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Political Consultative Conference of Hangzhou. Besides, of Art or other Universities in the fields of visual arts, design,
he is also a renowned historian, educator, calligrapher, and and architecture. Karl Lu and some of his art classmates of
author of the famous books, “A Historical Tale of the Ancient Hangzhou Children’s Palace later became the pioneers and
(Chinese) Myth”. and “A Narrative of Hangzhou”. Karl Lu has leading figures of the significant “85 New Wave Art Movement”
been influenced by such a big family in traditional, modern, in 1980s’ China. Besides art, Lu was also good at science and
and contemporary Chinese culture, art, history, business, and technology, he had been selected to enroll in a class of science
politics. of the top selective high school in Hangzhou, after then he
learnt civil engineering and building design, plus management
Lu was fond of art since a three-year age boy. He learnt psychology at Zhejiang University of Science & Technology, and
visual arts systemically in a Class of Fine Arts of Hangzhou China Academy of Science respectively. All these have built up
Children’s Palace, where he also met a group gifted students Karl W. Lu’s distinctive position as a global artist of philosophy
in fine arts, most of them late graduated from China Academy and science & technology of our time and beyond.
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