Ma Wensheng

       Ma Wensheng, Biyuntian, Selecting Every Cold Branch. Renowned painter, calligrapher, and art critic. Founder of the Biyuntian Biyou Art Alliance. Graduated from Northeast University of Finance and Economics, and further studied at Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts. Currently a member of the China Artists Association for Art Criticism, council member of the Shaanxi Artists Association for Art Criticism, member of the Shaanxi Calligraphers Association and Shaanxi Artists Association, council member of the Xi’an Artists Association and deputy director of its Theory Center, researcher at the Wang Xijing Art Research Institute of Northwest University. Studied under the renowned painter and calligrapher Shi Pu, known as “the Hermit of Chang’an,” as well as renowned painters Professors Yang Jianxi and Li Yutian of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts.

       His paintings and calligraphy were selected for the Xi’an Federation of Literary and Art Circles exhibition “Forever Follow the Party,” and the Xi’an Chinese Painting Research Society’s exhibition “Grand Beauty of Qinling.” His calligraphy works were exhibited in Shaanxi’s Charity Painting and Calligraphy Exhibitions commemorating the 71st anniversary of the founding of the PRC and the 100th anniversary of the CPC, and were collected by provincial charitable institutions. In 2019, more than twenty of his calligraphy works were displayed at the Shaanxi Provincial Library.

       He has authored over 800,000 words of literary and artistic works, including fiction, poetry, and prose, with over 300,000 words dedicated to art and calligraphy criticism published in renowned publications such as Guangming Daily: Boqunshu, China Art Newspaper, China Information Daily, China Painting and Calligraphy News, Art Daily, China Artists, Shaanxi Daily, and Shaanxi Literary and Art World. Many of his works have been republished on websites such as China Art Network, Sina.com, and Artron.net, and he has been appointed as a column writer by China Marketing Communication Network and Brand Network.

       In 2017, he received the Shaanxi Literary and Art Masters Criticism Award and the Second Prize in the Shaanxi Workers’ Cultural Festival Art Criticism Competition.
       From 2018 to 2021, he was honored as an Advanced Individual by the Xi’an Artists Association for four consecutive years.
       In 2021, he edited and published Wang Xijing: The People’s Painter through Beijing Publishing House.

       Wang Xijing, Vice President of the China Painting Society and former Chairman of the Shaanxi Artists Association, evaluated his work as “Literature Carrying the Dao, Achieving Its Principle”; Yu Jigao, former Vice President of the China Ink-and-Wash Painting Society and Deputy Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Painting, a renowned artist, praised his work as “Deep Thought Reveals Natural Innocence; Brushwork Manifests Spiritual Essence.”