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Shang You is from Changsha city Wangcheng district, and also called Ningxiang Lay Buddhist, landlrod of Suiyuan house, he was born in 1944.He was learned from professor Li li who is a famous master of Jinshi Faction painting, good at painting and seal cutting characters, landscape flowers and birds.He also is a military painter, and a member of Chinese painting and Calligraphy Academy, Chinese Hardbrush calligraphers Association, Chinese Yinglian Society, Hunan Provincial Association of painters and Artists, a deputy director of Calligraphy and Painting Art Journal of the Calligraphy and Painting Academy of the Chinese Coulian Association.A researcher of Hunan Senior (veteran cadres) calligraphers and painters Association, a executive director of Changsha writing Association and director of Artists Association, a researcher of Changsha Senior (veteran cadres) calligraphers and painters Association, Wangcheng District CPPCC Standing Committee, member of culture and history, member of Overseas Chinese Federation, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Federation, honorary chairman of the Association of writings and Artists, Consultant of Changsha Lei Calligraphy and Painting Academy, Professor of senior cadre University, President of Changsha Ningxiang Calligraphy and Painting Academy, Visiting professor of Hunan Agricultural University and Hunan Vocational College of Art.Mr.Shang inherited his family education and was influenced by traditional culture since childhood.At the end of 1963, he joined the Yunnan Air Force as a literary and art soldier.During the Great Cultural Revolution, he painted big oil paintings of Chairman Mao and writed poems with great honor for loacal literary, received awards and accolades from service chiefs and localities.Several years of military career, so that his artistic level has been greatly sublimated.In 1970, he returned to his hometown to teach and work as a carpenter, but he never stopped painting.Just as his own poem said”keep writing a poem to express aesthetic mood, keep painting a landscape with ink”.From then on, pioneering his long and arduous artistic career.Hard work pays off, finally he achieved brilliant results.Mr.Shang feel that writing and painting are from the same source, advocates on the basis of inheritance to play their own personality.Not confined by old tradition, his writing combine with Bei, Tie, Jin forms. His works are both tough and soft, grand and delicate.Mr.Dingcheng Zhang , a famous scholar from Taiwan, estimated his works”powerful chirography”, admired the beautiful of his chirography:His seal marking works trace to the source of Qin and Han dynasty , also inherit from Ming and Qing dynasty , and morden masters.New but not vulgar, rigorous and elegant, clumsy and fantastic, unawares and tasty.He creates extemporaneously and his works are so artistic and powerful.some of his works are “The great successes of morden Chinese masters “Calligraphy and seal cutting set of Zedong Mao’s poems”.His works are indited in “The world contemporary calligraphy and seal carving dictionary””World contemporary painting, calligraphy and seal engraver authentic exhibition” “Contemporary Chinese literati painting and calligraphy collection”and other more than seventy dictionaries and classics.His works spread at home and abroad, and were treasured up by core government departments, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, Dunhuang Art Museum, French embassy in China, and several other embassies.His work “Chinese Dream” is collected by UNESCO.The pressdent of Mozambique Guebuza visited twice Shang You’s home in 2002 and 2003, Shang You sent him with “Mei Zhu Shuang Qing”and “Ao Xue Ying Chun”as gifts.In 2010, the Chinese painting Jiangshan Duojiao was collected by the French Embassy in China and hung in the living room.In 2012, he was on invitaion to Create landscape paintings “Jin Xiu Jiangnan”for State Council.
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