Professors Zhang Xi Ling and Zhang De Yu - The Silk Road Artists
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Former Director of the Tianjin Art Association, Professor Zhang Xi Ling is married to the famous artist Zhang De Yu.

Born in 1934, Zhang Xi Ling  studied traditional Chinese painting at Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts under the Master Li Ke Ran, graduating in 1958.

From her classical base, Professor Zhang Xi Ling  has developed a unique painting style, influenced by her profound feeling for nature's symmetry and harmony, the simplistic designs of ancient cultures, and the rich colours of Chinese folk art.

Her work has been exhibited in the Chinese National Gallery in Beijing

The nationally renowned artist Zhang De Yu was born in northern China in 1930. 

He graduated from the Chinese Central Academy of Fine Art, and first became famous in the 1950's.

During the period of the cultural revolution, his entire folio of work was destroyed, and he was banished to the country. For nearly ten years many people in the Chinese arts community thought he was dead. However, following the fall of the Gang of Four and rehabilitation of China's cultural heritage, Zhang De Yu was able to resume his role as one of China's most important contemporary artists.

While Dean of the Fine Arts Institute in Tianjin and  Vice Chairman of the Chinese Painters Association, he  undertook a major series of studies of China's minority peoples.