Wang Boxun s character interview, Wang Boxun s profile

As a teenager, he had a bold and cheerful temperament, and read progressive newspapers such as Pacific Magazine. So among colleagues he was called the nickname "Pacific".

From 1920 to 1924, he successively served as platoon commander, company commander, and battalion commander of the Guizhou Army. He joined the Kuomintang in 1926. From 1924 to 1927, he served as adjutant and director of the 1st Army of the National Revolutionary Army in Guangdong.

From 1927 to 1931, he served as the commander of the supplementary regiment of the 1st Army, the chief of staff of the 10th Army of Shandong, the commander of the 1st Regiment of the 31st Division of the 10th Army, and the battalion commander and deputy commander of the 10th Division of the Jiangsu Army. He studied in Japan from 1931 to 1932. From 1932 to 1935, he served as chief of staff of the 1st Division of the 25th Army.

From July 1935 to 1937, he served as the head of the Guizhou Security Regiment, the chief of staff of the 103rd Division, and the commander of the infantry. From January 1941 to January 1944, he studied at the 6th special training class of the Army University. After graduation, in 1944, he was appointed as the commander of the 82nd Division of the 8th Army of the Expeditionary Force, and went to western Yunnan to participate in the famous "Songshan Campaign".

After that, he successively served as the commander of the 1st Division, the commander of the 103rd Division, the commander of the 8th Division, and the commander of the 39th Army. In June 1946, he was appointed deputy commander of the 19th Corps. In December 1949, he led more than 20,000 people from the 19th Corps to revolt in Xingren.

After liberation, he successively served as a member of the Guizhou Provincial People's Committee, director of the Provincial Department of Communications, and a member of the Provincial People's Committee.

The first, second and third people's congress deputies, the fifth provincial people's congress deputies, standing members, the fourth provincial CPPCC members, standing members, the fifth provincial CPPCC committee vice chairman, alternate members of the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang, deputy director of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang, director of the Provincial People's Counselor's Office, etc. He died in Guiyang on November 9, 1983 at the age of 84.

Preamble: Yuan Yunsheng.

**Professor and doctoral supervisor of the Academy of Fine Arts).

Wang Boxun is my PhD student. His abilities are multifaceted, especially in artistic creation and theoretical writing.

My understanding of the student began in 2008, when he chose "The Inheritance and Development of Chinese Art Theory" as the direction of his doctoral program. Wang Boxun's bachelor's and master's degrees were completed in the Chinese painting major of the university, laying a sound academic foundation. During the six years between his bachelor's degree and his master's degree, he worked as a faculty member at a local university and experienced a full range of life experiences, which laid the foundation for his later academic thinking.

By the time he applied for the doctoral program, he already had a relatively solid academic accumulation, and his personal creative outlook was gradually formed. Judging from the comprehensive comparison of various recruitment conditions, Wang Boxun should be regarded as the best among painters of the same age. So, he successfully became one of the two doctoral students I recruited that year.

During my Ph.D., I gained a better understanding of Wang Boxun's creative and research capabilities. First of all, unlike most painters, Wang Boxun showed great interest in theoretical research. His research ability is especially reflected in the collection and combing of artists' case studies.

What is valuable is that Wang Boxun was able to discover the universal laws of artistic development from the artistic process of his research subjects, and these laws could have a positive effect on his own creation. In Wang Boxun, theoretical research and creative practice have formed a benign interaction. This is reflected in his graduation research, Dong Xiwen's research, and his recent paintings, both of which reflect such strengths.

In addition to studying others, he is also able to take himself as a research object and summarize his own ideological context and creative trends in different periods, so as to form a clear plan for his future academic development. This is what the average person who engages in painting lacks, and it should be encouraged!

The freehand heavy color paintings displayed in this album are obviously different from the traditional heavy color paintings in terms of artistic techniques. With his unique perspective, Wang Boxun carefully manages the subject matter at hand, so as to form a picture effect with rich colors, simple composition, and simple color blocks. He pays great attention to the relationship between the colors of the picture, and each work is composed of several large color blocks, each of which has a sense of warmth and coldness.

Therefore, these paintings look simple, heavy, eye-catching, and rich; The picture is rich and fresh, and lyrical, not falling behind the nest of his predecessors, which reflects his creative pursuits and ideas. These works can be regarded as the embodiment of Wang Boxun's academic proposition of "the contemporary presentation of Chinese freehand spirit" in the practical link, and can also be regarded as the phased results of the project of "the transformation of ancient Chinese murals to modern easel paintings" that has lasted for many years. Although there are still many shortcomings, we still want to express our appreciation for the publication of Wang Boxun's works and this spirit of exploration!

Yuan Yun was born in Pingxi Province.

Oil Painting, Chinese Style: The Source and Practice of Dong Xiwen's Artistic Thought (2014), Peking University Press, On the Tao and Contemporary: 19 Thematic Interviews (2014), China Youth Publishing House.

Wang Lu Ji - Me and My Freehand Heavy Color Painting (2014) Anhui Fine Arts Publishing House.