Artist: Wu Qingxia
Era: Modern
Status: National First Class Artist of China
Name of Artwork: Colorful Fish Swim on Their Ten-Thousand-Mile Journey
Type of Painting: Ink & Color on Paper
Wu Qingxia (1910-2008) was a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. She was a member of the China Artists Association (CAA), a Director of the Shanghai Branch of the CAA, a Professor in the Art Department of Shanghai Normal University, a Fellow of Italy’s Academy of Europe, a Painting Master at the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy, and a National First Class Artist of China. There are real international auction prices for her works. She came from a family of painters. Since childhood, she acted in accordance with her parents’ instructions, copying by hand realistic fine brushwork paintings by artists of various schools from the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties. She was able to master the essence of those paintings. Painting carp was her specialty; she learned from fish and was able to capture both their outer form and inner spirit. She enjoyed especially high reputations in calligraphy and painting circles and earned the laudatory nickname “Carp Wu.” The fish produced by her brush could be called magical for their lifelike realism. Her fish are on par with the horses of Xu Beihong, the shrimps of Qi Baishi, and the hawks of Li Kuchan.
創 作 者：吳青霞
時 代：近代
身份級別：國家一級美術師
作品名稱：錦鱗游泳萬里程
畫 種：水墨設色、紙本
吳青霞（1910～2008），江蘇常州人。中國美術家協會會員，中國美協上海分會理事，上海師範大學藝術系教授，意大利歐洲學院院士，上海中國畫院畫師，國家一級美術師。有實在的國際拍賣行情價。繪畫世家出身，自幼秉承庭訓，臨摹宋、元、明、清各派各家工筆畫，深得其精髓。善畫鯉魚，以魚為師，得形入神，在書畫界享有聲譽，有「鯉魚吳」之雅稱。其筆下鯉魚出神入化，栩栩如生，堪與悲鴻之馬、白石之蝦、苦禪之鷹相媲美。