Zhou Yongsheng

Zhou Yongsheng
Personal Profile

      Zhou Yongsheng, born in August 1950 in Qingdao, graduated in 1966 from Qingdao Art School (the predecessor of the School of Humanities and Arts at Qingdao University of Science and Technology).
      A well-known Chinese painter and comic strip artist in China. Member of the Shandong Branch of the China Artists Association, and Director of the Shandong Provincial Research Association of Comic Strips.
      Formerly served as Director of Huangdao Cultural Center in Qingdao and concurrently President of Qingdao Oil Painting Academy, and Station Chief of Qingdao Office for Shandong United Daily.
      Currently Professor at Qingdao Socialist College and Qingdao Chinese Culture College.
 
        Zhou Yongsheng has long been engaged in journalism, editing, and cultural education. He has published dozens of works including New Year paintings, comic strips, and illustrations through national and provincial publishers and periodicals.
      His comic strip "Illustrated Overview of Chinese Historical Knowledge" won the national children’s book award "Bing Xin Award" (submitted by Shandong Tomorrow Publishing House), and "Heroes Emerge from Youth" won the award of "100 Sets of Most Popular Excellent Books for Teenagers Nationwide" (submitted by Shandong Confucius Foundation).
      The comic strips "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin," published and submitted by Shandong Fine Arts Publishing House, consecutively won the Shandong Provincial Outstanding Cultural Project Award. He has also published and released comic strip works such as "The Great Wall on the Solitary Island," "Evening Glow," "Yue Fei," "Idiom Stories," "Three Kingdoms," "Water Margin," "Dream of the Red Chamber," "Journey to the West," "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio," "Qian Niang," and "The Outer Biography of Yang Guifei" via Shandong Fine Arts Publishing House, Tianjin Fine Arts Publishing House, China Fine Arts Publishing House, and Lianhuanhua Magazine.
      His artworks have been exhibited multiple times in national, provincial, and municipal art exhibitions, winning one provincial second prize, one provincial third prize, one provincial honorary award, and one municipal first prize.
      His Chinese figure paintings are vivid in form, rigorous in composition, subtly expressive and restrained in brushwork, with a fresh artistic style permeated by the refined scholarly spirit of literati painting, earning high acclaim within the industry.

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