Huang Binhong (Bookletters) Continuation

Author: Zhao Zhijun, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-09-28
Features: Huang Binhong (1865–1955), styled Zhi, courtesy name Pucun, also known as Yu Xiang, was a native of She County, Anhui Province. He taught at Xinhua Art College, Changming Art College, and Shanghai Art College, and served as a mentor at the Chinese Painting Research Society of Jinan University. In June 1937, he was appointed as a professor and an expert in appraising calligraphy and painting at Beijing Art College and the Beijing Ancient Art Exhibition Hall. In 1948, he taught at Hangzhou National Art College. Later, he became the director of the National Academy of Fine Arts Research Institute (later renamed the Institute of Ethnic Art) at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Huang Binhong's landscape paintings are characterized by the distinctive features of "dark, dense, thick, heavy, and innovative," and he proposed the theory of "Five Brushes and Seven Inks." He authored works such as "Honglu Talks on Painting," "Essentials of Ancient Paintings," "Painting Studies," and "Huang Binhong's Paintings and Sayings." "Huang Binhong's Correspondence" collects one hundred seventy-one letters exchanged between Huang Binhong and his friends and disciples during his time living in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou, as well as seventy-five letters written to him by friends. This book was compiled by Zhao Zhijun, Huang Binhong's former son-in-law and a scholar of Huang Binhong's studies, with a preface and annotations by art theorist Ye Zi. The publication of this collection of letters holds not only extremely important historical value for further studying Huang Binhong's artistic thoughts and creative path but also provides some reference value for researching and exploring traditional Chinese seal, calligraphy, and painting art.