Wang Sen
Sen Wang, character painter, has
taught in the work room of modern craft, Ceramics Department,
Central Arts and Crafts Academy in the 60s. In the 70s, he has
been a student of celebrated painter Liu Jiyou. His character
painting masterpiece is A Hundred heroes in the Romance of
the Three Kingdoms, which is jointed by 4 pieces of large
paper and is about 17 meters’ long. As its title indicates, a
hundred people of the three kingdoms are painted. Mei Qianping
comments: I am really attracted by its charms at the first
sight of it, which really reflects the painter’s well skill in
painting, because every hero with his distinct disposition is
really true to life. Sen Wang is eminent among the middle-aged
painters. He cares little about fames, and usually likes
staying at home and working very hard on creation. Therefore
his creations always surprise people. Chinese character
painting has developed since the 20th century, and
modern character painting absorb western character painting’ s
technique and forms a new teaching system. But the coexisting
traditional painting method is still alive outside the
academic teaching system with its unique way. So a book of
model paintings serves as a bridge between teachers and
students. Wang Sen, The Pithy Character Painting is a
selected works by Wang Sen,functioning
as model paintings. It thoroughly considers different style
with different drawing technique of the character. Outline
drawing, exquisite drawing with close attention to the detail,
freehand painting, the combination of exquisite and freehand
painting are widely used in the book. As for the subject
matter, it includes historical character legend, Beijing
folks, and people with traditional minority customs.
The book is divided into two parts, which is respectively
printed by multicolor and monochrome. The multicolor part
includes A Hundred Heroes in the Romance of the Three
Kingdoms, The Twelve Symbolic Animals, Stories of the Ancient
Beijing, Sketches in Yun Nan; the monochrome part contains 108
Heroes in the Heroes of the Marshes or Water Margin, Beauties,
Outline Drawing of the Beijing’s character, Materials of Line
Drawing of Chinese Character Painting. Wang Sen has
participated in the planning of the Inscription of thousands
Li of Landscape, a gift to the Macao Special Administrative
District by President Jiang Zemin. At the same time, He
presided and planned the inscription of the hundreds of
meter’s painting Lovely Landscape for Mr. Li Ruihuan. His
Excellent Songs and Music of the Beijing Opera makes up
the blank in Chinese history.