Lu Yanshao (1909-1993), whose original name was Gang Zu and whose courtesy name was Wanruo, was born in Nanxiang Town, Jiading County, Shanghai. In 1926, he was admitted to Wuxi Vocational College. In 1927, he became a teacher of Feng Chaoran and met Wu Hufan. From the two teachers, he saw many authentic works of famous artists from past dynasties. During the Anti-Japanese War, he lived in the mainland and returned to his hometown in 1946. Before that, most of his works were based on the digestion and absorption of ancient traditions. The experience of returning to his hometown via the Three Gorges triggered his sense of innovation, and he began to transform the previous partial transformation tradition into consciously establishing a personal style. However, in the first 10 years, he was still in the process of exploration. In 1956, he became a painter at Shanghai Love Painting Academy. From 1961 to 1966, he worked as a part-time landscape painting professor at Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. During this period, Mr.'s personal style developed, eventually forming his own unique style in his later years.
Mr. Lu created two new techniques in landscape painting, one is "blank" and the other is "ink block". The so-called "white space" is to leave white marks with ink. In Mr. Lu's works, these white marks are mostly used to represent clouds and mist, and can also be seen as springs, mountain paths and waves. The white space must be contrasted with ink color, so Mr. Lu created the "ink block" method, using thick ink to accumulate dots into blocks. Mr. Lu is also good at using long lines to describe water and clouds. His water patterns describe all the forms of river waves. When he draws clouds, he draws the sunny side of the clouds with a thinner stroke, and draws the darker side of the clouds with lighter, furry circular lines. In addition, when Mr. Wang paints rocks, he always leaves no traces, using only one undulating line to express the structure of the rocks. He often starts with thick ink, and does not touch it for the second time until the ink becomes pale and dry.
The reason why Mr. Lu is able to compete with the masters of landscape painting with very different styles, such as Zhang Daqian, Fu Baoshi and Li Keran, while also being good at plum blossoms, bamboos and stones, is due to his profound academic accomplishments in poetry, calligraphy, painting theory and other aspects. Inseparable. He has published various monographs such as "Autobiography of Lu Yanshao", "Landscape Painting Controversy", "Collection of Lu Yanshao's Paintings" and many papers on Chinese landscape painting. He is known as "the outstanding literati painter in the contemporary Chinese painting circle."