Chang Dai-chien (May 10, 1899 – April 2, 1983) was one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese artists of the twentieth century. He originally known as a guohua painter. By the 1960s he was also renowned as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter. He is regarded as one of the most gifted master forgers of the twentieth century. His early professional painting was primarily in Shanghai. Then in the late 1920s he moved to Beijing where he collaborated with Pu Xinyu. In the 1930s he worked out of a studio on the grounds of Wangshi Yuan in Suzhou. In 1940 he led a group of artists in copying the Buddhist wall paintings in the caves of Mogao and Yulin. In the late 1950s, his deteriorating eyesight led him to develop his splashed color, or pocai, style. You can find more of his masterpieces from this website. chinaonlinemuseum/painting-zhang-daqian.php . 김종윤
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