黄永玉 (HuángYǒngyù): Huang Yongyu (1924-2023), Chinese painter, woodcut artist and writer from Fenghuang, Hunan, known for his playful ink paintings and zodiac stamp designs

Meanings

1 Huang Yongyu (1924-2023), Chinese painter, woodcut artist and writer from Fenghuang, Hunan, known for his playful ink paintings and zodiac stamp designs

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黄

Huáng

surname Huang; yellow

Examples

黄永玉是中国著名的国画大师。

Huáng Yǒngyù shì Zhōngguó zhùmíng de guóhuà dàshī.

Huang Yongyu is a famous Chinese ink-painting master.

他设计的猴票现在非常值钱。

Tā shèjì de hóu piào xiànzài fēicháng zhíqián.

The monkey stamp he designed is now extremely valuable.

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history

Largely self-taught, he started as a woodcut artist in the 1940s and only turned to colored ink painting in middle age. His 1980 Year of the Monkey stamp (庚申猴) became the most coveted postage stamp in PRC philately.

culture

Uncle of poet Shen Congwen. Lived in his ancestral Fenghuang town (凤凰古城) and in a Beijing studio he called 万荷堂 (Hall of Ten Thousand Lotuses), stuffed with his collection of odd objects.