words of the Year" and "Bone and Emotion Beat Thousand Feet" were selected for the Army Art Exhibition and won the Excellent Works Award. At this time, his painters were more depressed and explored because they could not find the language of the sea. "Deep in the White Clouds" was selected for the 6th National Art Exhibition, and won the first prize of 1982- 1984 outstanding works of naval literature and art;

1984, after years of trial and error, he realized the sea symbol of sea rock and pulse texture, created his own painting language and showed his own painting style.

1985 —— 1996, the formation of his maritime creative style. After years of artistic practice, he created the artistic space of the sea, found the language and symbols of the texture of rocks and waves in the sea, and finally completed the artistic creation symbol of "sea reef", which is called "sea reef" by the theoretical circle. 12 years, he studied Fan Kuan, Guo, Gong Xian, Van Gogh, Rodin and henry moore in the west, and pursued loftiness, momentum, strength, sculpture and vicissitudes in his works, drawing Old Sea, Poseidon, Sea Monster and Sea Monster.

1987 participated in the first national symposium on China theory held in Beijing.

1987 participated in the national symposium on figure painting theory for many times.

1988 was invited to participate in the International Ink Painting Festival held in Wuhan.

1989 "ebb and flow" was selected for the 7th National Art Exhibition.

1990 ——1991held a solo exhibition in Hong Kong and the Chinese Painting Research Institute.

1992 Highlanders won the third prize in the national minority customs exhibition.

1994 "sea girl" was selected for the eighth national art exhibition and won the special prize. Shan Gui and Goddess of Mending Heaven participated in the "Modern Ink and Wash Invitational Exhibition" held by Taiwan Province Provincial Art Museum and were collected.

1995 "Goddess of mending the sky" was selected as the stone carving of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River by Chinese all over the world.

/kloc-0 held a large-scale solo exhibition in China Art Museum in 1996, exhibiting more than 60 works such as "Sea Sacrifice Map" (1000 cm× 200 cm) and "Pregnancy", and held academic seminars. He has held solo exhibitions and joint exhibitions in Wuhan, Fuzhou, Shenzhen, Jinan and Qingdao for many times. He has published many introductory articles and works in Fine Arts, Jiangsu Pictorial and Art Watch. There are 12 works collected by China Art Museum, Chinese Painting Research Institute, China Sports Olympic Committee and Beijing Artists Association. Four kinds of Zhou Yongjia's Paintings have been published, which have been included in many artists' dictionaries.

Since 1997, his artistic creation has become more and more mature, and his works have reached a perfect artistic realm.

1997 "Picking the Sea" participated in the "China Art Exhibition" held in Shanghai.

1998 painted the long scroll Soul of the Sea (2 100cm×200cm). The purpose is to deepen the creation, push the painting style to a higher level and enter the quasi-abstraction. The traditional Chinese painting "A Long History" was given to the former US Secretary of Defense as a national visit gift. Completed a large-scale landscape painting ode to the Great Wall for a naval academy.

From 65438 to 0999, People's Fine Arts Publishing House published a three-volume large-scale hardcover "Zhou Yongjia's Painting Collection" and held its premiere in the Great Hall of the People.

1999 was hired as the instructor of the art creation class of the whole army.

In 2000, he was approved to participate in an art delegation to Western Europe organized by the General Political Department for one month.

In 2002, a sailor's diary was selected for the centennial exhibition of Chinese painting. In the same year, Zhou Yongjia was awarded the rank of Major General by the Central Military Commission.

In 2003, People's Fine Arts Publishing House published Zhou Yongjia's Modern Ink Figure Painting Techniques. Three works, Sea Sacrifice Map, Deep in the White Clouds and Sailor's Diary, were compiled into The Complete Works of Modern Art in China.

On June 12, 2005, Xuchang Artists Association invited Mr. Zhou Yongjia, a military painter, to give a special report on the development direction of Chinese painting and modern Chinese painting. To commemorate the 60th anniversary of China people's victory in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the liberation of Dalian Lushun, the 60-meter scroll Landscape of Mountains and Seas created by painter Cao Guangsheng was completed, and Zhou Yongjia, a famous naval painter, wrote an inscription for it.

From June 5th to February, 2006, Zhou Yongjia's painting and calligraphy exhibition was held in China Art Museum.

2065438+00-September 3 The famous military painter Zhou Yongjia's Chinese painting art exhibition was held in the city museum today.

On March 5th, 201/kloc-0, the "Exhibition of Famous Painter Zhou Yongjia" co-sponsored by Shandong Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Shandong Artists Association, Shandong Painting Academy, Shandong Art College, Political Department of Navy North Sea Fleet and Shandong Fine Arts Publishing House opened in the Art Gallery of Shandong Fine Arts Publishing House.

Zhou Yongjia, a general who makes teachers proud, is now a member of China Artists Association, a first-class artist, enjoying special allowance from the State Council, and a judge of the whole army and national art exhibitions. In his extraordinary military career, he has been engaged in the artistic creation of Chinese paintings for more than 40 years. He chose the sea as an artistic space to show the relationship, conflict and harmony between man and nature from many angles and sides, and to find language symbols of waves and reef textures. With his profound life, society, philosophy and culture, he created a large number of works of art with marine temperament. He participated in the National Art Exhibition of the PLA 15 times in a row, and won more than ten works, and was selected for the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th National Art Exhibition. Many works have been collected by China Art Museum, Chinese Painting Research Institute and other national units. He has held more than 20 solo exhibitions in Shandong, Liaoning, Hubei, Shenzhen, Beijing and Hong Kong. Six works won prizes in the national art exhibition, among which "Sea Girl" won the special prize in the 8th National Art Exhibition. Many works, such as Old Sea and Sea Girl, have been collected by China Art Museum and Chinese Painting Research Institute. Three works, such as Sacrifice to the Sea, Deep in the White Clouds, and The Mariner's Diary, have been compiled into Dictionary of Contemporary Painters in China, Complete Works of Modern Artists in China, and Yearbook of Artists in China.