Liu Shouxiang ( zh, 刘寿祥, 5 April 1958 – 13 February 2020) was a Chinese watercolor painter and professor at the

Hubei Institute of Fine Arts Hubei Institute of Fine Arts (HIFA, ; colloquially 湖美, pinyin: Húměi) is an art university in China. It is the only top institution of higher learning in fine arts in central China. It is regarded as one of the best and most selective acad ...

. His work won many awards and was collected by many art museums. He was also a member of the

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Biography

Liu was born in Wuhan. In 1981, he graduated from the

in the Department of Fine Arts, majored in teaching. He stayed in school and served as the director of the Department of Fine Arts Education. In 1987, he founded the Department of Watercolor Painting in the Hubei Institute of Technology Teachers' Department. In 2009, he established a watercolor painting department and served as the head of the department. He was the first person to set up a watercolor painting department in a Chinese art college. Liu's technique, in particular his ability to shade colors achieved the same depth and diversity in scale as seen in many oil paintings. According to Fan Feng, director of Wuhan Art Museum, Liu's paintings have a smart arrangement of space and shapes that makes them "full of motion and a sense of rhythm"; for him, Liu "paid great attention to nuances and expressed in his artworks that all things on Earth possess a sensibility and a beauty of their own". He retired in 2018. In the same year,

Hubei University Hubei University (), colloquially known in Chinese as Huda () was founded in 1931 and is as a key comprehensive university in Hubei Province, People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country ...

hired Liu as a distinguished professor. On 17 January 2020, Liu went to

Zhuhai Zhuhai (, ; Yale: ''Jyūhói''), also known as Chuhai is a prefecture-level city located on the west bank of Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern Guangdong province, People's Republic of China, on the southeastern edge of Pearl ...

for an exhibition, not knowing he had contracted

coronavirus disease 2019 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly ...

. At 5 am on 13 February, Liu Shouxiang died of coronavirus in

Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital The Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital ( zh, 武汉市金银潭医院) is a public hospital located on Jinyintan Avenue in the Jiangjunlu Subdistrict, in the Dongxihu District of Wuhan, Hubei, China, and a unit directly under the Wuhan Municipal Health and ...

at the age of 61. His daughter and son-in-law were also hospitalized with the virus.

References

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