Liu Jipiao

Liu Jipiao
Born 1900 (1900)
Meizhou, Guangdong, China
Died Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey, United States
Nationality Chinese, American
Alma mater University of Paris,
L’Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts
Occupation Architect, Realism Painter
Notable work Carlton Building (Shanghai)
Website liujipiao.com

Liu Jipiao (Chinese: 李锦沛), (1900–1992) was a Chinese architect associated with the development of Art Deco architecture in China and an oil painter of Realism.[1][2] Liu's approach to architecture was to create a modern design with a distinctive Chinese aesthetic.

Biography

Born in 1900 to a wealthy family in Meizhou, Guangdong, China.[3] Starting in 1919, he studied at University of Paris and by 1922 he moved to L’Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts to study architecture and interior design.[3] He was in a Paris-based art club in college called Phoebus Society, with fellow artists; Lin Wenzheng (1903–1930), Wang Daizhi and Wu Dayo (1903–1988).[4]

In 1924, Liu exhibited fifteen paintings at Exposition Chinoise d’art ancien et moderne.[5] He was then invited to contribute to China's section of the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in 1925.[6] His design for the entrance, which included a dragon and a phoenix, won awards from the French government.[7]

His large scale oil painting,Yang Guifei after the Bath is one of his better known painting works.[2]

After graduating and returning to Shanghai, China in 1929,[3] Liu later became a professor at the Nanjing University; and receiving commissions to design residential buildings, including the Carlton Building on Huanghe Lu.

He fled with his family to the United States after the Japanese invasion, where he first ran a Laundromat, then a chicken farm, before returning to teaching and architecture in the 1960s.

Liu died at the age of 92, and is remembered as the first Chinese Art Deco architect.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Amandari Kanagaratnam (2015-06-14). "Liu Jipiao & the Birth of Chinese Art Deco • Shanghai Art Deco". Shanghaiartdeco.net. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  2. 1 2 Sullivan, Michael (2006). Modern Chinese Artists: A Biographical Dictionary. University of California Press. ISBN 0520244494.
  3. 1 2 3 Denison, Edward (2017). Architecture and the Landscape of Modernity in China before 1949. Routledge. ISBN 1317179285.
  4. ↑ Andrews, Julia F. (2012). The Art of Modern China. California: University of California Press. ISBN 0520238141.
  5. ↑ Pejčochová, Michaela (2017). "Modern Chinese Painting & Europe New Perceptions, Artists Encounters, and the Formation of Collections" (PDF). Reimer. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  6. ↑ Clunas, Craig (1989). "Chinese Art and Chinese Artists in France (1924-1925)". Arts Asiatiques. Volume 44 Numéro 1: 100–106 – via Persée.
  7. ↑ Ashley Thorpe (21 September 2016). Performing China on the London Stage: Chinese Opera and Global Power, 1759–2008. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 85–. ISBN 978-1-137-59786-1.
  8. ↑ "Three key architects of Shanghai's Art Deco era - Around Town". Time Out Shanghai. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
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