Artists

Gao Ertai (October 15, 1935 -) was born in Gaochun, Jiangsu. Chinese painter, esthetician and prose writer. After the "June 4th Incident", he was transferred to the United States through "Operation Yellow Bird" and now lives in Las Vegas.

Kenzo Takada (Japanese: Takada Kenzo/Takadakenzou, Romanized: Takada Kenzō, February 27, 1939 - October 4, 2020) was a Japanese fashion designer living in France. He is the founder of the Kaidro brand.

Robert Norman Ross (English: Robert Norman Ross, October 29, 1942 - July 4, 1995), whose stage name was Bob Ross, was an American painter, entrepreneur (co-founder of the Bob Ross Company), art director and television host. Ruth was a master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force who served in the military for about 20 years. While stationed in Alaska, he was inspired to create by the local mountains and snow scenery. After retiring, he continued to engage in painting and host painting programs. Characterized by his calm painting attitude and patience, he served as an impromptu teaching painter and host in his famous TV program "The Joy of Painting". The Joy of Painting was broadcast on PBS in the United States for 12 years. In 1985, he and his second wife Jane Lee Zanardelli Ros, Walter Kowalski, Anteney Kowalski and others jointly established Bob Ross Company; this also made "Bob Ross" a successful commercial brand, mainly engaged in the sale of art books and related supplies. Ruth became a public celebrity on television in the 1980s and 1990s, and became an Internet celebrity in the 21st century after her death in 1995, popular with fans on YouTube and many other websites.

Tony Wong Chun Loong (English: Tony Wong Chun Loong; March 27, 1950 -), whose original name was Huang Zhenlong, and his early pen name was Huang Xuansheng. Born in Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, he is a famous Hong Kong cartoonist and a godfather figure in the Hong Kong comics industry. He is the founder of Hong Kong's largest comic publishing group, Yulang Group (now Culture Communication) and Jade Dynasty. The comics he publishes are not only extremely popular in Hong Kong, but also play an important role in Chinese regions such as Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Mainland China.

Huang Binhong (January 27, 1865 - March 25, 1955), whose surname is Pu Cun and Pu Ren, also nicknamed Yu Xiang, Hong Lu and Hong Sou, changed his name to Bin Hong in his middle age and became famous for his nickname. His ancestral home is Tandu Village, Xixiang, She County, Anhui Province. He was born in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province. He is a modern Chinese landscape painter.

Huang Yongyu (August 9, 1924 - June 13, 2023), formerly known as Yongyu, was a Tujia nationality and a native of Phoenix, Hunan. He was a Chinese painter, writer, and poet, with the pen names Huang Xingbin, Huang Niu, and Niu Fuzi. He was the director of the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the vice chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, and the president of the Printmaking Institute of the National Academy of Painting. Huang Yongyu's wife is the writer Zhang Meixi, and his cousin is the Chinese writer Shen Congwen, who gave him the name "Huang Yongyu". His second brother is the painter Huang Yonghou.

Li Xiongcai (May 15, 1910 - December 19, 2001), a native of Zhaoqing, Guangdong, is a Chinese painter. Together with Zhao Shao'ang, Guan Shanyue and Yang Shanshen, he is known as the four famous painters of the second generation of Lingnan School. Li Xiongcai studied under Gao Jianfu in his early years, and later went to Japan to study painting. He served as a consultant and professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Like other painters of the Lingnan School of Painting, Li Xiongcai is committed to the innovation and reform of Chinese painting, integrating traditional Chinese painting techniques with Japanese and Western painting techniques, but his style is different. Li Xiongcai is good at large-scale landscapes. His paintings are powerful and unique. His pine paintings are also unique and are known as "Li Family Landscapes" and "Li Family Pines". His representative works include "Rain at Night in Xiaoxiang", "Ape Crying on a Cold Night", "View of Small Mountains", "Forest", "Wuhan Flood Control Picture Scroll", "Eternal Spring" and so on.

Diane Arbus (; née Nemerov; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer. She photographed a wide range of subjects including strippers, carnival performers, nudists, people with dwarfism, children, mothers, couples, elderly people, and middle-class families. She photographed her subjects in familiar settings: their homes, on the street, in the workplace, in the park. "She is noted for expanding notions of acceptable subject matter and violates canons of the appropriate distance between photographer and subject. By befriending, not objectifying her subjects, she was able to capture in her work a rare psychological intensity." In his 2003 New York Times Magazine article, "Arbus Reconsidered", Arthur Lubow states, "She was fascinated by people who were visibly creating their