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Qiu Deshu
Qiu Deshu (), born 1948, is a Chinese contemporary artist. He is best known for founding Caocao (Grass Grass) Group, an artist collective which endeavored to promote artistic originality, in 1979. Early life Qiu Deshu grew up in the former Shanghai French Concession, where he attended after-school art classes at the Luwan District Children's Palace. There, he developed his enthusiasm and passion for art by studying drawing, Western painting, and ink painting. Qiu Deshu's artistic career began as an "artist-worker" during the Cultural Revolution. While Qiu worked as a factory worker at a leather factory which later became a plastics factory, he kept a sketchbook in his pocket and drew portraits of his colleagues during breaks at the factory. Between 1970 and 1973, Qiu attended the Shanghai Art School (上海美術專科學校) for "worker training", during which he created political cartoons with his classmates and teachers. Career Caocao (Grass Grass) Group In 1977, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qiū (surname)
Qiū or "Chiu" is the Hanyu Pinyin and Wade-Giles (widely used in Taiwan) transliteration, respectively, of the Chinese family names 丘/邱 (these two are genealogically linked), and 秋. They may be transliterated in various forms, as: * Qiū ( Mandarin, in Pinyin) *Chiu or Hew (in Taiwanese) and (Hakka, in Wade-Giles) * Kho or Khoe (in Teochew, Taiwanese Hokkien and Hokkien) *Khew or Khiu ( Fuzhounese) * Hiu or Kew (in Mandarin) * Yau (Cantonese, in Cantonese Pinyin) * Khau (in English) 丘/邱 also appear in Korea, where they may be transliterated as: * 구 (Korean in Hangul) * Gu, Ku, Koo (Korean in Revised Romanization). The surname also appears in the Philippines from immigrants from the South of China. It was anglicized as: * Cu or Kuh (in Tagalog) 丘/邱 ranks 151st in the ''Hundred Family Surnames'', and is very common in Luoyang, Henan or Wuxing, Zhejiang. 秋 is common with Taiwanese aboriginals, but is otherwise rare, ranking 237th. 邱 is a very rare su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
