China Stamps - 1996-5 , Scott 2655-60 Selected Works of Huang Binhong - MNH, F-VF - (92655)

China Stamps - 1996-5 , Scott 2655-60 Selected Works of Huang Binhong - MNH, F-VF : Among the many Chinese Mountains-and-waters painters in this century, Huang Binhong ( 1865-1955), with his remarkable artistic craftsmanship, may be rated as a great master, who had erected a milestone for the transition of the classic landscape painting art to the modern landscape painting art. Huang, whose given name was Zhi, also styled himself Pucun, had such assumed names, as Yuxiang, Honglu and Hongsou. At middle age Huang adopted the name Binhong. He was born in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province and died in Hangzhou, and his ancestral home was in Shexian County, Anhui Province. Influenced by his father and the teacher who introduced him to the painting realm, Huang Binhong began to copy the landscape albums of painter Shen Yanrui at the age of six. In his youth, Huang traveled and studied in the city of Yangzhou, making friends in the literary and art circles, and was adept at poetic composition, and seal making. He had a deep love for calligraphy and painting, and for many years he had engaged himself copying the famous paintings in the tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties. During the reign of Emperor Xuantong, he was in Shanghai, serving as art editor for the "Journal of Guocui (the quintessence of Chinese culture)", "Shenzhou Times" magazines and the commercial Press, and was editor-in-chief of the Shenzhou Review, published by the Shenzhou Guoguang Publishing House. Then he taught in the art schools in the cities including Shanghai, Beijing and Huangzhou. After liberation (1949), Huang Binhong worked as professor for the East China Branch of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and vice-chairman of the East China Branch of the Chinese Artists Association.