Shaoyou Bao - Artist Info

About Shaoyou Bao

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Bao Shaoyu
  • Biography

    A native of Zhongshan in Guangdong province, Bao Shaoyou was born in Yokohama, Japan, and attended art school and university in Japan. Invited by Gao Jianfu to return to China in 1927, he taught traditional Chinese painting in Foshan Art Academy.

    He moved to Hong Kong in 1928 and continued teaching in the next decades. Considered one of the pillars of the second generation of Lingnan School painters, Bao excelled in painting bird-and-flower, animal, and landscape works.

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