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Chou, Irene [Chou Lu-yün; Zhou Luyun]
(b Shanghai, Jiangsu Province, 31 Jan 1924). Chinese painter active in Hong Kong. Chou received a modern education, graduating from St John’s University in Shanghai in 1945. She left Shanghai in 1949 to settle in Hong Kong and a year later began to study Chinese painting with Zhao Shaoang (b 1905), a painter of the LINGNAN SCHOOL. She also became a student of LUI SHOU-KWAN, whose theories of New Ink Painting inspired her to move away from conventional Chinese styles and experiment with different media and techniques, to find her personal expression in the 1970s. Using forceful lines derived from the stone-drum inscriptions of the Warring States period (403–221 BC; see CHINA, §IV, 2(i)(b)) and dense ink washes, she explored through her paintings the inner workings of the mind and its relationship to the mysteries of the universe. Her abstract paintings from the 1980s onwards exploded with cataclysmic energy derived as much from dense, textural strokes as from broad, slablike strokes of ink and colour. She is recognized as an original and innovative artist who crossed the boundaries between East and West.
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