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Cheng Shifa

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    Chinese painting
    / Painting and printmaking

    A leading figure painter was Cheng Shifa, a descendant of the Shanghai school who utilized that style in politically polished depictions of China’s minority peoples. Many talented artists, including Luo Gongliu and Ai Zhongxin, painted in oils, which, because of their link to the Soviet Union and Soviet art advisers,…

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    A leading figure painter was Cheng Shifa, a descendant of the Shanghai school who utilized that style in politically polished depictions of China’s minority peoples. Many talented artists, including Luo Gongliu and Ai Zhongxin, painted in oils, which, because of their link to the Soviet Union and Soviet art advisers,…

    Read More