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Yin Peihua (1943) was born in Changshu, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Suzhou Industrial Art Training School in 1962, and in the same year joined the People's Liberation Army. As a soldier,…
Yin Rongsheng (1930-2005) was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province. After his graduation from the Drawing Department of the Central Art Academy in 1954, he took up teaching. Later he was a professor in…
Yin Xiangqian (1932-2013) was born in Siping, Jilin Province. After his graduation from the Drawing Department of the North East Lu Xun Art Academy in 1955, he went to Jinan, Shanxi Province, to…
Yin Xusheng (1930) is from Suijiang, Yunnan Province. He graduated from the Drawing Department of the Central Art Academy in 1954 and went on to teach at various institutions. Yin is known for his…
Yin Yi (1954) was a native of Shandong Province, known for his Chinese paintings and comic strips. In 1970, he was drafted into the army as a literary and artistic soldier with expertise in fine arts…
Ying Tao (1925-2012), formerly known as Yang Junsheng (杨筠生), was from Zhaoxian, Hebei Province. He graduated in 1947 from the Art Department of the Art Academy of the North China United…
Ying Yeping (1910-1990) hailed from Ninghai, Zhejiang Province. He was taught at home and started specializing in nature painting when he was 16. In 1949, he established himself as a specialized…
Yixi Zeren (1941) is from Kangding, Sichuan Province. Yixi, who is also known under the name Wang Yichuan (王艺川), is of Tibetan ethnicity. He graduated in 1956 from the middle school attached to the…
You Chongren (1934) was from Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. He entered the Suzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1951. Soon after the war to resist U.S. aggression and aid to Korea broke out, he joined the army…
You Jiashen (1932-1990) was from Hailun, Heilongjiang Province. After his graduation from the Northeast China Lu Xun Art Academy in 1953, You was mainly involved in administrative functions, such as…
You Kaimin (1942) was a native of Nanning, Guangxi Province. In 1961, he entered the Chongqing People’s Liberation Army Logistics Engineering College. In 1968, he graduated from the Fine Arts…
You Longgu (1923-1993) was from Fuzhou, Fujian Province. After her graduation from the Art Department of the Nanjing Central Academy in 1949, she joined the People's Liberation Army, where she became…
You Wenxuan (Rudong, Jiangsu Province, 1937) has been engaged in mass art education and art creation for a long time, and has made great efforts for the construction of modern folk painting in Rudong…
You Yunchang (1923-2002) was from Luoyang, Henan Province. In 1943, he entered the Fine Arts Department of the Central University and started with stone carving. After his graduation from the Oil…
Yu Baojian (1942) was born in Pulandian, Liaoning Province. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of Northeast Normal University. As a water colorist, Yu is a member of the Chinese Artists…
Yu Fuqian (1938-2007), also known as Yu Fuqian (于福谦), was born in Tianjin. He graduated from the high school attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1959, and graduated from the Chinese…
Yu Huali (1933-2014) was from Tianjin. In 1952, he started work for the Tianjin Artistic Workers Association, and became the editor of the Tianjin huabao [天津画报, Tianjin Illustrated]. He joined the…
Yu Jigao (1932) was born in Tongshan, Jiangsu Province. He entered the Art Department of Nanjing University in 1951, and graduated from the Art Department of Nanjing Normal University in 1955. In…
Yu Li (1936, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province) graduated from the Lu Xun Art Academy in Shenyang in 1957. She works as an art editor for the Shanghai Children and Youth Publishing House. Ms. Yu is known…
Yu Liang (1946) is from Shunyi, Beijing. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1964, and while a soldier, he studied at many art academies, including Beijing Normal University and the Tianjin Art…
Yu Qiwan (1935) was born in Kaiping, Guangdong Province. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1956, and while in the Navy he engaged in propaganda work. Yu took a refresher course at the…
Yu Shimei (1932) is from Shengxian, Zhejiang Province. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1950, and in 1951 he transferred to the PLAAF. While in the Army, he engaged in numerous artistic…
Yu Xiaoyi was born in Shanghai in 1949. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of Shanghai Donghua University in 1969; worked and studied in the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Studio in…
Yu Xuexin (1929-1980), a member of the Manchu nationality, was from Beijing. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1953. He was an associate professor in the Department of…
Yu Yunjie (1917-1992) was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. After his graduation from the Art Department of the National Central University in 1941, he taught at the National Art Training School…
Yu Zhande (1946, Wucheng, Shandong Province) graduated from Shandong Pingyuan Normal College in 1968. The next year, he transferred to the Wucheng District Cultural Center, where he now serves as an…
Yu Zhengyuan (1947) was born in Chongqing, Sichuan Province. Yu is a versatile artist, having created Chinese paintings, oil paintings, pastel paintings, New Year pictures, posters, murals,…
Yu Zhenli (1949) was born in Dalian, Liaoning Province. In 1968, he graduated from the Art Department of Dalian Normal University. After he took a refresher course in Oil Painting Department of the…
Yuan Chuanding (1936) was born in Xuancheng, Anhui Province. He has been dedicated to landscape painting all his life, occasionally creating flower-and-bird paintings and portraits.
Yuan Feng (1950) is from Nantong, Jiangsu Province. He is editor of the Nantong ribao [南通日报, Nantong Daily], and responsible for the art and film section. Yuan's specialities include figurative…
Yuan Hao (1941) was born in Xincai County, Henan Province. From 1959-1962, he studied in the Middle School Attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 1962-1967, he studied in Dong Xiwen's…
Yuan Hui (1934) born in Qingdao, Shandong Province. He graduated from the Shandong Art School in 1962. Later, he worked as an art creator at the Linyi Regional Art Museum in Shandong. In 1977, he was…
Yuan Qinglu (1953) was born in Quzhou, Hebei Province. He entered the Tianjin Art Academy in 1973 and after graduation from the Printmaking Department, he joined the People’s Liberation Army, where…
Yuan Xiaocen (1915-2008) was from Puding, Guizhou Province. He entered the Literature and History Department of Yunnan University in 1938, where he discovered Chinese painting, sculpture and poetry.…
Yuan Yao'e (1931) is from Huzhou, Guangdong Province. In 1947, he graduated from the Guangdong Huzhou Art Training School, and later from the Shanghai Art Training Institute. After his graduation…
Yuan Yinchang (1955) was born in Shanghai. From 1977 to 1980, he studied printmaking at the Department of Fine Arts of the Shanghai Theatre Academy. From 1980 to 1986, he was an art editor at…
Yun Qicang (1932) is a native of Wujin, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from Wuchang Art College in 1950 and graduated from the Oil Painting Research Class of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1963…

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