Wuheqilin

The artistic image Peace Force(和平之师)

Fu Yu (Chinese: 付昱; born 22 July 1988), known professionally as Wuheqilin (Chinese: 乌合麒麟; pinyin: Wū Hé Qí Lín; lit. 'Rabble Qilin') is a Chinese illustrator and political cartoonist. His hometown is Harbin. He claims himself as a "Wolf warrior painter" and is famous in China for his artwork Peace Force (Chinese: 《和平之师》), which depicts an Australian soldier killing an Afghan teenager.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Biography[]

Since his grandparents were soldiers in the Korean War, Wuheqilin became a patriot when he was young. After graduating from a university in Changchun with a degree in art and design, Wuheqilin served as an intern in an animation and film production company in Beijing in 2009. Later, a director left the company and created his own studio, with whom Wuheqilin worked in Zhongguancun. At the end of 2013, he was invited to Shanghai Film Art Academy (zh:上海电影艺术学院) to give a lecture on computer graphics, and started a painting training institute called "Wuhe" in early 2014.^[4] In his profile on weibo, he described himself as "Hitler that got admitted by the art school".^[5]

After Chinese consumers started threatening to boycot H&M, Nike and other brands that have joined a call to avoid using cotton produced in Xinjiang,^[6] Wuheqilin published his new artwork Blood Cotton Initiative to criticize the Better Cotton Initiative.^[7]