Thirty years ago today, on May 8, 1995 (April 9, 1995 lunar calendar), a generation of Chinese art masters Ye Qianyu passed away. Ye Qianyu Ye Qianyu, a modern Chinese cartoonist and Chinese painter. Formerly known as Ye Lengqi, pen name Chumeng, Sex Tian, etc. Born in Tonglu County, Zhejiang Province on March 1, 1907, he loved calligraphy and painting, folk art and dramatic art as a child. In 1922, he entered Hangzhou Yanwu Middle School and began to draw Western paintings. In 1925, he dropped out of school due to poverty and was admitted as a draftsman by Shanghai Sanyou Industrial Society the following year. Later, he was changed to Zhongyuan Bookstore to draw textbook illustrations. Since 1927, he began to make cartoons, initially for "Shanghai Comics", and early representatives as long-form comic strips "Mr. Wang". In 1936, he wrote a long comic strip "Xiao Chen's Foreign History in Beijing" for Nanjing "Dynasty Daily", which was the sequel to "Mr. Wang". The two cartoons show the painter's agility and talent, as well as the story structure of comedy and the modeling skills of cartoons. In terms of image depiction, there are Western cartoons. They are outlined with pens and slightly rendered. They are concise and clear, and they are self-contained. In 1937, Ye Qianyu served as the editorial board member of Shanghai "Salvation Comics" and the leader of the comic propaganda team. He held a street anti-Japanese painting exhibition in Nanjing, and later went to Wushuang, Changsha, Hengyang and Guilin to engage in anti-Japanese propaganda. In 1939, he served as the editor-in-chief of "China Today" pictorial in Hong Kong. The following year, he wrote more than 100 sketches of "Chongqing during the war" in Chongqing, recording the social form behind the anti-Japanese war. In 1942, he made a travel sketch in the Miao District of Guizhou, trying to combine folk art and traditional brush and ink to seek a new modeling language. The following year, he visited India, sketched Indian landscapes, painted Indian dances after returning to China, and held a travel-to-print art exhibition, which was a turning point from comics to Chinese painting. After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, he traveled to Xikang Tibetan area to sketch, wrote "Diary of Arrow Stove", and made his own illustrations. In 1946, he visited America and held art exhibitions in New York, Boston and other places. The following year, he was hired by Xu Beihong to teach at Beiping Art College. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Ye Qianyu's Chinese paintings mainly rely on self-study, and once started from Zhang Daqian. The works of the 1940s mostly reflect the lives of ethnic minorities, such as "Guizhou Horse Gang Map", "Miao Family Girl", "Liangshan Dancing Steps", etc. The painting style is meticulous and decorative. In the 1950s, his works were "National Unity", "Summer", "First-Class Wool", "Liberation of Peking", etc., and his works were full of the spirit of the times. At the same time, he doubled as landscape sketches, flower and bird sketches and character sketches. Around the 1960s was his peak period of creation. Representative works include "Cheng Yanqiu on the Stage", "Mei Lanfang", "Autumn of Summer River", "On the Inner Mongolia Grassland", etc., which shows that he is good at capturing instant dance movements and beautiful modality rich in sports trends. In 1978, he made "New Map of Fuchun Mountain Residence", which shows the new appearance of the Fuchun mountain water in his hometown. In 1981, he made a group of paintings of "Chang'an Huaigu", which expressed the review and evaluation of history with a thinking close to comics and borrowing cultural relics. Ye Qianyu has served as a member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the vice chairperson of the China Artists Association, the secretary of the Secretariat of the Artists Association, the director of the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and the vice president of the Chinese Painting Research Institute. Published a variety of picture albums and a technical book "How to Draw Sketches", etc. In 1978, he demonstrated the works of Ye Qianyu on Mount Tai at the age of 84 in