Li Huayi 李华弋

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Li Huayi is a traditional Chinese painter. Born in 1948, Li lives and work in Shanghai and San Francisco.

Contents 1 Date & Place of Birth 2 Childhood & Family 3 Education & Development 4 Art 5 Exhibitions 6 Acquisitions & Auctions 7 References

[edit] Date & Place of Birth

Li was born in Shanghai in 1948.

[edit] Childhood & Family

The son of wealthy Shanghai parents, Li began studying art at the age of 6.^[1]

[edit] Education & Development

Li spent the years of the Cultural Revolution making propaganda works in the predominant Socialist Realism school.  In 1982, he left for San Francisco.^[1]

[edit] Art

Li Huayi is recognized as a significant living painter working in the traditional style, creating landscape portraits of mountains, trees and misty vistas. While the country’s avant-garde painters get substantial media attention, Li has created a body of work that borrows from the great classics but also aims to adds to them. His images are rich, detailed and powerful in their ability to capture an ancient world in hues of brown, grey, green and black.^[1]

[edit] Exhibitions

For Li Huayi's exhibition history, click here.

[edit] Acquisitions & Auctions

Li's works have been collected by some of the world’s leading art museums, including Harvard University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Museum of Tokyo. Jerry Yang, one of the founders of Yahoo, has also publicly acquired his works.^[1]

For Li's auction results, please click here.

[edit] References

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/arts/02iht-melik3.1.8159820.html

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} http://www.artzinechina.com/display_vol_aid546_en.html