Exposition Art Blog: Liu Haisu

Liu Haisu

Liu Haisu (16 March 1896 – 7 August 1994) was a prominent twentieth-century Chinese painter and a noted art educator. He excelled in Chinese painting and oil painting.
Liu Haisu was a painter and educator who combined Western and Eastern techniques, and advocated for this style as a means of modernizing art education in China. Born in Changzhou in the Jiangsu Province, Liu traveled to Shanghai as a teenager, and went on to establish the Shanghai Academy, the first art college in modern China. (Artnet)






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