Chao Shao'ang
1905 -  
 

Chao Shao’ang is a native of Guangzhou, Guangdong. He founded the Lingnan Art Studio in Guangzhou. In 1937 he served as the head of the Department of Chinese Painting at the Guangzhou Municipal College of Fine Arts and in 1948 as a professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Guangzhou University. He excels in painting landscapes, animals, flowers, insects and fish and is particularly noted for painting cicadas. He is a representative painter of the Lingnan School. His paintings have been exhibited on many occasions in the United States, Singapore, Germany and other countries and he has been granted various awards.