Liu Haisu (March 16, 1896 - August 7, 1994), a disc, the word Ji Fang, No. whale of. A native of Fengyang in Anhui province China, was born in Jiangsu city of Changzhou province Chinese. Chinese outstanding art master, art educator, art historian, painter, one of the founders of Chinese new art movement, good at painting and painting Chinese. In 1912 and beginning the light, Zhang Yuguang was founded in Shanghai Chinese first modern art school "Shanghai painting art academy" (later renamed the Shanghai School of fine arts, referred to as: Shanghai Academy of fine arts). Teaching nude models first in China, causing controversy. He taught at Peking University in 1918, held personal art exhibitions and founded art magazine. In 1926, Shanghai fine arts training school was closed because of a nude model, I was in charge of wanted valve. In 1927 1929, and then went to live in Japan, France, Switzerland, Southeast Asia and painting exhibition. 1931 in Paris, France held a personal painting exhibition. He returned to China in 1943 as president of Shanghai Academy of fine arts complex. 1952 East China Art College president, Dean of Nanjing Arts Institute. 1979 Liu Haisu art exhibition held by Chinese artists association". August 7, 1994 died in Shanghai.
Other works have been exhibited at home and abroad and published in newspapers and periodicals. More than seventy years engaged in art education and the creation of Chinese, painting, painting, calligraphy, poetry and art theory has profound attainments, Chinese and western, ancient and modern art, the courage to explore and innovate. Chinese painting from the traditional elite and not imitation, focus on painting, nature and honest nature, good landscapes, flowers and birds, animals, like the ink splash of color method. Bold style odd wantonly, boundless Jinba, mellow luxuriant, colorful, Zoran Zichengyijia, renowned at home and abroad.

In 1910 in the village office picture Institute, 1912 and beginning the light, Zhang Yuguang founded the Shanghai Academy of Chinese painting in Shanghai ", later renamed the Shanghai School of fine arts. 1916 president, began the body model teaching, was scolded as art traitor, but Cai Yuanpei and other scholars to support. In 1919, he went to Tokyo, Japan to attend the first exhibition of Imperial Art Museum and inspected the art education.
1922 held the first solo exhibition in Beijing. 1923 was hired by the Ministry of education as a new curriculum and curriculum architect art auditor and drafting staff. In 1926, Sun Chuanfang supported the Shanghai municipal authorities prohibited meizhuan nude command, and resolutely reply the argument, then meizhuan was closed by order, "scholar tyrants" charges. In 1927 when Japan and Japanese painting circles of friends. 1929 in France, Switzerland, 1930 oil painting "forest", "Moon" was invited to show for Paris Dilali salon. Chinese painting "ten" won the Belgian Jiuxi Jian International Exhibition of merit.
The 1931 exhibition in France Paris Claremont painting hall, the same year in Shanghai, returning to the exhibition held in Nanjing, compiled "world famous paintings" in 1933 in Germany China modern painting exhibition "preparatory exhibition". In 1940 presided over the China modern paintings raised relief exhibition, and in Jakarta, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and other places at.1947 in Shanghai "China art exhibition. 1952 Ren Hua Dongyi College president.

Liu Haisu went on to talk about his experience of ten Mount Huangshan painting said: "in the hotel to paint, ink and color are. But by the Mount Huangshan style, because I thought, ink is ink, color is color splash, the pen is the pen. My ten favorite is Mount Huangshan Jiaqu: Mount Huangshan Qi, Qi Yun in Mount Huangshan; the risk of insurance in Mount Huangshan loose gully; wonderful, wonderful in a seamless; Mount Huangshan fun, fun in the rain; Mount Huangshan waterfall, waterfall in the splash at." Thus, Haisu of Mount Huangshan old odd, dangerous, wonderful, interest has deep experience and understanding, are described and the performance rate of italy. This strange, dangerous, wonderful, fun experience and understanding, depicting and performance, is art, but also life, is the true spirit of Mount Huangshan and the painter's true temperament embodies.
Liu Haisu's Mount Huangshan painting, according to depict objects, can be broadly divided into three categories. The first is the overall performance of Mount Huangshan weather, the picturesque Mount Huangshan sea, ink splash of color, gaudy, serious and facetious at the same time, like a vision, was quiet and moving to the vast magnificent, magnificent, majestic and grand sense. The second category is depicting Mount Huangshan local landscape, picturesque day peak, lotus ditch, Lion Grove, Ping Tianhong, rough place arbitrary sway, fine focus points, and line hook, and ink, and color, virtual reality, virtual reality in the see, virtual and real, to show the vast magnificent, deep. Insurance, the distinguished air of elegance and coquetry. The third is the specific description of scenery Mount Huangshan distinctive, picturesque Mount Huangshan pine, to draw the extraordinary spirit, noble character, tenacious vitality. Under his pen pine, imposing, full of vitality, to show "the black tiger and noble weather". And he's peacock pine, even after the split, thunder fire, still insist castle, branches exist independently to stretch, like a peacock, let people see the "morbid trees to the sublime image". Visible, regardless of the overall performance of Mount Huangshan meteorological Liu Haisu, or depicting Mount Huangshan local landscape, or the description of Mount Huangshan specific scene, try to let people see the magnificent magnificent, see see masculine character and lofty sentiments lofty and magnificent.
Pay attention to intuition and inspiration, the pursuit of natural beauty and natural color. Liu Haisu believes that the art of painting on the whole is comprehensive, not purely scientific, it requires rational thinking, but also need intuitive inspiration. The feeling, grasp and use of color, in particular, depends on intuition and inspiration. Color tone, taste, taste, flavor, color temperature, thickness, strength, depth, dryness, voicing, brightness, and color and color transition, color and ink, color and muddy water relations and so on, only by rational analysis is clearly not enough, have to rely on intuition. People praise Liu Haisu's vivid color Lingtou, highly sense of life, it is quite natural interest, filled with a kind of aura, unlike some academic painter gradgrindian. The achievement of this color realm, largely thanks to the painter never fade passion, never dull intuition, inexhaustible inspiration. According to some young artists once with Mount Huangshan Liu Haisu memories, old painting full of passion, inspiration and grand and magnificent, one after another, often arbitrary sway, vinci's11 dyed, natural magic into.