Jin Zhilin is an accomplished oil painter best known for reviving the role of traditional Chinese folk art in modern China. He once served as director of research for the Department of Folk Art at Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Jin was born in 1928 in Luannan county, Hebei province. In 1944, he was accepted into the Beijing Training School, where he studied Chinese landscape painting under Mr. Wu Jingting. In 1947, he entered the Arts department of the Peking National Arts College, where he studied western painting from masters such as Feng Fasi, Wu Zuoren, Xu Beihong; and traditional Chinese painting under masters Li Keran and Qi Baishi. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1951, and began teaching in the academy's Painting and Oil Painting departments, as well as the Dong Xiwen Studio. Read more...

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