丁羲元 Ding Xiyuan

丁羲元，藝術史家。1965年大學中國語言文學系畢業，1978年中國藝術研究院首屆研究生畢業，師事蔡若虹、王朝聞先生等，於美學師事宗白華、伍蠡甫先生，畫學師事王個簃、唐雲先生等。1984年參加中國美術家代表團訪問日本，開始打開廣闊國際視野，1987年再應日本國立學術振興會邀請赴東京研究日中美術史交流十個月。復於1988年赴美國堪薩斯大學等講學、講演。多年並赴歐、美、日各大博物館觀摩訪問，研究中國近代和晉唐五代宋元名畫，積有豐富的閱歷。自1985年至1995年間任上海美術館副館長，與國內外名家大師親交，廣有交流。近年又去臺灣藝術大學任客座教授，為碩博士班講授中國畫論導論和古書畫鑒定課程。

Ding Xiyuan is a noted art historian. He is a graduate of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of the University in 1965, and in 1978 completed postgraduate degree studies at the China Academy of art, where his mentors included Cai Ruohong and Wang Zhaowen, Zong Baihua and Wu Lifu for aesthetics, and Wang Gefeng and Tang Yun for painting. In 1984, he was among a delegation of Chinese artists invited to Japan. In 1987, he was invited by the Japan Society for Academic Promotion to study Japanese and Chinese art history in Tokyo. In 1988, he was guest lecturer at the University of Kansas in the United States. Prof. Ding has conducted extensive research in major museums in Europe, the United States, and Japan, and is a noted authority on both modern Chinese painting and art of the Jin, Tang and Five dynasties periods. From 1985 to 1995, he served as the deputy curator of the Shanghai Art Museum, where he worked closely with celebrated artists both at home and abroad and engaged in extensive exchanges. In recent years, he was guest professor at National Taiwan University of Arts where he taught graduate courses in Chinese painting theory and the analysis and connoisseurship of ancient painting and calligraphy.
   

Prof. Ding is currently a senior researcher at the Shanghai Art Museum, adjunct professor at Fudan University, member of the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy, and vice president of the Lin Fengmian Research Association.

林海鍾 Lin Haizhong

林海鍾博士，號臥霞散人、錢塘後來生，林泉閣主人，居錢塘西湖之畔。中國美術學院國畫系教授、博士生導師，中國美術學院書畫鑒定中心副主任。林海鍾傳承古意，主張以畫悟道為國畫的至高境界。其水墨蕭散簡淡，以禪為旨，而賦色之作則豔麗古雅，承唐宋遺意。代表作包括大英博物館藏品《牆》，靈隱寺大型壁畫《濟公行化圖》和國家博物館收藏的《鑒真東渡圖》。

Lin Haizhong, studio name Wo Xia San Ren, lives in Qiantang on the shores of West Lake and is master of the Lingquan Pagoda. Lin Haizhong is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Chinese Painting Department of the China Academy of Art. As an ink painter, he is strongly influenced by Zen philosophy, valuing simplicity and advocating the possibility of painting as a practice of spiritual enlightenment. His works are grounded in the painting techniques of the Tang and Song dynasties. Representative works include Wall in the collection of the British Museum, the large-scale mural Jigong Xinghua in the Lingyin Temple, and Jianzhen's Eastern Journey in the collection of the National Museum of China.

Zheng Yu holds a Master’s Degree in Arts and Culture from the China Academy of Art (CAA) and a PhD in shan shui landscape painting from CAA’s Department of Chinese Painting, where he studied under the tutelage of Lin Haizhong. In 2010, Zheng was a member of the research group on traditional Chinese murals headed by Prof. Lin, and later participated in the creation of the monumental mural Jigong Xinghua in Jigong Hall of Lingyin Temple. He resides in Hangzhou and is presently teaching at the Hangzhou Centre for Buddhist Studies. 

Appreciation of artworks by class tutors

The Fengshui of Art by Ding Xiyuan丁羲元著作《藝術風水》

林海鍾作品《武當真形圖》

314cmx118cm 2018年 紙本水墨

True Likeness of Wudang by Lin Haizhong

Ink on paper, 314 x 118cm, 2018