Wu Guanzhong |
| (1919 - 2010, Chinese) |
| Yixing, Jiangsu Province, China, 1919 - 2010. In 1942 he graduated from the National Hangzhou Academy of Art, Zheijiang Province. From 1947-50, he went to France on a government scholarship to studied oil painting at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. From 1950-79 he taught at several art institutes in Beijing, and held a professorship at the Central Institute of Arts and Crafts, Beijing from 1964-79. In 1991 he received the Officier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Ministry of Culture in France, and in 1993 received a gold medal from the Paris municipal government. In 1992 he was the first living Chinese artist to be honoured with a solo exhibition at the British Museum in London, and he had a solo retrospective exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art in 2002. In 2003 he was awarded the Medaille des Arts et Lettres by the Academie des Beaux Arts de I’lnstitut de France, the first Chinese artist to be so honoured. About sixty books about Wu Guanzhong and his work have been published, together with more than thirty collections of essays. |
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