Xiong Qixiong (Ah Xiong) is now a member of the Chinese Artists Association and a researcher of ancient villages in China.

Chinese name: Xiong Qixiong

Alias: Ah Xiong

Nationality: Chinese

Birthplace: Sankeng Er Village, Dongxiang Township, Meixian County, Guangdong Province, China

Date of birth: Spring 1942

Occupation: Member of the Chinese Artists Association

Representative works: A Tutorial on the Techniques of Sketching (Huacheng Publishing House), Xiong Qixiong Painting Collection

Biography

Xiong Qixiong (Ah Xiong) is now a member of the Chinese Artists Association and a scholar of ancient villages in China.

The Hakka people have a persistent and persevering character, burying their heads in the sand and struggling tenaciously to pursue their artistic life in an extremely difficult environment. Xiong Qixiong worked in Xinjiang for a long time and drew a large number of sketches. His sketches are shadows of life, sentiments that really move with emotion, and real beauty. His landscape paintings were taught by Guan Shanyue and Mr. Lai Xiongcai, the masters of Chinese painting who "pursued the Song and Yuan dynasties", and he blends the beauty of nature and mountains with the expression of traditional brush and ink techniques. The 300-meter "Hakka Village Dwellings in China" scroll is a masterpiece of art that is unparalleled in the world.

Born in the spring of 1942 in the village of Sankeng Er Village, Dongxiang Township, Meixian County, Guangdong Province. When he was a young boy, he loved to doodle naturally. When he was in the third grade of junior high school, he published several pieces of art works in the Guangdong East Peasant Newspaper. 1958, he graduated from junior high school and was admitted to the middle school attached to the Zhongnan Fine Arts College.

1961 - 1966, in the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Chinese Painting, under the Guan Shanyue, Lai Xiongcai, Yang Zhiguang and other Lingnan painting masters, learning Chinese landscape painting, figure painting techniques, and had the honor to receive the former Qing Dynasty scout Shang Yan Lui grandfather, Sun Yat-sen University of the National Education Master Professor Shang Chengzuo's national education and the spirit of governance of cultivation. He was also honored to receive the training of Professor Shang Chengzuo, a master of Chinese studies at Sun Yat-sen University.

In the fall of 1968, he was assigned to work in Shihezi Reclamation Area of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. In the farm as "can be educated children" to accept the poor peasants for more than ten years of "re-education", stubbornly refused to give up the art profession. Later, he was transferred to Shihezi City Cultural Center to engage in mass art counseling and preside over the administrative work of the center until the winter of 1992. During this period, he served as a member of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps' Federation of Literature, the first vice-chairman of the Corps' Artists' Association, and the chairman of the Shihezi Artists' Association.

During his more than twenty years of work in Xinjiang, he persisted in his professional practice, collected creative materials in his spare time, and drew a large number of sketches. The works of art created by him have participated in art exhibitions at national, military, provincial and district levels. The printmaking work "I rode a horse across the grassland" was collected by the National Art Museum of China.

In 1986, he joined the China Artists Association.

In 1988, he was appointed as an associate research librarian of fine arts.

In 1991, he became a professor of China Calligraphy and Painting Correspondence University and the principal of Shihezi Branch.

Transferred back to Meizhou in the winter of 1992, in Jiaying (Education) College as the head of the Department of Fine Arts, China Calligraphy and Painting Correspondence University of Meizhou Branch President, Professor, dedicated to the high teachers of art education until retirement. He was awarded the Higher Teacher Teacher Award by the Zeng Xianzi Education Foundation of the State Education Commission.

Personal works

So far, he has held five individual exhibitions. He has published: "Sketching Technique Tutorial" (Huacheng Publishing House), "Xiong Qixiong Collection of Paintings", "Xiong Qixiong Sketches" (People's Fine Arts Publishing House), and "Chinese Artists Series - Xiong Qixiong Volume" and other art monographs.

To date, he has created large-scale works on Hakka themes, including:

"Portraits of Hakka Sages" (1994), more than 30 paintings, which were exhibited during the 12th World Hakka Congress, of which 16 paintings were selected for inclusion in the book "Genealogy of Hakka Celebrities in the World", which was published by Huacheng Publishing House.

The Hakka Migration History Scroll (Line Drawing) (2006) was made into a 100-meter-long * 2.5-meter-high stone relief wall placed in the Meizhou Hakka Tourism Industrial Park.

The "Hakka Market Day" (line drawing) (2007) was made into a 56-meter-long * 2-meter-high cast bronze relief wall and placed in the Hakka World Square.

The Giant Chinese Landscape Painting Scroll of Chinese Hakka Village Dwellings (since 2008) (0.94 meters high * 130 meters *... meter).

City sculpture four groups (2009) placed in the city of Meizhou Jiangnan Belt Park:

"Healthy woman put hoe plow" (cast bronze group sculpture), "moonlight light Xiu Cai Maiden" (cast bronze group sculpture)

Huang Zunxian recited poems about Zhi Meijiang (cast bronze relief), "Qiu Fengjia returned to Guangdong to dedicate their efforts to the new school" (cast bronze relief)

Still have the creation of the 2005 Monument to the Battle of Sanheba, Tai Po (relief line drawing).

Name was included in: "Art Dictionary--Chinese Modern Artists Volume" (Shaanxi Art Publishing House); "Chinese Art Yearbook 1949-1989" (China Art Museum); "Dictionary of Members of China Artists Association" (People's Fine Arts Publishing House). People's Fine Arts Publishing House).

Chinese Hakka Village Dwelling

Ten years of honing a masterpiece of art

Reading Xiong Qixiong's scroll "Chinese Hakka Village Dwelling"

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Talking about the creation of contemporary Chinese landscape paintings, we can use the four words "mixed feelings" to summarize. The so-called "happy", should be recognized, contemporary Chinese landscape painting creation since the founding of new China for more than half a century since the unprecedented freedom of creation of a relaxed environment, the older generation of landscape painters youthful, the younger generation of landscape painters full of artistic vigor and vitality, and continue to produce a number of people left a good impression of the excellent works; the so-called "sad", the so-called "sad", the so-called "happy", should be recognized. The so-called "worry" is that the contemporary Chinese landscape painting industry, similar to the calligraphy industry "popular calligraphy" as "popular landscape painting". Such as the popular style of landscape painting to restore the ancient "Four Kings", cloning Huang Binhong's "popular Huang's landscape painting style". Some labeled "innovative" landscape painting works, said the ink and brush skills without ink and brush skills, the picture is dry without a sense of life, no artistic beauty, no cultural taste, appreciate those works is appetizing! Some landscape painters treat the tradition, not really learn, can not do what Mr. Li Keran advocated to maximize the fight into, of course, it is impossible to do to maximize the jump out. Some landscape painters change the "mastery of nature", for the mastery of predecessors and today's famous landscape painter's works, as a model for imitation and plagiarism. There is also, over the years, perhaps because of the Chinese painting "to the feet of the price" of it, whether it is birds and flowers, figures or landscape paintings, regardless of whether the subject matter is necessary, are painted more and more big, but, but big, big and empty nothing. In the contemporary Chinese art world is filled with the background of the wind of impatience, to read and evaluate the famous landscape painter Xiong Qixiong and his Chinese painting scroll "Chinese Hakka village map", I think it is very some practical significance.

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A few days ago, Xiong Qixiong called from Meizhou, said he wanted to put since his retirement in 2002, before and after spending nearly a decade, traveling tens of thousands of miles, before and after several round trips to western Fujian Fujian, Jiangxi, Gannan, and Guangdong East Hakka mountain villages, the hardships of in-depth life in the making of in-depth investigation and research, investigation and sketching based on the study of ancient and modern scroll masterpieces of Chinese painting! On the basis of Yangtze River, Qingming Riverside, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains and Wuhan Flood Control, he started to draw the first sketch from the conception of the idea, and then made several drafts to create the Hakka Village Dwelling in China, which is more than 300 meters in length and 0.96 meters in height. I hope I can write a small article for him to publish the album. Xiong Qixiong and courier sent the relevant graphic materials. After enjoying Xiong Qixiong's "Chinese Hakka Village Dwellings", my spirit was invigorated. Hakka villages in real life is beautiful, Xiong Qixiong paintings of Hakka villages is more than real life and natural mountains and rivers into one, complement each other Hakka villages more beautiful, Xiong Qixiong heart to real life Hakka villages of natural beauty, sublimation of landscape paintings such as the ancients commented on, "can be viewed, can be traveled, can be lived in! "The whole scroll shows the beauty of the four seasons. The whole scroll presents the grandeur of Lingnan landscape with four seasons like spring, the mountains and fields are lush and green, and the air is moist with clouds and rain. Hakka mountain village picturesque idyllic scenery, natural and humanistic beauty, was Xiong Qixiong with its profound artistic skills, amazing perseverance and energy, after several years of work transformed into the beauty of the artistic image, solidified in the giant scroll of more than three hundred meters long.

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The Hakka people are the Han people who, after many great migrations from the ancient "Central Plains" to avoid wars and disasters, gradually settled down in Gannan, western Fujian and eastern Guangdong, forming a Han people with a similar language, customs and humanistic history handed down from their ancestors. Most of the Hakka people settled in remote mountainous areas and relatively poor and backward areas. Therefore, there is a saying that "every mountain must have guests, no guests do not live in the mountains". Hakka people in the process of migration formed on the clan and ancestor veneration and worship; formed on the mountains and rivers of nature and worship; formed in nature to create a livable environment of a deliberate pursuit. When building Hakka houses, the Hakka people attach great importance to the selection and protection of the natural geographic environment, and most of them will choose a place with good feng shui to be the site of the house. Built by the Hakka ancestral hall, arch flying eaves, giant columns towering, solemn, around the ancient trees must be planted to shade the descendants; and to the east of Guangdong, it slowly formed a combination of ancestral houses and ancestral halls of the family name, the scale of the grand, the design and layout of the yin and yang, inside the square and outside the circle, there is a central axis and symmetry of the left and right of the "Dragon House". The children and grandchildren of the clan have been living in the house for hundreds of years! So the environment around the ancestral home to cherish the reverence for the ancient trees, rocks, springs intersection, the old wells and rivers are not cared for, are honored as "Bogong" God to worship in four seasons ------, so that generations have formed a number of beautiful environment suitable for living in the old village. These ancient dwellings, carrying the Hakka people from the Central Plains inherited from the ancient Han ancestors of the humanities code, from which came out of the history of modern civilization written by many famous revolutionaries, military, scientists, literati, artists, overseas Chinese industrialists and Hakka sages and so on.

From the point of view of the relationship between architecture and nature, Chinese Hakka dwellings, including earth enclosure, square building and the house of the dragon, is one of the five characteristic dwellings in China. Xiong Qixiong's "Picture of Chinese Hakka Village Dwellings" is a masterpiece of landscape scrolls that takes the dwellings and environment of the Hakka people living in the mountainous areas along the border of Fujian, Guangdong and Gan as the object of expression. In order to create this landscape scroll, Xiong Qixiong went back and forth to the mountainous areas of western Fujian, Gannan, and eastern Guangdong for many times to investigate and sketch, and collect materials for creation. Through in-depth investigation, he was surprised to find that these areas were exactly the Central Soviet Area where Chairman Mao Zedong and Commander-in-Chief Zhu De led the Red Army to fight in blood. From Gutian in western Fujian to Jinggangshan in Jiangxi, from Ruijin to Meixian, Xingning and Taipu, etc., the footprints of the Red Army were left everywhere. Many Hakka houses and ancestral temples have served as the residences of the Red Army's leadership and command organs! Also left Chairman Mao and other great people on the Hakka houses of admiration! Thus, these ancient Hakka dwellings, rich in historical and cultural value, have both the qualification of revolutionary cultural relics and ancient buildings with historical conservation value! And this also makes Xiong Qixiong added a sense of responsibility and creative power!

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Xiong Qixiong for the creation of a good "Chinese Hakka village map", in the art is quite a lot of hard work. Industry connoisseurs know, Chinese landscape painting, especially the huge scroll landscape painting, in dealing with the artistic effect of the picture, will encounter a "real easy virtual difficult" problem, the place of the virtual, is not generally believed to be blanked out on the end of the matter. Xiong Qixiong in dealing with the scroll of the "blank articulation", bold techniques, chic techniques! Used the most and best "cloud spacing method" of dealing with technology, with "wet dyeing method boneless painting cloud", clever use of a thick and thin boneless method of shades of dark and light once over the paintings to go, until the pen contained in the color, moisture, all used up until the end, to achieve a one-stop dyeing cloud, the painting has a sense of thickness, but also a sense of thickness. The painted clouds have both a sense of thickness and a sense of lightness and drift, and their forms are ever-changing. Make more than three hundred meters long "Chinese Hakka Village Dwelling" picture, a transition paragraph has a specific modeling content. Second is the use of "scenery fading method" virtualization processing, is the clever use of the mountains and scenery between the smoke masking the area. These parts, must use the close-up real, dense to emphasize the space. Make the scene transition part of the picture changes in a natural and comfortable.

And then the second is the use of bushes and plants separation and articulation method, which is used in the creation of landscape painting scrolls in a "real and virtual" approach. In order to skillfully handle the landscape painting scroll composition, often with a group of combination of very beautiful staggered trees, balanced picture scene articulation, behind the scene to move. In order to make the "Chinese Hakka Village Dwelling" scroll in the composition of vivid and full of changes, Xiong Qixiong in the scroll composition, carefully designed each section of the picture scene of the artistic effect, in the specific drawing with the brilliant brush and ink, painted many not only rich in the sense of life, but also the form of the natural dynamic and very beautiful trees! People in the appreciation of Xiong Qixiong scroll picture of these trees, can see that they are painters from life, in the life of a large number of trees painted sketches, according to the composition needs to be processed. For example: in Meixian Baigong Lin Fengmian's former residence in that section, the author will be the former residence on both sides of the Baigong River of the old Chinese wolfberry grove, organized into the picture, through the combination of the form of the tree arranged to delineate, through a stream of grievances such as the atmosphere, so that the viewer in the see Lin Fengmian's former residence, linked up to add some associative factors (according to the local elders said that this tree can only grow here, move elsewhere on the planting of the not live!) This group of trees was sketched. This group of trees was painted in a sketching style! There is also the almost Hakka village symbol of bamboo bushes, citrus and pomelo forests, pine trees and large banyan trees, etc., were Xiong Qixiong consciously and skillfully organized into the picture, which not only reduces people's visual fatigue of the horizontal and vertical straight lines of the houses in the line of sight, but also increases the picture's flexible and vivid contrast changes.

In traditional landscape painting, trees are an extremely important part of the picture. Ancient landscape painters on the depiction of trees is a lot of effort, the ancient painters in nature to appreciate and marvel at the image of the trees they saw the magical beauty, on the "where the tens of thousands of books" on the sketching! With the growth of trees in the form of characteristics, to play to the fullest to play the skills of ink and brush. In Xiong Qixiong's landscape scrolls, it fully demonstrates his skillful brush and ink techniques and solid basic skills in painting trees! He paints trees with such ease. Out of Xiong Qixiong "Chinese Hakka Village Dwelling" scroll in those trees, different shapes, beautiful posture, full of vitality, full of interest, tracing back to the roots, you can see Xiong Qixiong from the 1960s in the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Department of Chinese Painting during the Landscape Division, due to the learning aspect of the deep "up to the Sung and Yuan's" Lingnan School of Painting, second generation The second generation of Lingnan School of Painting, Mr. Lai Xiongcai, taught the "Lai's tree method" of the Samadhi, Mr. Lai Xiongcai paintings of trees, especially "Lai's Pine", in the world of Chinese painting can be said to be far-flung, can be called ancient and modern one of the best! Xiong Qixiong paintings of trees, y the true tradition of Mr. Lai's predecessor, is "into a tree in the chest", without hesitation, put the brush to take straight! Passion for the paper, the spirit soars! Chinese Hakka Village Dwelling" scroll in the tree, is Xiong Qixiong out of the ink and brush, show the skills of the place. In addition, Xiong Qixiong in depth around the field study, but also pay close attention to the collection of houses around the image of forest material. Xiong Qixiong has a passion for trees!

Xiong Qixiong in the scroll picture composition, using the method of panning for the scene interval, so that he can easily put a few miles apart, dozens of miles, or even hundreds of miles away from the scene, a very natural and vivid combination of the scroll. Enhance the coherence of the content of the picture, so that the whole scroll of "Chinese Hakka Village Dwelling" can give a person the feeling of atmosphere, a breath of fresh air! In the picture processing, attaches great importance to the far look to take the potential, close look to take the quality, the actual place of fine work, the virtual place to do fine, so that there is an intriguing artistic effect. Let the viewer in front of each paragraph, are reluctant to stop and stay down to seriously appreciate and read the artistic effect of the picture.

In the expression, Xiong Qixiong adopts the technique of life drawing and realism, and seeks for technique and effect in realism! Adhere to the Chinese painting with brush and ink-based, give appropriate color to seek a unified effect. Strive to make the "Chinese Hakka Village Dwelling" picture can show a simple, true, natural, vivid, graceful, elegant artistic effect, both focusing on the traditional ink and brush writing lyricism, but also emphasize that this is a new modern landscape painting!

In terms of modeling, the artist strives to make the farm houses, jungles, mountain streams, and drifting clouds that appear in the picture, all of which are beautiful in their authenticity!

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Xiong Qixiong's "Chinese Hakka Village Dwellings" was completed, has been unveiled in his hometown of Meizhou City, exhibited in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, and then in this year's autumn season in the city of Jinan, Shandong Province, attracting widespread social attention and the art world generally praised, the former vice chairman of the China Art Association and Guangdong Provincial Art Association Chairman Lin Yong said: "Xiong Qixiong! Late bloomer, good Xiong Qixiong with "ten years to sharpen a sword" spirit, painted such a remarkable landscape painting scroll masterpiece, that Xiong Qixiong accumulation of artistic creativity terrific, that Xiong Qixiong energy good health terrific!

Chinese design master and famous oil painter, former vice president of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and design school director Yin Dingbang said: "students for the simple and low-key Xiong Qixiong this "Chinese Hakka village map" is indeed very good, let people look at the reality of the Hakka village, and the Xiong Qixiong paintings under the brush of the "Chinese Hakka Village Map" is more beautiful! "

Jinqiu was exhibited in Jinan to rave reviews, causing repercussions in the local art community. As the former vice chairman of Shandong Provincial Art Association, famous painter Mr. Wu Zehao said, Xiong Qixiong "with a hot heart, broad-minded, flowery brush painted by the Chinese Hakka Village Dwelling scroll, as Hakka people painting Hakka masterpiece, will become a bright chapter in the history of Hakka culture.

Famous young painters, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, director of scientific research, Professor Lin Lan, after seeing a section of the "Chinese Hakka Village Dwelling" original work, blurted out: "unparalleled! Some painters as old as Uncle Xiong, although there is this power, but not like Uncle Xiong has the energy to paint. And we young people have the energy but not the power to paint. Uncle Xiong, however, has done it all, it's really unrivaled!" When the creator's artistic ability and strength are well combined with the author's perseverance and energy, it is possible to condense a brilliant artistic marvel! What's more, in the history of Chinese painting, many classic heirloom works, many of which were created by painters in their old age. Traditional Chinese painters in the art of strength, knowledge and cultivation have accumulated to a certain extent, in order to achieve the so-called "pure fire" realm, in order to be more calm in the mind, in the creation of art, will be their own feelings of life, gathered to the end of the millimeter, freely presented on the screen! Qian Haiyuan

(The author of this article, Qian Haiyuan, a famous art critic and sculptor, is now a member of the Theory Committee of the Chinese Artists Association, and the former vice-chairman of the Hunan Provincial Artists Association)

Chinese Artists - Xiong Qixiong Volume

Edited by Yang Xiaoyang, vice-edited by Jia Dejiang, and with the artistic advisor of Liu Dawei, the book published by the Crafts Publishing House has been published in the form of Xiong Qixiong Volume, which has been released in the Chinese Artist Collection. --Xiong Qixiong Volume" has been published.

In order to establish the image of national artists in the contemporary painting world of prosperous China, the series of "The Great Series of Chinese Artists" (Chinese Painting Volume), which is edited by Yang Xiaoyang, President of the National Academy of Painting of China, with Liu Dawei, Chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, as the adviser, has been formally launched.

The book's candidate painters by the "China National Artists Series Editorial Committee" finalized, the edited painters should have the membership of the China Artists Association has outstanding achievements and has a distinctive artistic personality and influential painters. Among them, there are both classic chapters of the old generation of artists, as well as the wonderful dedication of young and middle-aged artists. The editing and publishing of this series aims to carry forward the traditional national culture, define the artists who represent the national image, and show the style of the first-class artists in contemporary Chinese painting.

The entire book is edited by the China National Academy of Painting and published by Beijing Arts and Crafts Press. It is planned to publish 10 volumes before December, 2011, as a "great offering" to the 17th National Congress of the Party, and distributed nationwide. By the national Xinhua bookstore unified distribution.

After the publication of the volume of Chinese paintings, we will also publish the volume of oil paintings, sculptures and other series of books in line with the national standards for artists. This is a publishing project listed as a key book by the state, which will bring honor and influence to every painter.

Colophon --

Xiong Qixiong, like the famous painter Lin Fengmian, is from a Hakka village in Meixian County, Guangdong Province, and has the Hakka character of persistence and perseverance, burying his head in the sand, struggling tenaciously, and pursuing his artistic life in an extremely difficult environment. He worked in Xinjiang for a long time and insisted on drawing a large number of sketches. His sketches are the shadows of life, the sentiments that really move the feelings, and the real beauty. His landscape paintings have inherited the creative concepts of "pursuing the Song and Yuan" and "facing life" from his masters, Mr. Guan Shanyue and Mr. Lai Xiongcai, which are blended with the beauty of the mountains and rivers of nature and the expression of traditional brush and ink techniques. He created more than 300 meters of "Chinese Hakka Village Dwellings" huge landscape painting scrolls, known as the world's unparalleled masterpieces of art.