Selected Character Paintings by Fu Baoshi

Author: Fu Baoshi
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Fu Baoshi was born in Nanchang, Jiangxi in 1904. He served as the Vice President of the China Artists Association. Fu Baoshi's historical figure paintings fully embody the essence of "spirit transmission" in Chinese figure painting, making one feel that he is not painting people, but painting the state of mind; not painting ancient figures, but painting himself. Landscape painting occupies a major part in Fu Baoshi's creative career and has achieved high acclaim. The "Baoshi texture" he created skillfully incorporates various traditional textures and gathers them into the application of "broken brush scattered texture," truly achieving unrestrained brushwork that was unprecedented. Fu Baoshi was a leading painter in 20th-century China and a leading painter in the world. Even in the history of art, he was a genius artist who appears only once every few hundred years.