Ink and Wash, Freehand Figure Painter Wu Shanming (Collection Edition)
--Xiling Celebrated Masters Series
Published by Zhejiang Culture and Art Audio-visual Publishing House, 2003
Medium: 1 VCD disc
Narration: Mandarin Chinese
ISRC: CNE140301450
Painter Wu Shanming was born in Pujiang County, Zhejiang Province, in 1941. Since 1964, when Wu graduated at the department of traditional Chinese painting of the China Academy of Fine Arts, he has taught at the academy.
Wu specializes in ink and wash painting, especially figure painting. Rich in content, his paintings have a distinctive style. He has learned from his predecessors to draw with the previous day's dark ink, which is glittering and translucent. Preserving the ink's features, Wu is skilled in transforming the ink from dark to light. He has pursued the characteristics of both stone tablet and pillar and invitation inscriptions, and his works produce special artistic effects. He has added other charm and appeal to the traditional ink and wash figure painting. With strong individual character, the figures in his paintings-such as Chan Juan (a graceful woman of Chinese legend), Dharma, and A Sword-Dance Performer-are extremely lifelike.
Wu's works have been exhibited in Japan, Canada, Germany, Brazil and the United States, as well as China's Hong Kong and Taiwan. He has put on an individual exhibition at the China Art Gallery. The Sentiment of Mountains and Waters, a short ink and wash cartoon designed by Wu, won the grand prize at the Montreal International Film Festival in 1990 and the grand prize at the Shanghai International Cartoon Festival in 1998.
Wu Shanming now holds a post at the academic committee of the China Academy of Fine Arts, and is a professor of traditional Chinese painting, a tutor of doctoral degree candidates, the vice chairman of the Zhejiang Artists Association, and the president of the Xiling Painting and Calligraphy Studio. Still, he wields his brush every day. Some of his works have been collected by the China Art Gallery, the Museum of Chinese History, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, Zhongnanhai (the mansions of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and the State Council), Oxford University, the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts and the Asia Art Gallery in South Korea. Wu Shanming has published several books and albums, including Selected Paintings, Selected Ink and Wash Figure Paintings, and Techniques on Chinese Figure Paintings.
水墨写意人物画家吴山明 (珍藏版)
—西泠名家系列
出版社：浙江文艺音像出版社，2003
介质：VCD
解说：国语普通话
ISRC：CNE140301450
吴山明先生是当代颇负盛誉的意笔人物画家。1941 年生，浙江浦江人。现任浙江美术学院教授、学位委员会委员、中国画系副主任，西泠书画院副院长。青少年时期在浙江美术学院附中和中国画系接受了九年的基础训练，功底扎实，1964年毕业于浙江美术学院中国画系；而后在长期的艺术实践中，融会梁楷、徐渭、任颐、吴昌硕、黄宾虹等历代大家的技法特点，并结合写生和创作，逐渐形成了自己独特的艺术风格，为现代浙派人物画的新发展作出了积极的贡献。吴山明先生以自己的实践经验和研究成果，在当代中国画坛率先提出了“意笔线描是意笔中国人物画的基础”这一崭新的艺术主张，否定了“工笔为意笔基础"的传统见解，对意笔中国画教学的改革具有重大意义。吴山明教授是“当代浙派人物画”的领军人物、在当代中国画坛具有影响力的国画家。出版有《吴山明画集》、《意笔人物画选》、《意笔人物画教材》。
本片辑入了大量珍贵的动态资料，翔实地记录吴山明先生丰富的艺术成就和发展道路，是书画爱好者鉴赏、收藏的艺术教材和资料。
