34 years ago today, August 12, 1991 (July 3, 1991), painter Lin Fengmian died in Hong Kong. Lin Fengmian (1900-August 12, 1991), a famous painter in China, whose original name was Lin Fengming, was a modern painter and art educator. In his early years, he studied in France and tended to Western modernist art. When he was young, he advocated the art movement of "walking to the crossroads", but in his later years, he returned to the "ivory tower" of art. The painting style mixes Chinese and Western. He was born in Mei County, Guangdong Province. He has loved painting since childhood. He went to France to work and study at the age of 19. He first studied Western painting at the Ecole des Arts de Tijie, and then transferred to the Ecole Nationale des Fine Arts in Paris for further study. After returning to China in 1925, he became the president and professor of Peking Art College. In 1927, Lin Fengmian was invited by Cai Yuanpei to Hangzhou to establish the National Academy of Art (later Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts) and serve as president. After liberation, he served as a painter at the Shanghai China Academy of Painting. Lin Fengmian settled in Hong Kong in the 1970s and held a solo exhibition in Paris in 1979, which was a great success. Lin Fengmian is good at describing ladies, Peking Opera characters, fishing village customs and female human bodies, as well as various still lifes and landscapes with houses. From the content of the work, there is a sad, lonely, empty and lyrical style; from the form point of view, it is a square composition, and the other is without a title. His paintings have distinctive characteristics that the viewer will know at a glance. He tried to break the boundaries between Chinese and Western art and create a common artistic language. Comment: He is worthy of being an innovative master of art and has had a profound influence on many younger painters. Lin Fengmian was the spiritual leader of China's art world in the entire 20th century.