Jingting Wu - Artist Info

About Jingting Wu

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Xizeng Wu
  • Biography

    Wu Jingting, also known as Xizeng, worked in Beijing throughout his career. He began studying painting at the age of 17 by imitating the Qing professional painter Wang Hui and other traditional landscape painters.

    In 1920 he went to Japan for a Sino-Japanese painting exhibition. Before 1949 he taught at the Jinghua College of Fine Arts, and afterwards mainly at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 1958 he was selected as one of the founders of the Beijing Academy of Art. He traveled throughout China, and specialized in landscape painting.

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