石头娃（王小信），终南布衣，生于1951.10.1，陕西蓝田人，文化学者。毕业于西安美院国画专业，96年研修于国家文物局（文物鉴定高研班），国家一级美术师，刘骁纯先生入室弟子，美术学博士。陕西历史博物馆文物鉴定专家，西安美院客座教授，陕西省文史馆馆员，《人民日报》书画院名誉院长，中国文联艺术家联合会副主席，英国皇家艺术学院名誉院士。
石头娃在从艺的五十几年里做出了突出成绩：
一、著作《中国书画鉴定实例》一书被列为：全国文理大学试读本。（当代书画鉴定大家刘光启先生认为：石头娃的专著是新中国成立以来最系统、完整的书画鉴定学术专著。）
二、作品在国内外美术大展中获过多项大奖：1997年作品《土娃》获加拿大国际水墨画大展特别金奖；2005年由文化部主办的中华书画名家全国城市巡回展中《屋檐下》荣获金奖；先后在《美术家》、《艺术界》、《江苏画刊》等重要学术刊物上发表作品百余幅，出版画册多种。
三、石头娃努力钻研文物保护30余年，突破了国际文物保护史上的两大难题：漆器脱脂处理和陶瓷无缝修复，并研究出了当前较佳的文物保护修复工艺。
四、石头娃苦苦求索，50年如一日的不懈努力，为当代品评中国画提出了新的标准“三气论”，即：天灵之气、自然之气、文人之气。
五、在千百年来中国山水画使用“三远法”的基础上，石头娃又去研究三远法的边沿科学领域，取得了可喜的成绩。
六、在章法研究方面，石头娃在使用传统的“太极”构图法的基础上又创造了“黄金切割”构图法：“当你在创作的过程中，发现不同的空白时，它就符合美的基因”。
七、石头娃在继承汉印的基础上，以凿刻的独特方式，创造了中国篆刻史上的第一“冷刀”，给人以魏晋南北朝石刻的美感。
八、石头娃创造了自己的水墨法：“水重乱柴皴”，其画法苍劲有力、深邃冷峻，凸显了大西北的雄浑万里和秦风的刚柔并济，让人回味无穷。
九、2021年又著《最后的日子里》——石头娃、刘骁纯美学研究对话一书。深切怀念恩师刘骁纯先生对弟子呕心沥血的培养教导和他的美学思想对当代美术的重大贡献！
十、经过几十年的努力，千百万次的水墨试验，石头娃又创造了“复合宣”这一独有的宣纸，它具有生宣、熟宣和煮锤三种宣纸的特性，扩展了中国画在材料学领域上的使用和研究。
十一、2022年6月1日建立“石头娃文化基地”。
十二、2022年10月，石头娃被国家六部委（中国文联、中宣部、中国发改委、中国文旅部等单位）评选为“当代山水画大师 ”、“水墨画巨匠”，并由《人民日报》《环球时报》用英文版发布。
十三、石头娃博士被西咸新区文旅集团特邀为“茯茶文化使者”。
十四、2024年石头娃被中国文旅部推荐为“两会”艺术家代表。
十五、刘骁纯先生在写给石头娃的评语中曾预言：“纵笔大写意，最后的高峰或许就在陕西……” 。6年后，石头娃的超大写意新作实现了先生的预言，作品真正展示出横马立刀，纵横万里之势的秦人秦风。其笔调与生活的妙合，不仅是中国画转型的很好范例，更是对当代中国画发展的重大突破。
十六、石头娃多年来在国内举办个人画展联展40余次；出版电子光盘67部；发表电子链接文档271期。国家邮政总局又给石头娃出版纪念邮票特刊5集，其中上《央视文艺》3次，《陕西电视台》30余次。威海电视台十年前出版《石头娃写在山川的画语》5集连续，先后被《人民日报》出版报道16次，中国文化旅游部专刊发表报道5次。被国内外文化学术团体邀请为：美术家、教授、院长、名誉院长、主席、副主席（红头文件）219项。
石头娃痴心不改，一生酷爱黄土地，歌颂劳苦大众，几十年如一日笔耕不辍，慢慢形成了自己的笔墨语言和艺术系统，不断的向着中国画的“金字塔”迈进。
Shitouwa (Wang Xiaoxin), born in October 1951 in Zhongnan Buyi, is a cultural scholar from Lantian, Shaanxi. He graduated from the traditional Chinese painting major of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. In 1996, he studied in the National Cutural Heritage Administration (advanced research for cultural relics identification), a national first-class artist, a disciple of Mr. Liu Xiaochun, and a doctor of fine arts. Expert in cultural relic appraisal at Shaanxi History Museum, Visiting Professor at Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, Member of Shaanxi Provincial Museum of Culture and History, Honorary Dean of People's Daily Calligraphy and Painting Institute, Vice Chairman of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Artists Federation, Honorary Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts in the United Kingdom.
Shitouwa has made outstanding achievements in her over fifty years of artistic career:
1、 The book "Examples of Appraisal of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting" has been listed as a national trial reading for liberal arts universities. (Mr. Liu Guangqi, a contemporary expert in calligraphy and painting appraisal, believes thatShitouwa's monograph is the most systematic and complete academic monograph on calligraphy and painting appraisal since the founding of New China.)
2、 The work has won multiple awards at domestic and international art exhibitions: in 1997, the work "Tuwa" won the Special Gold Award at the Canadian International Ink Painting Exhibition; In 2005, "Under the Roof" won the gold medal at the National Urban Tour Exhibition of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Masters hosted by the Ministry of Culture; He has published over a hundred works and various art albums in important academic journals such as "Artists", "Art World", and "Jiangsu Painting Magazine".
3、Shitouwa has been studying cultural relic protection for more than 30 years, breaking through two major challenges in the history of international cultural relic protection: degreasing treatment of lacquerware and seamless restoration of ceramics, and has developed the best current cultural relic protection and restoration technology.
4、 After 50 years of unremitting efforts,Shitouwa has put forward a new standard for the evaluation of contemporary Chinese painting, namely the "Three Qi Theory": the Qi of the Heavenly Spirit, the Qi of Nature, and the Qi of literati.
5、 On the basis of using the "Three Distances Method" in Chinese landscape painting for thousands of years,Shitouwa has made gratifying achievements in the field of edge science of the "Three Distances Method".
6、 In terms of research on composition,Shitouwa has created the "Golden Cut" composition method based on the traditional "Tai Chi" composition method: "When you discover different gaps in the creative process, it conforms to the genes of beauty.".
7、 On the basis of inheriting the Han seal,Shitouwa created the first "cold knife" in the history of Chinese seal carving through a unique way of chiseling, giving people the beauty of stone carving from the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
8、Shitouwa created his own ink painting technique: "Water is heavy, disorderly, and wood is cracked." His painting technique is vigorous, powerful, profound, and cold, highlighting the majestic and gentle combination of the vast northwest and the Qin wind, leaving a lasting impression.
9、 In 2021, he also wrote "In the Last Days" - A Dialogue on Aesthetic Research betweenShitouwa and Liu Xiaochun. I deeply miss Mr. Liu Xiaochun, my mentor, for his dedicated training and teaching of his disciples, as well as his significant contribution to contemporary art through his aesthetic ideas!
10、 After decades of effort and millions of ink and wash experiments,Shitouwa has created the unique rice paper "Compound Xuan", which has the characteristics of three types of rice paper: raw Xuan, cooked Xuan, and boiled hammer, expanding the use and research of Chinese painting in the field of materials science.
11、 On June 1, 2022, the "Stone Baby Cultural Base" was established.
12、 In October 2022,Shitouwa was selected by six national ministries (including the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Central Propaganda Department, the China Development and Reform Commission, and the China Ministry of Culture and Tourism) as a "master of contemporary landscape painting" and a "master of ink painting", and was published in English by the People's Daily and Global Times.
13、 Dr.Shitouwa was specially invited by the Xixian New Area Cultural and Tourism Group as the "Fucha Culture Ambassador".
14、 In 2024,Shitouwa was recommended by the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism as a representative artist for the "Two Sessions".
15、 Mr. Liu Xiaochun once prophesied in his comments toShitouwa: "The ultimate peak of freehand brushwork may be in Shaanxi...". Six years later,Shitouwa's super large freehand new work fulfilled the master's prophecy, truly showcasing the Qin style of the Qin people who stood with their swords and crossed thousands of miles. The wonderful combination of its style and life is not only a good example of the transformation of Chinese painting, but also a significant breakthrough in the development of contemporary Chinese painting.
16、 Over the years,Shitouwa has held more than 40 solo art exhibitions and joint exhibitions in China; Published 67 electronic CDs; Publish 271 issues of electronic link documents. The State Postal Administration has published 5 special commemorative stamps forShitouwa, including 3 appearances in CCTV Literature and Art and more than 30 appearances in Shaanxi Television. Ten years ago, Weihai TV Station published five consecutive episodes of "The Painting Language of Stone Children Written in Mountains and Rivers", which were published and reported 16 times by the People's Daily and 5 times by the special issue of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China. 219 invited artists, professors, deans, honorary deans, chairpersons, and vice chairpersons (red headed documents) by domestic and foreign cultural and academic organizations.
Shitouwa remained obsessed and devoted her whole life to the yellow soil, praising the hardworking masses. For decades, she worked tirelessly and gradually formed her own language and artistic system, constantly moving towards the "pyramid" of Chinese painting.
