Liu Guosong

Liu Guosong (born April 26, 1932), male, native of Yidu, Shandong, is a Taiwanese painter. He started studying traditional Chinese painting in Wuchang at the age of 14, switched to Western painting at the age of 20, and returned to the world of paper and ink at the age of 29 to create "modern ink". He settled in Taiwan in 1949 and served as the dean of the Art Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a visiting professor at the University of Iowa and the University of Wisconsin in the United States, the director of the National Tainan University of the Arts Research Institute, and the honorary professor of many key universities and art academies in China. He is currently a chair professor at the National Taiwan Normal University and the director of the Institute of Contemporary Ink Art at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts.