Since the death of former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin in November 2022 and China’s abrupt U-turn on its “zero-COVID” policy amid a growing outbreak, a number of senior CCP members have passed away successively. Four painters with close ties to the communist party from China’s top arts academy all passed away with in six days.
Zhou Lingzhao
Zhou Lingzhao, a famous Chinese painter, designer, and professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, died in Beijing on Jan. 3 at the age of 104.
Born in 1919 in Pingjiang County, Hunan Province, Zhou grew up loving art under the influence of his mother, who was a Chinese painting teacher. After graduating from elementary school, he attended an art college and continued to study painting….