What are the achievements of "Three Treasures of Art"?

The "Three Treasures of Art" are Mr. I.M. Pei, a Chinese American, Zhao Wuji, a French Chinese painter, and Zhou Wenzhong, a Chinese American composer.

Ieoh Ming Pei

(I.M. Pei) (19 17-) Chinese-American architect, 19 17 was born in Guangzhou on April 26th. His ancestors were Suzhou aristocrats, and he spent a childhood in the family lion forest in Suzhou gardens. His father is Bei Zuyi, one of the founders of China Bank. /kloc came to Shanghai with his father at the age of 0/0, and went to the United States at the age of 0/8. He studied architecture at MIT and Harvard University successively, established an architectural firm at 1955, and retired at 1990.

19 18 His father became the general manager of China Bank Hong Kong Branch, and Bayes spent his childhood in Hong Kong. 1927 father's job was transferred and his family moved to Shanghai. He attended Shanghai Youth Annual Meeting Middle School in junior high school, graduated from the middle school affiliated to St. John's University in senior high school, and then went to the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Because he thought he had no talent for painting, he transferred to MIT in Cambridge. Berlusconi buried himself in the library and tried to absorb information related to modern European architecture. Kirby's works are his favorite, and the sculpture of his future works is also deeply influenced by Kirby. 1939 graduated.

Chronology of I.M. Pei's architectural works;

1956- 1963 No.1 Hall, Donghai University Road West, Taichung City, Taiwan Province Province.

196 1 year-1967 National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

1962- Mary Square, Montreal, Canada

Christian Science Center in Boston, Massachusetts, 1968- 1974

1968- everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

1969- Cleo Rogers Memorial Library, Columbus, Indiana

John Hancock Center, Chicago, Illinois, 1969- 1975

197 1 year-harbour tower

1972- City Hall, Dallas, Texas, USA

1973- Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, new york

East Hall of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. 1974- 1978

1976- Wilson Common, university of rochester, rochester, new york: The New York Times was selected as the top ten university student activity center building in the United States at that time.

1977- Hancock Building, Boston, Massachusetts

At that time, the all-glass curtain wall building with the largest single glass area, because the glass curtain wall technology was not mature enough at that time, there was a glass falling accident in the early stage of the building, which was solved after technical improvement.

1978- 1982 Indiana university art museum, Bloomington, Indiana.

Javits Convention and Exhibition Center, new york, NY 1979- 1986

198 1 year-JP Morgan building, Houston, Texas

1982- Xiangshan Hotel, China.

This hotel is the first work of foreign architects in China after China's reform and opening-up, and it has also set off a great discussion on the combination of China's traditional architecture and modernism in China.

Bank of China Building, Hong Kong 1982- 1990

At that time, the tallest building in Hong Kong was twice as large as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation designed by norman foster, and its cost was less than one fifth.

1985- wisner Building, Media Lab, Massachusetts.

1989- Expansion Project of Louvre in Paris, France

Paris is one of the top ten projects to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, and it is also the only project entrusted by French President Francois Mitterrand without bidding.

1990- German History Museum in Berlin, Germany

1995- Beijing China Bank Head Office.

Sanbao Museum, Kaga City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan 1996- 1997

1998- Cleveland, Ohio Rock Music Hall of Fame

2002-Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

2004-Chinese Embassy in the United States, Washington, D.C.

2006-Macau Science Museum, Macau, China.

Kennedy library

What really made I.M. Pei famous and among the world-class architects was John? Design and construction of kennedy library. 1964, in memory of the late American President John F.? Kennedy decided to build a permanent building in Boston harbor-John? Kennedy Library. At first, the Kennedy family didn't pay much attention to Pei, a "newborn calf" among a large group of first-class architects, but when he vividly described the design according to the building location, the selection of building materials, and how to give the building special uses and significance, he was deeply admired by Kennedy's widow Jacqueline. She asserted, "I am Pei's beautiful world is unparalleled, so I chose him after careful consideration. This building has been built for fifteen years. The library was completed in 1979, which caused a sensation in the American architectural community because of its novel design, bold modeling and superb technology. It is recognized as one of the best masterpieces in American architectural history. The American architectural community declared 1979 as "I.M. Pei Year" and awarded him the gold medal of the American Architectural Society that year.

East Hall of the National Gallery of Art in Washington

People in the architectural field generally believe that Pei Ming's architectural design has three characteristics: First, the architectural form and the environment are naturally integrated. Second, the space handling is unique. Third, the building materials are exquisite and the interior design of the building is exquisite. These characteristics have been fully reflected in the design of "East Pavilion".

For decades, I.M. Pei has designed many museums, universities, commercial centers and skyscrapers all over the United States, as well as many large-scale buildings in Canada, France, Australia, Singapore, Iran, Beijing, Hong Kong and Taiwan Province Province. He is a world-famous architect.

According to rough statistics, in the past half century, I.M. Pei has designed more than 100 large buildings and won more than 50 awards. He won 24 awards in nearly 50 large-scale buildings designed in the United States.

I.M. Pei won the award for the first time in 1959. 1998, the Melha Shopping Center in Denver, USA, which he designed won the honorary award of American Architectural Society. In the same year, he won the Excellence Award of the Association for designing a new building in Denver. After the 1960s, he won more awards, especially in the 1980s.

The glass pyramid of the Louvre

In the early 1980s, French President Mitterrand decided to rebuild and expand the Louvre, a world-famous art treasure house. To this end, the China Municipal Government has extensively solicited design schemes. The applicant is a famous architect from France and other countries. Finally, President Mitterrand came forward and invited 15 prestigious museum directors from all over the world to choose the design scheme for the application for the World Heritage. Results Thirteen curators chose I.M. Pei's design scheme. He designed to build a glass pyramid in Napoleon's courtyard in the Louvre with modern building materials. Unexpectedly, once this matter was announced, it caused an uproar in France. People think that this will destroy the style of this 800-year-old ancient building and "destroy the Louvre and the pyramids". However, President Mitterrand pushed through the design scheme of I.M. Pei.

The glass pyramid designed and built by I.M. Pei is 2 1 meter high and 30 meters wide at the bottom, standing in the center of the courtyard. Its four sides are composed of 673 diamond-shaped glasses. The total plane area is about 2000 square meters. The total weight of the iron tower is 200 tons, of which the net weight of glass is 105 tons, and the metal support is only 95 tons. In other words, the load of the bracket exceeds its own weight. Therefore, experts believe that this glass pyramid is not only a masterpiece of modern artistic style, but also a unique attempt to use modern science and technology.

The north, south and east sides of this large glass pyramid are decorated with three small glass pyramids five meters high, which together with seven triangular fountains form the strange beauty of plane and three-dimensional geometric figures. People not only stopped accusing him, but also said that "a huge gem flew to the Louvre"

In the same year, he also won the Putzke Prize known as the Nobel Prize in architecture. This award is an honorary award of the world's best architectural achievement award established by Kaihai Foundation in 1979, and is awarded once a year. I.M. Pei is the fifth person to receive this honor. This award is based on the work done in recent decades.

Since then, Beluming has won awards almost every year. 1984, awarded the honorary award by Yi Tuo Society for designing Beijing Xiangshan Hotel. 1985, he was jointly elected as a noble academician of the American Academy of Literature and Arts and the American National Academy of Literature and Arts. 1986, as one of 12 immigrants with outstanding personal achievements, he was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Reagan. 1988, President Mitterrand awarded him the Medal of Honor at the inauguration ceremony of the glass pyramid in the Louvre. This year, he was awarded the fourth National Art Award by President Reagan. 1989, the underground expansion project of Louvre designed by I.M. Pei was completed. Because of its achievements with the glass pyramid, I was elected to the British Pavilion in America. 1990, he and his son Belle Zhong won the "Los Angeles Beautification Award" for their cooperation in designing the office building in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. 199 1 year, he received an honorary doctorate from Thomas College in New Hampshire. 1992, he was awarded the Top Ten Citizen Award by President Bush.

Xiangshan restaurant

I.M. Pei went to study in the United States on 1935. It's been 60 years since I got married across the ocean. But his deep feelings for China remain in his mind. His ancestral home is Suzhou and he was born in Guangzhou, so he often calls people "I'm from Suzhou" and "I'm from Guangzhou". His wife, Ailing Lu, studied at Willis College and later worked as a landscape architect at Harvard University. The couple can still speak fluent Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghai dialect and Suzhou dialect. The usual dress, family arrangements and living habits still maintain the traditional characteristics of China. They have three sons and a daughter, and all three sons have the word "Zhong" in their names. Followed by Bei Zhong Ding, Bei Jianzhong and Bei Lizhong. The daughter's name is Belian, which is also a typical China name.

In the early 1970s, I.M. Pei returned to China for the first time to visit relatives and sightseeing after nearly 40 years. He was filled with emotion and later came to China many times. Overseas, he once said with deep affection that my roots are in China and China has attracted me a lot, so whenever I go back, I feel at home.

I.M. Pei was deeply impressed by the traditional architectural art in China. The winding promenade, rockery and waterside pavilion in Suzhou gardens, especially the complementary pattern between architecture and surrounding natural landscape, and the application of light and shadow aesthetics have been traced in his architectural design career for decades. The newly-built Xiangshan Hotel, located in Beijing Xiangshan Park, is a combination of modern architectural art and China traditional architectural features.

1979, I.M. Pei accepted the design of Xiangshan Hotel. With his consistent and meticulous style, he not only visited Xiangshan for many times to survey the terrain, but also climbed to the top to overlook the surrounding environment. And visited Beijing, Nanjing, Yangzhou, Suzhou, Chengde and other places. Investigate the local big buildings and gardens. Finally, a series of irregular courtyards were built to blend with the surrounding water, mountains, mountains and towering ancient trees. Therefore, this newly-built Xiangshan Hotel looks ordinary in appearance, just like a girl with inner beauty. At first glance, it seems inconspicuous, but the more you look at it, the more you will feel the natural beauty of her light makeup.

Compared with the skyscrapers designed in the past, the scale of Xiangshan Hotel is not large. But I.M. Pei said, "Xiangshan Hotel occupies an important position in my design career. My efforts are ten times higher than some buildings designed abroad. " He also said, "Starting from the design of Xiangshan Hotel, I tried to explore a new way. A modern building embodies the essence of China's national architectural art ". There are only two designs in this prolific architect's office. One is the design of the East Building of China Art Museum, and the other is the design of Beijing Xiangshan Hotel. It can be seen that the design of Xiangshan Hotel really occupies an important position in his heart.

1984, I.M. Pei designed a 70-storey building with a height of 100 for China Bank. It was the tallest building in Hong Kong at that time and the tallest building in the world except the United States at that time. This is of course because his father was the earliest founder of HSBC, which made him feel close to the building. However, he stressed that this building is one of the symbols of China in Hongkong and should be held high. It is also China's pride to show some style and style.

Miho museum

Meixiu Art Museum was built by Japanese Miyuko Yamayama for collection. The 60-meter-high bell tower designed by I.M. Pei in Japan and the glass pyramid of the Louvre designed in France moved the beauty from Zishan, and entrusted I.M. Pei to design the 1990 art museum. In view of the owner's complete trust in the architect, everything respects the designer's opinion and spends 25 billion yen to build this paradise on earth.

I.M. Pei showed us such an ideal picture: a mountain, a valley, and buildings hidden in clouds. Many ancient China literature and paintings revolve around a theme: after a long and tortuous road, I came to a thatched cottage in the mountains, which was hidden in silence, accompanied only by the sound of waterfalls ... It was a fairyland far away from the world. It's dangerous to be here. This is the journey of those pathfinders.

Protect the natural landscape to the maximum extent.

The excavation of the art gallery has been carefully arranged. In order to protect the growth of natural slopes and trees to the greatest extent, people have built special tunnels and built a series of platforms to reduce the impact on the surrounding water, soil and plants. In the process of filling the earth in the art museum, an earthquake-proof wall with a height of more than 20 meters was carefully designed to separate the building on the second floor underground from the rocks. After covering, the original scenery on the mountain was restored a few years later, and the natural landscape was as good as ever.

Reproduce the memory of Suzhou gardens

At present, there is a small round square, and there is also a circle in the middle of the square, which is engraved with a cross pattern. Presumably, this is the same as what Little Square saw in the guest room. I didn't rush to climb three steps, but first looked at the traditional glass roof and the moon door under the light and shadow. I.M. Pei himself said that he borrowed the structure of Japanese temples, but I think this is clearly the memory of Suzhou gardens when I was a teenager.

A wood-like aluminum alloy grille with filtering function is designed in the space between the roof glass and the steel pipe support rod. In addition to the aesthetic success, the fantastic shadow of the grille is scattered in the halls and corridors of the art museum, which is in contrast with the traditional Japanese bamboo curtain "shadow culture". This strong effect is unexpected.

I always like to purify the geometry hidden in modeling. This entry-level building, looking closely at the border line of the roof, is composed of large and small squares and triangles, intertwined with each other, like a geometric illusion painting. It's not here. If the waist of the largest triangle in the roof is extended to both sides, it will naturally connect with the sloping sides of the fence on both sides of the steps. At this time, what we see is a huge and stable regular triangle, which is the wonderful pen of I.M. Pei. If it is influenced by Japan, the emphasis should be on clear outline and silhouette effect.

This entrance building is transparent in both front and back walls. The unique design of the skylight is the "sun hat" under the glass. Bereming's buildings often use this kind of sunshine treatment, but they all use aluminum alloy. This time, all the wood materials are used, and the light is reflected by the roots and scattered into the space, so that a warm and soft atmosphere appears in the room. After entering the main entrance, you can open the window through the glass like a wide-angle screen. You can see the pines and mountains outside the window, like a transparent screen painting, welcoming the audience.

Waves in the rhythm of mountains

There is a diversified trend in modern architecture, one of which is to move towards a place that can be toured, considerable, habitable and uplifted. In fact, the so-called architectural reality must show you a space that is easy to remember, or an experience that you have never experienced before.

The uniqueness of Meixiu Art Museum lies in that apart from being far away from the city, the most special thing is that 80% of the buildings are buried underground, but it is not a real underground building, but because the ground is a nature reserve, and Japan's nature protection law has many restrictions. It is built on a hill. If viewed from a distance, the exposed part of the roof meets the curve of the mountain peak, just like the waves in the rhythm of the mountain range. It is hidden in evergreen bushes, and it is in due harmony with nature.

Rich and complex oriental complex

Suzhou Museum

The new Suzhou Museum, designed by the famous architect I.M. Pei, is located in the historical protection block in the north of the ancient city of Suzhou, adjacent to the Humble Administrator's Garden and the Loyalty Palace of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, with a design area of 1.5 million square meters, including a total investment of 338 million yuan for demolition. After the design is completed, the museum will collect the treasures of Suzhou City with a history of 2500 years. This building not only makes up for the shortage of antiquities collection, but also becomes a famous traditional and modern building in Suzhou. The museum includes an exhibition hall covering an area of 7,000 square meters, an auditorium with 200 seats, an antique shop, an administrative office, a literature library and research center, a storage space and some China gardens.

"In the overall layout, the new museum skillfully uses the water surface to integrate with the adjacent world cultural heritage Humble Administrator's Garden and the national key cultural relics protection unit Zhongwangfu, which has become an extension and modern interpretation of the architectural styles of Humble Administrator's Garden and Zhongwangfu." The roof design of the new pavilion is inspired by the traditional slope top landscape in Suzhou-cornices and fine architectural details. However, the new roof was reinterpreted by technology and evolved into a wonderful geometric effect. The glass roof will be set against the stone roof, allowing natural light to enter the activity area and exhibition area of the museum and providing guidance for tourists. Metal awnings and nostalgic wooden frames will be widely used under the glass roof to control and filter the sun rays entering the exhibition area. The level change of light makes people enter poetic and picturesque, which is wonderful. The new museum and Humble Administrator's Garden borrow scenery from each other and reflect each other, which will become the modernization continuation of a generation of famous gardens. Many people report that the more they look at the design of the new museum, the more interested they are, and they will feel a shocking effect.

The new museum is divided into three parts: the central part is the entrance, hall and museum garden; The west is the exhibition area; There are modern art galleries, educational facilities, tea service and administrative functional areas in the east. And this part will also become the actual channel connecting Zhongwang House. In June 2003, the foundation stone was laid at 5438+065438+ 10, and it was officially opened to the public on June 6, 2003.

Bank of China building

Bank of China Building in Hong Kong, designed by I.M. Pei Architects, completed on 1990. Total construction area129000m2, 70 floors above ground, building height 315m, top two poles height 367.4m.. When completed, it is the tallest building in Hong Kong and the tallest skyscraper outside the United States. The structure is supported by four-corner 12-story giant steel columns, and there is no column in the room. Careful observation of the Bank of China Building will reveal many common designs of Bayesian works. Take the plane as an example. Bank of China Tower is a square plane, diagonally divided into four groups of triangles, and the height of each group of triangles is different, which makes the facade varied in strict geometric specifications. As for the concept of plane, it can be traced back to the Madrid Tower in 1973. The Madrid Tower and the front of the square are also divided multilaterally. Is a series to analyze its combination. The appearance is like bamboo, symbolizing strength, vitality, firmness and enterprising spirit; The granite exterior wall of the pedestal represents the Great Wall and China.

I.M. Pei's design concept;

Throughout my works, I.M. Pei has added luster to the modern city since the industrial revolution, which can be said to keep pace with the times. At 1988, I.M. Pei decided not to accept large-scale construction projects, but to choose small buildings carefully, and the height of the buildings he designed was getting lower and lower. That is to say, it is getting closer and closer to the main line. I think this is a return to nature. This art gallery shows more clearly Beixing's grasp of the oriental artistic conception tomorrow night, especially the remote mountain scenery of his hometown-China's ideal landscape painting. Japanese critics have put it well, and this work marks a new milestone in the long architectural career of Beixingming.

The original idea of Meixiu Art Museum comes from the prose Peach Blossom Garden written by Tao Yuanming, an idyllic poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty in China. It is also a well-known Japanese China classic. So the curator of the art museum, Yamami Yuko, saw these four Chinese characters and immediately accepted I.M. Pei's idea happily. An architect who was born in China and started his career in the United States built an art museum with typical China scenery in Japan. What a rich and complex synthesis it is.

Artistic conception of architectural structure

People often complain that buildings are subject to various restrictions and cannot achieve their original intention. However, due to restrictions, the creation of melancholy shows can be reflected, and Meixiu Art Museum is an excellent example.

I.M. Pei was interviewed by a reporter in new york. He believes: "The shape of the structure is of course influenced by the terrain. According to local regulations, only buildings with a total area of 17000 square meters are allowed to be exposed to the ground, so 80% of the art museum must be underground. "

Now we see that the completed building is beyond our imagination, which can be said to be a masterpiece under constraints. In the constraint, we see the genius of I.M. Pei. Only a lot of triangular and prismatic glass roofs can be seen from the appearance. Actually, it's all skylights. Once entered, the bright and stretched space exceeded people's expectations.

The whole building consists of two floors: the ground floor and the underground floor. The entrance is on the first floor. After entering the main entrance, you can look up. The intricate multi-faceted and multi-angle combination of skylights has become an important memory of this art museum. The shading grid is made of light yellow wood, and the indoor wall and floor materials are made of light khaki limestone made in France, which is the same as that used by I.M. Pei to design the front hall of Louvre Art Museum. It should be said that this aspect also satisfies Yamashita's hope that Yukiko will pursue the first-class level.

North-South Wing and Series

The facilities are generally composed of the north and south wings, and the passage connecting the north and south pavilions makes the whole building look comfortable, which can be seen at a glance through the building plan. The North Pavilion mainly displays oriental art, the South Pavilion collects western art, and both underground floors are service spaces. The north wing is the collection group, while the south wing is the office of the director and librarian.

I.M. Pei's repeated use of geometric techniques is well known, and he pursues exquisite and refined modeling to the extreme. This time, due to the special structural requirements of the art museum, in order to display some specific works of art, some special spaces must be designed inside. For example, after the 2nd century AD, a 7-day window was specially designed at the top of Gandhara sculpture in Pakistan, which was exhibited in South Asia Art Museum. The light scattered from above is mysterious.

At present, the design of the collective warehouse is unconventional, and it is designed at the lowest floor, so it has become a major topic in construction in terms of waterproof and moistureproof. All the walls are insulated to prevent frosting due to the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor. On the other hand, in order to prevent the soil covering the building from seeping, a waterproof agent made in Switzerland with cold resistance and root resistance (that is, root erosion resistance) is adopted, and then cement is laid on it to prevent accidents.

I.M. Pei has made great efforts not only in the building itself, but also in the installation and collection environment of artworks. The most prominent example is the design of air conditioning system for exhibitions and collections. There is no direct air conditioning in the exhibition room, but it is set around to protect precious works of art. This new idea is to let the air with ideal temperature penetrate into the exhibition space, while the internal air does not convection, so as to control the influence on works of art to a minimum. The collection warehouse has also taken the same measures. However, the lighting of the exhibition room cancels the heating light source that is harmful to the exhibits, and uses optical fiber materials developed in recent years as lighting.

Borrow scenery to make a garden

The so-called borrowing scenery is to intercept or cut a part of nature by artificial means and enjoy its tolerance. This is a common practice of traditional gardening in China, and the Japanese have the same tradition.

Please look at the art gallery where I.M. Pei uses it like this. It is one kilometer away from the architecture in Ming Xiu. In order to reflect the connection with this group of buildings, after entering the main hall, you can immediately look out at the scenery outside the window-mountains and the Temple of Mercy and the Bell Tower with only the roof exposed.

The North Pavilion has an atrium with a courtyard designed by a Japanese landscape architect. Over the buildings around the courtyard, you can see the hills and blue sky and white clouds outside the courtyard. This beautiful relationship reminds me of what I saw and heard when I left Kyoto Palace. It's too wide now. I.M. Pei's conception of the overall facilities of the art museum is really ingenious and amazing.

Zhao Wuji (192 1-) is a French painter.

Zhao Wuji was born in a scholarly family in Beiping in 192 1. Its family has a long history, and its genealogy can be traced back to Emperor Yan of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Wuji was gifted at an early age and was very interested in literature and Chinese and foreign history. His family, especially his father and uncle, attach great importance to the art of painting. His father often goes out of his way to explain to the children whether a work is a fake or not from the perspective of aesthetics and skills, and his uncle often brings back some postcards of famous paintings from Paris to Zhao Wuji. In an intellectual family, everyone is interested and curious about painting art, and it is in this environment that he is inspired to become a painter.

1935 14 years old entered Hangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. In the past six years, from sketching plaster statues and models to painting oil paintings, he also learned Chinese painting copying, painting theory and western art. His early works were mainly taught by Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso, and his painting style was close to Western Impressionism. This is what people call "visualization" period. 194 1 year, Zhao Wuji held his first solo exhibition, but he was not satisfied with Chinese painting since Ming and Qing dynasties. He is looking forward to more satisfactory training. So he went to Paris with his first wife Xie Jinglan at 1948. During his stay in Paris, he met many painters, such as Raj, Hatton and Brahms. He was familiar with Elisef, the art curator of Sernoux Qi in Paris at that time, and became friends with the poet Daofu, and he also met his third wife, Sansvet, in Paris.

His paintings have been fully developed in Paris, and his first solo exhibition was held in Kezi Gallery in May 1949. Thinking while painting, the development of western painting has reached a critical point that must be broken through, so he got inspiration from Klee's paintings and jumped into the abstract world.

He constantly explored the possibility of painting, and was recognized in the rendering method and space concept of China's ink painting, which made his painting enter another stage. After that, his paintings are distributed in color and space, leading the viewer into a seemingly invisible and tangible infinite world.

Zhao Wuji made the transition from Cezanne and Picasso to Klee, and at this time, the art also made the transition from building a complete world to the stage of random creation. At this point, the audience has been unable to directly define the connotation of the work from the visual image. The work "Still Life" by 1952 is a model of this kind of transformation work. There are some dry branches and sundries randomly placed in the picture, which are strange in shape and full of desolate and mysterious atmosphere. For artists, still life is color and symbol. In a certain light, with the help of various combinations of cold and warm colors, he got rid of the figurative painting style, decomposed the subjective representation, and made the objective form appear in a simple form. After 1958' s Cloud, Zhao Wuji's works no longer have titles. He only marked the date of creation on the back of the canvas.

Chinese American composer. Originally from Changzhou, Jiangsu, I was born in Yantai, Shandong. From 65438 to 0946, he went to America and studied composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. 65438-0949 entered Columbia University to study musicology and composition. Master of Music in 1954. He became an American citizen from 1958, and successively served as a professor at the University of Illinois and a visiting professor at Columbia University. In 1970s, he was a professor at Columbia University and head of the Music Department. 1978 established the US-China Art Exchange Center and served as its director. His works include orchestral Flowers on the Moon, two famous Tang Dynasty songs, landscape paintings, fisherman's songs, Gua language and I don't know and I wonder how many blossoms were broken, piano music Three Chapters of Yangguan, trumpet brass and percussion ensemble The Nun's Monologue and the oratorio "Thinking of Fan".