Madam Yang was an embroidery art educator. Starting at the age of 20, she worked for several decades, enthusiastically teaching others, and passing on her skills to her students. Her students are all over the country. Her achievements in painting and embroidery received great attention from art circles...
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Jin Jingfen (1885-1970), famous artist of Suzhou embroidery, was apprenticed to Shen Shou. She was director of the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute in the 1950s. Jin’s works cover a wide range of subjects including birds and flowers, figures and landscape...
Ballerina is a common subject in portrait oil paintings. The celebrated Chinese oil painting artist Guan Zeju is most well-known for his ballet dancer oil paintings. Some of the silk embroideries below are reproduced from his ballerina oil paintings, embroidered by hands with silk threads...