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Youzhi He, born in 1922, China’s famous comic artist. Lived in Ningbo and Shanghai from the cradle, engaged in the creative art in 1950s. became famous in 1960s, served as a visiting professor of China Central Academy of Fine Arts for 7 years. In the fine art area, the famous painter Liu Danzhai said Youzhi He is the ‘tripod’ in Shanghai art circles and the other one is artist Zhang Leping. Picture storytelling comic books used be deeply impressive for several generations. Youzhi He’s ‘local flavor’ of his art work is even more memorable. His lengthy classic artwork ‘Tremendous Changes of the town’ in the 1960s was known as ‘the epoch-making representative comic works in the history of China’. In his creative career of more than 501 years, ‘The Battle In The Train’, ‘District Town of Chaoyanggou’, ‘ Fifteen Strings of Cash’ and ‘Xiao Erhei’s marriage’ and the other artworks subsequently won the national art awards. In the ideal surrounding since returning back to hometown, Youzhi He continued to plough into the creative artwork. In his new workshop, only 50 meters away from the ancestral houses, he created a sensation art work at the age of 801 and displayed in the Shanghai Art Fair in 2001, line drawing monumental works ‘Shenjiang Fengqinglu’, which was comprised of bigger paintings of ‘Variety of life in small street’, loafer and the 10 smaller paintings such as ‘Waiter’ ‘Scalper’ ‘Congregational Assembly’ recorded the lifestyle of Shanghai in the 20th century. Mr. Feng Qiyong called it the ‘Upper River during the Festival of Asia’. In December 2001, Youzhi He presented 80 sets of his limited and collective17th edition of the ‘ Shenjiang Fengqinglu’ to the Beilun Zongrui Library. This art works had been presented to Shanghai History Museum, Shanghai Art Museum and Shanghai Library. ‘It is taken for granted I donate to the hometown museum’. He said. In April 2002, he donated a batch of valuable manuscripts of the works to the Beilun Museum

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