Huang Yongyu

Huang Yongyu, a painter and poet,born in Feng Huang county of Hu Nan province,who achieves mastery through all kinds categories of arts, and attains perfection of them. He is the author of poetry collections including “There Was once a Time”, “The Pied Piper”, “Singing All the Way Home”, the travel book, “Along the Seine to Firenze”(Chinese,Italian,French versions), and the novel “The Lothario in the River of No Worries”and etc. He once made illustrations for “Ashima”,“In the Forest”and etc. He also designed and drew zodiac stamps “Monkey”.He was once awarded the Italian Grand Cross Five-star Knight Medal by the president of Italy. Bei Jing Academy of Painting (formerly known as Beijing Chinese Academy of Painting) is the earliest and largest professional art academy founded in New China.It was officially established on May 14, 1957. Premier Zhou Enlai, Guo Moruo and more than 300 other famous people attended the founding assembly.It is an academic institution to create, make study, cultivate talents, develop Chinese fine arts, and strengthen foreign culture exchanges.