Monkey

Author: Gu Qingjiao
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Gu Qingjiao, born in 1948, is from Suzhou, Jiangsu. He graduated from Suzhou Art and Crafts College in 1969 and later studied at the Sculpture Department of Wuxi University of Light Industry. In 1982, he joined the Wuxi Art and Crafts Research Institute. Currently, he is a full-time painter and senior artist at the Wuxi Painting and Calligraphy Institute, as well as a member of the China Artists Association. He specializes in ancient costume figures and beasts, particularly in painting tigers. His works are elegant, refined, and uniquely distinctive. He has been selected for national art exhibitions more than ten times, and his ink painting "The Silk Road" won a gold medal. He has held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions both domestically and internationally. In 1992, he successfully held the "Painting of a Hundred Tigers" exhibition in Paris, France. He has published over ten specialized books, including "Techniques for Painting Tigers," "Illustrated Spectrum of Beasts," "How to Paint Tigers," "How to Paint Leopards," "How to Paint Dogs," "How to Paint Cats," "How to Paint Eagles," and more. This book primarily introduces the techniques and methods for painting monkeys, with each illustration accompanied by a title, dimensions, materials, techniques, and descriptive comments. Monkeys are adorable animals, belonging to the class Mammalia and the order Primates, and are commonly referred to as members of the colobidae and cercopithecidae families. Primates are the most advanced animals in the class Mammalia. There are many species of monkeys, and the main ones native to China include the macaque, the red-faced monkey, and the golden snub-nosed monkey, among others.