Li Shutong is a famous musician, art educator, calligrapher and drama activist, and one of the pioneers of China drama. After he returned from studying in Japan, he worked as a teacher and editor. Later, he became a monk, and his legal name was Hongyi, and his legal name was Yixian. Later, he was honored as Master Hongyi.
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Many people will sing Li Shutong's "Farewell"-"By the ancient road outside the pavilion, the grass is blue and the sky is blue", but they don't know that their paintings are also great. 65438-0905, studying in Japan at his own expense. He studied western painting and music. At present, he has two oil paintings: China's half-naked woman, created in 1909, a Japanese self-portrait.
In 1950s, Ye Shengtao donated The Half-Naked Woman to the Central Academy of Fine Arts, but at that time the author was mistakenly written as another painter. Thus, this painting lay quietly in the warehouse of the Central Academy of Fine Arts for more than half a century. 20 1 1 experts from the Central Academy of Fine Arts collated the warehouse findings. After many comparisons, a series of research and scientific tests, people finally determined that this is the semi-naked woman in Li Shutong. Guo Hongmei said that this painting is "the originator of original oil painting with the meaning of oil painter" in the development of China oil painting.