George Tsui

George Tsui is an American artist who was born in Hong Kong. In the late 1960’s Tsui moved from Hong Kong to New York and studied his first year at the School of Visual Arts. Later on, Tsui transferred to the Art Student’s League. and received his degree in oil painting there. Later on, while working at NBC, Tsui received the 1977 Emmy Award for Best Individual Craft. In 1984, Tsui had several paintings chosen for the Winter Olympics poster series. After being in the New York art scene, Tsui temporarily relocated to Beijing in 1996 in pursuit of reaching a new level in his artist career. The splendid architecture of the Forbidden City and the character of his travels to Beijing helped him produce a series of Chinese women he painted in the glory and splendor of ancient China. According to Tsui, those paintings combined the traditionally ornate with a sense of modernity. Tsui had a fascination with the cultural beauty of historical China and this lead to his exploration of Chinese culture and to the exposure of the rich inner culture of China. Through Chinese themes, Tsui created his own brand of classic romanticism. He doesn’t pretend to be painting the real thing; Tsui draws his viewers in with the imagination aspect. Individuals are drawn into a fantasy where the signs of subterfuge are plain to see.