“Liu Kuo-sung (Liu Guosong) (Simplified Chinese; Traditional Chinese; Pinyin: Liu Guosong; born 1932) is a Chinese artist based in Shanghai and Taoyuan, Taiwan. Liu is widely regarded as one of the earliest and most important advocates and practitioners of modernist Chinese painting. He is also a writer on contemporary Chinese art… A native of Qingzhou, Shandong, Liu Kuo-sung was born in Bangbu, Anhui, in 1932. Liu moved to Taiwan from mainland China in 1949. In 1956, Liu graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the National Taiwan Normal University, in which he studied both traditional brush-and-ink and western-style painting techniques…. Liu was awarded a John died Rockefeller III Foundation grant in 1966 that allowed him to travel arou...