Liu Dezhou belongs to the most recent generation. He has created his own vision of mountain landscape, with bold and free forms painted in dripping black ink.
Liu Dezhou’s paintings are based upon typical Chinese ink painting, but he created new style with the same materials, and developed Chinese ink painting. If there is an exhibition on the development and evolution of Chinese ink painting, Liu Dezhou’s paintings are representative in a sense.
—— The Director of Zurich East Asia Art Museum (瑞士)
LIU DEZHOU
was born in Huimi, Shandong province in 1953. In 1977,he entered the Beijing Academy of Fine arts .As an artist of the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts, he is also a member of the Beijing Artists Association of the Chinese National Artists Association and a director of the Malaysia Calligraphists & Artists Association of CAO TANG MEN EASTERN ARTS SOCIETY. His paintings have been widely shown both at home and abroad, Such as at “The China 15-person Modern Chinese Paintings” Art Exhibition selected and held by the Illinois Museum in the United States of America in 1988, the World Art Exhibition in Osaka, Japan in 1990, the Annual Art Exhibition of Switzerland Davos world Economic Forum in 1993, the American Art Exhibition of “Power of the Chinese Modern Paintings” in 1995, the International Art Exchange Exhibition in South Korea in 1999, the Asian Three-year Art Exhibition in New Delhi, India in 2001, the French Drawing &Watercolour Painting Art Salon Exhibition (Espace Auteuil in Paris) in 2002 and the Paintings Art Exhibition of the Famous Chinese Painters in Japan in 2004. Besides, Liu Dezhou was also invited to Malaysia to attend its 13th Ink Painting Work Camp and gave a lecture in 2005. LIU DEZHOU INK AND WASH EXHIBITION (solo) in 798 Art District, in 2010. LIU DEZHOU's EXHIBITION in 798 Art District, in 2012. He is an expert in freehand brushwork in mountain landscape and most of his works are huge ink blotches and broad lines, giving people carefree impression and arousing fantastic reveries. His works are collected by National Art Museum of China, many other institutions and collectors abroad.