Hu Gentian

Hu Gentian Original name Yugui was born in September 1892 Kwangtung province Kaiping county Ruliang Township Tangbian village. Kaiping is famous in Guangdong Hometown of overseas Chinese Hu Gentian's father is traveling to the United States Overseas Chinese Worker. Hu Gentian went to school at the age of 8. He learned the earliest artistic nourishment in his life from traditional calligraphy and old style poetry. Although he did not brush before the age of 15, there was a Huangshoushan painting shop in Baihe Town, not far from his home, which often attracted him to stop and watch. In the early 20th century, America The implementation of the Chinese exclusion policy, Hu Gentian's father unemployed, the family lost support, Hu Gentian had to drop out of school, to the lily market grocery store as a small handyman, and later with the doctor's uncle to the medical bureau when Miscellaneous duties . In the spring of 1906, the first higher primary school of Kaiping County was opened in the east gate of Cangcheng, the county seat, and Hu Gentian's eldest brother was hired teacher Fourteen-year-old Hu Gentian became one of the first students. Later, Hu Gentian studied in Guangdong Higher Normal High School, Kwangtung Higher normal cartographic specialty. Hu Gentian is the initiator and pioneer of modern fine arts education in Guangdong Province. He worked from 1915 to 1920 Tokyo The art school received a systematic western art education, and then returned to China. In 1921, he founded the Chshe Art Research Society in Guangzhou, which was the first Western painting society in Guangdong. In the same year, he founded Guangzhou Municipal Fine Arts school , On Kwangtung The pioneer of modern art education. After 1949, Hu Gentian was appointed to the post Guangzhou Museum Curator, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Literature and History, taking the fifth floor of Yuexiu Mountain as Guangzhou museum The site was completed during his tenure. ^[2]

April 1913, from Guangdong Higher Normal School After graduation, he went to Guangdong Taishan County Guanghai Town as a primary school teacher ;

In the winter of 1914, he went to Tokyo, Japan, and was admitted to the department of Western Painting at the Tokyo Art School.

1915-1920, in Tokyo Art School Received a systematic western art education;

In the spring of 1920, he graduated from Tokyo Art School and returned to Japan.

In 1921, Chshe Art Research Institute was founded in Guangzhou, the same year Guangzhou City Art School ;

In October 1921, he was responsible for the preparatory work of the Art School;

On April 26, 1922, Ren Guangzhou City Educational director of the Municipal School of Fine Arts, in charge of daily school affairs;

In 1926, Ren Guangzhou Fine Arts School President;

In 1949, Ren Guangzhou People's Museum Curator;

In 1953, Hu Gentian and Chen Danian established the Guangzhou Literature and History Research Institute and served as deputy director;

In September 1962, he was the director of Chinese painting major of Guangzhou Night College of Literature and History.

In 1979, he was appointed director of the Guangzhou Institute of Literature and History. ^[3]

In December 1978, Hu Gentian learned of the CCP The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee Held, he radiates incomparable enthusiasm and energy. He took the lead in championing the reform and opening up policy and called on the vast number of people in the literary and art circles to actively participate in this grand cause. In December of the following year, the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and the municipal government decided to hire Hu Gentian as the director of the Guangzhou Literature and History Research Center, creating a new situation in the development of the literature and history of Yangcheng in the new era, despite the age of 87, he gladly agreed. In the face of the situation, Hu Gentian with the amazing energy of "striving regardless of the year", devoted himself to the restoration of the work of the museum of literature and history. He mobilized and organized librarians to actively write the history of Guangzhou, and successively completed the compilation of "Guangzhou Centennial Events" and "Guangzhou Educational Historical Materials for the last Hundred Years", filling the gaps in the modern annals of Guangzhou. At the same time, combined with the new requirements of reform and opening up, he actively tapped the potential of the museum, encouraged the members of the museum to use their overseas relations to do a good job and invigorate the economy of Guangzhou, successfully assisted the municipal government to introduce a number of economic projects, and made great efforts for the opening up and economic development of Guangzhou.

In September 1981, Hu Gentian was elected as the vice chairman of the Guangzhou Political Consultative Conference. As an old member of the municipal Political Consultative Conference at the beginning of liberation, he was very good at the work of the Political Consultative Conference and particularly supported it. Combining work practice and personal experience, Hu Gentian focused on the cultural and historical data work of the CPPCC, and devoted a lot of efforts to it. In the early 1920s, after he returned to China, Hu Gentian, together with artists Chen Qiushan and Feng Gangbai, jointly organized the history of Chi Society, the first group in Guangzhou to study Western art. Participated in the preparation of the first Art Exhibition of Guangdong Province jointly organized by Guangdong Provincial Government and Guangzhou Municipal Government; Personal experience in initiating the establishment of Guangzhou City Art School; He wrote literary and historical materials such as The Beginning and end of the Chishe Art Research Association, the Storm of the first Provincial Art Exhibition in Guangdong 60 years ago, and the storm of the establishment and development process of the first public art school in China. At the same time, based on his rich experiences and observations during the Second Domestic Revolutionary War, the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and the War of Liberation, he also wrote articles such as "Sea Pearl Night Moon" and "Memory of Xu Chongqing", and introduced the history, geographical attractions, and famous figures of Guangzhou in the newspaper. It provides a large number of "three relatives" (personally experienced, personally seen, personally heard) historical materials with high value for "Guangzhou Literature and History".

To promote the prosperity and development of Guangzhou and China's fine arts is Hu Gentian's lifelong ideal. In 1982, the Guangzhou Academy of Painting was established, and he took the initiative to donate his collection of famous albums to the academy. In 1984, he donated more than 170 oil paintings created by himself for decades to Guangzhou Art Museum; At the same time, he also made friends with overseas Chinese in France Guan Jinao His work led him to donate 7 French oil paintings from his personal collection to Guangzhou Art Museum; It fills a gap in the library's collection. Hu Gentian is good at traditional Chinese painting, especially painting figures, landscapes, trees and flowers. He is tall and upright, tall and strong, strong and fragrant. His main works include "Refugees" and "Refugees". A guard "" Huangshan lotus peak ", etc. His book Japanese art grew up in the cradle of China "" Talk about realistic painting "" The development of western painting in China "And other art papers have a greater impact on the development of Chinese fine arts. He is also the author of Hu Gentian's portfolio ".

In his later years, Hu Gentian unfortunately suffered glaucoma Cataracts and other eye diseases, but he still actively participated in all kinds of exhibitions, painting activities. In the second half of 1984, Hu Gentian's eyes had been completely blind, but in order to the 1985 Spring Festival Guangzhou large-scale painting and calligraphy exhibition, he with amazing perseverance, rich imagination and accurate judgment ability, with God instead of eyes, with ink lyric, and fumbled one stroke at a time to complete the last piece of work in his life. The rivers and mountains are as beautiful as a picture. He signed with the inscription "94 blind Weng". In June 1985, Hu Gentian was already on his deathbed, but in his sickbed, the old man still insisted on participating in the evaluation work of the new eight scenes of Yangcheng. At that time, the old man knew that his days were numbered and his breathing was more difficult, but he still put his own opinions, in the form of oral instructions, and told his daughter Hu Yueming that he must organize it into a letter to the "Yangcheng Eight scenes" jury, faithfully performing his final duty as a judge. ^[4]