Ma Wanli

• Ma Wanli, courtesy names are Yunfu and Manlu, art name is Danian, was born in Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu. He was a famous painting and seal curving artist and art educator. He left legacies with poet, painting, calligraphy and seal curving. He is famous for especially flower-and-bird painting and one of the greatest artists of China.

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  • Wang Xuetao

    Wang Xueteo, courtesy name was Xiao Feng, art name was Chi Yuan, born in Cheng’an Hebei, a well-known Chinese modern freehand bird-and-flower painter. He served as director of the Beijing Painting Institute, director of the China Artists Association, vice president of the Beijing Branch of Artists Association, representative of the Beijing City Seventh National People’s Congress, managing member of the Beijing Fifth China People’s Political Consultative Conference, member of the Central Union Committee of the Democratic Party of China, commissioner of Beijing city.

  • Chen Banding

    Chen Banding, courtesy name was Jing Shan and Jing Lu, art name was Zhuhuan Jushi and Shen Weng, born in Shaoxing Zhejiang. He grew up in a poor family and moved to Shanghai to make a living in 1894, and through the introduction of an acquaintance, he met Ren Bonin and Wu Changshuo. He learned painting techniques from them, in addition, Wu Guxiang, Wu Shixian, Gao Yongzhi, Lu Lianfu and other scholars. He worked at the Peking University Library after 40 years old. Later, he became a professor at the National Beiping Art College. In the 1940s, he participated in numerous exhibitions and charities. Since the 1950s, he served as the vice director of the Beijing Chinese Painting Institute, the chairman of the Chinese Painting Study Group, the director of the Chinese Artists Association, the researcher of the Chinese Artists Association, the staff of the Central Literature Museum, the member of the Committee for Reforming the Chinese Written Language, the member of the Third China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the member of the Second, Third and Fourth of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He was good at painting flowers and landscapes, calligraphy and seal carving. His well-known works are “Loquats of perpetual summer” and “Yellow flowers”.

  • Wang Shensheng

    Wang Shensheng, whose name is Rong and courtesy name Shensheng was a master of flowers and birds in the Republic of China. He once made a living by painting charcoal paintings in Shanghai. Wang Shensheng is good at flowers and birds, landscapes and can be freehand brushwork as well as freehand brushwork. He is especially famous in the painting circle for his small freehand flower and bird paintings. During the Republic of China, it was as famous as Chen Banding and Wang Xuetao.

  • Wu Yunyu