赵占东现为中国美术家协会会员,中国人民对外友协艺术创作院艺委会主任,民族画院副院长,国家民委高级职称评审委员。他以传统的延续和现代的开拓为审美取向,师古而不拟古,把中国传统绘画的笔墨与西 Zhao Zhaodong is now a member of the Chinese Artists Association, director of the Art Committee of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, vice president of the National Painting Academy, and senior jury member of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission. He takes the traditional continuation and the modern pioneering as the esthetic orientation. He studied ancient but not ancient times, comparing the brushwork of traditional Chinese painting with the western