Lu Guoping, China first-grade stage art designer of Shanghai Children’s Art Theatre of China Welfare Institute, was born in Shanghai (Huangpi Road) in September 1945. Lu was graduated from the Shanghai Children’s Art Theatre and the oil paintings department of the faculty of Arts in Shanghai Normal University. Lu had been holding the position as the stage art designer and the costume designer of the children’s art for a long period. The children’s art named ‘A White Horse named Feifei’ was the award winner of costume design from the Chinese Department of Culture. Lu was the scriptwriter, art designer, prop maker and gaffer of large amounts of TV series (more than 80 episodes).
Lu was also the chief designer of Shanghai Tourism Festival Floats Parade. He had designed and made nearly a hundred floats including cruise ships for about 20 years. For example, the float ‘The Star of the Century’ from Japan, ‘The Indigo Legend’ from Canada, ‘Australian Customs and Culture’ from Australia, ‘The Feelings of Bali’ and ‘Varanus from the Island of Komodo’ from Indonesia, ‘Shanghai Flower Port’ from Shanghai and ‘The Slow Life of Watertown’ from Taizhou. In addition, the floats were shown in Champs Elysees in Paris France.
In 1993, Lu was the costume designer of the opening ceremony of the 3rd China National Peasants’ Games and the stage art designer of the drift bottles project in International Children’s Art Festival. In 2000, Lu was the chief planner and designer of the 3rd China Floral exhibition opening ceremony. Moreover, Lu had been the project manager of a range of grand exhibitions in Shanghai Museum since 1999 and these exhibitions had a great impact on the whole society including ‘The Ancient Egyptian Gems from the British Museum’, ‘Treasures from Snow Mountains: Gems of Tibetan Cultural Relics’, ‘Exhibition on Maya Civilization of Mexico’, ‘Gems from Excavations of Cemetery of Marquis of Jin in Shanxi Province’, ‘The Civilization of the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties’, ‘Gems from Pre-Roman Cultural Relics of Italy’ and ‘The Paintings Exhibition of the Jin, Tang and Song Dynasties’.
During this period, Lu also held the title as the advertising planner and shop-front-sign designer in huge amounts of large shopping malls including Shanghai Fashion Co., Ltd, Bailian Co., Ltd, Yuyuan Tourist Mart, Shanghai New World Co., Ltd and Shanghai No.1 YaoHan Department Store, whose front-sign decoration, the large cured wall was the unique landscape in Pudong New Area in Shanghai with its distinctive idea and great efforts. In addition, the large designs on the wall such as ‘Beijing Opera Masks’, ‘the Gate of the Century’, ‘Serve the People’, ‘The Oriental Giant Dragon’, ‘Long live the Motherland’ and ‘Forever Young Lei Feng’ showed Chinese traditional culture, carried forward the spirits of the time, brought positive energy and drew attention from the media from home and abroad.
In 2014, Lu immigrated to Melbourne Australia. After his retirement, he picked up drawing and drew a large number of landscape paintings and live drawing sketches.
(Lu in the 3rd China Floral Exhibition opening ceremony)
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