Artists
Liu Jiazhi (1939) is good at painting, especially figures, landscapes and flowers. His works have participated in many national, provincial and municipal exhibitions and won awards. Many of his works…
Liu Jilin (1938) graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1961. From 1978 to 1980, he studied in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He was attached to the Guizhou…
Liu Jingqi (1958) was born in Ji'an, Jiangxi Province. In 1976, he was sent as an educated youth to Ji'an County, Jiangxi Province, to work as a farmer. From 1980-1984, he enrolled and graduated from…
Liu Jiyou (1918-1983) was from Tianjin. He was known for his comics.
Liu Juqing (1929-2023), also known as A Ju (阿菊), was born in Wujin County, Jiangsu Province. In 1948, Ms. Liu was admitted to the Hangzhou National Art School (now the China Academy of Fine Arts). In…
Liu Kemin was born in Tangshan, Hebei Province, in 1938. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Art Academy in 1965, and was assigned to a teaching position in the Architectural…
Liu Nansheng (1937) was from Shanghai. In 1958, he graduated from the Department of Oil Painting of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. Liu is known for his oil paintings.
Liu Peiheng (1954), also known as Liu Shan (刘山) was from Baochi, Tianjin. He graduated from the Department of Art, Northeast Normal University. He is known for his Chinese paintings and New Year…
Liu Qingtao (1941-2009) was from Yongji, Jilin Province. He graduated from the Jilin Provincial Secondary Art School in 1959. He successively served as the stage designer of the Jilin Opera Troupe of…
Liu Qingxiao (1944) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art Design, Shandong Art Institute.
Liu Renjie was born in Dalian, Liaoning Province, in 1951. In 1968, he was sent to the countryside, to Chaoyang Township, Xiuyan County, Liaoning Province. In 1971, he started work in the art group…
Liu Renqing (1942), also known as Lu Yan (鲁燕), was from Laiyang, Shandong Province. In early 1960, he graduated from high school and enlisted as a soldier in the Communications Corps of the Jinan…
Liu Rongfu (1909-1999) was a native of Jiaocheng, Shanxi Province. In 1928, he left for Japan, and in 1935, he graduated from the Imperial Art Academy in Tokyo. Upon his return in 1938, he became…
Liu Sanduo (1939) was from Chongyang County, Hubei Province. In 1958, he was admitted to Hubei University (now Zhongnan University of Economics and Law). In 1960, he went to work in the Chinese…
The caption on the poster identifies Ms. Liu Wei as a member of the Gucheng commune of Jinning county.
Liu Wenfu (1938) was from Shulu, Hebei Province. He graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 1962.
Liu is known for paintings and gouaches. His poster of Zhu De with children is one of his…
Liu Wenxi (1933-2019) was born in Shengxian, near Shaoxing, in Zhejiang Province. In 1953, he entered the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, from which he graduated in 1958. After graduation, he became…
Liu Xiqi (1948) was born in Anfu, Jiangxi Province. Although he received no formal art training, he worked as a designer for a dance troupe in Jiangxi. He now works as art editor with the Jiangxi…
Liu Xunfa (1946) was from Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province. In 1965, he graduated from the Shanghai Arts and Crafts School. Liu has worked in the Shanghai Arts and Crafts Research Center, the Shanghai Arts…
Liu Yaozhen (1945) is from Shanghai. She completed her study at the Shanghai Art Training School in 1965, and worked at the Shanghai Institute for Oil Painting and Plastic Arts. In 1982, she went to…
Liu Yaping (1954) is from Shanghai. He graduated in 1982 from the Zhejiang Art Academy. After teaching in the Fine Arts Department of Shanghai Normal College, he became the head of the Western…
Liu Yonghuan (1940, Xindu, Sichuan Province) graduated in 1964 as a professional oil painter from the Drawing Department of the Sichuan Art Academy. In 1965-1966 he took part in the Revolutionary…
Liu Yongkai (1927) was born in Qiqiha'er, Heilongjiang Province. He entered the Central Art Academy in 1950 and after his graduation in 1953, he was assigned to work as editor in the People's Fine…
Liu Yongqing (1958) was born in Xinhua County, Hunan Province. He was admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1986, majoring in oil painting in the "Xu Beihong Studio" (徐悲鸿画室), and graduated…
Liu Yunsheng (1937) is from Shandong Province. He graduated in 1963 from the Fine Arts Department of the Shandong Art College. From 1963 to the end of the previous century, he contributed to the…
Liu Yushan (1940) is from Beijing. In 1965, he graduated from the Blockprint Department of the Central Art Academy, where he had studied under Li Hua, Gu Yuan, and others. Afterwards, he was assigned…
Liu Yuyi (1940) was from Zigong, Sichuan Province. He entered the Middle School attached to the Central Art Academy in 1955. Upon his graduation in 1960, he was sent to the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous…
Liu Zewen (1943) is from Jimo, Shandong Province. Liu did not start out as an artist, but joined the People's Liberation Army in 1964. In 1970, he transferred to work in the New China Bookstores (…
Liu Zheng (1949) was born in Tianjin. After she graduated from senior high school, she volunteered to work in Inner Mongolia; later, she was employed there as a school teacher. In 1974, she entered…
Liu Zhengde (1931-2019) hailed from Tianmen, Hubei Province. In 1949, he graduated from the Western Painting Department of the Wuchang Art School, but already in school, he developed an interest in…
Liu Zhide (1940) is a native of Huxian, Shaanxi Province. He has been fond of painting and folk art since childhood. He received training at the Mass Art Center of Xianyang district, the Mass Art…
Liu Zhigui (1945) was born in Huxian, Shaanxi Province. In 1962, he joined the Huxian Peasant Painting Group and started painting in his spare time. He became art teacher in the Jiaqiang school in…
Liu Zhongchen (1944, Juxian, Shandong Province) graduated from the Lu Xun Art Academy in 1969. Since then, he has been a leading official at the Tieling Municipal Mass Fine Arts Museum (Liaoning…
Liu Zhongfu (刘忠福) (1942-2014) was from Shandong. He graduated from the Art Department of Liaoning University. When he was young, he damaged his right hand in a traffic accident. Through unremitting…
Liu Zijiu (1891–1975) was born in Tianjin. In 1920, he graduated from the advanced class of the Beijing Army Surveying School, and then joined the Beijing Chinese Painting Research Association. After…
Liu Zongqi (1940) was born in Kunming, Yunnan Province. He graduated from the Kunming Art School in 1961. He mainly known for his landscapes and was taught by Li Keran and other masters.
Long Shannong (1944) was born in Guilin City, Guangxi Province, and graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Guangxi Art Institute in 1968. Long is known for his figure painting, landscape…
Long Yunxu (1935) hails from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1950, where he studied armament technology at the military cadre school. In 1964, he was transferred…
Lou Chunting (1946) was born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. At the age of 15, he was admitted to the art class of the Liaoning Provincial Art Preschool Normal School with excellent results. In 1974…
Lou Jiaben (1941) is from Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. From 1960-1965, he studied Chinese painting at the Central Art Academy. In 1980, he graduated as a research student from the Chinese Painting…
Lou Puyi (1932-2002) was a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang Province. He served as an art creator in the army in 1949. He was admitted to the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1956…
Lou Qigui (1943) is a self-taught artist from Wuhan, Hubei Province. After he joined the People's Liberation Army in 1962, he worked in film and other art disciplines. He was demobilized in 1981 to…
Lu Dehui (1937) is of Man ethnicity. He was born in Jingbohu, Heilongjiang Province. After his graduation from the Central Industrial Art Academy in 1961, he has taught at various institutes. His…
Lu Delin (1929) is from Hanchuan, Henan Province. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1949 and in 1950, he was attached to the propaganda section of the political department of the 45th Army to…
Lu Deng (1932) was born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from high school in 1950 and was admitted to the Department of Art, National Nanjing University, majoring in painting. In 1951, he…
Lü Enyi (1930) hails from Xiangshui, Jiangsu Province. He received no formal training, but became fine arts editor of the journal Readings for Warriors (战士读物, Zhanshi duwu). He is currently attached…
Lu Hongnian (1919-1989) was a native of Taicang, Jiangsu Province. He loved painting when he was young, and studied landscape with Li Zhichao in middle school. In 1932, he was admitted to the Fine…
Lu Juding (1940) is from Suxian, Anhui Province. After he graduated from the Anhui Art Academy in 1961, he continued his studies in the Oil Painting Department of the Central Art Academy. He joined…
Lu Kunfeng (1934-2018) was born in Sishui, Shandong Province. He graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Zhejiang Art Academy in 1964, and took up teaching.
Lu specialized in flower-…
Lü Lin (1920-1994), also known as Lü Lin (吕林), was born in Ji County, Shanxi Province. From 1938 to 1939, he served as a propaganda officer and art editor under the leadership of the underground…
Lü Pin (1918-1990) was from Yantai, Shandong Province. He graduated in 1942 from the Beiping Art School and in 1949, he went to Qingdao (Shandong Province) to teach art in the Qingdao Art School. In…
Lu Ping (1945) hails from Guoyang, Anhui Province. He graduated from the Anqing Art Academy in 1960. In the following years, he worked in the theatre, exhibition halls and mass art centres. In 1983,…
Lu Qing (1928-2017) was an animator of the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio. She graduated from the Suzhou Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in oil painting. In April 1950, she entered the Shanghai Film…
Lu Ran (1934-2008), from Laizhou, Shandong Province, was one of the pseudonyms of Cui Hui (崔辉). He was known for his Chinese flower-and-bird paintings. In 1990, at the invitation of Ngapoi Ngawang…
Lu Rujie was born in Shanghai in 1943. He was trained as an artist and a journalist. He now works as a journalist and editor with the Shanghai journal Youth Paper (少年报, Shaonian bao).
Lu has…
Lu Ting (1956) was born in Shanghai. After he graduated from the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, he has worked for a long time at the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House. His work has been…
Lü Xiangyou (1928-2007) was born in a poor peasant family in the mountainous area of Liuhe County, Jilin Province. He joined the revolutionary troops in 1947 and was soon selected by the People's…
Lu Xinsen (1933) was born in Shanghai. After his graduation from the Central Art Academy in 1953, he worked in various artistic editorial capacities in Hebei Province. He now heads the cartoon strip…
Lu Yezi (1935) was born in Qionghai, Hainan Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Fine Arts). He is now a professor of…
Lu Yifei (1931-2005) was a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang Province. He started working in 1949, creating art in his spare time. After his graduation from the Zhejiang Art Academy in 1960, he entered the…
