Mr. Shaozong Men, artist pseudonym Mingshan, was born in Beijing in 1943. He served as amilitary artist.
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Mr. Men is a member of Chinese Artists Association, China Mainland Painters Association, Sichuan Artists Association, and Chengdu Artists Association.
Since his youth Mr. Shaozong Men loved drawing and joined the Youth’s Art Association of Children’s Palace in Beijing. Under the tutelage of Mr. MA Yaohua, Mr. Men was taught by famous artists such as QI Baishi, CHEN Banding, YU Fei’an, LI Keran, Wang Xuetao, Wang Zhujiu, Li Guchan, Huangzhou. Mr. Men finished study at the art school affiliated to China’s Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1964 and then graduated from Master XU Beihong’s Studio Academy. He worked to further his understanding of Art, developing his specialties in calligraphy and painting,absorbing experiences and teachings from others, engaging in his interest in reading, using the lenses of his life experiences and artist’s eyes to see the world and to find and develop art in daily life, and therefore gradually became a thoughtful artist.
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Mr. Men’s main specialty is at Chinese painting, oil painting and other painting disciplines. He focused on these individual fields after the 1980s. During his fifty years of experience in painting and calligraphy, Mr. Men successfully utilized traditional painting skills yet constantly explored and innovated. Mr. Men combined the usage of broad strokes and fine strokes in his painting. He utilized modern artistic language to expresses emotions and feeling and pursued perfection by inheriting tradition, learning from daily life, and ever innovating and creating. His unique artistic language showed emotion and aesthetic style, which eventually formed his unique artistic style. His main painting methods include modern broad strokes and fine strokes as well as traditional broad strokes and fine strokes. Mr. Men is consistently developing his ways of painting. In his point of view, the world of art has no boundaries. He feels this is the way for Chinese painting to stay relevant, develop and thrive.
Mr. Men’s art works have been exhibited in China and internationally and won awards. A variety of his art works are frequently published and collected by Chinese and foreigner collectors. His work received many accolades from both artists and art connoisseurs. Mr. Men served as a professor in Beijing and Chengdu Normal University Art College and as a visiting lecturer of Fine Arts in the Economics University. He has organized many art associations, held a variety of art courses and workshops on the art of Chinese painting. He has been invited to Elgin Community College in the U.S. for the purpose culture exchange. He
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has a lot of students with achievements in their own art careers, and played an important role in the Chinese art painting tradition.
