1948年生。四川教育学院美术系首届毕业生。 中国美术家协会会员、四川省书法家协会会员；中国职业画家协会副主席；文化部国韵文华书画院艺委会副秘书长;四川诗书画家国际艺术交流协会理事；致公画院副院长、四川省天府画院副院长、四海画院院务委员。擅长水墨人物、油画、篆刻、书法兼长。
作品多次参加国内外画展，屡有获奖。作品被选送美、法、加、澳、日、东南亚等地展出，并举办12次海外个人画展，广为当地收藏家欢迎。《美术》《国画家》《文艺报》《诗刊》《中国拍卖》以及香港《文汇报》《大公报》《明报》《新报》《收藏家》《收藏天地》《中国文物世界》《中国画清赏》等权威报纸杂志多次发表其作品或专题介绍其艺术。代表作有《火把节系列》《天葬系列》《嘎曲玛曲系列》《牧歌系列》《古风系列》《人体系列》《唐马系列》等。作品曾获澳洲《悉尼金奖·亚太区水墨大奖赛》亚军，加拿大《多伦多国际艺术双年展》金奖。其名载入《世界名人录》《中国当代美术家人名录》等。出版个人画册十余种。其潜心研习没骨画和工笔画，有意识地将工笔的细致典雅与写意的奔放率直、西画的结构色彩与水墨的肌理神韵交相融合，追寻着自己的独特风格。
A Brief Arts Introduction to Cao Xiaoqing
Cao Xiaoqing, born in 1948, one of the first graduates in arts department, Sichuan College of Education, member of China Artists Association and Sichuan Calligrapher Association, vice President of Tianfu Painting Institute and Zhigong Painting Institute, is accomplished in Water-Ink Figure Painting, oil painting, seal cutting as well as calligraphy. His works, shown both home and abroad, have been selected send in the shows held in the U.S.A., France, Canada, Australia, Japan, Southeast Asia and so on; Conferred awards for his paintings, held 12 individual overseas painting shows and he has been very popular among the local collectors. His works have been published and introduced in the special topic in Arts, Chinese Painting Artists, Newspaper of Literature and Arts, Poem Journal, China Auction and Hong Kong's Wen Hui Pao, Ta-kung Pao, Ming Pao Newspaper, Sinbo Newspaper, Collectors, Collection World, China Culture Relic World and other newspapers and magazines of authority. His magnum opuses are Torch Festival Series, Celestial Burial Series, Gaqu and Maqu Series, Eclogue Series, Old Customs Series, Human Body Series, Horses of Tang Dynasty Series and so on. He has been ranked the second place in The First Asia and the Pacific competition of Chinese wash Paintings for the Gold Awards in Australia and awarded the gold prize in the Toronto International Biennial Fine Art Exhibition, Canada. His works and resume have been collected in Global Who's Who and Who's Who of Chinese Contemporary Artists. Having published five kinds of albums of painting, he has not only been devoted himself to the study of the Mogu painting style and elaborate style, but also has deliberately combined the delicacy, elegance of elaborate style with the directness, bluffness of impressionistic painting as well as integrated the structure and color of west painting with the verve, texture of ink-painting, thus perusing the special style of his own.
The art career of Mr. Xiaoqin started from learning oil painting, and he does very well in charcoal drawing, colors and sketch. His oil paintings have ever been exhibited in Hong Kong and Japan, and favorably received. However, in the late 1970s, suggested by one of his friend he began to draw traditional Chinese painting, charcoal drawing, sketch, elaborate style and impressionistic painting; character, landscapes, flower and bird; calligraphy, seal cutting, painting theory, a great deal of practice, creation and accumulation, and formed his own unique style: "the Mogu painting style". Deriving from Song period and prospering in Qing period, "the Mogu painting style" is an important branch of representing language family of traditional Chinese painting. Although it has great degree of difficulty, Xiaoqin can be unparalleled for a time and create a masterwork. With strict concept, elaborate structure, and fluent calligraphy, he usually produces excellent and fine works.
The painting of Mr. Xiaoqin describe remote places and ages, but after appreciation, the readers feel that what described is very close to us…
重要艺术活动
1、活动名称： 加拿大多伦多国际艺术双年展
主办单位： 加拿大多伦多国际艺术双年展组委会
参展作品： 《唐风》（竖幅）
获得奖项： 金奖
活动年份： 2002年
2、活动名称： 雪梨金奖 . 首届亚太地区中国水墨画大赛
主办单位： 澳大利亚悉尼
参展作品： 《何处无月明》
获得奖项： 亚军
活动年份： 1993年
