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Biography

Zhang Chong Qing

Born in 1931, a native of Qingdao, Shandong Province, he graduated from the Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1953. He has been all along engaged in art education and art creation since graduation. Now he is professor of the Central Institute of Drama and member of Chinese Artists’ Association.

 He is skilled in landscape and flower-plant painting. In long-term painting practice, he concluded the theory of “Imitating without restraint, creating by scenery, and using scenery to express emotion and reaching artistic conception”. While studying the technique of realism painting from Europe, he absorbed nutrition from the freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese painting. His works of painting several times took part in great exhibitions both at home and abroad. His works were also published in pictorials in domestic and foreign countries. His representative works include “Fishing Sail in the South Sea”, “New-built Highway”, “Taking Breath”, “Moonlight of Fishing Village”, “Waked Port” and “Smoke from Kitchen Chimneys in the Morning”, etc. Some of his oil paintings are rewarded various prizes, for instance, “Fishing Sail in the South Sea”, which won an excellent work prize in 1984 All-China Sixth Exhibition and an honorary prize of Beijing City, “Fisherman Going Back”, which won an excellent work prize in 1991 China First Oil Painting Annual Exhibition, “Shellfish-collecting Season”, which won a special honorary prize in 1994 National “Xinzhulian Cup” Art Exhibition, and “Spring Tide”, which won an excellent work prize in 1994 All-China Eighth Art Exhibition. The other four oil paintings included “Ancient Banyan” were collected by China Art Gallery. Besides, “Fishing Sail in the South Sea” (replication) and “Bumper Harvest of Kelp” were collected by the Haffner Art Gallery of America. Many of his paintings were also on display in USA, the Soviet Union, Japan, Poland, Czech, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan. His picture albums published include “Selections of Zhang Chongqing’s Landscape Oil Painting” and “Selected Oil Paintings of Ma Changli, Zhang Chongqing and Shao Jingkun”.