馬玉如

Biography

Ma Yu Ru

Born in 1931 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, he graduated from the Painting Department of Zhejiang Institute of Fine Arts. Now he is professor of the said institute, member of Chinese Artists’ Association and member of Zhejiang Oil Painting Research Society.

  His abecedarian was Su Tianci, a famous painter at that time. He was called the man who was heretical and deviate from the true teachings under the orthodox education after founding of the Republic. He was deeply influenced by the well-known painters such as Lin Fengmian, Su Tianci, Guan Liang and Hu Shanyu, without seeking the painting model of the Soviet Union. Because he could not offered to draw oil painting in his youth, he paint a great number of watercolors, from which he enjoyed great benefits. For this reason, in his later creation of oil painting, he always maintained the characteristics of watercolour painting in summarization and flowability. In addition, he was in love with freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese painting, especially adoring the paintings of Huang Binhong. Afterwards he also intensively studied Chinese calligraphy. This laid the foundation for forming his today style full of colour of expressionism in creation of oil painting.