Fang Qianmin

Fang Qianmin (February 15, 1906 - January 19, 1984), male, was born in Wenling City today. He was a Chinese oil painter, sculptor, art educator, and one of the pioneers of modern Chinese art. In 1925, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, becoming one of the first Chinese painters to study in France. In 1929, he returned to China to teach at the Shanghai Xinhua Art College and the National West Lake Academy of Art (now the China Academy of Art). Fang Qianmin once served as the dean of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, a professor of the Oil Painting Department, and the president of the Chinese Art Research Association, and founded the "Changfeng Western Painting Research Association". Fang Ganmin is one of the famous professors of the Western Painting Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. He has cultivated talents throughout his life. Painters such as Zhu Dequn, Zhao Wuji, Wu Guanzhong, Luo Gongliu and Wang Zhaomin are all his students. Influenced by Expressionism, Fang Ganmin is one of the few painters in the history of modern Chinese and Asian art who explored Cubism. His unique artistic creation style is known as the "Fang School".