ZHONG CHENG

蔡雲程 TSAI YUNCHENG (1929-2009)

Tsai Yun Cheng was born in Fujian, China, he immigrated to Philippine with his family at the age of ten. He studied painting under a famous Southeast Asia teachers and received first place in the Philippines National Fine Arts Competition at the age of twenty-nine. He founded the Blue School, a unique art movement that focus on the use of blue tones in creating mood and in replacing the five shades of traditional Chinese ink. Starting in 1970s he held exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and Paris. In 1980, he was given the highest academic honor by the Collège de France of Science, Art and Literature, and was awarded as a lifetime member in 1983. The Belgium and Spain Association awarded him for Best Creativity in 1986. In the following year he has already held 9 solo exhibition in Belgium and 10 solo exhibition at Art-Vie Institute in Paris. In 1990, the Albert Einstein International Academy Foundation awarded Tsai Yun Cheng its Peace Award for all his accomplishments, and in 1996 he was awarded again by Centre Aire Peter Paul Rubens International Festival in France that is held only once every century, he became the first Chinese artist to receive both awards. In 1992, after a series of through evaluation the International Celebrity Biography Centre in Cambridge, England, even selected him as one of the most representative artist of the 20th century.

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