Yang Guanghui
Lineage & School of Heritage
Since tiehua, the art of iron painting, was founded in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties by Tang Peng and Xiao Yuncong, Yang Guanghui is already the sixth-generation heir of the art. In 1948 Yang Guanghui studied iron-forging under his uncle Chu Yanqing, the fifth-generation heir of Wuhu tiehua. To deepen his artistic cultivation, he also studied traditional Chinese painting under Wang Shicen, a professor at Anhui Normal University and a landscape painter.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in 1932, a native of Wuhu, Anhui. National representative bearer of Wuhu Tiehua Forging Craftsmanship, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, and a master of Chinese arts and crafts. He has practiced the art for more than fifty years and took part in the creation of the iron painting "Welcoming Pine" (Ying Kesong) for the Great Hall of the People, together with six other works. On the basis of the inherited tradition he continuously explored and boldly innovated, further promoting the art of iron painting. The iron paintings of Yang Guanghui are simple and dignified in style, emphasizing freehand conception and the conveyance of spirit, and they endow iron painting with a profound and enduring artistic conception. Representative works include "Galloping Horse" (Ben Ma), "Welcoming Pine" (Ying Kesong), and "Ancient Phoenix" (Gu Feng Tu).
Honors & Recognition
He actively took on apprentices, and several dozen of his disciples have today become technical mainstays of the iron-painting trade.
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