Artists
Wang Xijing (1946) hails from Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. After graduation from the Middle School attached to the Xi'an Art Academy in 1966, he became an art editor at the Xi'an Evening News (西安晚报), and…
Wang Xin (1925-2020) was from Chengde, Hebei Province. After his graduation from Rehe (Jehol) Normal University in 1948, he taught art in primary and secondary schools. In 1956, he joined the…
Wang Xindian (1941) was born in Changyi, Shandong Province. After his graduation from the Lu Xun Art Academy, he created many works in his spare time in the People’s Liberation Army. He is now an art…
Wang Xiqi (1938) was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. Since his childhood, he has been studying by himself. In 1958, he entered the Wumen Art Gallery to create Chinese paintings for export. In the…
Wang Xiqing (1934) was born Haiyang, Shandong Province. He is a painter, art educator, and first-class artist, engaging in art work for more than 60 years. He is known for his flower-and-bird…
Wang Xisong (1941) was born in Zhenyuan, Guizhou Province. He started his studies in 1958 in the Fine Arts class of the Art Department of the Guizhou Institute for Nationalities, and continued his…
Wang Xuetao (1903-1982), a native of Cheng'an, Hebei Province, was a famous modern Chinese painter of small freehand flower-and-bird paintings. In 1918, he entered the drawing department of the…
Wang Xuyang (1932) was a native of Zhuanghe, Liaoning Province. In 1952, he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Northeast Lu Xun Art Academy and then stayed on to teach at the school.…
Wang Yang (1946, Gaixian, Liaoning Province) graduated from the Fine Arts Section of the Liaoning Normal Art School in 1966. He worked as an artist in the General Headquarters of the Shenyang…
Wang Yanlin (1940-2010) was born in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. In 1961, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Xi'an Art Academy and was sent to work in the Xi'an Film Studios. In the…
Wang Yiding (1949) is from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the high school attached to the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1969. In 1990, he entered the advanced training class of the…
Wang Ying (1936) was born in Yuncheng, Shandong Province. After his graduation from the Shandong Art School in 1960, he was sent to work in the Shandong Fine Arts Publishing House. There, he still…
Wang Yingchun (1942) hails from Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. In 1966, she graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Xi'an Art Academy and in the following years, she made oil paintings,…
Wang Yongqiang (1945) hails from Shanghai. After his graduation from the Shanghai Art School in 1965, he entered the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Work Office. He now is in charge of the Oil…
Wang Yongyang (1934) is from Shanghai. He started his art education in 1948 in the Western Art Department of the Shanghai Art School and went on to the Shanghai Branch of the Central Art Academy in…
Wang Yubing (1939) was born in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. He graduated from the Arts and Crafts Department of Zhongzhou University.
Wang Yuqi (1958) is from Qingyuan, Hebei Province. From 1977-1979, he worked in the Hebei Provincial Art Department. He started his training as a professional blockprinter at the Drawing Department…
Wang Zhan'ao (1931) was from Dalian, Liaoning Province. In 1957, he graduated from the Chinese painting department of the Northeastern Fine Arts College and stayed at the school to teach in the…
Wang Zheng (1938) is from Wenling, Zhejiang Province. In 1966, he graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Zhejiang Art Academy. A year later, he was assigned to work as an art editor…
Wang Zhengzhong (1951) was from Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
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Wang Zhenyu (1946) was a native of Jilin Province. In 1968, he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Liaoning Art Normal University, and in 1981, he graduated from the Oil Painting Advanced…
Wang Zhongmin (1929) was from Wujin, Jiangsu Province. After being admitted to school in 1943, he dropped out due to his family's poverty and became a primary school teacher. At the same time, he was…
Wang Zhongqing (1926-2012) was a native of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, who graduated from the Sichuan Provincial Chengdu Normal College in 1949. In 1952, he graduated from the Arts Department of the…
Wang Zunyi (1938-1981) was born in Linmu, Shandong Province. After his graduation from the Shandong Sports Academy in 1960, he was assigned to work in the Propaganda Office of the Shandong Sports…
Wangqin Laxi (1928-1989), of Mongolian ethnicity, was from Inner Mongolia. He started his studies at the Dongbei (Northeast) Lu Xun Art Academy in 1947, and completed them at the Beijing Central Art…
Wei Chuanyi (1928) is from Daxian, Sichuan Province. After his graduation in 1952 from the Sichuan Provincial Art School, he took up teaching. In 1955, he participated in the Oil Painting Study Group…
Wei Chuyu (1945) was born in Wenshui, Shanxi Province. After his graduation from the Oil Painting Department of the Zhejiang Art Academy in 1970, he joined the People's Liberation Army and was…
Ms. Wei Jiangqiong (1940-2018) was of Zhuang ethnicity and came from Fusui, Guangxi Province. She graduated in 1961 from the Chinese Painting Department of the Hubei Art Academy and taught for a few…
Wei Jingshan (1943) is from Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the Shanghai Art Training School in 1965, and became active in the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Academy.
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Wei Kuizhong (1940) was born in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province. After his graduation from the Hebei Art Academy in 1962, he worked in various cultural centers on the district level in his home province…
Wei Qimei (1923-2009) hailed from Anqing, Anhui Province. During the Anti-Japanese War, he studied in the National Central University in Chongqing. Wei has taught for many years in the Oil Painting…
Wei Tianyu (1956) was from Shanghai. In 1982, he graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree and stayed on to teach. He was a visiting…
Wei Tiesheng (1935) was a native of Beijing. Wei is good at comics; he once worked as an artist for the Beijing Chaoyang Theater. In 2004, he won the third prize in the Italian International Comic…
Wei Xianqing (1956) was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. In 1988, he studied in the Art Design Department of the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University. He is editor in the New Year Pictures…
Wei Yang (1928-2017) was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province. He started his studies at the Hubei Educational Institute in 1949, and after his graduation he taught at a number of schools and academies. In…
Wei Yingzhou (no dates known) was a famous designer of calendar posters during the Republic of China. He produced many posters after the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
Wei Zhenbao (1944) hails from Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. In 1977, he graduated from the Art Department of the Anhui Normal College. He transferred in 1983 to the Wuxi Calligraphy and Painting…
Wei Zhigang (1950) was born in Baoding, Hebei Province. He graduated from the Painting Department of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 1977. He has worked in the Tianjin People’s Fine Arts…
Wei Zihui (no dates known) is a professor of Western painting who is very popular among students. He has been in charge of sketching and color teaching for more than 40 years. His works have won many…
Wei Ziqiang (1942) was a native of Huixian, Gansu Province. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Northwest Normal University in 1966, graduated with a master's degree in 1982, and stayed on…
Wen Bing (1932), also known as Sun Wenbiao (孙文彬), was born in Shanghai. When he was 14, he joined the New Fourth Army. In 1949, he enrolled in the Fine Arts Department of the Zhongyuan Arts College.…
Wen Daokuan (1944-1976) was born in Qipan Village, Bao Town, near Dalian, Liaoning Province. In September 1961, he entered the high school attached to the Shenyang Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, and in…
Wen Dugeng (1935) was born in Meixian, Guangdong Province. He graduated from the Painting Department of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 1955, and entered the teaching and research section of the…
Wen Guozhang (1942) was born in Jiangjin County, Sichuan Province. He started his artistic education in 1958, when he entered the middle school attached to the Central Art Academy. Later, he studied…
Wen Quanyuan (1935-2011) was from Dalian, Liaoning Province. He graduated from the Beijing Normal University in 1956, and started his artistic carreer in 1958. He was editor at the People's Fine…
Wen Xiaomiao (1948) was born in Chongqing, Sichuan Province. She studied at the Secondary School of Fine Arts affiliated to the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in her early years. From 1972 to 1983, she…
Weng Rulan (1944-2012) was recognized for her artistic talent as a child. When she was eleven, her work was included in an exhibition of children's art sent to Yugoslavia and published in China. At…
Weng Wenzhong (1939), also known as Gongyu (公羽) and Mengqiao (梦樵), was born in Fujian Province. He was engaged in arts and crafts organization work in the Guangxi Light Industry Department and…
Weng Yizhi (1921-1995) was from Shanghai. In the 1940s, he was engaged in artistic work for the New Fourth Army Service Corps. From 1950 onwards, he worked in various artistic organizations in…
Wu Biduan (1926) was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. He is of Hui ethnicity. From 1939 till 1945, he studied art in Chongqing and in 1946, he enrolled in the Fine Arts Department of the North…
Wu Delong (1928) was from Dongyang, Zhejiang Province. In 1953, he graduated from the Painting Department of the East China Branch of the Central Academy of Fine Arts; he stayed in the postgraduate…
Wu Dezu (1923-1991) was born in Weinan, Shaanxi Province. In 1939, he went to Yan'an, where he studied at the Lu Xun Art and Literature Academy. He worked in the Shaan-Gan-Ning Revolutionary Base…
Wu Guanghua (1933, Dongxiang, Jiangxi Province) originally started as a glazer of pottery, but after he was accepted at the Eastern China Branch of the Central Art Academy in 1953, he graduated from…
Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010) was from Yixing, Jiangsu Province. After his graduation from the National Art Training School in Hangzhou in 1942, he taught at National Chongqing University. In 1947, he…
Wu Hongsheng (no dates known) was an outstanding oil painting portrait artist from Hunan Province. From 1967 to 1968, he was commissioned by the Hunan Provincial Party Committee to successively…
Wu Huamin (1954) was a native of Chongqing, Sichuan Province. In 1991, he graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Chongqing Social University, majoring in oil painting. Now he is the director and…
Wu Jiahua (1932) is from Guiyang, Guizhou Province. In 1953, he graduated from the Art Department of Guiyang Normal College, and in the period 1956-1958, he continued his studies at the Block print…
Wu Jian (1942, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province) started his art education at the Shanghai Art Training School in 1961. He has taught at the Shanghai Lintong Middle School, the Shanghai Education Institute…
Wu Jianzhong (1946) hails from Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province. Wu is a self-taught artist who joined the propaganda section and the club of the Qinhuangdao Harbor Office in 1974. Ten years later, in…
Wu Jue (1920) was from Shaoyang, Hunan Province. He graduated from the Guilin Chuyang Academy of Fine Arts, and served as the art editor of the Hunan Daily (湖南日报). He also worked as an art cadre of…
Wu Junfa (1927-2019) was born in Guangfeng, Jiangxi Province. Artistically active since 1943, Wu took the correspondence course of the All-China Woodcut Association and joined the China National Wood…
Wu Junqi (1918-2006) was from Kunshan, Jiangsu Province. During beginning of the war against Japan in 1938, his family fled to Shanghai. After his graduation from the Suzhou Art School in that same…
Wu Kui (1914-1970) was from Guiyang, Guizhou Province. In his youth, Wu studied at the Beiping Art School and the Shanghai Art School and he participated in anti-Japanese activities. He joined the…
Wu Lieyan (1956) was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, majoring in decoration design in 1980. In 2001, graduated from the Nanjing University of the…
Wu Linsheng (1923-2008) was born in Rui'an, Zhejiang Province. In 1948, he graduated after four years of study in the Art Department of the Central University. A year later, he was employed in the…
