Wang Jiujiang
{{Short description|Chinese landscape painter (born 1957)}}
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Wang Jiujiang ({{lang-zh|c=王久江|zhu=ㄨㄤˊ ㄐㄧㄡˇ ㄐㄧㄤ|w=Wang2 Chiu3-chiang1|p=Wáng Jiǔjiāng}}; Sichuanese romanization: Uang Chiu-chiang; pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˈ|w|æ|ŋ|_|tʃ|i|u|ˈ|tʃ|æ|ŋ}}) is a Sichuanese painter whose work is mostly based on the landscapes of Sichuan and Tibet, by reinterpreting the traditional shan shui style. He is classified as a member of national first-class artists.{{cite web |url=https://news.tianyancha.com/ll_0ehqt9jzhg.html |title=王久江 · 国家一级美术师 |trans-title=Wang Jiujiang, the National First-class Artist |author= |date=24 October 2019 |website=news.tianyancha.com |language=zh-Hans |access-date=7 May 2020}}
Career
File:The Swan (p. 1).jpg published in 1982.]]
Wang lived in Tibet in the 1980s, where he worked as an art director for the military district of Tibet. In 1982, he created the illustrations for two picture books recounting the Tibetan folklores, The Story of Akhu Tönpa and The Swan. The latter won a second prize in the Exhibition of Fine Arts of the Tibet Autonomous Region. In 1986, with The Eternity, a wood carving painting, he was awarded the Creative Excellence Award in the fifth Exhibition of Fine Arts of Tibet;{{cite news |last=Han |first=Shuli |date=1 October 1986 |title=全区五届美展获奖作品目录 |trans-title=List of Award-winning Works of Art at the Fifth Exhibition of Fine Arts of Tibet |language=zh-Hans |work=Lhasa Evening |location=Lhasa |page=4}} and several of his sketches were published in the Tibetan newspaper Lhasa Evening, in the same year.{{cite news |last=Han |first=Shuli |date=8 February 1986 |title=逻娑画廊 |trans-title=Lo-so Gallery |language=zh-Hans |work=Lhasa Evening |location=Lhasa |page=4}}
His work The Celestial Burial won the Prize of Honour in the National Competition of Genre Painting in 1988; and Autumn Melody in the Mountains of Ngawa won a third prize in the Great Contest of Chinese Paintings held in Shenzhen, in 1989. His work High Autumn, for which he received an award of excellence in 1993, has been accepted and accessioned into the collection of the Sichuan Academy of Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting. In 2002, The Golden Plateau, a shan shui style painting, was exhibited at the National Exhibition of Chinese Paintings.{{cite book |editor-last=Yang |editor-first=Jiayong |date=2002 |title=2002年全国中国画作品展 |trans-title=2002 National Exhibition of Chinese Paintings |language=zh-Hans |location=Hefei |publisher=Anhui Fine Arts Publishing House |page=250 |isbn=9787539810270}}
In 2003, he was awarded for the work Sutra-chanting (aka Praying, 220 cm × 126 cm)—a 'neo-shan shui' style painting—with the Excellence Award from China Artists Association, while on display in the National Exhibition of Chinese Paintings on West China Scenery.{{cite news |last=Zou |first=Yue |date=13 April 2003 |title=有花自然香 不用大风扬——记全国美协"中国画大展"获奖者王久江 |trans-title=Wang Jiujiang, the Award-winning artist in the 'Great Exhibition of Chinese Paintings' organised by China Artists Association |language=zh-Hans |work=Mianyang Daily |location=Mianyang |page=3}}{{cite book |editor-last=Liu |editor-first=Dawei |date=2003 |title=中国西部大地情中国画大展作品集 |trans-title=Collection of the National Chinese Painting Exhibition on West China Scenery |language=zh-Hans |location=Peking |publisher=China Artists Association |page=66}}
In 2018, Cloud-wrapped Mountains over the Diexi Lake, a painting made in a relatively more traditional shan-shui style, was presented in the first Exhibition of Fine Arts of Mianyang.{{cite web |url=https://www.sohu.com/a/211794718_655066 |title=首届绵阳市美术作品展于2018年2月27日在四川文化艺术学院王蒙文学艺术馆开幕 |author= |date=20 December 2017 |website=sohu.com |language=zh-Hans |access-date=7 May 2020}} He also participates each year in the Ink and Wash Fucheng Invitational Art Exhibition, an annual exhibition held in Fucheng District, Mianyang.{{cite web |url=https://www.sohu.com/a/289065923_100144863 |title=本周，到绵阳美术馆免费看名家书画作品 |last1=Zhang |first1=Dengjun |last2=Guo |first2=Ruoxue |date=15 January 2019 |website=sohu.com |language=zh-Hans |access-date=7 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=http://jyzzxxx.com/a/xingxiao/2019/0428/1322.html |title=68幅精品助力绵阳"水墨涪城"名家书画作品邀请展 |last=Tang |first=Yu |date=12 January 2017 |website=jyzzxxx.com |language=zh-Hans |access-date=7 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=http://www.su-long.com/contents/2016/26/385691.html |title="水墨涪城"今起看名家作品展 |last=Zhang |first=Dengjun |date=14 January 2016 |website=su-long.com |language=zh-Hans |access-date=7 May 2020}}
In addition to shan shui paintings, he also created gouaches, oil paintings, and some abstract expressionist works during his years as a young adult. And he is also an antique collector.
Critique
Zhang Shiying, a professional painter from Guangzhou, when speaking of the artworks of Wang, stating: 'A sensation of freshness, due to the spacious view and free spirit; a sensation of brightness, due to the absence of desolation and melancholy'.{{cite book |last=Zhang |first=Shiying |editor-last=Dai |editor-first=Wei |date=1994 |chapter=观《’93四川中国画系列展》 |trans-chapter=Review of the Artworks Exhibited at the 1993 Sichuan Exhibition of Chinese Paintings |title=书画家：'94四川省诗书画院 |trans-title=Calligraphers and Painters: Sichuan Academy of Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting |language=zh-Hans |location=Chengdu |publisher=Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House |page=34 |isbn=9787541009402}}
Gallery
File:The Eternity.jpg|The Eternity
File:Sutra-chanting.jpg|Sutra-chanting
File:Great River Canyon.jpg|Great River Canyon
File:Mountains in Lung-nan 2.jpg|Mountains in Longnan
File:Homeland of the Hawks Series - 1st Painting.jpg|Homeland of the Hawks
File:Tibetan Landscape Series - 3rd Painting.jpg|Tibetan Landscape {{numero|3}}
File:Tibetan Landscape Series - 4th Painting.jpg|Tibetan Landscape {{numero|4}}
File:Echoes of the Han-dynasty Melody.jpg|Echoes of the Han-dynasty Melody
File:Ancient Totem.jpg|Ancient Totem
File:Replica of a Fresco of a Buddhist Figure of the Mo-kao Grottoes.jpg|Replica of a fresco of a Buddhist figure of the Mogao Caves
File:Birth of the Buddha.jpg|Birth of the Buddha, oil on paper, photograph
File:Moonlit Night by Chiu-chiang Wang.jpg|Moonlit Night, gouache, black-and-white photo
References
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