Chen Zhongzhi【Featured Artists Recommended by Chinese Galleries】

Author: Jia Dejiang, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Chen Zhongzhi, born in Guigang, Guangxi in 1935. Professor at Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, Master's Supervisor, and one of the founders of the Chinese Painting Series at the Academy. Skilled in figure painting, with expertise in flowers and birds, landscapes, and a wide range of themes. His works are characterized by originality, proficiency in brushwork, bold and vigorous style, and rich artistic charm. Graduated from Central South Fine Arts College in 1956. His representative works Children of the Yellow River and Gazing into the Distance were included in the national compulsory primary school Chinese language textbooks and won the International Honor Gold Medal at the 2nd World Chinese Art Competition. His works were selected for the "Centennial Chinese Painting Exhibition" jointly organized by the Ministry of Culture, China Artists Association, and the Chinese Painting Research Institute—exhibiting the top 500 painters of the 20th century. His representative work Yellow River Eagle was gifted to a distinguished guest from North Korea in 1960 in the name of the then-Prime Minister of the State Council. Former Beijing Mayor Deng Tuo, the poet, praised Chen Zhongzhi's work Yellow River Eagle in his article "Chinese Style and Path in Art Creation" published in Beijing Daily and People's Daily. Shao Dazhen, Director of the Theory Committee of the China Artists Association and Doctoral Supervisor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, wrote in Guangming Daily and People's Daily that Chen Zhongzhi, following Xu Beihong and Jiang Zhaohe, has made outstanding contributions to reviving modern figure painting and ink painting since the May Fourth Movement.