Gao Jianfu

• Gao Jinfu is one of the founders of Lingnanism paintings, an art educator and Chinese contemporary national artist. He has been called Lingnanism after he caused a revolution on Chinese art with Chen Shuren and Gao Qifeng. His painted landscape, flowers, portraits and insects precisely. He found his painting style by using various traditional painting technics, and took in Japanese and Western art’s point of view　and three-dimensionality.

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  • Lu Yifei

    Lu Yifei (1908-1997), other name was Chong, courtesy name was Yi Fei, art name was Su Sou, born in Changshu Jiangsu, a well-known Chinese modern painter and outstanding art educator. He specializes in bird-and-flower painting, especially peony. He produced “Flowers and Full Moon”, “Spring to the Countryside”, “Peach Blossoms”, etc. He was a professor of the China Academy of Art, a research student instructor, a vice director of the Xiling Painting and Calligraphy Institute, an honorary director of the Changshu Painting and Calligraphy Institute, and adviser of the Xiling Seal Art Society.