The human body is the most beautiful among the beautiful, this is the famous saying of the art master Liu Haisu.

Liu Haisu's introduction:

Haisu served as the vice-president of the Shanghai Academy of Graphic Arts in 1914; from 1915 to 1952, he served as the principal of the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts; in 1932, he edited and published "Collection of World Famous Paintings", in October, the "Liu Haisu Ouyou Works Exhibition" was held in Shanghai; in October 1937, the oil painting "Four Lines Warehouse" was created;

November 1952 - 1957 In November, he was appointed as the principal of East China Art College; in 1957, the "Liu Haisu Chinese Painting and Oil Painting Exhibition" was held at the Shanghai Art Museum; in 1968, he created the traditional Chinese paintings "Grape Picture", "Peony Picture", "Liaokuo River, Thousands of Miles of Frost in the Sky" and "Pine and Stone Picture" etc.; In June 1979, the "Liu Haisu Painting Exhibition" was held at the National Art Museum of China;

From June 1979 to March 1983, he served as the dean of Nanjing Art Institute; in September 1988, " Liu Haisu's "Ten Visits to Huangshan Painting Exhibition" was held at the Shanghai Art Museum; in March 1991, he received an honorary doctorate in literature from the University of Hong Kong and was named an "expert enjoying the special allowance of the State Council"; died in Shanghai on August 7, 1994, at the age of 98 age.

Art overview:

Liu Haisu is good at Chinese painting, oil painting and calligraphy, and is also accomplished in poetry. Liu Haisu has always been based on the Chinese painting tradition and continues to incorporate cutting-edge Western artistic concepts into his creations. Throughout his life, he has been exploring the path of fusion that breaks down the barriers between Chinese and Western art concepts. His artistic language has also been constantly changing and maturing on this path of exploration, until it finally became a style.

The early stage of Liu Haisu's oil painting creation was also the beginning of the emergence of modern Chinese art. His creations during this period referred to and drew on the creative language of post-impressionism.

Features similar to post-impressionism can be seen in the colors and brushstrokes, but the inertia of the traditional Chinese painting creation methods he has learned since childhood still exists in the paintings. As far as Liu Haisu's early oil painting creations are concerned, we can see his integration and transformation of traditional Chinese painting and post-impressionism artistic language.