The French May Arts Festival Pays Tribute To An Abstract Master At Chu Teh-Chun’s Symphony & Film Premier
2020 marks the centenary birth of a celebrated Chinese-French abstract master Chu Teh-Chun (1920-2014). To pay tribute to this talented artist, the French May Arts Festival (French May) is working together with Alisan Fine Arts and Fondation CHU Teh-Chun to co-present Chu Teh-Chun’s Symphony & Film Premier. Chu studied watercolour and oil painting at the National Academy of Art under Lin Feng Mian. There he met two other important artists Zao Wou-Ki and Wu Guanzhong, the three nicknamed “Three Musketeers” of Chinese Modern Art. Chu moved to Paris in 1955 where his signature abstract style came to be in 1956, after he attended a major exhibition of works by French…