"Master sculptor Chou I-hsiung (周義雄) died of multiple organ failure on Monday at the age of 73 after battling liver cancer for two years. A member of the nation’s first generation of homegrown sculptors, Chou was among the first students at National Taiwan University of Arts in 1962, where he learned the art of sculpture under Yuyu Yang (楊英風) and other masters. A Sun Yat-sen Fine Arts Prize winner, Chou was renowned for his characteristic representations of classical Chinese figures, with many works from his Nanguan Song and Dance series and Song and Dance series exhibited at and collected by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the National Museum of History and Germany’s Museum of Asian Art, among others." - Jessie