刘大为,1945年出生于山东潍坊,祖籍山东诸城。1951年随父母、祖父母全家移居内蒙古包头。自幼喜欢绘画,随祖父习书法。1956年上小学时受到美术老师韩维祥的启蒙、关注和培养,11岁时创作了第一张大幅水彩画《五一群众大游行》。1958年中学读书期间,参加课余美术组,在美术老师兰尚廉的指导下,接受了系统的素描、速写和水彩画基本功训练。14岁时正值大跃进时期,绘制了多幅巨幅宣传画、壁画。 Liu Dawei, born in 1945 in Weifang, Shandong, native of Zhucheng, Shandong. In 1951 with his parents, grandparents moved to Baotou, Inner Mongolia. Like painting since childhood, with the grandfather Xi calligraphy. In 1956, he was enlightened, paid attention to and trained by art teacher Han Weixiang in his elementary school. At the age of 11, he created his first large watercolor “May Day Mass Parade.” In 1958 during his studies in high school, he participated in extra-curricular art troupes under the guidance of art teacher Lan Shanglian and received systematic sketching, sketching and watercolor basic training. At the age of 14, at the time of the Great Leap Forward, a number of giant posters and murals were painted.