Zhao Shi wanbi, a native of Nanchong County, Sichuan, was born in 1904 and died in 1994.
He has loved art since childhood, entered the art class of Nanchong Old Middle School sponsored by Mr. Zhang Lan at the age of sixteen, and entered the Xinhua University of the Arts in Shanghai in 1927, under the careful guidance of Pan Tianshou and Zhu Wenyun. After returning to Sichuan, he was a professor in the Art Department of Chengdu National Normal University and a private american professor in Sichuan. In 1938, he founded the private Min Yunyi in Sichuan as the full-time principal until liberation. Later, he was a member of the Fifth Committee of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a librarian of the Sichuan Provincial Research Museum of Culture and History. Mr. Guanbi's green landscape represents the highest level of Chinese painting in the twentieth century, in which dead trees and torrents have become insurmountable songs, which is the pride of the Sichuan painting community. Adhering to China's long-standing cultural traditions, he soars in the middle of its mellowness, and his pen always constantly paints the feelings of Bashan Shushui, who was born and grew up in Si. He repaid his homeland and society with a poet's sensitivity and pure passion. His name will surely last forever in the history of painting. In the Sichuan painting world, there are two masters who have the most bumpy life, one is in the Chinese painting world for a full 40 years, during which he was bedridden for 8 years, and the white-haired painter Xian Yan Jiyuan, who became famous after 100 years old, while the other was famous in the early years, but fell into purgatory in the 1950s, "disappeared" in the Chinese painting world for nearly 30 years, and Zhao Wanbi, a representative master of the "green landscape" painting style, his bumpy life, artistic achievements and creative style can be described as "three absolutes": difficult creation in desperate circumstances, the pursuit of singing in art, Leave a masterpiece for the world.
Zhao Wanbi became famous in the early twentieth century, as early as the 1940s, with Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian, when there was a "Qi shrimp Zhao Duck Zhang Shanshui" known, but unfortunately Zhao Wanbi did not have the luck of Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian. In the 50s and 70s suffered grievances, the collection and works were almost destroyed, in the 1950s, Zhao Wanbi was released early after three years of labor reform in prison, and re-invested in artistic creation, due to various reasons, it was not allowed to publish any works under his name, but in such a desperate situation, Zhao Wanbi in 1978 still completed "Eight Hundred Li Qingcheng" with unimaginable artistic skills, and the eight hundred li style of Song Pan County, Sichuan Province, along the river through Mao'er Gai Xuebao Peak, crossed Guanxian County to Qingcheng Mountain, was integrated into a painting, and this painting was composed of Song calligraphy The use of modern color elements, and the traditional heavy color green paint, thick but magnificent, magnificent people are solemn, can be described as the perseverance, sweat and life to achieve the art of the ages. At that time, the painting was "anonymously" copied and sent to the Canton Fair, causing foreign investors to compete for purchase.
After the 1980s, Zhao Lao saw the light again, full of creative passion, in 1988 held a personal exhibition in Beijing, causing a great sensation, when collectors around the world wanted to collect, but Zhao Lao cherished the works and did not want to sell; In 1994, Zhao Wanbi died and was buried in the houshan mountains of Qingcheng, leaving only more than 300 masterpieces in the world, including "Eight Hundred Li Qingcheng", "Overview of Jiangshan", and "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River", and his works were large and huge pen and ink, and the mountains were steep and undulating, tall and majestic; The small hand-scrolls, the albums are exquisitely crafted, and the meticulousness is not lost in ethereality, not only the majestic, broad and simple artistic style of the calligraphy paintings, but also the vicissitudes of his artistic career.