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Guan Shanyue
Guan Shanyue (1912— 2000), was a famous traditional Chinese painter, educator, and a representative figure of "Lingnan School of painting". He was tutored by Gao Jianfu, the founder of Lingnan School. His masterpieces include A Newly Developed Highway, Ode to Yangtze River, and The Rivers and Mountains Are So Charming and Gorgeous which coauthored with painter Fu Baoshi, etc.
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GUAN SHANYUE GALLERY SHENZHEN

The Guan Shanyue Art Gallery is dedicated to the works of Guan Shanyue, a master of the Lingnan school of Chinese painting. Lingnan south of the ranges❠was a Tang dynasty province covering modern Guangdong and Guangxi provinces. It is now a poetic name for Guangdong. The Lingnan school of Chinese painting was started by the master Gao Jianfu. In the early days of the 20th century, while studying in Japan, he became heavily influenced by western painting and by the Japanese Nihonga School, itself in debt to western painting. He studied western perspective, light and shade, portrait painting etc and applied them to his Chinese style art. The Lingnan School always had revolutionary associations. Gao himself was an early member of Sun Yat-sen’s Tongmeng Hui or Alliance Society, and later in the 1920s when Sun formed the Canton revolutionary government, he invited Gao to join the government as a member of the KMT Industrial Art Commission and head of the Provincial Art Schools. Ultimately the influence of the Lingnan School was limited to Guangdong. When half of China was under Japanese occupation, the school’s Japanese origins proved to be a terminal liability. Rivals in more traditional Chinese painting schools referred to it as cheap Japanese imports❠actually, in their eyes, the real issue was that it was more accessible to the public than western painting and therefore a more dangerous rival. Guan Shanyue 1912 2000 was a student of Gao Jianfu and a recognized master of the Lingnan School. In 1933 he audited Gao Jianfu’s classes at Lingnan University and subsequently studied under Gao at his Chunshui Art Studio. From then on he became an artist and art academic, firstly at the Guangzhou Art Academy and later at the Huanan and Zhongnan Arts Academies and the Guangzhou Institute of Fine Art. According to his biographies, he was a revolutionary sympathizer early on, and had participated in revolutionary anti-Japanese activities❠from Hong Kong during the war. This is certainly consistent with the sort of company he kept from the 1930s onwards, and in 1956 he joined the Communist Party. But this was not enough to save him from violent attacks by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution his official biography says that he was accused of being an anti-socialist poisonous weed and was struggled and sent to cadre school. Guan was a prolific painter with a special interest in the development of Shenzhen. In 1993 he approached the Shenzhen City Government and offered to donate all his works to the people of Shenzhen. In 1997, Jiang Zemin opened the Gallery on his way to Hong Kong to officiate at the handover ceremonies. The Gallery has a fine collection of Guan’s works. Because he was a senior arts bureaucrat, Guan knew which side his bread was buttered on and revolutionary❠themes predominate from a very early period. But the paintings are good, several levels above what one has come to expect from that unfortunate art school. We love his early works, particularly a 1944 one entitled How Professors Live Nowâ, showing Guan, dressed in a suit and overcoat, sitting in a rustic house surrounded by firewood, cooking implements, his books and a cat. Incidentally Guan Shanyue’s name which means moon over the passes❠comes from a famous Tang Dynasty poem by Li Bai lamenting exile fighting the Turks beyond the western passes. The gallery also hosts periodic special exhibitions. The last one we saw was an excellent exhibition of paintings by new Shenzhen artists. Entry is 10. The gallery is situated in Hong Li Road next to the entrance to Lian Hua Park. Closest Metro is Shao Nian Gong . Line 4. The Exhibition is across Hong Li Road in the brown brick building. Open 9 am to 5 pm Tuesday to Sunday. Closed Monday Address: 6026 Hong Li Rd. Futian 6026 Bus nos. 25,215,105 Website: http://www.shenzhenparty.com/place/art-gallery/guan-shanyue-art-terminal

Biography of Guan Shan-Yue

Guan Shanyue, originally named Zepei, was born in 1912 in Yangjiang of the Guangdong province. His father was a school teacher and was skilled in Chinese painting. Because of his father's influence, Guan has cultivated an intense interest in painting since childhood. He became a primary school teacher in Guangzhou after his graduation from the Guangzhou College of Education in 1933. In the same year, Gao Jianfu, the great Lingnan painter, was appointed professor of Chinese painting by the Zhongshan University. With the help of his old classmates, Guan went to the university to sit in Gao's lectures. He was later attracted to study art in the Gao's school, the Chunshui Art Studio. From that time onwards, Guan learned Chinese painting under Gao till 1940. Guan organized his first one-man exhibition in late 1939. The exhibition, which received very favourable comments from art critics, was put on show in Macao, Hong Kong and Guangzhouwan (Zhanjiang) till the spring of 1940. In 1941, he left Guangdong and travelled through the various provinces in West China. During the tour, he kept on painting and sketching, and presented exhibitions at cities like Shaoguan, Guilin, Guiyang, Chongqing, Kunming, Chengdu, Xi'an and Lanzhou. Later, he made a study tour to Dunhuang with his wife, Li Xiaoping. He copied the mural paintings in the rocket caves and made careful researches on the art of Buddhist painting. The period from 1940 to 1945 marked a significant stage of development in Guan's art of painting. During these years. of travelling, he began to establish a distinctive style of his own. In 1946, he returned to Guangzhou and was appointed professor and head of the Chinese Painting Department by the Guangzhou Art Academy. A year later, he made a tour to Southeast Asia and presented exhibitions in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. In 1948, he organized an exhibition in Shanghai. On show were all his sketches and paintings made during his travels in West China and Southeast Asia. Two illustrated catalogues were published for that exhibition. In early 1949, he joined the Renjian Painting Society in Hong Kong and participated actively in revolutionary art activities. He went back to China after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Since then, he has been the Professor and Deputy Head of the Art Department of the Huanan Arts Institute, the Professor and Deputy Director of the Zhongnan Art Academy, the Professor and Deputy Director of the Guangzhou Institute of Fine Arts. He became a member of the Communist Party of China in 1956. Apart from teaching, he often goes to construction sites and places of historic interest to do outdoor sketching. He also travels abroad to inspect and learn the art of painting of other countries. In the past years, he has visited Korea, Poland, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Vietnam and Japan. In October 1982, he was invited to Japan to hold exhibitions at Tokyo and Osaka.

GUAN SHANYUE GALLERY SHENZHEN

The Guan Shanyue Art Gallery is dedicated to the works of Guan Shanyue, a master of the Lingnan school of Chinese painting. Lingnan south of the ranges❠was a Tang dynasty province covering modern Guangdong and Guangxi provinces. It is now a poetic name for Guangdong. The Lingnan school of Chinese painting was started by the master Gao Jianfu. In the early days of the 20th century, while studying in Japan, he became heavily influenced by western painting and by the Japanese Nihonga School, itself in debt to western painting. He studied western perspective, light and shade, portrait painting etc and applied them to his Chinese style art. The Lingnan School always had revolutionary associations. Gao himself was an early member of Sun Yat-sen’s Tongmeng Hui or Alliance Society, and later in the 1920s when Sun formed the Canton revolutionary government, he invited Gao to join the government as a member of the KMT Industrial Art Commission and head of the Provincial Art Schools. Ultimately the influence of the Lingnan School was limited to Guangdong. When half of China was under Japanese occupation, the school’s Japanese origins proved to be a terminal liability. Rivals in more traditional Chinese painting schools referred to it as cheap Japanese imports❠actually, in their eyes, the real issue was that it was more accessible to the public than western painting and therefore a more dangerous rival. Guan Shanyue 1912 2000 was a student of Gao Jianfu and a recognized master of the Lingnan School. In 1933 he audited Gao Jianfu’s classes at Lingnan University and subsequently studied under Gao at his Chunshui Art Studio. From then on he became an artist and art academic, firstly at the Guangzhou Art Academy and later at the Huanan and Zhongnan Arts Academies and the Guangzhou Institute of Fine Art. According to his biographies, he was a revolutionary sympathizer early on, and had participated in revolutionary anti-Japanese activities❠from Hong Kong during the war. This is certainly consistent with the sort of company he kept from the 1930s onwards, and in 1956 he joined the Communist Party. But this was not enough to save him from violent attacks by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution his official biography says that he was accused of being an anti-socialist poisonous weed and was struggled and sent to cadre school. Guan was a prolific painter with a special interest in the development of Shenzhen. In 1993 he approached the Shenzhen City Government and offered to donate all his works to the people of Shenzhen. In 1997, Jiang Zemin opened the Gallery on his way to Hong Kong to officiate at the handover ceremonies. The Gallery has a fine collection of Guan’s works. Because he was a senior arts bureaucrat, Guan knew which side his bread was buttered on and revolutionary❠themes predominate from a very early period. But the paintings are good, several levels above what one has come to expect from that unfortunate art school. We love his early works, particularly a 1944 one entitled How Professors Live Nowâ, showing Guan, dressed in a suit and overcoat, sitting in a rustic house surrounded by firewood, cooking implements, his books and a cat. Incidentally Guan Shanyue’s name which means moon over the passes❠comes from a famous Tang Dynasty poem by Li Bai lamenting exile fighting the Turks beyond the western passes. The gallery also hosts periodic special exhibitions. The last one we saw was an excellent exhibition of paintings by new Shenzhen artists. Entry is 10. The gallery is situated in Hong Li Road next to the entrance to Lian Hua Park. Closest Metro is Shao Nian Gong . Line 4. The Exhibition is across Hong Li Road in the brown brick building. Open 9 am to 5 pm Tuesday to Sunday. Closed Monday Address: 6026 Hong Li Rd. Futian 6026 Bus nos. 25,215,105 Website: http://www.shenzhenparty.com/place/art-gallery/guan-shanyue-art-terminal

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1 The amount of Guan Shanyue s genres is not large but its contents and features about times and society have more distinctive and richer than landscape paintings.

2 In this history, the Lingnan style single show in the forest, while the Li Xiongcai, and Guan Shanyue became the Lingnan school of painting's demise.

3 The amount of Guan Shanyue s genres is not large but its contents and features about times and society have more distinctive and richer than landscape paintings.

4 In this history, the Lingnan style single show in the forest, while the Li Xiongcai, and Guan Shanyue became the Lingnan school of painting's demise.

5 I will analyze the conception of Guan Shanyue's calligraphy and painting, analyze the soul of his painting when he drew.

6 I will analyze the conception of Guan Shanyue's calligraphy and painting, analyze the soul of his painting when he drew.

7 I will analyze the conception of Guan Shanyue's calligraphy and painting, analyze the soul of his painting when he drew.

8 The amount of Guan Shanyue s genres is not large but its contents and features about times and society have more distinctive and richer than landscape paintings.

9 In this history, the Lingnan style single show in the forest, while the Li Xiongcai, and Guan Shanyue became the Lingnan school of painting's demise.

10 I will analyze the conception of Guan Shanyue's calligraphy and painting, analyze the soul of his painting when he drew.

11 The amount of Guan Shanyue s genres is not large but its contents and features about times and society have more distinctive and richer than landscape paintings.

12 In this history, the Lingnan style single show in the forest, while the Li Xiongcai, and Guan Shanyue became the Lingnan school of painting's demise.

13 The amount of Guan Shanyue s genres is not large but its contents and features about times and society have more distinctive and richer than landscape paintings.

14 In this history, the Lingnan style single show in the forest, while the Li Xiongcai, and Guan Shanyue became the Lingnan school of painting's demise.

15 I will analyze the conception of Guan Shanyue's calligraphy and painting, analyze the soul of his painting when he drew.