Fang Tu was born in 1963 in Huilai, Guangdong. He graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1986 and worked at the Pearl River Film Studio in 1986. In 1992, he was transferred to the Guangzhou Academy of Painting, and in 2019, he was transferred to the National Academy of Painting of China. He is currently a director of the China Artists Association, a member of the Chinese Painting Art Committee, a standing director of the Chinese Painting Society, a vice chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Artists Association, the director of the Chinese Painting Art Committee, the executive president of the Guangdong Chinese Painting Society, the convener of the Guangzhou National Young Seedling Painters Cultivation Program, the leading talent of Guangdong Province's propaganda ideology and culture, the young and middle-aged artists of Guangdong Province, the national first-class artist, the former president of the Guangzhou Academy of Painting, and the researcher of the National Academy of Painting of China.
Advocating the supremacy of pen and ink,
Famous for its large-scale freehand flowers and birds,
But the "restlessness" in his bones makes him full of creativity,
Whether it is contemporary ink painting, freehand flowers and birds, landscapes,
Or thematic ink figures,
He has all the knowledge, and all of them are exquisite.
Square Soil 《Four Questions of Flowers》
"The Past", "Four Questions of Flowers",
"Friends of Mankind", "Years Like Songs" and other works,
Selected for the 8th, 9th, 10th and 12th sessions
The national art exhibition and the domestic large-scale art exhibition have won many awards.
Fang Tu's "Friend of Mankind"
Fang Tu's work "Years Like Songs"
He both adhered to traditional Chinese painting,
also dabbled in avant-garde experimental ink painting,
In the overall appearance of the emphasis on composition style,
and a modern feel on the visuals,
It inherits the core spirit of freehand painting, which is traditional Chinese painting.
Looking at the works of Fang Tu,
Not only covers flowers and birds, people, landscapes,
The form of the work is also realistic and freehand,
Regardless of subject matter and form,
All reflect an eclectic artistic outlook.
Maybe it is this spirit of courage to try,
Will make this Lingnan painter at the age of 56,
Leave the comfort zone of the homeland,
To constantly broaden the boundaries of his artistic life.
In 2019,
More than half a hundred years old, the square soil has opened up a great situation in the Lingnan painting world,
High-profile achievements,
And in this year,
He decided to say goodbye to his familiar homeland,
Went to Beijing to open up a new world of art.
Before there was Qi Baishi 57 years old "North Drift",
See adversity as the driving force,
Eventually become a generation of Chinese painting masters;
And now Fang Tu entered Beijing at the age of 56,
Facing difficulties,
As if it were a coincidence of fate,
People are full of curiosity and expectation for his artistic path.
Since then,
Fang Tu has a new identity,
Full-time painter of the National Academy of Painting of China.
National Academy of Painting of China,
Gathering the best Chinese painting artists in the north and south of the great river,
It also creates a new spark for Fang Tu's artistic creation.
What new breakthroughs did Fang Tu make in his creation after entering Beijing? On this stage that many of his peers yearn for, how has his mentality changed? Please pay attention to tonight's 22:00 Pearl River Channel "Culture Pearl River" of "Brilliant Danqing - Famous Painter Fang Tu", and get close to the wonderful "freehand life" of this Lingnan painter.
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