Two Fishes

Liang Xihong was born in Huangpu, Zhongshan City, Guangdong province. He studied in Guangzhou Municipal College of Fine Arts, Shanghai Fine Art School and Shanghai Chinese Arts University between 1927 and 1930. Then he went to Japan in 1933, studied in the Art Department of The University of Tokyo. He founded the Chinese Independent Art Institute in Tokyo 1934 and later in 1935 moved back to Shanghai where he regularly wrote articles introducing various genres of Modern Western Fine Arts. He was a faculty in the Ling Ying College in Hong Kong, professor of Western Painting in Guangzhou Municipal College of Fine Arts before People’s Republic of China have been founded. Post 1949 he worked in the South China Academy of the People's Literature and Art, Central South College of Fine Arts and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts for 30 years. In 1979 he was elected as the founding chairman of Guangzhou Watercolor Association. He had produced more than 10 research articles, among which, his Commentaries on Western Sculptures was used as the teaching reference in Central South College of Fine Arts. The Chinese Western Painting Movement was a monumental chronicle delineating western painting development in the Republic of China era.