Wang Wenda
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of the Han ethnic group, born in 1944 in Tianjin. In 1960 Wang Wenda was admitted to the New Year Painting Training Class of the Yangliuqing New Year Painting Workshop. After the Tianjin Yangliuqing Painting Society was founded, he received instruction from the consummately skilled block carvers Mr. Xiao Furong and Mr. Li Changjiang. Through his own efforts, Wang Wenda stood out among his fellow students for the completeness of his transmission, his openness to diverse traditions, and his integration of creation with craft. To raise his professional level, he studied fine arts at the Tianjin Xinhua Evening University from 1962 to 1966, and in 1990 he attended a refresher course at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts for one year. He has consistently studied the strengths of every branch of the craft, fusing and refining them to a state of consummate mastery, and has made outstanding contributions to the reconstruction of Yangliuqing woodblock New Year pictures and woodblock water-color prints. Wang Wenda has always worked at the front line, producing a large number of New Year painting works and undertaking the carving of many extremely difficult and precious block-printing treasures. His skill has been highly recognized by his peers, and he has trained a number of block carvers for the Yangjiabu New Year Painting Society in Weifang, Shandong, and for a Xuan paper factory in Anhui.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Yangliuqing Woodblock New Year Pictures, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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