¡¡In his early years, he was a student of Liu Lingcang, a famous Chinese Gongbi portrait painter and professor in Central Academy of Fine Arts and he was also mentored by Guo Muyi, Mr. Liu¡¯s wife, a famous painter of Beijing Rong Bao Zhai Studio and an expert in ancient painting reparation. He learned a lot about gongbi portrait painting from both of them. In 1994, he became a graduate student of Professor Bo hu, who was the director of gongbi portrait painting studio in Chinese Painting Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts and also a former student of Mr. Liu. After his graduation, he followed Mr. Liu¡¯s advice and didn¡¯t rush to establish his own style; instead he tried to improve his own artistic taste by all means and became a doctor student of Professor Shuzhong Lin in Nanjing Arts Institute in 2000. He studied Chinese fine arts history and tried to integrate theory and practice to innovate gongbi portrait painting.
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