Artist Shi Lu honored with research center

The National Museum of China recently launched a research institute for the works of late painter Shi Lu, a first at the Beijing-based museum to study modern Chinese art.

The Research Center of Art of Shi Lu was formed on the basis of family donations totaling nearly 300 works by Shi Lu (1919-82), a 20th-century master of Chinese art, who founded the celebrated Chang'an Painting School along with fellow painter Zhao Wangyun.

Shi Lu was born in Sichuan province as Feng Yaheng. He lived in Shaanxi province for several decades until his death. He took the pseudonym Shi Lu, taking the name from two people he admired: Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) painter Shi Tao and writer Lu Xun (1881-1936).