Ma Gongyu

• Ma Gongyu, originally named Gongyu, later changed his name to Gongyu and Gongyu. His calligraphy was excellent in all styles: seal script (篆書), clerical script (隸書), regular script (真書), and cursive script (草書). In regular and cursive scripts, he followed the styles of Zhong You and Wang Xizhi, with powerful brushstrokes and a smooth, refined flow. His seal script and clerical script demonstrated even greater skill, and his name spread widely across China, from the Yangtze River to the north. In painting, he excelled in landscape, flowers, and birds and fish.

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    Zheng Shixuan (1901-1982) known as Moroyuan and Shixuan with the artname as was Mukang was born in Chaoyang, Guangdong Province. He has become interested in art and advertising painting since he was a kid. In 1918, he entered the Shanghai Art School, majoring in portrait sketching. He studied under Feng Charan and adopted the shading technique of Zeng Wu of the Ming dynasty. He combined Western chiaroscuro, perspective, and traditional hand-painted figure painting. He specialized in portraiture and poetry. In 1959, he taught at the Chinese Painting Department of the Shanghai Art School. Established in 1960 by the Shanghai Chinese Academy of Painting, he was one of the first artists to be hired.

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    Wang Dao, the courtesy name is Shouqiu, the art names are Haiou and Chuyuan, and was born in Shanghai. He specializes in calligraphy and painting, and excels in landscapes, flowers and birds, people, and running animals. He paints with skillful brushwork and beautiful colors.

  • Jiang Zaixi

    Jiang Zaixi, his original name is Lu Yao, the courtesy name is Mén, the art name is Choxu, and the family name are Juan Xilou and Zaixi , was born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. She paints flowers and insects and is good at painting butterflies.

  • Hu Ruosi

    Hu Ruosi, courtesy name was Xia Si, art name was Qin Ren, born in Zhenjiang Jiangsu. He had been involved in painting and calligraphy since he was a child. He entered “Da Feng Tang School of Painting” at the age of 9, and respected Zhang Daqian as a teacher. At the age of 14, he went to Japan and held a solo exhibition. His work “Kuanglu Waterfall” at the age of 15 won the gold medal at the World Expo in Belgium. He served as a creative executive of the Shanghai East China Artists Association. In 1955, he established Shanghai National Painting Institute, and became a painter. In 1957, he served as a professor at the Shanghai Theater Academy, served concurrently as a head of the National Painting Institute, a member of the China Artists Association, and a librarian of the Shanghai Museum of Literature and History. He specialized in landscape painting, and especially painting Huangshan Mountain. His work “Guilin Shanshui” was collected in the National Art Museum of China, “Huangshan Songyu Tu” was collected in the Jiangsu Provincial Museum, “Wangu Changqing Tu” was displayed in the Great Hall of the People, and “Wanhe Songfeng Tu” was displayed in the Tower of Violet Light “Zi Guang Ge” in Zhongnanhai. He painted landscape for China’s first color film “Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai” (English name: Butterfly Lovers) and “Stage Art of Mei Lanfang”.

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  • Jiang Hanting

    Jiang Hanting (1903-1963), courtesy name Hanting, art name Hanting Jushi, pen names Jiang Hong and Shixi, was a modern and contemporary painter born in Yushan Town, Changshu, Jiangsu Province.

  • Wu Zheng

    Wu Zheng, courtesy name Daiqiu, with the pen names Baoshi Ju Shi, Shulin Zhongzi, and Chunhui Waishi, was born in Chongde County, Zhejiang Province, and was a native of Lusi Bay. He was a painter during the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.

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    Fu Tienian was born in Chaozhou, a son of Fu Ji. At the age of 9, he wrote on the stone wall of Jinshan Mountain in Chaozhou, and his calligraphy was excellent. Currently, the stone wall has been destroyed, but the word “Wei Yun” remains on the south side of the Hunan rock.

  • 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.

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  • Pang Zuoyu

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  • Zheng Mukang

    Zheng Mukang (1901-1982), other name was Shi Yuan, art name was Mu Kang, born in Chaoyang Guangdong. From an early age, he wsa interested in art and advertising pattern. He entered Shanghai Art College in 1918, painted portraits mainly. He learned the shadows of Western paintings, perspective painting methods, traditional touches, etc. from Feng Chaoran, and was good at painting figures. In particular, the woman he painted was beautifully and elegantly.