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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.
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