Artists
Ma Changli (1931), of Hui ethnicity, was born in Shanhaiguan, Hebei Province. In 1953, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Art Academy and stayed on for another ten years to…
Ma Ding (1927) was from Wuhan, Hubei Province. Ma was self-taught. In 1950, he became a copy clerk in the Southwest Public Security Paper mill, and transferred in 1953 to work as a section member in…
Ma Hehe (no details known), a Huxian peasant painter, is identified as a member of the Zuan Commune Chengdaogong Brigade Party Branch (祖庵公社城道宫大队党支部), Huxian County, Shaanxi Province.
Ma Henglin (1938-2020) was born in Gan'gu County, Gansu Province. In his early years, he studied at the Lanzhou Art Institute, the predecessor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Northwest Normal…
Ma Hongdao (1942) hails from Yantai, Shandong Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting department of the Zhejiang Art Academy in 1966. Since then, he has worked with the All-China Federation of…
Ma Huanmin (1940) was born in Zhengding County, Hebei Province. He graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 1962.
Over the years, he has created, published and distributed a large number…
Ma Jianya (no details known), a Huxian peasant painter, is identified as a member of the Zu'an Commune, Beisi Brigade (祖庵公社北寺大队), Huxian County, Shaanxi Province.
Ma Lequn (1933) was born in Shanghai. He is of Hui ethnicity. In the early 1950s, he studied fine arts at the Shanghai chapter of the Communist Youth League, and by the middle of the decade, he…
Ma Quan was born in Qingxu, Shanxi Province, in 1938. He graduated from the National Painting Department of the Central Art Academy in 1962. In the following years, he perfected his technique in the…
Ma Sanhe (1924-1971) was born in Beijing. He graduated from the National Beiping Art College in 1947. In 1965, he entered the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts.
Ma Tianqi (1934) was born in Haicheng, Liaoning Province. In the autumn of 1958, he was admitted to the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts and served as the chairman of the student union and as a member of…
Ma Xiaoxiao (1921-2009), originally known as Ma Zhen (马振), was from Anqiu, Shandong Province. After the 1950s, he gradually became famous under the pseudonym Ma Xiaoxiao; he was a famous calligrapher…
Ms. Ma Yali (no details known), a Huxian peasant painter, is identified as a member of the Pitou Brigade, Yuchan Commune (玉蝉公社陂头大队).
Ma Yiping (1941) is from Jinhua, Zhejiang Province. In 1958, he entered the Drawing Department of the Sichuan Art Academy to study oil painting. After his graduation in 1962, he became an art teacher…
Ma Yun (1938) is from Fengxiang, Shaanxi Province. After his graduation from the Xi'an Art Academy, he started work in the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall in 1965. Ten years later, he transferred…
Ma Yuru was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, in 1931. He graduated in 1955 from the Zhejiang Art Academy and took up teaching. He now heads the Middle School attached to the Zhejiang Art Academy…
Ma Zhenxiang (1941-2004), of the Hui ethnicity, was born in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. In 1961, he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Art Department of Inner Mongolia…
Mali Jitu (1928) was born in Chaoyang, Liaoning Province. He is of Mongolian ethnicity. After he finished junior high school in 1945, he joined the People's Liberation Army. In 1948, he joined the…
Man Da (1930), of Mongolian ethnicity, was from Zhelimu League, Inner Mongolia. In 1948, he studied in the Fine Arts Department of the Shenyang Lu Xun Academy of Arts, and in 1959, he graduated…
Mao Junguang (1928) was from Dongshan, Sichuan Province. He started teaching in primary schools in 1946 and in 1950, he enrolled in the Drawing Department of the Chengdu Art School. After graduation…
Mao Wenbiao (1950, Shanghai) received no formal art training. He joined the Art Section of the Political Department of the Navy in 1968. Mao is known for his oil paintings.
Mao Xiangxian (1941) was born in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the Wood Block Department of the Zhejiang Art Academy in 1965. Later, he worked at the Zhejiang Quxian Xinhua Press and the…
Mao Yiwei, also know as Ye Wei (叶维), was born in Changshu, Jiangsu Province in 1940. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Nanjing Normal University in 1961, and worked as an arts…
Mei Dingkai (1944) hails from Jianwei, Sichuan Province. After his graduation from the Sichuan Art Academy in 1969, he was employed by the Sichuan Nationalities Publishing House.
The poster The 1936…
Mei Xiaoqing (1930) was born in Huangmei, Hubei Province. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1949 upon his graduation from senior high school. In the following years, he created art in his…
Meng Guang (1921-1996) was from Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. He graduated in 1940 from the Shanghai Painting School. Subsequently, he became head of the Fine Arts Section of the New Fourth Route Army…
Meng Muyi (1917) was from Haining, Zhejiang Province. In 1938, he started his education at the White Swan Drawing Research Unit (白鹅绘画研究所) in Shanghai and combined work with studying drawing and…
Meng Qingjiang (1937, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province) graduated in 1965 from the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Art Academy. He was assigned to the People's Fine Arts Publishing House, where…
Meng Yangyu (1934) is from Wenshui, Shanxi Province. Meng attended the Shanxi Art School for a short while and later taught himself. After 1952, he worked at the Liu Hulan Memorial and the Wenshui…
Meng Yingsheng (1932-1997) was a native of Zizhong, Sichuan Province. In 1958, he graduated from the Chinese Figure Painting Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art…
Mi Gu (1918-1986) was born in Haining, Zhejiang Province. He entered the Hangzhou National Art School in 1934 and later transferred to the Shanghai Art School, where he started drawing cartoons. In…
Miao Jiashuo (1939) was born in Tumote Right Banner, Inner Mongolia. She graduated from the Department of Chinese Painting of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 1963. After graduating from the…
Mo Bohua (1934) is from Anhua, Hunan Province. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Central China Normal University in 1955 and in the following years, he was active in the arts field.…
Mo Pu (1915-1996, in traditional characters "莫樸") was born in Nanjing. He was an important oil painter, graphic artist and wood engraver. He studied a.o. under Xu Beihong, joined the New Fourth Army…
Mo Ruoying (1936) was from Xinjing Town, Jingxi County, Guangxi Province. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Guangxi Academy of Arts in 1962. He served as deputy curator, deputy…
Mo Shuzi (1941) was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Normal University in 1965. From 1965 to 1974, he was engaged in art education. In 1974,…
Mu Zhenyuan (no details known) was celebrated as a cartoonist in the 1950s, particularly known for the 1957 serial cartoon San Li Wan (三里湾).
