Lo Ch'ing is a contemporary Chinese painter, calligrapher, and poet. His parents relocated from China to Taiwan in 1949, where he spent his formative years. During his early years, he received classical ink painting training from Pu Ru, an expert in the court tradition of ink painting and a member of the Qing Imperial family.

Lo later pursued his academic studies at Fu Jen University, majoring in English. He went on to earn a Master's degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1974.

Over the course of his career, Lo has held positions as both a professor of fine arts and a professor of literature at universities across the globe, including Taiwan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Prague, and mainland China.

His works blends traditional Chinese painting techniques with modern Western art styles, resulting in a unique and distinctive style. Lo Ch'ing's work often focuses on the beauty of nature and the natural world, using traditional Chinese motifs such as birds, flowers, and landscapes. His paintings are characterized by bold, flowing brushstrokes and vibrant colors that evoke the beauty and energy of the natural world.

In addition to painting, Lo Ch'ing is also an accomplished calligrapher and poet. His calligraphy is highly regarded for its fluidity and grace, and his poetry often explores themes of nature and spirituality. He is also widely recognized as a pioneer of post-modern poetry in Taiwan, and his poetry has been published and translated into many languages.

His works has been influential in shaping contemporary Chinese art and continues to inspire and captivate audiences around the world. His unique fusion of traditional Chinese art techniques with modern Western styles has created a new and exciting aesthetic that bridges the gap between East and West.

Lo Ch'ing's artwork is featured in numerous prestigious collections around the world, including the British Museum in London, the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada, the Saint Louis Art Museum in the United States, the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst in Berlin, the National Taiwan Museum, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and the Asia Society in New York.

Wei Ligang was born in Datong, the first capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) and home to the famous Buddhist grottoes of Yungang, which instilled in him a fondness for the grandeur of Han (202 BC- 220 AD) and Tang dynasty (618-907) art. Wei's father was an art-loving railroad worker, who inspired in Wei an interest in both mechanics and calligraphy.

When he was 17, Wei entered the mathematics department of Nankai University, where he honed his logical and analytical skills. Wei also became President of the University Calligraphy Society, where he came under the mentorship of the local masters Li Henian (1912-2000), Wang Xuezhong (1925-2013), and Sun Boxiang (1934-) in classical poetry and epigraphic scripts. Wang Xuezhong, an early pioneer of Modern Calligraphy, was especially influential to Wei.

After graduating from Nankai University in 1985, Wei Ligang became a teacher in Taiyuan and immersed himself in the legacy of Fu Shan (1607-1684), a fellow Shanxi native. From 1995, he increasingly engaged with abstract painting and international contemporary art. Over the 90s, Wei gained prominence as a young pioneer of Modern Calligraphy, participating and organising a number of influential exhibitions in the field.

Wei Ligang delights in abstraction and has pushed the boundaries of calligraphy further than most contemporary calligraphers. His wide-ranging inspirations include ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, industrial civilisation and modern machines, European castles and palaces, contemporary physics and astronomy, and the structures of animals and plants.

Born in 1948, Lo Ch'ing is a poet, painter, and calligrapher. He moved to Taiwan in 1949. At an early age, Lo learned classical ink painting of the court tradition. Subsequently, he studied in the English Department of Fu Jen University, and received an MA degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1974.

He has been both a professor of literature and a professor of fine arts in universities in Taiwan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Prague and Mainland China. His poems have been published and translated into many languages, and Lo Ch'ing is regarded as one of the pioneers of post-modern poetry in Taiwan. He has also been a major innovator in ink painting, for which he has created a new visual vocabulary that deconstructs the classical forms of Chinese landscape by introducing into his compositions abstract and geometric elements, as well as unexpected contemporary motifs.