Guan Shanyue (1912-2000, Yangjiang, Guangdong Province)
graduated from Guangzhou Municipal Teachers Training College in 1933.
His early work consisted of sketches made in Southwestern and
Northwestern China as well as in the coastal provinces along the
Eastern seaboard. During the war, he was engaged in anti-Japanese
activities in Macao and Hong Kong.
After 1949, he taught for many years, and became a prominent
representative of the "Lingnan School". In 1959, he cooperated in work
for the Great Hall of the People. In 1979, the painting reproduced as a
poster below was also added to the Great Hall of the People.
Guan, who specializes in Chinese painting, was
vice-president of the Chinese Artists Association and president of the
Guangdong Studio of Painting.
Sources:
Important Art of New China 1949-1979 (China Guardian Auction Catalogue 1996, Beijing)
Michael Sullivan, Modern Chinese Artists -- A Biographical Dictionary (Berkeley, etc:
University of California Press, 2006)
Zhongguo meishuguan (ed.), 中国美术年鉴 1949-1989 (Guilin: Guangxi meishu chubanshe, 1993)
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