蔡超1944年6月生，上海嘉定人。历任江西省南昌市文联主席，南昌画院院长，南昌美术馆馆长，江西省文联副主席，江西省博物馆馆长，江西书画院院长兼书记，江西省美术家协会主席，中国美术家协会理事，中国美协中国画艺委会委员，国家一级美术师，第八、九、十届全国美展评委，被授予"国家有突出贡献的优秀中青年专家"，享受国务院政府特殊津贴。全国“五一”劳动奖章获得者，全国文化系统先进工作者，97年中国画坛百杰，全国文艺界德艺双馨优秀会员等多项全国性荣誉，被南昌大学、江西师范大学美术学院、南昌工程学院艺术学院等多所院校聘为客座教授、硕士生导师。擅长中国画人物画兼攻山水花鸟，其作品多次获得全国性展览奖及国际奖，被授予首届徐悲鸿美术成就奖，首届黄宾虹美术成就奖。

擅长中国画人物创作，兼攻山水、花鸟以及连环画。代表作品《集思》、《扶臂》、《吊装》、《天地间》、《众志成城》、《毛主席在农村调查》等。

作品《顶梁柱》、《钢筋铁骨》等获全国美展金、银、铜等奖。有作品为中国美术馆、中国画研究院、毛主席纪念堂等海内外有关单位收藏。出版有《蔡超现代水墨画集》、《蔡超扇面画集》、《百杰画家·蔡超》等。

 2008 国画家蔡超中国画搭载神舟七号遨游太空；

2007 国画家蔡超应邀赴日本、英国参展；

2001 国画家蔡超中国画《欧阳修》特邀入选《二零零六中国画家提名展》聘兼评委；

2005 国画家蔡超率中国美术家印度之行采风团应邀参加《巴黎·中国美术周》

2001 国画家蔡超中国画《消夏图》特邀入选《二零零四中国画展》聘兼评委；

2001 国画家蔡超中国画《南国风情》特邀入选《第二届全国中国画展》聘兼评委；

1998 国画家蔡超中国画《赏松图》特邀入选《庆祝毛泽东同志在延安文艺座谈讲话发表六十周年》全国美术作品展聘兼评委； [2] 

1998 国画家蔡超中国画《晨读》特邀入选《庆祝建党八十周年全国美展》聘兼评委；

1998 国画家蔡超中国画《东坡赏砚图》特邀入选《2000年全国中国画展》兼画展评委；

1998 国画家蔡超中国画《静静的夜》入选第九届全国美展，聘任全国美展评委；

1998 国画家蔡超参加中国美术家访问美国代表团；

1997 国画家蔡超中国画《积学图》获中国文联、中国美协97年中国画坛百杰作品展与称号中国画《协奏》获97年首届全国人物画展览银奖；

1996 《刘大为、蔡超作品联展》在汕头展出；

1995 国画家蔡超中国画《铜墙铁壁》获《纪念抗日战争和世界反法西斯战争胜利五十周年》全国美展金奖；

1994 国画家蔡超中国画《顶梁柱》获第八届全国美展中国画大奖、聘任全国美展评委；

1993 国画家蔡超中国画《钢筋铁骨》获全国首届中国画展银奖；

1992 国画家蔡超中国画《吊装》获《纪念毛泽东同志在延安文艺座谈会上讲话发表五十周年》全国美展银奖；

1991 国画家蔡超编绘《古今中外历史人物图谱》甘肃省人民出版社出版，并获甘肃省委、省政府颁发优秀图书奖；

1990 国画家蔡超中国画《春韵》参加90年当代中国画珠海邀请赛获优秀作品奖并收藏；

1989 国画家蔡超中国画《晨曦图》获“牡丹杯”国际书画大奖赛银奖并收藏；

1989 国画家蔡超中国画《青山恋》获全国美协“中华杯”中国画大奖赛银牌并收藏；

1987 国画家蔡超中国画《野火春风》获省美展优秀作品奖，并参加全国美协“新人新作”展；

1986 国画家蔡超连环画《水冲龙王庙》、《集思》获江西省南昌市政府优秀文艺作品奖；

1985 国画家蔡超编绘《使用美术资料》获全国计划生育宣传品二等奖；

1984 国画家蔡超中国画《赣南游击战组画—转战》、《建设者》参加第六届全国美展，人民日报等全国多种报刊杂志发表；

1983 国画家蔡超连环画《梅岭星火》辽宁美术出版社出版；

1982 国画家蔡超中国画《陈毅出山》组画，由文化部中国画研究院收藏；

1981 国画家蔡超中国画《故乡行》参加第二届全国青年美展获铜奖；

1980 国画家蔡超中国画《惜别》获卫生部南方八省卫生美展一等奖；

1979 国画家蔡超连环画《陈毅在赣粤边》人民美术出版社出版；

1978 国画家蔡超中国画《咱们工人有力量》参加华东六省一市肖像画展，选入全国多种作品集及报刊发表；

1977 国画家蔡超连环画《方志敏》、《黄洋界保卫战》参加建军五十周年全国美展，人民美术出版社出版《黄洋界保卫战》并获江西省首届连环画一等奖；

1974 国画家蔡超中国画《理论新军》入选《全国中国画、油画展》人民日报等报刊发表；

1970 国画家蔡超中国画《农村调查》为江西革命历史博物馆收藏，全国主要报刊、外文杂志及京、津、沪出版社发表、出版；

1964 国画家蔡超中国画《师徒好》参加第一届全国职工美展获优秀作品奖，天津艺术博物馆收藏全国各大报刊发表；

 读蔡超的写意人物扇画

蔡超的画既没有格守传统绘画中四平八稳的成规定法，也没有展现出现代派那种令人瞠目的新气他虽然画了许多风格、样式及体裁相距甚远的作品，但观者在是很容易认出，这些画的作者是当代著名人物画家蔡超。

20多年前，我们都是连环画坛的战友，彼此相识．相近、相交。他曾创作过相当数量的高水平的连环画，多变的构图．严谨的造型、生动的形象和丰富的线型运用，体现了他扎实的造型能力和表现能力，使他在连环画坛享有盛誉。其实，蔡超在画坛的影响绝非仅此而已。他更以中国画的创作名重于世。在他的身上集中显示了所谓第三代画家的明显特质与才华。他是一位视野开阔．修养丰厚．涉猎广泛的艺术家。他有极强的创作能力且富有创造精神。虽然，他和许多同行一样走的是写实主义道路，以反映现实题材的主题性创作为主。而他的特殊性在于以表现当代工业题材的绘画独树一帜。如《顶梁柱》．《建设者》、《吊装》等力作的问世，使他连连在全国性美展中获得殊荣，声明雀跃。其作品在大场面的处理．笔墨与造型的和谐；人物与现代建筑的协调以及在绘画新技法上的探索等方面，都形成了鲜明的个人风格和特色。蔡超的艺术根基源于现实生活，他在对现实生活的观察与梳理过程中，提炼出中国普遍人特有的气质淳朴、诚实、热情的品格和当家做主的气概。

就中国人物画创作而言，蔡超是一位开拓性的人物，他率先亮出以水墨语言表现当代工业题材的作品。其意义不仅表现在技术层面上，而是明确无误地体现出他真正的艺术精神，即通过对传统“笔墨思想”的超越，完成将水墨的古典形态的转换，确立了他在中国画坛的地位。

他勤勉、笃实．不屑于艺术家的风流惆悦，却不断地画出充溢着聪颖智慧的作品。随着他的一幅幅表现主旋律；反映社会改革开放面貌以及重大历史题材的作品不断地涌现；他也偏爱表现胡、古意、古情、古趣．古韵的古典题材；对山水．花鸟也多有涉猎。他也不仅仅只画尺幅巨大的鼎力之作。也常常画些飓尺小品。他甚至觉得传统的扇面形式更是他挥洒驰骋的一方天地。这种在规定纸形下的特殊性，由于扇面形制的约束；往往更能体现艺术家的才情、学养和功力。

展读蔡超的扇面，如春风佛面，似甘泉入口，清凉．爽日、惬意、畅神。画风洒脱中含沉稳，率意里离谨严，布墨色于超然物外，施粉黛于惨淡之间。其人物的笔勾墨染，粗放练达，不求怪诞；而求干湿相间；浓淡适宜。笔法尤显纯熟与深思，置陈愈发大气与简洁。画中人物或与枝干的老辣或与花色的雍容交相互映，形成诗意般的韵律美，行笔干净利落，顿挫有致，点染笔精墨妙；取势得意；浑然成趣，洋溢着昂然生机。

不论是表现名人高士的品茗论道，赏荷采菊；还是描绘才女佳人的游春踏青，吟诗觅句，其笔下人物的眉宇间飞扬着恬淡与冷寂、愁绪与哲思，这是一代文化情怀的缩影，豁达与惆怅间参以松林怪石；梅枝竹影、天高云淡碧荷绿茵。画家情注于物。意蕴于胸，使人物的举止．神韵无不内蕴着各种情感的颤动，在自由的笔墨中体现出对特定的时代命运与神情的瞬间把握。

蔡超以他在艺术上天真无邪．毫不造作的真诚；以他对生活；对自然深刻而独特的感悟，营造一个‘啡真实”的属于自己的艺术世界。我们看到他所控制的画面。既有整体的适度把握；又有细节的刻画和整合。在他的作品中；充满了极具情绪化的笔势，让人感到下笔的那一瞬间起；他就开始了和天；和地；和生命进行心灵的对话。正是通过这一次又一次的对话，画家的情感得以淋漓尽致．无拘无束的释放和宣泄；心灵受到温柔的熨贴和安抚；而创作中的体味和感知则一次次唤起他直接审美的愉悦。

古人言：“诗是无形画；画是无形诗。”这是指诗寓情于景，画借景写情。从蔡超扇面的图式中可看出，画家或依诗作画，由诗意点燃创作灵感，或写景抒情，以画营造诗意。在诗情画意的体味中，画家力求以新的形式、语言去展示新的图景。

把山水、花卉、人物三种不同的画科探合在一个画面里，这是蔡超人物画的新探索，也是蔡超扇面画艺术最显著特征。这种构思要求画家具备多方面的功力；综合山水．花卉、人物的多种表现技法于一体。在他的扇画中，写意人物兼得山水画之厚重，花卉画之灵秀；可以肯定地说，他的美感旨归一既蕴清雅洒脱之气，又有雄强峻拔之风。这是一种灵性；代表了一个久长的文人艺术传统。它属于当代扇画中尚不多见的学养之作；那正宗的文化气息，笔墨间的书卷气，那种清雅平和、韵味绵长、文质彬彬的抒情意味，正是一种人文的笔墨，智慧的艺术。

（作者为北京工艺美术出版社总编，著名美术评论家、画家）

 Cai Chao was born in June 1944 in Jiading, Shanghai. He has successively served as Chairman of the Wenlian Association of Nanchang City, President of the Nanchang Painting Academy, Director of the Nanchang Art Museum, Vice-Chairman of the Wenlian Association of Jiangxi Province, Director and Secretary of the Jiangxi Museum, President and Secretary of the Jiangxi Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, Chairman of the Jiangxi Artists Association, Director of the China Artists Association, Member of the Chinese Painting Arts Committee of the Chinese Artists Association, and First-Class National Artists. The judges of the 8th, 9th and 10th National Art Exhibition were awarded "outstanding young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from the state" and enjoyed special allowances from the Government of the State Council.

Brief Introduction to Artist Cai Chao

Cai Chao was born in June 1944 in Jiading, Shanghai. He has successively served as Chairman of the Wenlian Association of Nanchang City, President of the Nanchang Painting Academy, Director of the Nanchang Art Museum, Vice-Chairman of the Wenlian Association of Jiangxi Province, Director and Secretary of the Jiangxi Museum, President and Secretary of the Jiangxi Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, Chairman of the Jiangxi Artists Association, Director of the China Artists Association, Member of the Chinese Painting Arts Committee of the Chinese Artists Association, and First-Class National Artists. The judges of the 8th, 9th and 10th National Art Exhibition were awarded "outstanding young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from the state" and enjoyed special allowances from the Government of the State Council. National Labor Medal winner, advanced workers of the national cultural system, Chinese Painting Baijie in 1997, outstanding members of the national literary and artistic circles of Germany and Arts Shuangxin, and many other national honors, was employed as visiting professor and master's student guide by Nanchang University, Jiangxi Normal University Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Art of Nanchang Engineering College and other institutions. Division. He is good at figure painting in Chinese painting as well as landscape, flowers and birds. His works have won many national exhibition prizes and international prizes. He has been awarded the first Xu Beihong Art Achievement Award and the first Huang Binhong Art Achievement Award.

He is good at the creation of characters in Chinese painting, and specializes in landscapes, flowers and birds, and comic strips. His representative works include Collection of Thoughts, Arms, Lifting, Between Heaven and Earth, Cheng Cheng Cheng with All Wishes, Chairman Mao's Investigation in the Countryside, etc.

His works "Top Beam and Column" and "Reinforced Iron Bone" won gold, silver and copper awards in the National Art Exhibition. Some works are collected by the Chinese Art Museum, the Academy of Chinese Painting and Chairman Mao Memorial Hall at home and abroad. He has published Cai Chao's Modern Ink Painting Collection, Cai Chao's Fan Painting Collection, Baijie Painter Cai Chao and so on.

Artist Cai Chao's Honorary Course

In 2008, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, traveled in space aboard Shenzhou VII.

In 2007, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, was invited to exhibit in Japan and Britain.

2001 Chinese painter Cai Chao's Chinese painting Ouyang Xiu was invited to the 2006 Nominated Exhibition of Chinese Painters for appointment and judgement.

Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, was invited to attend the "Paris China Art Week" in 2005 when he led a group of Chinese artists on their trip to India.

In 2001, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, was invited to participate in the "2004 Chinese Painting Exhibition" as an adjudicator.

In 2001, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, was invited to the Second National Chinese Painting Exhibition for appointment and judgement.

In 1998, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, was invited to the National Art Exhibition and Judge to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Comrade Mao Zedong's Speech on Literature and Art in Yan'an.

In 1998, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, was invited to participate in the National Art Exhibition to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party.

In 1998, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, was invited to participate in the National Chinese Painting Exhibition 2000 and the judges of the Exhibition.

In 1998, Chinese painter Cai Chao's Chinese painting "Silent Night" was selected into the Ninth National Art Exhibition and appointed the judges of the National Art Exhibition.

In 1998, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, participated in the delegation of Chinese artists to the United States.

In 1997, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, won the silver prize of the first National Figure Painting Exhibition in 1997.

1996 "Joint Exhibition of Liu Dawei's and Cai Chao's Works" was displayed in Shantou.

In 1995, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, won the gold medal of the National Art Exhibition in Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan and the World Anti-Fascist War.

In 1994, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, won the 8th National Art Exhibition Chinese Painting Award and appointed the judges of the National Art Exhibition.

In 1993, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, won the silver prize of the first Chinese Painting Exhibition.

In 1992, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, won the silver prize of the National Art Exhibition in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Comrade Mao Zedong's speech at the Yan'an Literature and Art Symposium.

In 1991, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, compiled and painted Atlas of Historical Persons at Ancient and Modern Times, published by Gansu People's Publishing House, and was awarded the Excellent Book Award by Gansu Provincial Committee and Provincial Government.

In 1990, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, participated in the 90-year Contemporary Chinese Painting Zhuhai Invitational Competition and won the prize for excellent works and collected them.

In 1989, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, won the silver prize of the Peony Cup International Painting and Calligraphy Grand Prix and collected it.

In 1989, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, won the silver medal of the National Association of Fine Arts "China Cup" Chinese Painting Grand Prix and collected it.

In 1987, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, won the Provincial Art Exhibition Excellent Works Award for Wild Fire Spring Wind, and participated in the National Art Association New Works Exhibition.

In 1986, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, won the award of Excellent Literary and Art Works of Nanchang Municipal Government of Jiangxi Province for his comic strips Shuichong Longwang Temple and Jisi.

In 1985, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, won the second prize in the national family planning publicity materials for compiling and drawing "Use of Fine Arts Materials";

In 1984, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, participated in the Sixth National Art Exhibition and published various national newspapers and magazines, such as Gannan Guerrilla Warfare Pictures - Transfer and Builder.

In 1983, Chinese painter Cai Chao's comic book "Meiling Starfire" was published by Liaoning Fine Arts Publishing House.

In 1982, Chinese painter Cai Chao's Chinese painting Chen Yi Chuishan was collected by the Chinese Painting Research Institute of the Ministry of Culture.

In 1981, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, won a bronze prize in the Second National Youth Art Exhibition.

In 1980, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, won the first prize in the Eight Southern Provinces Health Art Exhibition of the Ministry of Health.

1979 Chinese painter Cai Chao's comic strip Chen Yi at the border of Jiangxi and Guangdong was published by People's Fine Arts Publishing House.

In 1978, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, participated in a portrait exhibition in six provinces and cities in East China, and was selected for publication in various collections of works and newspapers throughout the country.

In 1977, Chinese painter Cai Chao's comic strips Fang Zhimin and Huangyang Boundary Defense War participated in the National Art Exhibition for the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the army. People's Fine Arts Publishing House published "Huangyang Boundary Defense War" and won the first prize for comic strips in Jiangxi Province.

In 1974, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, was selected for publication in the People's Daily, the National Chinese Painting and Oil Painting Exhibition.

The 1970 Chinese painter Cai Chao's "Rural Investigation" is a collection of Jiangxi Revolutionary History Museum. It is published and published by major newspapers, foreign magazines and Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai Publishing House.

In 1964, Cai Chao, a Chinese painter, participated in the first National Staff Art Exhibition and won the prize for excellent works. Tianjin Museum of Art collected and published major national newspapers and magazines.