THE ART OF LINGNAN MASTER

 | JU LIAN  |  JU CHU  | GAO JIAN-FU | GAO QI-FENG | CHEN SHU-REN | CHAO SHAO-ANG  |  GUAN SHAN-YUE  |  LI XIONG-CAI   |  YANG SHAN-SHEN  |  Henry Wo  |  AU HO NIEN  |

Ju Chao
The painter in the Qing Dynasty, a native of Panyu,GuangDong province,the brother of Ju Lian.His style name was Mei Sheng and his sobriquet was Mei Chao.He was talented in painting flowers and insects.
 
Ju Lian

Ju Lian, alias Guquan, was a native Panyu. He was a bird-and-flower painter emphasized on observation and sketching of objects in nature. Ju specialized in the application of the innovative technique of "zhuangshui" (water infusion) and "zhuangfen"
   
Gao Jian-Fu 
Gao Jianfu began studying with a prominent local artist, Ju Lian, in Keshan, Guangdong at the age of fourteen. He learned under his master's tutelage to paint flowers, plants, and insects in a subtle and highly naturalistic manner. Immediately before he executed this set of paintings.....
 
Chen Shu-Ren

Chen Shu-Ren, whose original name was Shao, alias Nianhua-weixiaozi, Dean-laoren and Ershan-shanqiao, was born at Mingjing Village of Panyu District in the Guangdong Province. At the age of seventeen, he studied painting under Ju Lian, the great flower p
   
Gao Qifeng
Gao Jianfu younger brother, Qifeng, accompanied him to Japan, where the younger man studied the art of Japanese realism, or Nihonga. This painting, with its combination of Western naturalism and Japanese decorative style, is a superb example of the manner he learned in Japan.
 
LI XIONG-CAI

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 ........................
   
Chao Shao-Ang
Chao Shao-Ang 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
 
Guan Shan Yue

Guan Shanyue (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.
   
Au Ho-Nien

A painter with the bearing of a master, one can almost hear birdsong sounding through the mountains/ As he rises aloft to the Milky Way, he looks back on the innumerable peaks below . . . (Chao Shao-Ang)Thirty years ago Au Ho-nine master Chao Shao-Ang,......................................
 
  Yangshan Shen

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................................................