Exploration Of Chen Zifen's Artistic Career

Chen Zifen is one of the most achieved painters in modern history of Fujian Province. He owns quite a production of high-quality works during his sixty-odd years of painting career; his extensive artistic career is worth exploring. His works carry four outstanding features, which are his reformation and innovation, deep mark of ShangHai School, profound spirit of a scholar and unique usage of line. The formation of these features is not by accident; it involves several reasons, such as social trends at that time, cultural heritage of Fujian Province, and painter's personal experience and artistic accumulation.Being a far-reaching painter, Chen Zifen's style and concept for art still have great influence on artistic creation nowadays. There are plenty available research on Chen Zifen, but his year of birth is still a mystery. Besides, there are still some limitations of his artistic creativity which to some extent restrict his influence. To realize those flaws equally can provide us an opportunity to appreciate Chen Zifen's work more objectively and overall.