Wu Zuoren Explained

Wu Zuoren
吴作人
Birth Date:3 November 1908
Birth Place:Suzhou, Jiangsu, Qing dynasty
Death Place:Beijing, China
Field:Painting, Drawing, Calligraphy, Engraving
Training:Shanghai Art University
National Central University
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Wu Zuoren (; 3 November 1908  - 9 April 1997)[1] was a Chinese painter. A native of Jing County, Anhui, he was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. He practiced both traditional Chinese ink painting and European oil painting.

Chronology[2]

For the remainder of his life, Wu Zuoren remains a prominent member of the central committee of the China Democratic League, Chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, and a member of the standing committee of the National People's Congress. Wu Zuoren's second wife, Xiao Shufang, was an artist known for her flower paintings. Wu Zuoren founded and endowed the "Wu Zuoren International Foundation of Fine Arts".

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Notes and References

  1. Barnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). Three thousand years of Chinese painting. New Haven, Yale University Press. : Page 384.
  2. Ville de Paris, Wou Tso-Jen ou la modernité dans la tradition de l'encre / Siao Chou-Fang et les fleurs de Chine, Musée Cernuschi, 1987
  3. http://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/80342.htm Wu Zuoren's Art Show Lauded in Paris
  4. Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy 1800-1950 with C.Y. Watt, Random House, New York, 1987, vol II p. 327-329,