Born in Mei County, Guangdong, Lin Fengmian is often regarded as a "Shanghai School" painter in a broad sense, especially during his later years when he settled in Shanghai.
Renowned for his fusion of Chinese and Western artistic styles, he is frequently considered, along with the similarly innovative Liu Haisu, a representative of the "Sino-Western fusion" in the Shanghai art scene. Although he was not among the traditional Shanghai School painters, as a pioneer of modern painting, he established a unique position as part of the "Modern Shanghai School" in Shanghai.
Illustrated: Lalan, Zao Wo-ki and Lin Fengmian | Lalan J.M. Beuredeley, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
林風眠（1900-1991）
生於廣東梅縣，常被視為廣義的「海派」畫家，特別是在他中晚年定居上海期間。他以融合中西的藝術風格聞名，與同樣具創新精神的劉海粟常被視為海上「中西融合」的代表。雖然他不在傳統海派之列，但作為現代繪畫先驅，他在上海奠定了獨特的「現代海派」地位。
