萧淑芳爱花，画得最多、造诣最高的也是花，吴作人的学生艾中信因此称她为“百花之友”。她曾说过，“源于天籁，我天生喜欢人世间美的事物”，拿起画笔可以说是心之所至。

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经过长时间对花的描绘，萧淑芳还成功地将水彩技巧融入中国画的水墨丹青之中，在创作时用水彩颜色与花青混调，令紫鸢和山兰的花瓣呈现出偏蓝的紫色，那是她最喜欢的颜色。不少同行看了都说，这种紫色“只有萧先生调得出来”。

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萧淑芳：（1911-2005），广东省中山市人，中央美术学院教授，中国当代著名画家。曾任中央美术学院国画系副教授、教授，中国美术家协会会员。全国妇联第四届执委。中国民主同盟盟员。吴作人艺术馆馆长、吴作人国际美术基金会会长。以花卉画作，享名于世，兼擅风景、静物、肖像等绘画。其作高迈行云，渐至化境。

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萧淑芳出生于辛亥年，父亲萧伯林从事铁路事业，叔父萧友梅是我国现代音乐的奠基人之一，也曾是孙中山的秘书。生活在新思想、新文化迸发的年代，萧淑芳和她的四个姐妹从小接受的就是西方文化教育，被鼓励自由地发展兴趣与天赋，而她们后来的成就，确实继承了名门之风。

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同辈中，姐姐萧淑娴是获得比利时皇家音乐学院金奖的作曲家、音乐理论家，妹妹萧淑熙是美籍生物学博士；萧淑芳则不仅拥有很高的绘画天分，还喜欢滑冰、骑马、游泳、打网球，凡是时髦的体育运动她都去尝试和学习，甚至她滑冰时穿的衣服、帽子，都是自己钩织的。在她留下的大量年轻时的照片中，举手投足都充满了如今。

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人们不断追索的“民国范儿”，令很多现代女性也不禁感叹，她们那时真是走在了社会变革的前沿，她们的精神世界甚至比我们现在更加精彩。

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在公众的认知里，萧淑芳是杰出的女画家、绘画大师吴作人的夫人，但在她的亲人和朋友眼中，她首先是一个爱玩、爱生活的女子。她从小画什么像什么，父亲萧伯林看见她的画后，称赞她的手是“宝手”，遂请名师指点。

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1933 年，萧淑芳画过一幅《墨荷》图，三年后在北京有缘拜访齐白石先生时，她呈上这幅旧作，齐白石很是惊喜，没想到这幅墨气淋漓的作品出自一位 20 出头的女子之手，特意为她题写上款“香清”。

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萧淑芳天资聪颖，却并不特别勤奋，而她的老师徐悲鸿赞赏刻苦向学的品质，所以直到她与吴作人结婚、受到丈夫的影响后变得越来越勤奋。

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1952 年参加了炳灵寺考察团，回来后把考察期间所作的大量临摹作品带去请教徐悲鸿，老师才第一次表扬她“终于用功了”。对此，萧淑芳到了晚年还经常提及。

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除了绘画，萧淑芳还在花样滑冰上取得过骄人的成绩。小时候，她因患肺结核而不能有规律地上学，转投国立北平大学艺术学院专门部西洋画系学习油画和素描，这使她拥有比同龄人更多的时间去发展爱玩的天性。

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抱恙的身体并未妨碍她享受运动的乐趣，相反，户外活动改善了她的身体状况。由于萧淑芳爷爷的第二任妻子育有2男10女，许多姑姑的年龄与她相仿，加上她们姐妹几个，当时萧家的年轻女孩儿特别多，经常成群地去北海滑冰，就这么玩着玩着，萧淑芳玩成了首届华北女子滑冰花样冠军。

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滑冰是萧淑芳生命力的源泉之一，她一直保留着当年穿过的冰鞋，晚年最爱看的便是花样滑冰比赛，常常感叹现在的运动员技巧非凡，“我们那时其实就是几个步子、几个架势而已”。吴宁告诉记者：“我妈妈说，外婆以前经常拉着她去滑冰，就因为总是被拉着，所以学不会，我也不会，因为怕摔。我们家就数外婆胆子最大。”

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直到现在，萧淑芳的朋友、学生们谈起她，滑冰仍旧是最鲜活的印象，而她在上世纪30 年代留下的数帧北海滑冰照，无论是点冰还是滑行，翩翩身姿如今看来依然生动美丽，如同她精彩一生的剪影。

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