黄永玉
HuangYongyu

黄永玉（1924—2023），出生于湖南省常德县（今常德市鼎城区），祖籍为湖南省凤凰县城，土家族人。曾任中央美术学院版画系主任、中国国家画院版画院院长、中国美术家协会副主席。黄永玉精通木刻、绘画和文学，一生创作了大量艺术作品。黄永玉先生以率真坦荡的性情与横跨国画、版画、文学等诸多领域的创作视野著称于世。他一生历经风雨，却始终保有孩童般的纯真与自由。黄永玉视创作为自我表达的圭臬，直言“画家想怎么画，就怎么画”，不受学院教条或传统窠臼束缚，亦不迎合流俗。他的笔墨随情感而动，以简驭繁，在看似随意的笔触中透出对艺术本质的深刻理解——作品是内心最本真的投射。无论是笔下的寓言动物，还是生活琐细，皆被赋予鲜活的生命与哲思。晚年时，他仍以“90后”自居，活得愈发洒脱率性。
Huang Yongyu (1924-2023) was born in Changde County, Hunan Province (present-day Dingcheng District, Changde City), with ancestral roots in Fenghuang County, Hunan. A member of the Tujia ethnicity, he served as Director of the Printmaking Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, President of the Printmaking Academy of the China National Academy of Painting, and Vice Chairman of the China Artists Association.
Huang Yongyu is renowned for his frank, unrestrained temperament and for a creative vision that traverses Chinese ink painting, printmaking, literature, and more. Throughout a life marked by upheavals, he never relinquished his childlike purity and sense of freedom. For Huang, art was above all an act of self-expression—he famously declared, “A painter paints whatever he wishes,” refusing academic dogma, defying tradition, and never catering to the market. His brush moved with emotion, achieving clarity through simplicity; and beneath seemingly casual strokes lies a profound grasp of art’s essence. Every work is a projection of his inner self. Whether depicting allegorical animals or the trivialities of daily life, he infused each work with life, wit, and philosophical reflection. In his late years, he jokingly called himself a “post-90s,” living with an ever freer and more playful spirit.