{"Id":7588,"Name":"Yuehua He","Biography":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EYuehua He\u0027s\u0026nbsp;path to painting has had its challenges.\u003C/div\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C/div\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EYuehua\u0026nbsp;was born in 1959 in Beijing, China.\u0026nbsp;Yuehua\u0027s\u0026nbsp;mother was an art teacher and she taught\u0026nbsp;him how to draw. He participated in art activities in school. His dream was to enter the Academy of Fine Arts. However, at that time, students were not allowed to go to college unless\u0026nbsp;they were chosen by someone in the government.\u003C/div\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C/div\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EAfter high school\u0026nbsp;Yuehua\u0026nbsp;went to the army. In the army, there\u0026nbsp;were not many opportunities to draw, but when\u0026nbsp;the chance arose\u0026nbsp;he drew what\u0026nbsp;he saw in\u0026nbsp;his surroundings. Four years later,\u0026nbsp;Yuehua left the army\u0026nbsp;and entered the cinema and drafted movie posters. Each movie poster\u0026nbsp;was 2 meters x 7 meters long, and it usually took one to two days to finish painting. During this time Yuehua was admitted to the Central Academy of Arts and Design Night University (renamed the Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts). The Secretary to the Minister of Electronics Industry invited\u0026nbsp;Yuehua\u0026nbsp;to work professionally. He worked in the State Council and the NPC Standing Committee from 1982 until 1987, after which\u0026nbsp;he\u0026nbsp;worked as the curator of the Beijing Museum of Art and Design.\u0026nbsp;Yuehua\u0026nbsp;worked there until 2000 when\u0026nbsp;he immigrated to the United States to become a full-time painter.\u003C/div\u003E\r\n\u003C/div\u003E\r\n\u003C/div\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":false,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":false,"TotalArtworks":25}