Peng Youshang, a veteran artist from Jiangxi Province, is known for his Western-influenced traditional paintings and his various stylistic experiments in ink-and-brush works.

At the beginning of the “cultural revolution”(1966), a special show was set up to display his “black paintings” as they were accusingly called.But the exhibit hab to close ahead of schedule; too many viewers came —not to criticize but to appreciate.

　　Peng.now a professor of Jiangxi Teachers University,specializes in trabitional figure and flower-bird paintings,but his sophisticated use of perspective, light and hues as well as sketch techniques gives his paintings a Western feeling. His words was recently on show at the Central college of Fine Art in Beijing.

　　Peng was born in Yugan county,jiangxi Province.Under the influence of his father who was also a painter,he developed an interest in art in his early childhood. At age five, he began to copy ink-and-brush works from albums. Butsoon copyin was not enorgh.‘‘I enjoyed folk tales and local operas. I began to try to draw the characters I had seen on stage or those I imagined from the tales .”peng said.

He went to Shanghai at 10,and lived with his elder brother who was then studying at the shanghai College of Fine Arts.There he met Pan Tianshou and Liu Haisu,famous modern painters, and with their help his skill in painting improved rapidly. Later he studied in a porcelain-design school in his hometown.At Nanjing Central University he got a solid foundation in Chinese traditional paintings.especially in moguhua, paintings rendered in pure ink washes without contour delineation.and gongbihua,descriptive realistic paintings.

　　In1993,he graduated from Nanjing Central University, His graduation work,“A Nightmare,”was chosen for a national exhibition,and three years later,was included in “Collection of the World’s Famous Paintings”,pudlished in Japan.

　　The painting shows a deep and dismal cave in which primitive men are fighting with fierce beasts.Aman with a torch is calling the others,to fight,Another man is struggling in the coil of a python,while a tiger is springing on yet a third,peng said that his work had political impolicatons during the anti-Japanese war.

Gift

　　Peng became more widely known in 1946 when he had a one-man show in Mount Lushan,Jiangxi Province.One picture from the exhibit “A Hundred Sparrows,”was selected as a gift to the American president,After that he was asked to stay in Nanjing and produce paintings as “international presents.

After the founding of New China,Peng returned to his hometown and worded at Jiangxi Teachers University, teaching traditional painting and sketching.

　　But in 1957, he was accused of being a“rightist;”His wife ,Wu Huisheng,then a student at wuhan University,was also accused and sent to “reform”under surveillance.

During the “cultural revolution”all his paintings were taken from him.“I sill think of some of those works, Sometimes I try to recall their compositions and re-create them.”Peng said.

　　Peng’s paintings themes vary, but his forte is tigers. He used to haunt zoos,he said.to observe the big cats .“ I can remember almost every detail –from the distribution of the stripes to the joints of its feet ,”Peng said.

　　When painting tigers.“I try to catch not only the animal’s fierce appearance ,but also its tenderness with its cubs” he said.

　　One of his recent words ,about 11 metres long ,shows more than 100 tigers in various poses.

Peng is a member of the chinee Artists Association,and vicechairman of Jiangxi Artists Association.

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