毛国强（一粟），江苏省工艺美术大师、研究员级高级工艺美术师。中国手指画研究会终身理事、中国工艺美术学会会员、中国民间艺术家协会会员。哈尔滨师范大学客座教授。

1945年6月生于宜兴蜀山南街陶艺世家，从小耳濡目染接受艺术熏陶。1958年进宜兴紫砂工艺厂，师从任淦庭先生。1987年进河南书法研究院函授，指导老师陈天然先生。

毛国强紫砂壶名家

从艺50多年，对紫砂艺术和书画艺术研究颇深，作品洗炼隽永、厚积薄发，基本功扎实。陶刻作品雄浑、恢宏淋漓外露，线条运刀处理磅礴和灵动之气相结合。曾多次获国内外奖项：全国陶瓷创作设计评比一等奖、西湖博览会金奖、太湖博览会金奖。作品被美国洛杉矶艺术馆、亚泰博物馆、中南海紫光阁、天津博物馆、故宫博物院收藏和展示。先后和书画艺术大师陆俨少、程十发、唐云、韩美林、范曾先生交流紫砂作品，受到他们的赞誉。并参加中国首届全国刻字展、中国美协第16届国际美术特展，全国手指画提名展。并先后在广州艺术博物馆、潮州仰山堂、美国洛杉矶艺术馆举办个人艺术展。

 

此件拍品为毛国强制“玉乐壶”，精选上等泥料，以传统的手法表现，造型简洁明确，充分发挥书法装饰的展示追求，整体造型饱满，细节部分工艺精湛，是作者众多作品中的代表作。

当下毛国强老师的作品也是倍受关注，具有极高的收藏价值及收藏前景！

Mao Guoqiang (a millet), a master of Arts and crafts in Jiangsu Province, is a senior arts and crafts artist at the researcher level. Lifelong director of China Finger Painting Research Association, member of China Arts and Crafts Society and member of China Folk Artists Association. Visiting Professor, Harbin Normal University.

Born in June 1945 in the pottery family of Southern Street of Shushan, Yixing, he was influenced by art from an early age. In 1958, he entered Yixing Purple Sand Craft Factory under Ren Ganting. In 1987, he came to Henan Calligraphy Research Institute to teach by correspondence, and was instructed by Mr. Chen Natural.

Mao Guoqiang's famous purple clay pot

For more than 50 years, he has studied purple sand art and calligraphy and painting art deeply. His works are meaningful, rich and thin, and his basic skills are solid. The pottery carving works are vigorous, magnificent and vivid, and the line knife handling is a combination of magnificence and agility. He has won many awards at home and abroad: the first prize of National Ceramic Creation and Design Competition, the gold prize of West Lake Exposition and the gold prize of Taihu Exposition. His works have been collected and exhibited by Los Angeles Museum of Art, Yatai Museum, Ziguang Pavilion in the Central South China Sea, Tianjin Museum and Palace Museum. They have successively exchanged purple sand works with masters of painting and calligraphy, such as Lu Lishao, Cheng Shifa, Tang Yun, Han Meilin and Fan Zeng, and won their praise. He also participated in the first National Carving Exhibition of China, the 16th International Art Exhibition of China Artistic Association and the National Finger Painting Nomination Exhibition. He has also held individual art exhibitions in Guangzhou Museum of Art, Chaozhou Yangshan Hall and Los Angeles Museum of Art.

 

This piece is Mao Guo's compulsory "Jade Music Pot". It is a representative work of the author's many works. It is made of fine mud, conventionally expressed, concise and clear in shape, giving full play to the display pursuit of calligraphy decoration, with full overall shape and exquisite workmanship in details.

At present, Mr. Mao Guoqiang's works have attracted much attention and have a very high collection value and prospects.