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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.

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      Liu Yongzeng, from Xinji in Hebei Province, is a National First-Class Artist.

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      Wang Liu, Chinese characters meaning "Shin Sheng" and his family name meaning "Manichuan villager", was originally from Wei County, Anhui Province. He was a student in Lanxi, Zhejiang Province when he was young, and later lived by painting maritime paintings and charcoal drawings, teaching at Beijing Hua Fine Arts School, Beijing Fu-Jen University Fine Arts Department, and Beijing Normal University from 1934. During the Republic of China period, he became as famous as Chen Hanting and Wang Xuetao.

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      Cao Kejia was born in Beijin. He was good at Chinese painting and cats. He was a teacher at Academy of Arts & Design, an Executive of Light Industry Department Craft Art Company and a member of China artists association.

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      Xu Cao, courtesy name is Yansun, was born in Beijing. Famous Chinese portrait painter from Shenxuan, Hebei. He was good at painting portrait, maid, sketch and so on, had a lot of followers.

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      Hu Peiheng (胡佩衡) is a painter from Hebei, China, known for his expertise in landscape painting (山水画). His works are characterized by a sense of vastness and depth, reflecting a style that lies between the works of Zhong Gui (仲圭) and Huang He (黃鶴). He is also a member of the China Artists Association (中国美术家协会).

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      Wang Xueai, born in Henan, graduated from the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Correspindrence University. He is currently working in the Mass Art Museum in Jiaozuo City, Henan Province.

    • Yan Zaixing

      Yang Zaixing, from Shanghai. When he was young, he worshiped Mr.Chen Liantao, the "Elvis in the south of the Yangtze River", and studied Chinese painting diligently. He was good at painting flowers, landscapes, feathers, and animals, especially carp, and became a member of the Shanghai School.

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    • 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”.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • Pu Jin

      Pu Jin (1893-1966), of the Manchu ethnic group, with the surname Aisin Gioro, courtesy name Xuezhai, and pen names Nanshi, Suiyuan, Leshan, Songfeng Zhuren, and Qintu, was born in Beijing. His art names were Yiqingtang and Songfeng Caotang. Influenced by his family, he studied calligraphy and painting from a young age.

    • Qi Baishi

      Qi Baishi (1864-1957), courtesy name was Wei Qing, art name was Bin Sheng, Jiping Laoren and Baishi Shanren, a prominent contemporary Chinese painter. He became a painter from a carpenter and he succeeded in painting. Many of his works had plants and animals.

    • Yan Bolong

      Yan Bolong, a Manchu from the Plain Yellow Banner, was a native of Beijing. His given name was Yunlin, his courtesy name was Bolong (used as his common name), and his pseudonym was Changbai Buyi (Long White Cloth Scholar). He resided in a place called Chuncao Tang (Spring Grass Hall). During the Republic of China period, Yan was a prominent figure in the Beijing-Tianjin painting school, renowned for his bird-and-flower paintings. He was also skilled in landscapes, figures, feathers, and animals. Yan disliked officialdom and preferred to live as an ordinary scholar, devoting himself to painting. Due to his ancestral roots in Changbai, he became known as Changbai Buyi (Long White Cloth Scholar).

    • Xiao Xun

      Xiao Xun (1883-1944), courtesy name Qianzhong and art name Dailong Shanqu, was a modern painter born in Huaining County, Anhui Province. In his youth, he studied landscape painting under Jiang Yun. He was known for his technique of layering paints multiple times in his landscape paintings.

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      Hu Shuang’ an was born in Xiangyang Hubei, painter of Beijing Fine Arts Company, well known for his tiger paintings.

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