周中耀 Zhou Zhongyao
男，生于1945年，湖南省长沙人。现为中国美术家协会湖南分会会员、湖南花鸟画研究会理事、长沙画院副院长。
周氏早年研究宋院工笔花鸟画，继而从事近代工笔花鸟画体系的研究。在长期致力于工笔花鸟画的研究与创作下，奠定了坚实的传统绘画基础。及后，周吸收了西方绘画艺术的表现技法，并结合自己的生活体验，创造出鲜明独特的艺术风格。
周氏性格平和可亲、重情义、喜宁静。除了出外写生，平日深居简出。其作品追求天趣自然、纵深层次、光影效果，更略带神秘感，尤其注重立体感的营造，以及物体与背景的融合；其画面皆偌大且具深远的、诗般的意境。周氏的画风严谨精微、清逸秀丽，耐人寻味，被中外收藏界誉为当代最具实力之工笔花鸟画家之一。
作品曾赴法国、日本、新加坡、马来西亚、南韩、台湾和香港等地展出，并获湖南长沙市第四次优秀文艺成果奖等奖项。出版有《周中耀作品集》。其艺术成被编入《中国现代美术家人名大辞典》、《当代中国美术名家大辞典》等。
Male, born in 1945, is a native of Changsha, Hunan Province. He is a member of the Chinese Hunan Province Artists Association and the Hunan Flower-and-Bird Painting Research Institute. He is also vice principal of Changsha Painting Institute.
In his early years, Zhou devoted himself to the studies of fine flower-and-bird brushwork paintings from the Song Dynasty masters. Then, he carried on his exploration of contemporary fine flower-and-bird brushwork painting. With his continuous endeavor to this art form, Zhou had developed profoundly consolidated painting skills. Not long after, he nourished his art with his inspiration from daily life, and with what he discovered from the diverse forms of expressions from the Western art, finally creating his own unique style of painting
Zhou is a mild, affable, peaceful person with a warm heart for people and maintains to lead a quiet life. Other than going outdoors to paint from nature, he seldom involves himself in worldly affairs. His works are natural in style, in proper perspective, with magnificent light and shadow effects and a delicate sense of mystery. He stresses on the integration and harmony of the subject with the background, which often results in an extension of depth and dimensions of the painting. Zhou’s works are highly valued by art collectors from China and overseas, for their compact composition, elegant setting and the power to provoke one’s thoughts and sentiments.
Zhou has won numerous awards and prizes. His paintings have been exhibited in France, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and Hong Kong. His published works include Paintings of Zhou Zhongyao and his achievements are listed in the Directory of Famous Painters in Modern China and Directory of Famous Contemporary Chinese Painters.
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