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Lan Kunfa is a printmaker and president of the Songxi Printmaking Institute. After having studied art at a Teachers College and University, Lan Kunfa first worked as an art teacher in a middle school. He later worked for the Songxi County Cultural Center as well and taught factory and mine workers printmaking, making Songxi County the "Printmaking Hometown of China."

From Fujian Province

Born in November 1967, Lan Kunfa has an undergraduate degree from the Jianyang Teachers School, as well as art degrees from Fujian Normal University and from the Art Education College of Xiamen University.

In 1987 Lan Kunfa began his art career as an art teacher in a middle school and then worked as a professional fine art cadre of the Songxi County Cultural Center, eventually becoming the deputy director and director of the center.

Establishing the Printmaking Hometown of China

In 1994, in order to enrich the cultural life of the workers in factories and mines in his spare time, Mr. Lan organized a female printmaking class, consisting of mainly employees of the arts and crafts factory so as to support the literature and art by the masses. Mr. Lan thus helped Songxi County to become known as "the Printmaking Hometown of China". Mr. Lan Kunfa is skilled at printmaking, calligraphy and painting.

Art Career and Style

Lan Kunfa, Wuyi-Xiamei Sunrise
Woodblock print, copyright Lan Kunfa

His prints were displayed at several large exhibitions, including Tenth National Arts Exhibition, Fifteenth National Printmaking Exhibition, and National Arts Exhibition for the 60th Anniversary of the Releasing of "Mao's Talk" and Arts Exhibition in Fujian Calligraphy and Painting Art Festival. These works are collected by Guangzhou Art Gallery and Shengzhou Printmaking Museum. Some of the works are published in Fine Arts, China Art Weekly and other magazines, newspapers and journals.

The reduction woodblock print in oil based colors "Wuyi-Xiamei Sunrise" depicts a beautiful sunrise scene in Xiamei, an ancient town located at the famous Wuyi mountain in the Fujian Province. Other subject mattters include landscapes, nature scenes and hometown scenes. Lan Kunfa often abstracts his pieces, giving them a dreamlike or quaint lovely memory-like quality, as in this piece. He also uses abstraction to demonstrate complexity in the piece "Fly Over The Mountains."

In 2003, Mr. Lan was elected as top technical talent and backup leading cadre governed by the county government.

Affiliations

• Songxi Printmaking Institute, president
• Mass Cultural Center, assistant (middle-rank professional title)
• The 7th Songxi County Committee of the CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee), standing member
• Fujian Artists Association, member
• Fujian Printmaking Artists Society, member
• Nanping Wuyi Painting and Calligraphy Research Institute, researcher
• Wuyi Painting Institute
• Nanping Artists Association, director
• Nanping Calligraphers Association, councilor
• Songxi Federation of Literary and Art Circles, vice chairman
• Songxi Artists Association, chairman
• Songxi Printmaking Artists Association, chairman

Exhibitions and Awards

• 1999 - His print "Hometown" was selected in the Third Fujian Calligraphy and Painting Festival.
• 2000 - His print "Wild Mountain Flower" was published on Fujian Culture
• 2000 - His print "Thriving" was published on Fujian Culture in July.
• 2000 - The print "Old Garden" was selected on The Fifteenth National Printmaking Exhibition.
• 2001 - His print "Hometown" was published on China Art Weekly.
• 2001 - His print "Wild Mountain Flower" was published on Fujian Pictorial.
• 2002 - The print "Early Spring" was selected on National Arts Exhibition for the 60th Anniversary of the Releasing of "Mao's Talk".
• 2002 - His print "Old Garden" was awarded Excellent Work of The Twelfth National Group Stars Prize.
• 2003 - The Print "Wind Blowing over the Mountain" was published on the magazine Fine Arts.
• 2003 - The print "Fine Autumn" was published on the magazine Open and Transmission.
• 2004 - The print "Fine Autumn" was awarded Silver Prize in Fujian Selection Area of The Thirteenth National "Group Stars Prize".
• 2004 - The print "Clouds of Hometown" was selected on The Tenth National Arts Exhibition.

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