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Biography

Xu Jun Xuan

He was a spokenman of Bo Ba’s Teaching Methodology and a theorist of non-Soviet Union school of oil painting. For long years he went in for the comparative research work between the traditional Chinese and Western arts, and laid stress on the expression of cultural consciousness in painting, with many works during his life. It may be expressed Xu’s art thinking in his introduction to painting of Romania, his researches on sketches and his comments on painters of non-Soviet Union school. He also made many special researches on such painters as Bo Ba, Ba Ba, Guan Liang, Ni Yide, Lin Dachuan and Hu Shanyu, with his deep views for these painters. He treated men with honesty and respected the old generation. He oftentimes organized exhibitions and discussions for some old painters such as Hu Shanyu. He once taught at the oil painting department and teachers department. He was good at theoretical instruction. He was a teacher with good organization ability and a good public figure.

His works of painting are brimming with interest and charm and artistic conception, being meaningful in painting style and rich in poetic flavour. He strived to infuse the theory of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy into his oil paintings, so as to make his works have a distinct national flavour. Having been living in Suzhou and Hangzhou for long years, he always took the regions of rivers and lakes in the south of Yangtze River as his creative themes, thus making his paintings full of poetic and artistic conception.

In his painting career, Xu was in pursuit of distinctive features of implication and lyricism, and laid stress on expression of artistic conception. In addition, he also applied the painting techniques such as density, vergence, implication, emptiness and solidness, along with foreign art forms and style of freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese painting, to express his own emotion and aspiration.