Wu Fan (

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: 吴凡; Hanyu Pinyin: Wú Fán) (December 1923 – 6 December 2015) was a Chinese artist from Chongqing in

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province. He studied guohua with Pan Tianshou and Li Keran and oil painting with

Ni Yide Ni Yide (1901–1970) was a Chinese modernist painter, writer and art critic. Artistic career He graduated in 1922 from the earliest training ground for modern Western art in China, the Shanghai Art School. He became a professor at the Shanghai Ar ...

. He is most famous as a woodblock print artist. His most famous work 'Dandelion' (1959) demonstrates his mastery of the shuiyin printing style and won gold prize at the Leipzig International Print Competition.

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1923 births 2015 deaths Artists from Chongqing {{China-artist-stub