Wu Zuoren
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Selective Exhibition of Ecole des Beaux-Arts de SOOCHOW
Aug 25 - Sep 20, 2009
Suzhou Art College, founded in September 1922, is one of the oldest art schools. It was founded by Suzhou painters Yan Wenliang, Hu Zhongzhong and Zhu Shijie. It is known as the "Three Masters of Surging waves".Yan Wen-liang, founder and principal, was born in 1893 and died in 1988 at the age of 95.During his stay in China, he purchased a large number of nearly 500 plaster models of famous sculptures.At that time, the school was in the society with strong feudal ideology in Suzhou, which was the first precedent for male and female students, which was a great event in the early 1920s...