毛國強（一粟），江蘇省工藝美術大師、研究員級高級工藝美術師。中國手指畫研究會終身理事、中國工藝美術學會會員、中國民間藝術家協會會員。哈爾濱師範大學客座教授。
1945年6月生於宜興蜀山南街陶藝世家，從小耳濡目染接受藝術薰陶。1958年進宜興紫砂工藝廠，師從任淦庭先生。1987年進河南書法研究院函授，指導老師陳天然先生。
毛國強紫砂壺名家
從藝50多年，對紫砂藝術和書畫藝術研究頗深，作品洗煉雋永、厚積薄發，基本功紮實。陶刻作品雄渾、恢宏淋漓外露，線條運刀處理磅礴和靈動之氣相結合。曾多次獲國內外獎項：全國陶瓷創作設計評比一等獎、西湖博覽會金獎、太湖博覽會金獎。作品被美國洛杉磯藝術館、亞泰博物館、中南海紫光閣、天津博物館、故宮博物院收藏和展示。先後和書畫藝術大師陸儼少、程十發、唐雲、韓美林、範曾先生交流紫砂作品，受到他們的讚譽。並參加中國首屆全國刻字展、中國美協第16屆國際美術特展，全國手指畫提名展。並先後在廣州藝術博物館、潮州仰山堂、美國洛杉磯藝術館舉辦個人藝術展。
此件拍品為毛國強制“玉樂壺”，精選上等泥料，以傳統的手法表現，造型簡潔明確，充分發揮書法裝飾的展示追求，整體造型飽滿，細節部分工藝精湛，是作者眾多作品中的代表作。
當下毛國強老師的作品也是倍受關注，具有極高的收藏價值及收藏前景！
Mao Guoqiang (a millet), a master of Arts and crafts in Jiangsu Province, is a senior arts and crafts artist at the researcher level. Lifelong director of China Finger Painting Research Association, member of China Arts and Crafts Society and member of China Folk Artists Association. Visiting Professor, Harbin Normal University.
Born in June 1945 in the pottery family of Southern Street of Shushan, Yixing, he was influenced by art from an early age. In 1958, he entered Yixing Purple Sand Craft Factory under Ren Ganting. In 1987, he came to Henan Calligraphy Research Institute to teach by correspondence, and was instructed by Mr. Chen Natural.
Mao Guoqiang's famous purple clay pot
For more than 50 years, he has studied purple sand art and calligraphy and painting art deeply. His works are meaningful, rich and thin, and his basic skills are solid. The pottery carving works are vigorous, magnificent and vivid, and the line knife handling is a combination of magnificence and agility. He has won many awards at home and abroad: the first prize of National Ceramic Creation and Design Competition, the gold prize of West Lake Exposition and the gold prize of Taihu Exposition. His works have been collected and exhibited by Los Angeles Museum of Art, Yatai Museum, Ziguang Pavilion in the Central South China Sea, Tianjin Museum and Palace Museum. They have successively exchanged purple sand works with masters of painting and calligraphy, such as Lu Lishao, Cheng Shifa, Tang Yun, Han Meilin and Fan Zeng, and won their praise. He also participated in the first National Carving Exhibition of China, the 16th International Art Exhibition of China Artistic Association and the National Finger Painting Nomination Exhibition. He has also held individual art exhibitions in Guangzhou Museum of Art, Chaozhou Yangshan Hall and Los Angeles Museum of Art.
This piece is Mao Guo's compulsory "Jade Music Pot". It is a representative work of the author's many works. It is made of fine mud, conventionally expressed, concise and clear in shape, giving full play to the display pursuit of calligraphy decoration, with full overall shape and exquisite workmanship in details.
At present, Mr. Mao Guoqiang's works have attracted much attention and have a very high collection value and prospects.
