Zhong Han

Place: Pingxiang

Born: 1929

Death: 2023

Biography:

Zhong Han (1929-2023) was born in Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province. He studied architecture at Tsinghua University from 1946-1948. In 1955, he entered the Oil Painting Department of the Central Art Academy and after his graduation in 1959, he joined the teaching faculty of the Academy. In the period 1960-1963, he took part in an oil painting seminar conducted by Luo Gongliu . Zhong Han is an outstanding oil painting artist and fine art educator in China, a senior professor of CAFA. As an artist and scholar, Zhong Han compares Chinese and Western art styles. At age 84, Zhong Han describes himself as an 'immature elderly painter', and that he is only 'a tree in the forest that keeps absorbing nutrition from the earth'. His modesty and persistence in chasing perfection explain why he has just held a solo exhibition, celebrating his six-decade love of oil painting. A professor with the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Zhong is displaying nearly 300 works at his retrospective, titled Earth and Humanity, at the National Art Museum of China.