Zhi Guang Yang - Artist Info

About Zhi Guang Yang

Name variants

Yang Zhi Guang, Zhiguang Yang
  • Biography

    A native of Guangzhou, Yang Zhiguang began his study of painting with Gao Jianfu and later went to Beijing to study at the Central Academy with Xu Beihong and Ye Qianyu, graduating in 1953. As a practitioner of the Socialist Realist approach to traditional Chinese painting, the artist infuses anatomical accuracy while still embracing the aesthetic of brush and ink. In 1987 the artist held a teaching position at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (Guangzhou Meishu Xueyuan) took a trip to India and Nepal two years earlier, in 1985.

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