Qin’s Life History 1949～1976

1949－1976

After the birth of New China, Mr. Qin Xuanfu embraced new life with great passion and his art career reached a brilliant new era. He followed firmly realism in his art creation.  He worked hard to experience all aspects of life and to keep close relationships with broad masses. His paintings of this time reflect development in New China’s industry, agriculture and the people who participated. 

 The oil painting of “National Day Celebration at the XinJieKou Square”, The group photo with faculties in Lankao county; The oil painting “Exam”. The oil painting “Harvest”, The oil painting “Plow”; 

His  oil painting "National Day Celebration" created in 1959 is a magnificent scene: a sea of people, at a grand occasion.  Its imposing manner and holiday atmosphere created a tremendous impression that clearly demonstrated the strong emotion of the artist. There was no detailed figure portrait; yet, the emphasis on the combination of color and lights created a warm and joyful holiday spirit.

In his oil painting “Shanghai Harbor”, a busy harbor became a splendid, glorious place. The strokes are simple and free, but full of poetry. This painting was then selected and published in Chinese Oil Painting Collection in the Twentieth Century in 2001.

（《上海码头》）(The oil painting “Shanghai Harbor”)

The painting “The Spring in Yu Hua Tai” takes YuHua Tai in Nanjing as its theme. YuHua Tai is the center for war martyrs, who shed their blood in civil wars for the founding of New China. In the painting, the author applied a unique and unconventional design; he depicted a lively scene, full of sunshine and beautiful flowers. He seemed to tell us that our current happy life is coming from the blood of those martyrs. 

(The oil painting “ Spring in Yu Hua Tai”, )

In 1963, Mr. Qin went to Hangzhou and created a series of landscapes paintings in which he applied this style.

(The photo with Mr. Qin Xuanfu’s wife at Hangzhou while he worked on his paintings , in 1993).

At the end of 1963, Mr. Qin Xuanfu held his second exhibition of oil paintings in the gallery of Jiangsu Province. As for the exhibition, Mr. Song Zhengying, the well known artist at the time commented ,” Mr. Qin Xuanfu attempted to integrate the quality of expressing feelings in Chinese paintings into his own and tried to create art works with the quality and style of Chinese fine arts. This style is represented especially in his paintings created in Hangzhou in 1963.”  

(The photo with Lu Sibai, Huan Xianzhi and Zhao Renhong Couples.The cover page of the Brochure for Qin Xuanfu Oil Painting Exhibition.)

During this period, Mr. Qin Xuanfu also published, as an art critic, a few art critical articles such as “How to Judge on Michelangelo” and “After Lu Sibai Oil Painting Exhibition”.

In 1963 Mr. Qin was appointed  editor of  “Chinese Vocabulary Encyclopedias,” where he was in charge of compiling and editing western fine arts history, which was published after 16 years in 1979. 

( the photo of the National Sketch Seminars, the article of “How to Judge on Michelangelo” and “After Lu Sibai Oil Painting Exhibition”