With two months ahead of him, Lucian Freud admirer Zhao Zhu has already painted three of the city’s bigwigs. Plenty more to come Liverpool has got a Chinese artist in residence for the next two months and already some of its citizens have been immortalised in his oils. Zhao Zhu has chosen to find an Oriental take on the traditionally European art of oil painting and has made a considerable name for himself in Guizhou province where he teaches at the university in the capital, Guiyang. His enthusiasm for modern portrait artists, particularly distinctive ones such as Lucian Freud, has led to a fusion of work influenced by their style with distinctively Chinese touches

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