Huang Yongyu was born in 1924 in Fenghuang, Hunan Province. He quit junior middle
school at the end of his second year. At 16, he earned a living painting and engraving
wood. He has worked in a porcelain factory, as a schoolteacher, as a newspaper editor,
as a film screenwriter and as a professor at the fine arts academy.
He likes writing poems, essays, novels and screenplays. He has published picture albums, collections of poems and essays and albums of wood engravings. He has exhibited in China, Hong Kong, Australia, Germany and Italy Huang Yongyu's lotus paintings show a vivid use of color combined with a free hand depiction of leaves and background. |
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Creator.Personal Name: 黃永玉. Creator.Personal Name: Huang Yongyu. Creator.Role: painter. Title: [Untitled: lotuses] Description: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; inscribed and signed by artist; one artist's seal. Subject: Flowers. Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese. Type: Genre paintings--Chinese. Type: Watercolors--Chinese. Culture: Chinese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Technique: painting. Material.Medium: ink. Material.Support: paper. Measurements: 21 x 37 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator.Personal Name: 黃永玉. Creator.Personal Name: Huang Yongyu. Creator.Role: painter. Title: [Untitled: lotuses] Description: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; inscribed and signed by artist; one artist's seal. Subject: Flowers. Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese. Type: Genre paintings--Chinese. Type: Watercolors--Chinese. Culture: Chinese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Technique: painting. Material.Medium: ink. Material.Support: paper. Measurements: 21 x 37 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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