冯长江是顶尖的中国实力派画家，其以现代女性为主题的工笔重彩作品，在国际艺术界中载誉甚丰。他1943年7月出生于西安，祖籍河南省滑县人。曾任中国美术家协会会员、中国书法家协会会员、山西省画院院长。
冯少时喜爱绘画，先习西洋绘画，后攻中国水墨画，再转传统工笔重彩。1974年曾随中国著名美术史家、工笔画家潘絜兹先生学习中国传统工笔重彩及古代壁画的复制，先后对中国芮城永乐宫、秸山青龙寺、繁峙岩、高平开化寺及太原娄睿墓等处壁画进行了大量长时间的临摹复制及研究，从中得益甚丰，为形成以后的艺术风格奠定了坚实的基础。
冯长江主攻人物画、旁及山水等其它题材，尤擅长大场面制作。他笔下的现代女性，造型优美而富东方韵味，显示出其坚实的绘画基本功及卓越的艺术表现能力。其作品着重中国传统线描的节奏韵律，同时融入西洋绘画丰富的色彩语汇，形成鲜明的个人艺术风格，并具浓厚的时代气息。
其处女作《红绸舞》首展于中国美术馆，先后由《美术》、《中国画》等专业刊物发表推介。《大河上下》荣获建军六十周年全国美术作品展览一等奖，和山西省第二届文学艺术创作特别奖。个人事迹被收录《文化名人》全国大型电视专题片及《中国现代美术全集》。
冯长江1997年以「世界杰出美术家」身份定居美国。1998年起，其作品进入美国、加拿大的主流画廊，包括美国东方画廊、曼哈顿的中国艺术中心及纽约曼哈顿苏荷区Benedetti Gallery。2001年始，冯的作品成为香港苏富比、佳士得、中国嘉德、北京翰海的固定拍品，深受业内人士和国内外收藏家的追捧。2004年被中国画投资与鉴赏协会评为「二十一世纪最具投资价值的十大画家」之一。2008年，美国著名非牟利官方艺术网站 “十个梦美术画廊”(TenDreams.org) 更评选冯长江为近两个世纪全球三百位最杰出的画家之一，选入其作品十余帧，作为环球优秀艺术作品供世界各地朋友欣赏，其卓越成就及地位与其余五位蜚声国际的华人画家包括陈逸飞等齐名。
现多件作品被美国白宫、美国大都会博物馆、梵帝岗、联合国、中国美术馆、中国历史博物馆、国家奥委会、深圳博物馆等收藏。
Artist Biography
Feng Changjiang, male, was born in Xi’an, one of the ancient capitals of China in July 1943. He is a native of Hua County in Henan Province, and had been a member of the Chinese Artists Association, Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Association, as well as Dean of Shan’xi Art Institute.
While still a little child, Feng Changjiang developed strong interest in drawing. His art life started out from learning techniques of western painting. Later, he focused on studying Chinese ink-wash painting before finally settling on rich-color meticulous painting. In 1974, Feng Changjiang studied traditional rich-color meticulous painting and replication of ancient frescos from the nationally renowned art historian as well as painter Pan Jiezi. Having spent great amount of time studying and replicating ancient frescos at Yong Le Palace (Rui City), Qing Long Temple (Jieshan County), Fansi Rock, Kaihua Temple (Gaoping) and Louyu Tomb (Taiyuan), Feng has benefited abundantly in his artistic development, which paved the way for his later individual artistic style.
Feng Changjiang specializes in painting portraits and scenes large in size. Not only his solid painting techniques but also his extraordinary capability of affluent artistic expression is conveyed vividly through his modern female portraits full of eastern elegance under his brush in streamline. In his approach to creating an individual style on picture, Feng emphasizes the traditional linear effect of Chinese painting with the application of rich color elements often used in western paintings, thus displaying a strong contemporary sense in his paintings.
The debut Red Silk Ribbon Dance exhibited for the first time at National Art Museum of China was such a huge success that it had earned him high reputation as well as fame. The painting was later published on professional magazines Art and Chinese Paintings. . Feng Changjiang was also featured in large-scale Chinese TV serial program Cultural Celebrities. His fine works have drawn enormous attention from various collectors, including the US White House, Metropolitan Museum, Vatican, United Nations, National Art Museum of China, Chinese Historical Museum, Chinese National Olympics Committee, Shenzhen Museum, etc.
Awarded World Outstanding Artist, Feng Changjiang decided to move to New York in 1997.Later, his first solo exhibition in America was put on at Eastern Gallery. As more and more exhibitions were gradually held at places such as Chinese Art Center and Benedetti Gallery at SOHO Manhattan, Feng’s fame was spreading around the country, bringing him critical acclaim in the art circles. A number of his works from his output were selected to the publications Paintings by Feng Changjiang, Selected Artworks by Feng Changjiang, New Paintings in 2000 by Feng Changjiang, Heavy-color Meticulous Paintings by Feng Changjiang and Rich-color Meticulous Paintings by Feng Changjiang No.2. Since 1998, Feng Changjiang’s artworks have been chosen by international auction houses such as Sotheby’s and Christie’s, and national auction companies like China Guardian and Beijing Han Hai. In 2004, he was awarded with honor by Chinese Painting Investment and Appreciation Association as one of the Ten Most Investible Artists. In 2008, he was selected by the American non-profit making, official art website TenDreams.org to be one of the three hundred World Most Outstanding Artists in recent two centuries, enjoying equal fame with other five Chinese artists such as Chen Yifei.
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