林风眠1900年生于广东。1918年,18岁的林风眠参加了政府赞助的赴法勤工俭学。先在第戎艺术学校进修西洋画,后转入巴黎国立高等美术学校深造。林氏在学校所受的教育是学院派的,但在校外深受当时流行的现代流派影响,如后印象主义、野兽主义及原始主义,其中又以马谛斯、莫迪里亚尼为最甚。他们的影响表现于林氏中西结合的画风之中,其作品曾入选法国秋季沙龙。林氏于1925年返国,被聘任为北平国立艺专校长。后受蔡元培之邀赴杭州艺专任校长。该校成为鼓吹新艺术运动的大本营。林氏亦经常撰文宣传他本人中西合并的艺术的创作经验和理论。林氏于1977年移居香港后, 仍孜孜不倦地从事艺术创作直至晚年。是享有国际声望及地位的中国画家之一。 Lin Fengmian was born in 1900 in Guangdong. In 1918, Lin Fengmian, 18, attended a government-sponsored work-study program in France. First Dijon school of art studies Western painting, later transferred to the Paris National Higher Art School. Lin’s education in schools was academic but outside the school, he was greatly influenced by the prevailing modern genres such as Post-Impressionism, Fauvismism and Primitivism, with Matiz and Modigliani very. Their influence is reflected in Lin’s style of combining Chinese and Western works. His works have been selected into the French autumn salon. Lin returned home in 1925 and was hired as president of the Peking National Arts School. After Cai Yuanpei’s invitation to go to Hangzhou art director. The school became a base camp promoting the Art Nouveau. Lin often writes about the creative experience and theory of his own Chinese-Western art. After moving to Hong Kong in 1977, Lin continued to work tirelessly in his artistic creation until his later years. It is one of the Chinese painters enjoying international prestige and status.