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Chao Shao-Ang |
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is a native of Guangzhou, Guangdong. He
founded the Lingnan Art Studio in Guangzhou. In 1937 he served as
the head of the Department of Chinese Painting at the Guangzhou
Municipal College of Fine Arts and in 1948 as a professor in the
Department of Fine Arts at Guangzhou University. He excels in
painting landscapes, animals, flowers, insects and fish and is
particularly noted for painting cicadas. He is a representative
painter of the Lingnan School. His paintings have been exhibited on
many occasions in the United States, Singapore, Germany and other
countries and he has been granted various awards |
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Yang Shan-hen |
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Yang Shan-hen is one of the most
representative artists of the second generation of the Lingnan
School of Painting. Specialized in bird and flower, figure,
landscape painting and excelled in calligraphy, he is open-minded to
adopt the strength of archaic and modern, the Eastern and Western
painting techniques. His paintings are therefore considered not
entirely conformed to the original direction of the School. He
establishes his own style by the application of dry textural
strokes. |
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Guan Shanyue |
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(1912, Yangjiang, Guangdong Province)
graduated from Guangzhou Municipal Teachers Training College in
1933. His early work consisted of sketches made in Southwestern and
Northwestern China as well the coastal provinces along the Eastern
seaboard. During the war, he was engaged in anti-Japanese activities
in Macao and Hong Kong. After 1949, he taught for many years, and
became a prominent representative of the "Lingnan School". In 1959,
he cooperated in work for the Great Hall of the People. In 1979, the
painting reproduced as a poster below was also added to the Great
Hall of the People. |
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Li Xiong-Cai |
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A native of Gaoyao, Guangdong, he
studied painting under Gao Jianfu at the Spring Slumber Art Studio
in his young age. He had also studied sketch and later went to Japan
and studied Japanese painting at the Tokyo Arts College. In the
1940s, he toured to Guangxi, Sichuan and the Northwest regions,
where he got much inspirations from the scenery there. Li had taught
at the National Arts College. In 1978, he was appointed deputy
director and head of the Chinese Painting Department of the
Guangzhou Arts College and he is now the advisor of the college. He
is also elected a director of the Chinese Artists Society and deputy
director of the Chinese Artists Association, ........ |
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Ven. Hiu Wan |
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Ven. Hiu Wan was awarded the Cultural
Prize in 1997 by the Executive Yuan, the nation's highest honor for
personal achievement. Aside from being a distinguished artist, she
is a also renowned for her scholarship in Buddhism, literary merit
as a poet, her tireless devotion to education, and, above all, a
dedicated practitioner of Prajna Ch'an Buddhism |
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Henry Wo |
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A subtle fusing of influences drawn
from the East and the West softly permeates Wo paintings. He
combines his strong heritage of Chinese brushwork and principles
with his free translucent washes, punctuated with delicate linear
accents and birds, fish and flowers. Ethereal light bathes his
pictures and gives his work a quivering life. A native of China, who
studied art at his early years in China and Hong Kong with Prof.
Chao Shao-An. He migrated into the United States and settled in
Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and five children in 1975. His
paintings have been exhibited in Canada, Australia, and throughout
the Orient and the United States.
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Au Ho-Nien |
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Au Ho-Nien is a new-generation
representative of the Lingnan School. It was founded during the
early Qing Dynasty around the southeastern parts of China. The shui-mo
(water-ink) painters adopted the brushwork in traditional Chinese
painting and introduced the use of colors from the western art.
Hence, a new style of shui-mo painting was created. Au, after having
practiced Chinese painting for years, realized the importance of
space. His sophisticated exertion on the contrast between filled
parts and space has broadened the whole outlook for shui-moi
painting. Besides, the education of classical literature and
calligraphy given by his father made him an excellent poet. His
paintings are a combination of pictorial art and belle-letters..... |
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James Tan |
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The youthful, innovative spirit of the
founders of the Lingnan School has inspired James Tan to extend his
own work well beyond tradition. He blends mastery of Chinese brush
painting with an ability to capture the essence of Western culture,
thereby creating a style of Chinese brush painting which is
distinctly his own.
With 36 one-man shows in
Singapore, Japan, Thailand, Dubai, Bahrain, Australia, England,
Germany, the U.S.A., and Canada behind him, James' recent works
retain the same exquisite quality that has made his name synonymous
with creativity and true excellence around the world. His works are
represented in international private and corporate collections. Web Site:www.jamestan.com
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Lo
Ching-Yuan |
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Mr. Lo has held
numerous solo exhibitions in the United States, Canada, Malaysia,
Taiwan and Hong Kong. He has produced five painting albums of his
works including "Painting in Lingnan Style" (volume I - III) and
"Painting by Lo Ching-Yuan" (volume I - II). Many of his paintings
were collected by the Government of Hong Kong and the National
Museum of History in Taiwan |
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Stephen Lowe |
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Born in China, Stephen Lowe (Lau Wan Hang) displayed
a natural inclination toward art, poetry and music at an early age.
While in his teens, Stephen enrolled at the Lingnan School of Art in
Hong Kong, acclaimed at the time as the leading school of modern
Chinese art. Under the direction of Professor Chao Shao-an, a master
artist from China, Stephen formed a solid basis for his artistic
technique founded on Chinese tradition and his love for the natural
beauty of the country. He eventually immigrated to Canada and from
his art studio in Victoria, shared his vision of China with people
from all over the world through his delicate and sensitive
watercolors interpretations of flowers, birds and landscapes. |
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