Shi Zhonggui (painter)

For the Later Jin emperor, see Shi Zhonggui (emperor).

Shi Zhonggui (simplified Chinese: 史忠贵; traditional Chinese: 史忠貴; pinyin: Shǐ Zhōngguì) is a Chinese painter, philosopher and poet born in 1954 in Chengdu, Sichuan.

Shi Zhonggui’s paintings in Chinese ink and colour on rice paper evoke the vast expanses of Western China. Figures of yaks silhouetted against the skyline give an idea of the scale of the landscape, while skies in bold brushstrokes of vivid colour create a sense of natural drama. The landscape encompasses marshland, home to flocks of migrating birds, and the high grasslands where only the song of the wind can be heard. Shi Zhonggui depicts the landscape from dawn to dusk and at different seasons of the year, from icy blue winter scenes, to the melting snows and new flowers in springtime in Tibet, to the warmth of summer days on the high plateau. His paintings have a sense of both freedom and tranquillity.

Biography

At the age of only 16 he became a professional painter. In 1978 he studied traditional Chinese painting at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. At this time he was also writing poetry and published a number of books.

In 1994 the Sichuan Museum nominated Shi Zhonggui as one of its official artists and in 1996 he was appointed Professor at the College of Arts at Sichuan University. Since 1999, when he had his first exhibitions in Paris and Geneva, Shi Zhonggui’s work has also been well received in Europe. In 2000 he was made a Member of the Academie des Arts-Sciences-Lettres de France and won the 2000 Grande Medaille de Vermeil, the first Chinese artist ever to win this award.

Exhibitions

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