Fu Baoshi
(1904–1965), Chinese painter. Fu Baoshi was one of the most influential figures in earlytwentieth-century Chinese painting. Born into an impoverished family in Nanchang, Jiangxi, Fu studied art history and sculpture at the prestigious Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts from 1933–1935. Upon his return to China, Fu developed his own distinctive painting style, integrating his studies in Western, Japanese, and Chinese painting. Although most famous as a figure painter, Fu also excelled at landscape painting. He composed his landscapes out of free interweaving broken ink brushstrokes and light washes rather than traditional calligraphic lines. His works are remarkable for their poetic eloquence and mood, and they emphasize a personal response to nature, rather than the physical appearance of the landscape. Fu was also one of the first historians of Chinese painting. His famous works include "Such Is the Beauty of Our Mountains and Streams," the large officially commissioned wall painting in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, jointly painted by Fu and Guan Shanyue in 1959.
Further Reading
Fu Baoshi. (1988) Paintings of Fu Baoshi/Fu Baoshi Huaji. Jiangsu, China: Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing Company.
Sullivan, Michael. (1996) Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
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