Yan Ming,. Born in 1917. In 1936, he studied at the National Hangzhou Art Academy and later transferred to Shanghai Meizhuan. Masters from Pan Tianshou, Zhang Hongwei, Wang Shengyuan, Xie Gongzhan, and Mr. Wu Fuzhi. Member of the National Hangzhou Art School Painting and Calligraphy Research Association, which was presided over by Mr. Pan Tianshou. In 1938, there was a work to participate in the Nanyang Art Exhibition by Mr. Liu Haisu. In 1939, he participated in the "Shanghai Celebrity Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition" hosted by Mr. Wang Yachen. After that, he devoted himself to art education. After liberation, he taught at the Art Department of Jiangxi Normal University (now the Jiangxi Normal University Academy of Fine Arts), and has trained a large number of outstanding artists for the country. In addition to his many independent courses in Western painting, Chinese painting, art history, teaching methods, etc., he has written a lot of works. He has served as the vice chairman of the Jiangxi Artists Association, the honorary president of the Jiangxi Watercolor Society, the consultant of the Jiangxi Artists Association, the consultant of the Jiangxi Chinese Painting Research Association, and the vice president of the Bada Shanren Research Association. Since the 1980s, he has held individual works exhibitions at Shanghai Normal University, Shenzhen Art Museum, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Taiwan Provincial Art Museum, and Nanchang Art Museum and National Art Museum of China. The works are widely collected by art galleries and private individuals at home and abroad. His traditional skill is thick and steady, and he has made a new path. He is determined to innovate in art, and he is tirelessly exploring to make his works rich in the color of the times and personal style. - Yanming
Grant Wood is known for his stylized and subtly humorous scenes of rural people, Iowa cornfields, and mythic subjects from American history—such as the Art Institute’s iconic painting American Gothic (1930). Along with other Midwestern Regionalist painters like John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, Wood advocated for a realistic style and recognizable subjects that showed local places and common people, a radically different approach from European modernism and its push toward abstraction.
Living most of his life in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Wood studied metalsmithing with Arts and… more