About Lui Shou-Kwan
Lived 1919 – 1975 (aged 55–56). Lui Shou-Kwan was a Chinese artist.
Lui Shou-Kwan ( (Lü Shoukun); 1919–1975) was a Chinese painter, one of the most prominent ink painters of the 20th century and a founder of the Hong Kong New Ink Movement.
Early life Lui was born in Guangzhou. He studied economics at Guangzhou University. While there, he worked as an inspector for the Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company until 1966. The exhibition also reflected how naturalism in art had become passé and that abstract art was favoured at that moment in time.
He became an honorary adviser to the Hong Kong Museum of Art in 1962.
He taught ink painting at the University of Hong Kong's Department of Architecture, and also taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Department of Extra-Mural Studies in 1966. Despite his admiration of modernism, he was also inspired by the traditional style of Huang Banruo (Wong Po-Yeh).
In 2018, Oxford's Ashmolean Museum hosted an exhibition on Lui, calling him "one of the most significant artists in Hong Kong during the mid-twentieth century".
Selected works Books A Study of Chinese Paintings (1956)
Paintings Zen (1968) Purity (1970)
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Chinese artist (1919–1975)
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