Rongbaozhai Huapu. 159. Orchids and Bamboo Part

Author: Pu Songchuang Paints
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: Mr. Songchuang has been an educator since the age of 23, with a wide network of students. Before liberation, he not only taught Chinese painting at Fu Ren University and the of Peking University but also established his own studio to teach middle-aged artists aspiring to improve their painting skills. Some of his students have now gained prominence in the Chinese painting world, while others hold professorships at universities abroad. His students span countries like the UK, France, Germany, Russia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and India, spreading the art of Chinese painting worldwide. In 1963, a student from the Federal Republic of Germany, Bao Lisheng, compiled photographs of Mr. Songchuang's brushwork techniques and numerous artworks in the book "The Technique of Chinese Painting," published in both German and English, dedicating the cover to "To Pu Quan." Another British student, Ms. Da Shuming, exhibited and compiled a collection of Mr. Songchuang's calligraphy and paintings in the Oxford, Birmingham, and London Victoria museums in 1971. After liberation, Mr. Songchuang continued to give short lectures at art schools such as the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Northeast, and Beijing Art Teachers' College, while also serving as a consultant at the Beijing Art Institute. He often invited skilled calligraphers and painters to gather at his home, and he enthusiastically guided students from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and Northeast. In his later years, he even gathered his grandchildren to paint bamboo during winter and summer vacations, allowing them to be exposed to traditional culture from a young age.