Ink painting

Magnificent View of Maoshan Mountain. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Fu Baoshi (1904-65) was a Chinese painter from Xinyu, East China's Jiangxi province. He was credited as one of the most influential ink painting masters of modern China.

In 1933, Fu went to Japan to study the history of oriental art at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. After returning to China in 1935, Fu taught in the Art Department of Central University, which is now Nanjing University.

After 1949, he served as a professor at Nanjing Normal University and president of the Jiangsu Academy of Chinese Painting.

Fu had strong feelings towards the physical geography of China. During his travel to many places, he recorded the splendor of the rivers and mountains, drawing inspiration from nature to become the most renowned representative landscape painter of his time.

Magnificent View of Maoshan Mountain, an ink-brush landscape by Fu, was sold for 187 million yuan ($28.8 million) at a Beijing auction on June 5, 2017.

In addition to being a landscape artist, Fu was an accomplished painter of figures. His paintings of ancient Chinese figures from the third and fourth centuries BC are particularly acclaimed.

A memorial hall commemorating Fu was erected in Xinyu in 1985. It was renovated in 2004 to mark the 100th anniversary of the painter's birth.

This Land Is so Rich in Beauty by Fu Baoshi and Guan Shanyue. [Photo/chinatoday.com.cn]