1996 65438+At 5 pm on February 6th, a solemn and warm handover ceremony of the bronze statue of Queen Beya Trix was held in the main hall of Rana Capital Building in the north of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Officials from all walks of life in the Netherlands, officials from the Embassy of China in the Netherlands, art representatives from more than ten countries around the world, and Chinese representatives working in the Netherlands gathered here. Mr. Hou Bensheng, the chief representative of the Queen, delivered a warm speech: The amazing and exquisite statue of the Queen is a masterpiece of art, which proves the existence of high-level art in China. He also told everyone that the statue of the Queen will be placed in the National Museum of the Netherlands, so that people all over the country can see the bronze statue of the Queen every day and remember the achievements of artists in China. This respected China artist is Wu Weishan, a young professor at Nanjing University and the director of the Sculpture Institute of Nanjing University.

Wu Weishan () 1962 was born in a scholarly family in Xishiyan Town, Fangongdi, Dongtai City: Great-grandfather Gao was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty; Grandpa Gao Ershi is a scholar, poet and calligrapher. Father Wu Yaoxian specializes in education, loves painting and calligraphy, and is good at poetry. Influenced by traditional culture and nourished by exquisite water town, this artistic teenager's sex and affection were born. At the end of 1970s, when studying colored sculpture in Wuxi Arts and Crafts School, he was deeply guided by Gao Biao, a clay sculpture master, Wang Mudong, a sculptor, and Yu Xianglian, a famous hand-kneading teacher, and he had a solid basic skills in shooting, beating, kneading and so on. Later, he entered the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Normal University to specialize in oil painting, and then entered the postgraduate class of Peking University to study art psychology. The diversified knowledge structure enables him to explore, study and know people more deeply, and master and create artistic language with distinctive personality characteristics in the deep understanding and grasp of people.

Since 1987 created the oil painting "Southern Anhui Incident", which is known as "a major exploration of military history", he has been taking his representative works to participate in international and domestic art exhibitions and winning prizes. The representative works "Harvest Time" and "Orientation" participated in "Asia International Art Exhibition" and "Yugoslavia Modern Art Exhibition" respectively. American East-West Cultural Exchange Center has his works such as Winter. His series of landscape oil paintings are known as "the soul of traditional culture". 1992 created the sculpture "Lin Sanzhi" for Lin Sanzhi Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition Hall, which aroused strong response in the opening test. As a "monk", Master Sanzang's transcendental image and lofty, elegant and rich spiritual realm of his paintings and calligraphy works are vividly displayed by Wu Weishan! Lin Sanzhi's eldest son, Lin Xiaozhi, blurted out his praise when he saw him? Quot it's a miracle. "From then on, Wu Weishan came up with the idea of making statues of famous modern cultural figures in China.

Art Trends, a famous art magazine in Taiwan Province Province, spoke highly of Wu Weishan's series of celebrity sculptures: "China's portrait sculptures for decades have no concept like Wu Weishan's, and works based on the subjective spirit are rare." Wu Weishan, a young sculptor from Dongtai, created a dazzling constellation for the "Galaxy" of modern culture in China with his natural talent and incisive understanding of many artists and cultural celebrities: Xie Bingxin, Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Fei Xiaotong, Xiao Gan, Wu Zuoren, Gao Ershi, Lin Sanzhi, Zhao Puchu, Tao Xingzhi, Xiao Xian, Chen Baichen, Gu Jingzhou and Zhang Ding. 1995, won the third "Xu Beihong Scholarship and Scientific Research Creation Award". At the invitation of the Dutch government, 1996 participated in the Sino-Dutch Red, White and Blue Art Project, 1996 and 1997 held the Sino-Dutch Red, White and Blue Art Project Exhibition in China and ceramics museum respectively, and 1998 was successfully held in San Francisco, USA. He has been invited to Germany, France, Belgium, the United States, Hong Kong and Macao for academic visits. While creating oil paintings and sculptures, he also studied art theory. Dozens of papers have been published at home and abroad. Guangming Daily, Xinhua Daily, Yangzi Evening News, CCTV, Jiangsu TV, Nanjing TV and many domestic and foreign media such as the United States, Europe, Hong Kong and Macao reported on his sculpture works and art, and gave high praise.

Wu Weishan has published sculpture collections and monographs: Wu Weishan Sculpture (People's Fine Arts Publishing House), Wu Weishan Sculpture Painting (Hong Kong Dynasty Book Publishing Company), Visual Art Psychology (Nanjing Normal University Press), Children and Art (China Art Education Magazine), Chinese and Dutch Red, White and Blue Art (Dutch National Art Foundation) and Painting Huangshan Mountain (Nanjing University).

Wu Weishan, son of Dongtai, son of culture and son of the times. Now he is trying to create more true and beautiful artistic souls for culture and the times in the turbulent history.