Lao You, whose real name is You Shuti, was born in March 1933 in Linhai, Zhejiang Province, and settled in Hangzhou. Graduated from Fudan University. Scholar, poet, and artist. National first-class artist, national special level calligrapher and painter. Doctor of "Art" at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of France. He has successively engaged in party propaganda, literature and art work and party school teaching in Shanghai, Inner Mongolia and Hangzhou. Researcher of China Academy of Management Sciences (Long Term). During this period, from 1960 to 1963, he also served as the deputy leader of the stage art design and stage art team. 1986-1988 Studied and graduated from Beijing Qi Baishi Art Correspondence College majoring in Chinese painting, as "Baishi Menxia".
2003 Distant Sky 176X95cm
After retiring in 1993, he immersed himself in freehand Chinese landscapes, flowers and birds paintings, as well as poems, books and seal carvings. Do as you please, paint freehand, advocate nature, eclectic, but seek things and I blend in, free to be at ease. There are special collections such as "National Art Giant, Huaxia Royal Chapter", "Moving World Art Giant", "Focus on the Two Sessions - Specially Recommended Famous Artist You Shuti" and other special collections. His works have been exhibited in six countries, including Russia, France, Italy, and Japan, and have been well received. He has won the gold medal of the "Thirty Years of China's Reform and Opening Up Literary and Art Lifetime Achievement Award", the "Golden Saint Award of the International Art Garden", the gold medal of the "Da Vinci International Art Grand Prix", the "National 14th Five-Year Plan Cultural Construction Award", the "Fuji Mountain International Art Award", the "United Nations Artistic Lifetime Achievement Award" signed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres, and awarded the "World Artistic Meritorious Figure" and the "United Nations Culture and Art Medal".
2010 First snow 49 x 52cm
UNESCO and other organizations have awarded many titles such as "Messenger of World Peace Culture", "Hall-level World Art Master", "Century-old Literary and Art Giant" (signed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon), "People's Artist", "Master of Chinese Culture Protection and Inheritance", "Century-old Master of Chinese Culture", "Meritorious Artist", "National Literary and Art Pioneer in the New Era", "National Cultural Construction Pioneer in the 14th Five-Year Plan", etc.
2013 Green Pine Figure 176x95cm
He is currently the vice chairman of the World Celebrity Art Research Association, the executive director of the China International Literary Artists Association, the vice chairman of the United Nations International Cultural Communication Center, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Russian Academy of Arts, the Royal French Academy of Painting, the Royal Swedish Academy of Art, the Roman Academy of Painting and other honorary academicians, academicians, tenured academicians and visiting professors.
2015 Charity Flower 62x89cm
2012 Morning Song 90x177cm
2013 Light Boat has passed over Wanzhong Mountain 178x96cm
2013 Alpine Waterfall 99x51cm
2015 Charity Flower 62x89cm
2003 Aoyama Sunset Photo 86x95cm
2018 Plum bone 88x96cm
2011 Lily 69x70cm
2019 Chunxia 97× 180cm
2019 Zixia 68x69cm
2020 Chinese New Year 68x70cm
2003 Qingjiang Yongcui 91x68cm
2021 Erect Gengzi 178x96cm