Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c11.s4.t3.59

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Ye Qianyu (March 31, 1907 - May 8, 1995) Modern Chinese painter from Tonglu, Zhejiang. He self-studied painting. He started creating comics in Shanghai in 1927. His representative works include full-length comics *Mr. Wang* and so on. In 1939, he assumed the office of the chief-editor of the pictorial magazine *China Today* in Hong Kong. In 1943, he accessed India-China training camp in Ramgarh, India in the name of a war correspondent, and visited India International University and the Buddhist holy land, Bodh Gaya, where he drew plentiful sketches of Indian dancers and sceneries, and his creation focus turned from comics to Chinese paintings, especially of dancing characters. In 1944, he held a “Painting Exhibition of Indian Tour” in Chongqing, which received much praise from Xu Beihong, and Xu ordered two paintings of dancing characters from him. Zong Baihua commented, “Qianyu’s painting of Indian dance is the combination of classical beauty and modern beauty.” He taught at the National Beiping Art College in 1947. He became a professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1949, and served successively as the Academy’s Head of the Chinese Painting Faculty, Vice Chairman of Chinese Artists Association, etc. In 1962, his Chinese painting *India’s Bharata-natya* recreated from the sketch of the 1943-trip to India was his best representative work, matchless in the works of the same theme. In Chongqing in 1945, he learned traditional Chinese painting from Zhang