Chouqingnian
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1964 he entered the Suzhou Jiangsixutang Chinese Painting Pigment Factory and studied under the veteran artisan Xue Gengyao; he later served as its technical director and is a direct-line transmitter of the craft.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in March 1944 in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. He is a national representative bearer of Chinese Painting Pigment Making Craftsmanship (Jiangsixutang Chinese Painting Pigment Making Craftsmanship), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is a Jiangsixutang Chinese painting pigment making technician. He has long been engaged in the research, design and production of traditional Chinese painting pigments and seal paste. He commands the entire body of hand techniques for Chinese painting pigments, including the mirror-surface eight-treasure seal paste. He developed a non-fading frost-blue pigment whose colour is clear and bright, remains unchanged over long periods, does not lift after repeated mounting and keeps for a thousand years in storage. He published the book Studies of Traditional Chinese Painting Pigments. He has accepted several disciples. All year round he gives lectures on the subject for art academies, painting and calligraphy associations, seal-carving societies, temples and primary and secondary schools in many places. He was appointed academic adviser to the traditional printmaking department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Honors & Recognition
The Chinese painting pigments in the brocade-boxed sets he developed won a prize for excellence at the China Folk Art Expo organised by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
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