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Haisu Liu

Haisu Liu (1896 - 1994) was active/lived in Asia, China.  Haisu Liu is known for Scroll painting with botanical imagery, oil on canvas city scenes, landscapes.

Liu Haisu, Chinese painter and teacher (born 1895, Wujin [Wu-chin], Jiangsu [Chiang-su] province, China—died Aug. 7, 1994, Shanghai, China), combined traditional Chinese painting methods with European techniques, especially those of van Gogh and Cézanne, and promoted this style as a model for revolutionizing art education in China.

As the leader of art schools in Shanghai and Nanjing (Nanking), Liu exerted extraordinary influence. The scion of a distinguished literary family, Liu studied calligraphy under Kang Youwei (K’ang Yu-wei) and traditional landscape and flower painting under Wu Changshi (Wu Ch’ang-shih) and Chen Hengke (Ch’en Heng-k’e).

At age 13, however, Liu set out on his own to pursue a less formal education. He became one of the founders of the Shanghai Academy, the first art college in modern China. During the 1920s and ’30s he organized several important national and international exhibitions and toured Japan and Europe, where he studied Western technique   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1507 characters.]  Artist bio

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