The Charming Cicada Studio: Masterworks by Chao Shao-An

About this book

Chao Shao-an is especially noted for his talent in depicting birds flowers and insects. The renowned living master of the Lingnan school an early in 20th-century movement to modernize Chinese painting Chao Shao-an now lives in Hong Kong. The 80 paintings illustrated in this handsome volume include album studies water buffalo great bursts of azaleas landscapes and a portrait. The works are arranged chronologically within subject category and represent a personal assessment of his achievements in visual effects pictorial concepts and scale. They record the artists convictions about Chinese painting of the modem age and the Lingnan school.