大国的崛起,首先是文化的崛起。我国光辉灿烂的民族文化,在世界文化发展中发挥着举足轻重的作用。在绵延数千年的中华文明历程中,对外文化交流犹如一支奇葩,绽放出奇异的光彩。书法、美术在内的文化产业随着对外文化交流事业的深入，艺术领域不断涌现出独具特色的优秀作品和创新文艺理论，中国文化的世界影响力日益增强。
孙焕祥，1940 年 12 月生于江苏武进，中国美术家协会会员，高级美术师，著名美术家，异笔山水画创始人。采用香烟滤咀及塑料海绵块蘸上墨色、在宣纸上钩、簇、皴、染创作山水画作品，别具风格。在参加国内外诸多展赛活动中屡得金奖、一等奖，曾获文化部颁发“文华奖”之最佳创作奖，央视搜星栏目获“最佳明星奖”;联合国教科组织，授予“世界文化艺术一代宗师”;联合国最高荣誉评审委员会，授予“亚太地区十大杰出终身成就文学书画艺术家”;联合国非物质文化组织授予“世界非物质文化传承人”;联合国教科文终身成就奖。入选“世界名人堂”终身成就会员，法国大皇宫国家美术馆收藏其作品，异笔山水画作品选送奥地利维也纳金色大厅展拍。中英、中泰、中瑞等多国文化艺术交流形象大使。海内外多家文化艺术研究院校聘任为名誉、荣誉院长、院士、博士顾问、客座教授，联合国教科文组织艺术名誉主席，全国艺术职称考级中心首席专家，国务外交礼品师。
艺术辞条及作品收编于《中国艺术大家》《百年巨匠》《国家文化巨匠》《世界艺术百年传世名家》《文艺之巅——世界当代文艺大师典藏》《世界艺术家名人录》《世界名人录》等几十部典籍。出版著作有《中国当代名家精选孙焕样作品集》及《孙焕祥异笔山水画集》。
Sun Huanxiang, born in December 1940 in Wujin, Jiangsu, is a member of the China Artists Association, a senior artist, a famous artist, and the founder of Yibi Landscape Painting.Using cigarette filters and plastic sponge blocks dipped in ink,hooking, clustering, texturing, and dyeing on rice paper to create landscape paintings with a unique style. In participating in numerous domestic and international exhibitions and competitions, he has repeatedly won gold medals and first prizes. He has also won the Best Creative Award at the Ministry of Culture's "Wenhua Award" and the "Best Star Award" in CCTV's Star Search program; The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, awarded the title of "Grandmaster of World Culture and Art"; The UnitedNations Supreme Honors Evaluation Committee awarded the "Top Ten Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Literary, Calligraphy and Painting Artists in the Asia Pacific Region"; The United Nations Intangible Cultural Organization confers the title of"World Intangible Cultural Inheritor"; UNESCO Lifetime Achievement Award. Selected as a lifelong achievement member of the World Hall of Fame, his works are collected by the National Gallery of the Grand Palace in France, and his landscape paintings with different strokes are selected for exhibition in the Golden Hall of Vienna, Austria. Ambassador for cultural and artistic exchanges between China, the UK,China Thailand, China Switzerland and other countries.Multiple cultural and artistic research institutions at home and abroad have been appointed as honorary deans, academicians,doctoral advisors, visiting professors, honorary chairman of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, chief expert of the National Art Title Examination Center, and national diplomatic gift teacher.
Art entries and works are included in dozens of classic books, including "The Masters of Chinese Art", "The Centenary Master", "The National Cultural Master", "World Art CentenaryFamous Masters", "The Peak of Literature and Art - Collection of Contemporary World Literary Masters", "World Artist Celebrity List", "World Celebrity List", and so on. His published works include "Selected Works of Sun Huanyang, a Contemporary Chinese Famous Artist" and "Sun Huanxiang's Collection of Different Sketching Landscape Paintings".
