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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  • Lu Hui

    Lu Hui (陸恢), originally named Youhui (友恢), also known as Youkui (友奎), with courtesy names Lianfu (廉夫) and Juanyi (狷盫), and pseudonyms such as Juansou (狷叟) and Pofu'an Zhuren (破佛盫主人), was a Chinese painter from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republican period. He was skilled in various genres of traditional Chinese painting, including landscapes, flowers and birds, and figure painting.

  • 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.

  • Zhu Meicun

    Zhu Meicun was born in Wuxian Jiangsu. He was good at Chinese painting and New Year painting.

  • Wang Jiqian

    Wang Jiqian, courtesy name is Xuan Qing, art name is Wang Qian, Ji Qian, Wang Qian, Ji Qian, born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. Graduated Donggu University. Good at landscape painting, friends with Gu Xijin and Wu Hufan. He is also a collector; his rich collection represents China and gave a huge impact on the world.

  • Zhu Meicun

    Zhu Meicun, also known as Duyanbanlong Jushi, was born in Wu County, Jiangsu. He is good at Chinese painting and New Year painting. When he was young, he studied under Fan Shaoyun, and from the age of 13, he learned painting from his mother's brother, Wu Hufan. He attended Suzhou Second Middle School, but due to otitis media, he transferred to a private school and studied ancient literature with Wang Kangji for six years. He is 19 and he makes a living selling paintings. He founded the Zheng Painting Society with Ye Gongchuo, Wu Hufan, Zhang Daqian and Feng Chaoran.

  • 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.

  • Ling Xu

  • Pan Zhiyun

  • Shen Jinggan

  • 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.

  • Ye Gongchao

  • Yan Junpei

  • Pang Zuoyu

    Pang Zuoyu, also known as Qingzhao, with the studio name Yao Cao Lu Zhu (Master of Yao Grass Cottage), was from Nanxun, Zhejiang. She was the niece of the famous modern collector Pang Yuanji. She was skilled in painting flowers, insects, and plants, drawing inspiration from Yun Shouping and Hua Yan's techniques of coloring and sketching from life. Her works are elegant in style, with a refined and steady brushwork.