刘万林，1943年生，河南汝州人，国画家、教授。
就学于河南艺术学院、浙江美术学院（今中国美术学院），中国画师从陆俨少、李震坚、顾生岳、方增先、丁中一、吴山明、马基光、冯远诸名家。从事中国画创作和理论研究。受当代新潮冲击，从东西方艺术中，古往今来大师处琢磨艺术辩证法，上下探索，精勤不辍，铸成了鲜明的个人风格。
画路宽、题材广，人物、山水、花鸟、指画多能兼善，画面开张奇峭，立意新警，富有情趣与哲理，作品在国内外多有参展、发表，获文化部和政府级多种奖项。海内外多家专业报刊评价其为“有着严肃艺术追求的，有影响力有实力的画家”，其作品“宽宏博大、朴拙雄浑”、“五彩泼墨，洇化渲染，挥洒从容，不拘成法”，“笔墨酣畅，意象非凡”、“立意极高，具有不同凡响处”。
诸多作品被毛主席纪念堂、国家对外艺术展览公司、博物馆、展览馆、文史馆、石刻馆、太行八路军纪念馆，徐渭纪念馆、蒲华纪念馆、八大山人纪念馆等收藏；海内外画院、画廊、财团、企业、中央及省内党政军单位陈列。人物画《刘邓在抗日前线》捐赠八路军太行纪念馆，受到时任军委副主席刘华清同志肯定，说：“小平同志画的像，非常难得！”画名不胫而走，作品流传甚广。河南卫视台、郑州电视台、山东卫视台《时代美术》栏目以《删繁就简 领异标新》为题做专题报导。
曾长期从事艺术教育，中国画作品十多次入选由文化部、中国美协主办的全国展览，中国美协特邀展、提名展，三十多次入选省级展览。六次入选国际展;获国际文化交流奖、国际一等奖、文化部优秀奖、全国一等奖、二等奖，省文艺成果奖，十多次获省级金奖、特等奖、一等奖等。发表论文三十多篇，曾担任艺术主持，组织第三届当代中国山水画展。出版有个人画册两种，成就和传记入典《中国艺术家传记》（第一部）、《中国现代美术家辞典》、《中国当代书画篆刻家辞典》等多种传书。
2007年入选当代30位最具学术价值与市场潜力的(山水)画家，2008年被评为中国改革开放《三十年 三十家》书画艺术代表人物，2011年分别于河南博物院和汝州市举办大型个人画展。
河南卫视台《锦绣中原》画家刘万林专题
刘万林山水画——莽原
国画家刘万林
国画家刘万林
国画家刘万林
刘万林个人简历
国家一级美术师 教授
河南省国画院 常务副院长
中国美术家协会 会员
历任：
河南省美术家协会 理事
河南省美术家协会 中国人物画艺委会 顾问
河南省美术家协会 中国山水画艺委会 顾问
河南省美术家协会 中国工笔画艺委会 顾问
河南省手指画会 艺术顾问
河南省民族文化保护工程 专家组成员
郑州大学 名誉教授
黄河科技大学 教授
河南省艺术职称 高评委(省人事厅注册)
河南省炎黄书画院 执行院长
河南省慈善书画院 副院长
商都网《中原艺苑》 特约画家
2007年被评选为当代30位最具学术价值与市场潜力的(山水)画家
2008年被评为中国改革开放《三十年 三十家》书画艺术代表人物
2009年建立北京艺术工作室
国家博物馆画廊艺委会 委员
大华书画院 顾问
2011年分别于河南博物院和汝州市举办大型个人画展
中国艺术创作院 山水画院副院长
Liu wanlin（1943-） a native of Ruzhou，Henan，China ，is a Chinese painter and professor.
He attended Henan Academy of Art and the Zhejiang Academy of Art（Today's China Academy of Art）. Chinese painting was impart by Lu Yanshao, Li Zhenjian, Gu Shengyue, Fang Zengxian, Ding Zhongyi, Wu Shanming, Ma Jiguang and Feng Yuan. Engaged in Chinese painting creation and theoretical research， Nutured by the contemporary new trends and the great masters of all ages，he figured out the artistic dialectics from the eastern and the western arts，hence formed a vivid personal style through continuous exploration and never-stop hardworking diligence.
His paintings are wide-ranging both of theme and type，all-powerful in figure painting，landscape painting，flower-and-bird painting and the finger painting with china ink . the tableaus of his paintings are open and exquisite，with interesting new approach，full of charm and philosophy . His works has been published or exhibited at home and abroad many times，some of which have won various prizes given by the Ministry of Culture of other government departments . Several newspapers and periodicals on arts in China and other countrier called him as“a middle aged painter with influence,strength and serious pursuit of art”，praised his works for their “eradition and vigour”，“colorful playing-up and leisurely creativity”，“ease,verve and uncommoness”,“extraordinaty merit of very high-stangding conception”.
A lot of his works have been collected by Chairman Mao's memorial hall， Great Hall of the people, national foreign art exhibition company，museum，exhibition hall， literature and History Research Institute， stone carving hall, Taihang Eighth Route Army memorial hall，Xuwei memorial hall，Puhua memorial hall, Badashanren memorial hall， Chinese and foreign art museums， financial groups, enterprises, etc . The figure painting Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping on the front line of Anti Japanese War donated to the Taihang Memorial Hall of the Eighth Route Army，which was affirmed by Comrade Liu Huaqing，then vice chairman of the Military Commission，saying : "Comrade Xiaoping's painting is too much like himself, which is very rare ! " His works have a wide circulation and his fame on painting spreads like wildfire . Henan TV station, Zhengzhou TV station and Shandong TV station made a special TV report on the topic of " Cut the complexity and lead the new standard " .
He has long been working in the teaching of art and ，Chinese painting works have been selected for more than ten national exhibitions sponsored by the Ministry of culture and China Artists Association，specially invited and nominated exhibitions by China Artists Association，and more than 30 provincial exhibitions. He has been selected into the International Exhibition for six times, won the international cultural exchange Award， the international first prize，the excellent award of the Ministry of culture，the national first prize, the second prize， the provincial literature and art achievement award, and won the provincial gold award，special award and first prize for more than ten times . More than 30 papers have been published . He once presided over the third exhibition of Chinese landscape painting as an art director . His accomplishment and biography have been included in biographies of the Chinese Artists（vol.1），A Dictionary of the Chinese modern artists，the Chinese Artists A Dictionary of contemporary Sprcialists in painting，calligraphy and biography .
In 2007， he was selected as one of the 30 contemporary (landscape) painters with the most academic value and market potential . In 2008， he was selected as the representative of calligraphy and painting art of "30 famous artists in 30 years" of China's reform and opening up . In 2011， he held large-scale individual painting exhibitions in Henan Museum and Ruzhou city respectively .
Liu wanlin
National first class artist Professor
Executive vice president of Henan Academy of traditional Chinese painting
Member of China Artists Association
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Director of Henan Artists Association
Consultant of Chinese Figure Painting Art Committee of Henan Artists Association
Consultant of Chinese Landscape Painting Art Committee of Henan Artists Association
Consultant of China fine brushwork Art Committee of Henan Artists Association
Art consultant of Henan finger painting association
Member of expert group of Henan Province National Culture Protection Project
Honorary professor of Zhengzhou University
Professor of Huanghe University of science and technology
Senior judges of art titles in Henan Province (registered by Provincial Personnel Department)
Executive director of Henan Yanhuang painting and Calligraphy Academy
Vice president of Henan charity painting and Calligraphy Academy
Special art consultant of Shangdu Wangbo Art Hall
In 2007, he was selected as 30 contemporary painters with the most academic value and market potential
In 2008, he was selected as the representative of calligraphy and painting art of "thirty years and thirty schools" of China's reform and opening up
Beijing art studio was established in 2009
Member of Art Committee of National Museum Gallery
Consultant of Dahua painting and Calligraphy Academy
In 2011, he held large-scale individual painting exhibitions in Henan Museum and Ruzhou city respectively
Vice president of Landscape Painting Academy of China Academy of art creation
website：http://www.liuwanlin.art
