Modern painters who painted lotus include Zhang Daqian, Yao Longshun, etc.
Chang? Dai-Chien, male, is from Neijiang, Sichuan. His ancestral home is Panyu, Guangdong Province. He was born on May 10, 1899, in a scholarly family in Anliangli, a suburb of Zhong District, Neijiang City, Sichuan Province. Chinese splash-ink painter and calligrapher.
In the 1950s, Zhang Daqian traveled around the world and gained great international reputation. He was praised by the Western art world as the "pen of the East". He and his second brother Zhang Shanzi Kunzhong founded the "Dafengtang School" and became the most legendary splash-ink painter in the Chinese painting circle in the 20th century. Especially in landscape painting, he has made great achievements. After living overseas, he combined painting style with craftsmanship and calligraphy, and integrated heavy color and ink painting, especially splash ink and splash color, creating a new artistic style. Because his poems, calligraphy and paintings are as famous as Qi Baishi and Pu Xinshe, he is also known as They are called "Nan Zhang and Bei Qi" and "Nan Zhang and Bei Pu", and their names are numerous. Together with Huang Junbi and Pu Xinshe, they are as famous as the "Three Families Crossing the Sea". In his twenties, he started growing a beard, which became Zhang Daqian's unique symbol in the future.
Zhang Daqian's lotus works:
Yao Longshun, born in Shanghai in 1952, joined the army in the late 1960s and studied at the People's Liberation Army Art Academy. Later, he worked as a stage artist in the military art troupe for many years.
Yao Longshun’s lotus works: