Li Yukai was born in Muping County, Shandong Province in 1931. He went to Dalian in 1950 and worked as an artist in the Dalian Art Troupe and the Liaoning Provincial Art Troupe. In 1958, he served as…
Artists
Li Yusheng (1948) was born in Zibo, Shandong Province. In 1968, he graduated as an industrial designer from the Shandong Provincial Art College. He was sent to work with the Yantai Municipal Opera…
Li Yuzi (1935, Yanzhou, Shandong Province) graduated in 1955 from the Fine Arts Department of the Lu Xun Art Academy and was sent to work in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province where he joined the editorial…
Li Zehao (1939-2019) was born in Liaozhong, Liaoning Province. Li was trained in the Oil Painting Department of the Lu Xun Fine Arts Academy, from which he graduated in 1964. In 1970, he was…
Li Zemin was born in Xianghe, Hebei Province, in 1941 and now lives in Beijing. He graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 1967. He is currently a professor of Hebei University of…
Li Zengji was born in Chongqing, Sichuan Province, in 1942. He graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. He is Professor in the Department of Fine Arts of Sichuan Normal University. He has…
Li Zhenjian (1922-1992) was born in Jinyun, Zhejiang Province. He was a famous figure artist and the founder as well as one of the representative artists of the portraiture of the new Zhejiang…
Li Zhenqiu (1946, Jinxian, Jiangxi Province) graduated in 1965 from the Arts Department of the Jingdezhen Ceramics Academy and was assigned to work in the Jiangxi Historical Museum. In 1980, he…
Li Zhiguo was born in Tianjin in 1946. He is a national first-class artist, member of the China Artists Association, and director of the Tianjin Artists Association.
Since the 1980s, he has mainly…
Li Zhihua was born in Zunhua, Hebei Province, in 1956. He graduated from the Hebei Arts and Crafts School (now Hebei University of Arts and Crafts). Li studied under many famous calligraphy and…
Li Zongjin (1916-1977) was from Wujin, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Suzhou Fine Arts Training School in 1937. Li was known as an arts educator; he held positions in the National Beiping…
Liang Changlin (1951-1983) was a native of Baicheng, Jilin Province. He was admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1974, graduated with honors in 1978, and stayed on to teach in the Chinese…
Liang Genxiang (1941) graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Foshan Art College, Guangdong Province, in 1961. He has participated in many national art exhibitions and his works have been…
Liang Hongtao (1939) is from Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province. After his graduation from the Zhejiang Art Academy in 1963, he was sent to work in the technological research office of the Shanghai Silk…
Liang Mingguang (1945) was from Nanhai, Guangdong Province. In 1970, he graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Later, he became the art department manager of the Guangzhou Art Company.…
Liang Pingbo (1945) is from Changting, Fujian Province. He graduated from the Zhejiang Art Academy in 1970. Liang has been editor of the Gongnongbing huabao (工农兵画报, Worker-Peasant-Soldier Illustrated…
Liang Qide (1949) was born in Shunde, Guangdong Province. He started working in the 1970s and created a large number of serial cartoons and book illustrations that were published with many publishers…
Liang Rongzhong (1938-1995) was from Pingnan, Guangxi Province. In 1964, he graduated from the Chinese painting major of the Guangxi Art Institute.
Liang was known for his Chinese paintings, and he…
Liang Wancheng was born in Lingshan, Guangxi Province, in 1941. He has been engaged in cultural work in the military since the 1950s. He entered the Naval Academy in 1960 and graduated with a major…
Liang Yan (1943) was born in a poor family in Qingyuan County, in the foothills of the Taihang Range in Hebei Province. He is currently director of the Jilin Chinese Painting Art Committee.
Liang Yehong (1934) was born in Panyu, Guangdong Province. As a senior artist, he has for a long time been engaged in art creation and art organization counseling in the Guangzhou Cultural Department…
Liang Yulong (1922-2011) was born in Changsha, Hunan Province. After his graduation from the Art Department of the National Central University in Nanjing in 1947, he went to the Nanjing China Film…
Liang Yunqing (1934) is from Dongguan, Guangdong Province. He graduated from the Drawing Department of the Central Art Academy in 1955 and went on to study in the Fresco Department of the Dresden…
Liang Zhaotang (1946, Shunde, Guangdong Province) graduated from the high school affiliated to the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1964. In 1981, he entered the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and…
Liang Zhenxiong (1942) was born in Nanhai, Guangdong Province. He graduated from the Guangzhou Railway Transportation School in 1961, worked as the art editor of the Guangzhou Railway News (广州铁道报)…
The impressum of the poster identifies Liang Zhiwei (no details known) as a commune member.
Liao Lian'gui (1932) was born in Guixian, Guangxi Province. He started his schooling in the Arts Department of the Wuhan Central China Normal University in 1952, and graduated four years later. In…
Liao Zongyi (1937) is from Chaozhou, Guangdong Province. After he joined the People's Liberation Army in 1956, he enrolled in a refresher course in the Guangzhou Art Academy in 1962. He is now a…
Lin Chenghan (1943) hails from Dalian, Liaoning Province. He graduated in 1968 from the Industrial Arts Department of the Lu Xun Art Academy. In 1976, he graduated from a refresher course in the…
Lin Fan (1931) was born in Yiyang, Hunan Province. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1949. During his career, he has served as an art editor, designer and teacher in the Hunan Military Region…
Lin Gang (pseudonym of Zhang Guansheng 张冠生, 1924) was born in Ningjin, Shandong Province. After studying in the Fine Arts Department of Huabei United University, he became a research student in the…
Lin Jiabing (1945) hails from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Art Department of Anhui Normal University in 1974. In 1984, he followed a refresher course in the Oil Painting…
Lin Kai (1924-2006) was a native of Fuzhou, Fujian Province. He graduated from the National Hangzhou Arts Training School in 1950, and from 1951 until his retirement, he worked in the People's Fine…
Lin Kanghua (1929, Shanghai) graduated from the Drawing Department of the Zhejiang Art Academy in 1953, and pursued a career in art education. Later he was an associate professor at the Zhejiang Art…
Lin Meilan (1940-2008) was born in Wuning, Jiangxi Province. After his graduation from Jiangxi Jiujiang Normal College in 1960, he became a teacher at Wuning Middle School. In 1964 he transfered to…
Lin Qinghe (1947) was from Peng'an, Sichuan Province. In 1967, he graduated from the high school attached to the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. Currently, he is an associate research librarian at the…
Lin Rixiong (1939) was born in Wenchang, Hainan Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Section of the Tianjin Art Academy in 1961 and worked as an editor for the 河北美术 (Hebei Art) and 河北画报 (…
Lin Shuzhong (1926-2014) was born in Pingyang, Zhejiang Province. He started his training at the National Peiping Art School in 1947 but later transferred to the East China Branch of the Central Art…
Lin Tao (1930) is from Tianjin. A self-taught artist, he joined the People's Liberation Army in 1946. From 1947-1949, he worked in various culture and art groups before becoming a designer with the…
Lin Weiguang was born in Pujiang County, Zhejiang Province, in 1977. He studied painting since childhood. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Hangzhou Normal University in 2002 and then…
Lin Ximing (1925) is from Yongjia, Zhejiang Province. He is known as a folk artist, as his father was, specializing in Chinese painting and papercuts. He started painting in 1942, and worked for…
Lin Xixiang is classified as 'peasant' on his 1975 poster Evening party to celebrate a bumper harvest.
Lin Yingshan (1940) was born in Gexian, Liaoning Province. He entered the Lu Xun Art Academy in 1959, and after his graduation in 1965 he went to work with the Liaoning Fine Arts Publishing House. He…
Lin Yixiang (1940) was born in Yokohama (Japan) in 1940. In 1953, she and her family returned to China. Her father, Lin Daquan, taught painting at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, where Ms. Lin…
Lin Yong (1942) was born in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province. In 1966, he graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Guangzhou Art Academy. He became vice-director of the Guangdong Painting…
Lin Zhen (1943) is from Dalian, Liaoning Province. He graduated from the Industrial Arts Department of the Lu Xun 鲁迅 Art Academy in 1968. Subsequently, he was employed in the editorial department of…
Ling Xu (1919-2016) was born in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province. He graduated in 1940 from the Chinese Painting Department of the Shanghai New China Art School and devoted the greater part of the 1940s…
Liu Aimin is a Manchu native. He was born in 1954 in Chengde, Hebei Province, and was originally from Kalaqin Banner, Inner Mongolia. He studied fine arts at Hebei Normal University and the Beijing…
Liu Bairong (1952) is from Shanghai. From 1971 on, he worked in arts units attached to the People's Liberation Army. He now is active as an artist in the Political Department of the Wuhan Military…
Liu Baogui (1945) was a native of Shenyang, Liaoning Province. He studied in the Fine Arts Department of Liaoning Art Teachers College in 1961, and studied in the Painting Department of the Tianjin…
Liu Baoquan (1940, Jizhou, Hebei Province) loved painting since childhood. He was admitted to Beijing Normal University of Art (later renamed Beijing Art Academy) in 1957. He was taught by the famous…
Liu Bingli (1932-2000) was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. As an autodidact, he worked for cinemas. From 1956 onward, he designed and created numerous works. In 1967, he joined the art…
Liu Bingliang (1934) hails from Faku, Liaoning Province. In 1951, he entered the Art Department of the Shenyang City Literary and Art Cadre Training Class. After graduating in 1952, he was assigned…
Liu Chang'en (1936-1996) was from Tongyu, Jilin Province. Liu was self-taught. From 1952 on, he sought instruction wherever possible and wherever he worked, including the Cultural Institute in Tongyu…
Liu Chengqi (1941) is a self-taught artist from Anfu, Jiangxi Province who has worked in stage design and in cultural centers.
Liu has received awards for his New Year prints, but he has also…
Liu Chuanhui (1920) was from Guangxi Province. In 1939, he was admitted to the Western Painting Department of the Fine Arts Department of the National College of Art. In 1942, he left school in…
Liu Chunhua (1944), also known as Liu Chenghua 刘成华, was born in Tailai, Heilongjiang Province. In 1959, he entered the secondary school attached to the Lu Xun Art Academy in Shenyang. He enrolled in…
Liu Dachun (1941) was from Linshui, Sichuan Province. He graduated from the High School Attached to the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1964, and later served as the art cadre of the Sichuan Aba…
Liu Dajiang (1928-2020) was from Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. He became disabled due to illness in childhood and became half deaf and dumb. His training started in the Arts Department of Nanjing Central…
Liu Danzhai (1931-2011) was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. When he was only 10 years old, he had his first exhibition in Wenzhou. Because he was from a poor family, he could only draw in his…
Liu Dawei (1945) was born in Zhucheng, Shandong Province and graduated from the Arts Department of the Inner Mongolia (Nei Menggu) Normal University in 1968. He continued his study of national…
Liu Di (1948) is from Jinzhou, Liaoning Province. He graduated as a professional artist from the Art Department of the Inner Mongolia (Nei Menggu) Normal University in 1970, and now works as art…
Liu Duan (1930) was a native of Gaoyang, Hebei Province. He joined the army in 1949 and worked in fine arts. After 1951, he served as the art editor of the Shijiazhuang Popular Art Society (石家庄大众美术社…
Liu Ergang (1947) hails from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. Although he studied many artistic forms, he is a painter in the Chinese style at heart. He graduated in 1991 from the Chinese Art Institute…
Liu Fanguo (1931) is from Xiangxiang, Hunan Province. After his graduation from the Hunan Central China Superior Art Normal College in 1950, he taught at middle schools. In 1960, Liu graduated from…
Liu Guangcan (1955, Chongqing, Sichuan Province) received no formal art education and now works in the photography section of the Qingbaijiangqu Cultural Center in Chengdu.
Liu is known for his New…
Liu Haisu (1896-1994) hailed from Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. In 1912, when he was 16 years old, he set up his own art school in Shanghai. He introduced various new techniques, including a course in…
Liu Haomei is the daughter of Liu Yuyi (刘宇一). She collaborates with him on his huge canvasses that commemorate landmarks in recent Chinese (and world) history.
Liu Huisheng (no details known), a Huxian peasant painter, is identified as a member of the Shiwang Village Brigade of Cangyou Commune (苍游公社什王村大队社员), Huxian County, Shaanxi Province.
