1939年参加新四军。1941年毕业于淮南艺术专科学校。1943年加入中国共产党。曾任新四军第七师文工团美术股副股长、华东画报社美术记者。建国后，历任江苏省国画院副院长，中国文联第四届委员，中国美协第三届常务理事、江苏分会副主席。作品《孟良崮战役》1985年获第六届全国美术展览铜质奖。有《亚明作品选集》、《三湘四水集》、《亚明新作选集》等。 中国画坛重要流派——“新金陵画派”的中坚推动者和组织者。
他以50余年的卓越艺术实践和成就，在中国美术领域特别是对新时期山水画的发展，作出了令人瞩目的贡献，因之被国际权威文化机构誉为当今世界文化名人。 亚明主张“中国画有规律无定法”。他提出国画去向应是立足继承民族文化传统，面向生活，融汇外国美术之精华，以促进其艺术的不断拓展。亚明艺术之作既是中国传统哲学和文化的延续，又溢满着新的时代风采。他先后多次受命出访，进行友好访问和开展中外文化交流工作。他的大量艺术作品曾在前苏联、德国、日本、美国、法国、意大利及台湾等地展出。中国各大美术馆、博物馆及重要国事活动场所，美国大都会博物馆、日本名古屋博物馆、澳大利亚悉尼美术馆等文化机构收藏有亚明之作。
国内外先后出版有《亚明作品选集》、《亚明画集》、《亚明近作选集》等多种画册。
亚明 曾任苏南农民画报社主编。江苏国画院副院长。中国美术家协会江苏分会副主席、主席。南京大学教授，中国美术家协会常务理事、理事，中国文联委员。江苏省文联顾问、中国美协常委。江苏省国画院副院长，一级美术师。作品有《货郎图》、《山河新貌》、《秋山吟》等。出版有《亚明画集》等. 虽已年逾古稀，但仍以其大量新作面世，显示着他特有的不倦创作潜力。

亚明，安徽合肥人。1941年毕业于淮南艺术专科学校，十六岁参加新四军，历任记者、美术编辑、画报主编、江苏省国画院副院长、南京大学教授等职，中国文联委员、中国美术家协会常务理事、美协江苏分会主席，斋名悟园、觉斋、沙砚居。
基于幼时蒙发的绘画兴趣，亚明在抗日宣传工作中，掌握了一些基本的绘画技术。从部队转业到地方后，结识了当地的一批国画家——吕凤子、钱松岩、周怀民、秦古柳。当时美术界非常时髦“取消国画”，他却激流勇退，公开批判这一荒谬观点，并于1953年改画国画。同年到南京，在江苏省文联筹委会负责美术工作，开始了他的美术领导生涯，和吕凤子、傅抱石、陈之佛、钱松岩等一批大师朝夕共处，专攻中国画，擅人物、山水。
1956年，国务会议批准在北京、上海两地建立中国画院，亚明负责了江苏省国画院的筹备工作。因为亚明团结国画家并领导国画创作，使江苏新国画创作在中国美术界异军突起，创作了一大批充满时代气息的优秀作品，使人们看到了传统艺术在新社会的作为，从而赢得了在国内画坛上的声誉。1960年，经亚明组织、由傅抱石领队的江苏国画院一行十三人,开始了在现代美术史有深远影响的二万三千里的旅行写生。
在这次写生活动中，亚明目睹了老画家写生创作的全过程。对他来说，这是一次极好的学习机会，同时又给他以新的艺术启发，感到借人抒情不如借景写心，开始转画山水。当《山河新貌》展在中国美术馆展出并引起画坛注意的时候，傅抱石说出了许多老画家的心里话：“时代变了，笔墨就不能不变”。而对于亚明来说，当时只是把刚学的传统技法运用到现实创作中。他的《三峡灯火》、《华岳一奇峰》、《华山》作为早期山水画作品，当时的影响虽不如傅抱石、钱松岩，却表现了一种新的气息。他将自己的创作经验总结为：向传统学习，向生活学习。
“文革”中，亚明作为江苏美术界的头号人物，身陷囹圄五年。但是因为他的革命经历，使他成为第一批获得“解放”的画家，并在1973年就迈出了国门，率中国美术家代表团赴越南访问。这正好与他第一次出国相距20年。1953年，他访问苏联后，出版了《访苏速写辑》，为时人所难比。而越南写生之作，又使业内人士刮目相看。十年后，他赴北欧五国的旅行写生，以1985年在北京的展出所获得的赞誉，确立了他外国风情作品的历史地位。如果说在二十世纪美术史上傅抱石开创了外国风情写生和创作这一传统国画所没有的题材，为传统国画的革新探索出一条新路，那么亚明则是拓宽了这一条路。
七十年代后期，亚明开始以古代诗词名篇为题的山水画创作，为“文革”后期的山水画注入了一股新鲜的空气。他寄希望于一些传统的题材，探求中国画永恒的意境、趣味、气韵，从尘封中找回传统的笔墨，恢复失去知觉的传统笔墨，从而使传统的中国画薪火续传。他不断到北京参与外交使馆、宾馆和国家重要建筑的布置画创作，同时参与筹建中国画研究院，试图通过南北画家的联合再创一个时代的辉煌。
八十年代，亚明的艺术创作进入高峰期。1984年创作的《孟良崮》入选第六届全国美展，1989年创作的《海风》入选第七届全国美展。直至1995年创作了《南京大屠杀》，以他对五十年前抗日生涯的回顾而告别主题性创作。另一代表作《长江万里图卷》，以其精心的构思、宏大的篇幅和细致的刻画、独到的笔墨，成为他一生高峰期的经典之作。

亚明同时又是一位非常注重传统的画家。他从五十年代初画国画人物开始，就背临《步辇图》，继之临李公麟、陈老莲、任伯年。转画山水后，他又临沈周的《关山积雪》，实际上沈周的风格只是为他确立了基本的笔墨结构，而南朝竹林七贤的放迹不拘与五代徐熙的野逸风格，加之40年的南京生活，则为他思想和文化的血脉中注入了遗传的基因。
亚明历年创作，曾多次参加国内外展览和被广泛收藏。人物画《货郎图》曾入选在苏联举办的社会主义国家造型艺术展览；山水画主要有《巫峡烟云》等。中国美术馆收藏有《晨曲》等多幅作品。作品为美国纽约大都会博物馆、日本名古屋博物馆、牙买加国立博物馆、瑞典东方博物馆收藏。多次率团访问外国和在外讲学，1981年和1987年分别于新加坡、日本举办个人画展。出版有《晋明画集》、《亚明近作选集》、《亚明作品选集》、《三湘四水》等。

亚明15岁参加新四军，17岁开始走上艺术之路，新中国成立以后长期担任江苏省国画院负责人、江苏省美术家协会主席，并任中国美术家协会常务理事。在长期的艺术实践中，他始终提倡艺术要以人民、生活和传统为师。1960年，他带领江苏国画工作团深入生活写生和创作，行程二万三千里，实现了中国传统山水画在思想上、笔墨上的一次历史性大变革，在美术界产生了很大影响，“新金陵画派”及其代表人物也因此为世人公认。    
几十年来，亚明曾在全国各地和欧、美、亚、澳洲的许多国家举办展览，他的作品以其意境丰富、笔墨灵动而广受人们的喜爱。近10年来，亚明又潜心创作《长江万里图》、《黄山揽胜图》、《日寇南京大屠杀》等多幅巨制长卷，并完成了近20幅大型山水壁画的创作。2001年，亚明将110多幅佳作捐赠给他的家乡——安徽合肥市人民。

1939 to participate in the new fourth army. Graduated from Huainan Art College in 1941. 1943 joined the Communist Party of china. A former army seventh division deputy section chief, East China Art Troupe pictorial art press. After the founding of the PRC, served as vice president of Jiangsu Chinese Painting Institute, China Federation of the Fourth Committee, vice chairman of the association of the third Chinese executive director, Jiangsu branch. "Works" Menglianggu 1985 won the Sixth National Art Exhibition bronze award. A "Ya Ming anthology" works, "Sanxiang four water", "Ya Ming's anthology" etc.. China painting important genre of "new Jinling school" of the core promoter and organizer.
In his 50 years of excellence in art practice and achievement in the field of art China, especially for the development of landscape painting in the new period, make a great contribution, because of the authority of international cultural institutions as the world cultural celebrities. Ya Ming maintains that "Chinese painting has regularity and no law"". He proposed to traditional Chinese painting should be based on Chinese culture, the essence of life, to promote foreign art, expand their art. Ya Ming is China art as a continuation of traditional philosophy and culture, and overflowing with new era style. He has repeatedly ordered to visit, visit and carry out the work of the Sino foreign cultural exchanges. His extensive works of art have been exhibited in the former Soviet Union, Germany, Japan, the United States, France, Italy and Taiwan. China's major museums, museums and important state activities venues, the American Metropolitan Museum, the Nagoya Museum of Japan, Sydney Museum of art and other cultural institutions Ya Ming.
At home and abroad have published works of "Ya Ming anthology", "Ya Ming album", "Ya Ming's anthology" and other books.
Ya Ming served as the South of Jiangsu farmer pictorial editor. Vice president, Jiangsu Chinese painting institute. Vice chairman and chairman of Jiangsu branch of Chinese artists association. Professor of Nanjing University, Chinese Artists Association executive director, Chinese Federation members. Jiangsu Province Federation of consultants, China Artists Association committee. Vice president of Jiangsu Chinese Painting Academy, first class artist. Works with the "shining map", "new" mountains and rivers, "Akiyama Yin" etc.. The publication of "Ya Ming album". Although it has over seventy years of age, but still with the large number of works available, showing his own tireless creative potential.

Ya Ming, Anhui Hefei. 1941 graduated from Huainan art school, sixteen years of age to participate in the New Fourth Army, served as a reporter, editor, pictorial editor, vice president of Jiangsu Chinese Painting Institute, Nanjing University Professor, China Federation members, executive director of the association of Jiangsu Artists Association, Chinese branch president, tadana Wu Park, Sha Yan Ju Zhai, mcgregor.
When young mengfa painting interest based on Ya Ming in the Anti Japanese propaganda work, master some basic painting techniques. From the army to the place, met a group of local Chinese painter, Qian Songyan, Zhou Huaimin, Lv Fengzi, Qin Gu liu. The art community is very fashionable "cancel Chinese painting", he was a storm to denounce this absurd point of view, and the Chinese painting in 1953. The same year to Nanjing, in Jiangsu Province Federation committee responsible for the art work, began his art career and leadership, Lv Fengzi, Fu Baoshi, Chen Zhifo, Qian Songyan and a number of masters live together, specializing in China painting, good character, landscape.
1956, approved by the state conference in Beijing, the establishment of two Chinese Academy in Shanghai, Ya Ming was responsible for the preparatory work of Jiangsu Chinese painting institute. Because the United Nations and led the Chinese painting painter Ya Ming creation, the new Jiangsu Chinese painting in the art circle Chinese A new force suddenly rises., created a large number of outstanding works full of the spirit of the times, so that people see as a traditional art in the new society, which won the reputation in the domestic art world. In 1960, Ya Ming organized by the team leader of the Jiangsu Chinese Painting Institute, a line of thirteen people, began in the history of modern art has a profound impact on the travel sketch of the twenty-three thousand miles of the.
In this sketch activities, Ya Ming witnessed the whole process of the old painter sketch creation. For him, this is an excellent learning opportunity, at the same time give him a new artistic inspiration, feel lend people lyrical than borrow scenery write heart, began to turn painting landscape. When the "new" mountains and rivers exhibition at the Museum of fine arts and China when painting caused attention, Fu Baoshi said many old painter's mind: "times have changed, and will not change". For Ya Ming, it was just to learn the traditional techniques used in real creation. His "Three Gorges", following a "lights", "Huashan" Qifeng as early landscape paintings, the impact is not as Fu Baoshi, Qian Songyan, but the performance of a new atmosphere. He summarized his creative experience: learning from tradition, learning from life.
The "Cultural Revolution", Ya Ming as the number one figure in Jiangsu art circles, jailed for five years. But because of his revolutionary experience, he became the first batch of "liberation" painter, and in 1973 took the door, the rate of Chinese artists delegation to visit vietnam. This is exactly the first time he went abroad for 20 years. In 1953, he visited the Soviet Union after the publication of "sketch series" visited the Soviet Union, for people to. Vietnam for the sketch, insiders sit up and take notice. Ten years later, he traveled to the Nordic five countries travel sketch, in 1985 in Beijing exhibition received praise, established his foreign style works of historical status. If in twentieth Century the history of art Fu Baoshi created exotic sketch and creation of the traditional Chinese painting is not the theme, explored a new way for the innovation of traditional Chinese painting, then Ya Ming is widening the road.
In late 70s, Ya Ming began to write poems of famous ancient landscape painting, as the "Cultural Revolution" of the late landscape painting has injected a fresh air. He hopes to explore some of the traditional theme, China painting eternal artistic conception, taste, flavor, find the traditional ink from dust laden, restore the unconscious traditional pen and ink, so that the traditional painting Chinese passing the resume. He went to Beijing to participate in diplomatic embassies, guesthouses and national important architectural layout painting creation, while participating in the preparation of Chinese Painting Institute, trying to create a glorious era of glory through the north and South painters.
80s, Ya Ming's artistic creation into the peak. In 1984 the creation of "mengliang'gu" selected the sixth national art exhibition, in 1989 the creation of "sea breeze" was selected in the Seventh National Art exhibition. Until 1995 created the "Nanjing Massacre", with his review of Anti Japanese career fifty years ago and bid farewell to thematic creation. Another representative of "Yangtze map", with its careful thinking, great length and detailed characterization, the original painting, become a classic peak of his life.

Ya Ming is also a very traditional painter. He painted a painting from the beginning of 50s, is facing "Bunian Tu", followed by Li Gonglin, Ren Bonian, Chen Lin Lin. To landscape painting, he and Shen Zhou's "Snow Mountain" on Shen Zhou's style, in fact just as he has established the basic structure of the ink, and the bamboo grove on track and the five generation of Xu Xi or wild style, coupled with 40 years living in Nanjing, injected a gene for the blood of his thought and the culture of the.
Ya Ming years of creation, has participated in exhibitions at home and abroad and has been widely collected. Figure painting "shining map" was selected in the national art exhibition held in the Soviet Union socialism; landscape paintings are mainly "Wu cloud" etc.. China Art Museum has a collection of "morning song" and other works. Works for the New York Metropolitan Museum, Nagoya Museum, Jamaica National Museum, the Swedish Oriental museum. Many foreign and led a delegation to visit in 1981 and 1987 respectively in the lectures, Singapore, Japan held a personal exhibition. The publication of "Jin Ming" on the album, "Ya Ming's anthology", "Ya Ming", selected works of "Sanxiang four water" etc..
The 15 year old Ya Ming joined the army at the age of 17, embarked on the road of art, new Chinese after the establishment of a longtime Jiangsu Chinese Painting Institute responsible person, Jiangsu Province Artists Association chairman, and served as executive director of Chinese artists association. In the long-term practice of the arts, he has always advocated art to people's life, and the traditional teacher. In 1960, he led the Jiangsu painting Working Group in-depth life sketch and creation, travel twenty thousand 3000, the Chinese traditional landscape painting in thought, painting a historical transformation, has a great influence in the world of art, the "new Jinling school" and its representatives as well as the world recognized.
For decades, Ya Ming in various parts of the country and Europe, the United States, Asia, Australia, many countries held exhibitions, his works with its rich artistic conception, pen and ink clever and widely loved by people. In the past 10 years, Ya Ming painstaking creation "Yangtze map", "Mount Huangshan rover," map "the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese" and other pieces of Ju long, and completed nearly 20 large-scale landscape painting. In 2001, Ya Ming will be more than and 110 works donated to his hometown - Anhui Hefei city people.