Artist:

Wu Guanzhong (Chinese, 1919–2010)

Wu Guanzhong is a Chinese painter who was recognized as the founder of modern Chinese painting. His work was influenced by both eastern and western styles, in which he uses both Chinese ink and brushwork and Western oil-painting styles to create a unique form of modern art.

Wu Guanzhong (simplified Chinese: 吴冠中; traditional Chinese: 吳冠中; pinyin: Wú Guànzhōng; 29 August 1919 – 25 June 2010)

He was born in Yixing, Jiangsu province, in 1919. When he went to college, he was originally in the major of electrical engineering. But then he met an art student named Zhu Dequn who was studying at the National Hangzhou Academy of Art. After a trip to Zhu Dequn’s school, he felt “madly in love” with art, so he transferred to the art academy in 1936, studying both Chinese and Western painting. In 1946 he applied for one of the two art study abroad spots and traveled to Paris to study at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in the next year. He found a great interest in the modern art of France despite his studying in European artistic traditions, which helped him grasp the idea of form and the basic meaning of art. He returned to China in 1950, but his figure paintings were condemned by the government, and during the early years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), he was sent to the country as a laborer. He was allowed to return to painting in the early 1970s. He was the first living Chinese artist to be given a solo show at London’s British Museum in 1992.

source:

http://www.artnet.com/artists/wu-guanzhong/

https://www.britannica.com/art/graphic-art

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Guanzhong