Shi Lu (; December 13, 1919– August 25, 1982), born Feng Yaheng (), was a Chinese painter,
wood block printer, poet and calligrapher. He based his pseudonym on two artists who greatly influenced him, the landscape painter
Shitao and writer
Lu Xun. He is the father of
Chinese traditional painting artist
Shi Guo.
Life and art
Shi Lu came from a wealthy land owning family in
Renshou County,
Sichuan
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...
Province. A student of the Chinese traditional painting style ''
guohua'', he studied at Dongfang Art College and West China Union University in
Chengdu
Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ...
(1934-1940).
He joined the
Chinese Communist Party
The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...
and in 1949 at the first national assembly was elected and executive member of the
China Artists Association.
In 1955, Shi Lu travelled to India to supervise the overall art design of a Chinese pavilion at an international expo. In 1956, he attended the Asian-African National Art Exhibition in Egypt. During these travels, he made many sketches of the people he observed developing his technique of Western drawing and Chinese brushwork.
In 1959, he was commissioned to produce a large scale painting to be displayed in the
Great Hall of the People in Beijing to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the forming of the People's Republic of China.
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20th-century Chinese painters
Painters from Sichuan
1919 births
1982 deaths
People from Meishan