Background
Jiang was born at Lu county in Sichuan in 1904.
蒋兆和
Jiang was born at Lu county in Sichuan in 1904.
At the beginning of 20th century, he takes an actively actions to accept the concept of western painting style with the big change of culture. At that period of time, Jiang Zhaohe"s great-grandfather and the whole family moved into Lu county of Sichuan from Ma Cheng. He was the only boy of the same generation in the whole family, and other children were all girls, so he was the hope of the whole family.
Because he was named after Wan (万),his father named him Jiang Wansui(蒋万绥)。 He was a design artist and painter in his early time of career, however, he became an artist with a combination with Chinese painting style and western painting style.
He didn"t have a formal art education. In 1929, he exhibited at the National Art Exhibition in Nanjing.
He taught at the Central Academy of the Fine Arts.
He was elected as the member of the Chinese Artists Association. He was also elected as the consultant and member of China Federation of Literature together with the Institute of Chinese Painting Fellows.