Fu Baoshi and his wife Luo Shihui had a picture taken at their home in Naning in 1947.

Credited with revolutionizing Chinese ink painting, Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) is considered one of the most important Chinese artists of the last century. From an apprentice in a painting shop to an art-history student in Japan, and later an diligent artist who traveled all over China to capture the country's landscape, forming his own style based on traditional artistry, Fu Baoshi continued his quest for artistic adventure throughout his life.

Fu Baoshi was born in Xinyu,Jiangxi Province. He went to Japan to study the History of Oriental Art in the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1933. He settled inNanjingafter he returned to China and was recruited byXu Beihongtoteach art history and painting at the National Central University. He translated many books from Japanese and carried out his own research. In painting itself, he brought Japanese visual elements to the Chinese ink painting tradition.

Fu had strong feelings towards the land of China. During his travel to many places, he recorded the splendors of the rivers and mountains, drawing inspiration from nature and becoming the representative landscape painter of his time. His name will be remembered forever for his depictions of Chinese landscapes.

Fu wrote numerous fine arts theses, the earliest of which, "On the Evolution ofChinese Paintings", was written at the age of 25. He also carried out in-depth research into the history oflandscape paintingat the end of the 4th century BC, including the works ofGu Kaizhiof theEastern Jin Dynasty(317-420), Zhan Ziqian of theSui Dynasty(581-618) and Jing Hao of theFive DynastiesPeriod (907-960), as well as Wu Douzi, Li Sixu, Li Zhaodao and Zhang Yanyuan of theTang Dynasty(618-907). He worked very hard to imitate paintings by Gao Kegong and Ni Zan of theYuan Dynasty(1271-1368) Chen Hongshou of theMing Dynasty(1368-1644), and Cheng Sui, Kun Can, Zha Shibiao, Gong Xian, Mei Qing, Wui Li, Yun Shouping and Shi Tao of theQing Dynasty(1644-1911), finally becoming one of the master painters of his ageIn this capacity he succeeded Huang Binhong, who had created a new style of landscape painting called "Baoshi wrinkle" basing on the cattle-hair wrinkle of Wang Meng of the Yuan Dynasty.