ZHONG CHENG

Born in Guilin, Guangxi Province, was a famous Chinese painter in 20th century, art history critic and art educator. In 1929 after graduating from Department of foreign Languages of the Tsinghua University, he entered the French High School of Fine Arts to learn Western painting and meanwhile learned Western art in the Archaeological Institute, University of Arts in Paris and Louvre School. After returning in 1934 he took a teaching post in Peking College of Art, Tsinghua University, National College of Arts. His oil painting “Mother teaching”, created in 1942, won 2nd prize in the 3rd National Art Exhibition. The following year, invited by Xu Beihong, he served as a professor of Fine Art Department at National Central University and held his first individual painting exhibition in Chongqing in 1945. After 1979, his works were mainly landscapes and still life. His style was focused on the performance of mood and taste, and his coloring vivid. Qin has long been engaged in art education and served as art education committee of the Ministry of education and the director of Western painting Department of National College of Art.