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= Xie Jinglan = Xie Jinglan (1921-1995) was a French-Chinese female artist who was born in Guiyang in September 1921 and

painter, musician, dancer and poet.

She has successively enrolled in Hangzhou Art Music Department and Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Early Years
Born in Guizhou in 1921 into a scholarly family in Guiyang, her family moved to Shanghai when she was seven but they soon moved to Hangzhou and settled down.

First Marriage with Zao Wou-ki
At the centre of the art world, they soon became excited about the world-famous museums and the artistic metropolis. They rented a studio in Montparnasse where they became neighbor with Giacometti. The couples met a lot of artist friends, such as Sanyu, Georges Mathieu, Soulages, as well as the poet Henri Michaux, who had been helping this couples for their artistic development.

She met Zao Wou-ki in 1935 and entered the Music Department of the Hangzhou School of Art two years later. They married in Hong Kong in 1941, and travelled to France in 1948 and started a new phase of their life.

Her gift for music was cultivated from a young age.

Artistic Career
As Zao Wou-ki’s art career progressed, she continued to pursue her passion in music. She learnt composing at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. Later she began studying modern dance at the American Cultural Centre after seeing a documentary film about Martha Graham. As introduced by Henri Michaux, she had a chance to learn electronic music with the renowned American-French avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse. These experience made her realized the intensive want to express her inner world.

Second Marriage
In 1957, she divorced Zao Wou-ki, and moved to St. Ouen in the north suburb of Paris. In 1958, she married Marcel Van Thienen, a French musician, and changed her name from Lanlan to Lalan. From then on, she started a new life as an artist, devoting all of her energies in creating painting, music, dance and poems. She had never ceased painting till an accident took her life in 1995.

died in France in 1995 due to a car accident.