Chrysanthemums in a Pot
Lv Sibai
1948
- YEAR:1948
- MEDIUM:Oil on canvas
- DIMENSIONS:61 × 38 cm
Introduction
Lv Sibai, a pioneering Chinese artist who studied in France, was one of the most distinguished oil painters and art educators of twentieth-century China. In 1933, while studying at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he co-founded the “Association of Chinese Artists in France” with fellow student Chang Shuhong and others — an avant-garde platform for pioneering Chinese students abroad to lay the groundwork and enrich the development of Chinese art in the first half of the twentieth century. Returning to China in 1934, he taught in the Art Department of National Central University, dedicating himself to promoting the nationalization of Chinese oil painting. In 1948, during a sketching trip to Qingdao, Lv — buoyed by a joyful mood — created Chrysanthemums in a Pot, depicting a pot of vibrant orange flowers set before a window, the composition is simple, with lively and rhythmic colours, imbued with the humble poetry and refined demeanour of an Eastern gentleman.
