Works by pioneer of night scenes on display
7 years, 8 months ago

Works by pioneer of night scenes on display

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Painter Zong Qixiang in the 1970s. And in the last two decades of his life, he lived and painted in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Yu says that Zong often told his students that to produce works that touch people, painters had to be versatile, focused and observant like actors. Jia Youfu, now 75, and a student of Zong in the early 1960s, says Zong often criticized him for following textbooks in a mechanical manner. If you see the world from the perspective of other people, without critical thinking, you will end up being a nobody,'" says Jia, an established painter.

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Exhibition honors one of China's key 20th-century talents
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Exhibition honors one of China's key 20th-century talents

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"He supported the founding of the Pudong Middle School, the Shanghai East Hospital and collaborated with Qian Hui'an to establish the Yuyuan Calligraphy and Painting Charity Society. These three institutions are still thriving," says Wu Yue, a great-grandson of Wu Changshuo who serves as executive director of the Wu Changshuo Memorial Hall in Shanghai. Wang Yichuan, executive director of the …

Memories of a master
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Memories of a master

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Exhibition sheds light on late artist paying tribute to the man who guided him on the odyssey, Lin Qi reports. Lin had been Wu's headmaster at the Hangzhou National College of Art, today's China Academy of Art, in Zhejiang province. Xu Hong, a co-curator of the exhibition, says whether it is Chinese ink paintings or oils, Lin's work reveals the …

Memories of a master
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Memories of a master

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Pipa and Fair Lady, also by Lin. Currently part of the collection of Shanghai's China Art Museum, the painting depicts jiashan, or a faux mountain, an important part of classical Chinese gardens that are piled with hollow rocks of varying sizes, shapes and textures. In a departure from the traditional way of depicting gardens, Wu used ink lines and colored …

A Journey Through the Evolution of Printmaking: Exploring the Legacy of the Suzhou School of Fine Arts
5 months ago

A Journey Through the Evolution of Printmaking: Exploring the Legacy of the Suzhou School of Fine Arts

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The article showcases an ongoing exhibition titled 'Accumulation' at the Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition features 10 leading artists who have shaped the history of printmaking. Each artist brings their unique style and perspective to the exhibition, enriching the presentation and pushing the boundaries of printmaking.

A Journey Through the Evolution of Printmaking: Exploring the Legacy of the Suzhou School of Fine Arts
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A Journey Through the Evolution of Printmaking: Exploring the Legacy of the Suzhou School of Fine Arts

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The article showcases an ongoing exhibition titled 'Accumulation' at the Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. The exhibition features 10 leading artists who have shaped the history of printmaking, showcasing their diverse styles and cross-disciplinary approaches. The exhibition runs until November 24 and offers a glimpse into the evolution of print as an art form.

A Journey Through the Evolution of Printmaking: Exploring the Legacy of the Suzhou School of Fine Arts
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5 months ago

A Journey Through the Evolution of Printmaking: Exploring the Legacy of the Suzhou School of Fine Arts

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The article showcases an ongoing exhibition titled 'Accumulation' at the Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition features 10 leading artists who have shaped the history of printmaking. Each artist brings their unique style and perspective to the exhibition, enriching the presentation and pushing the boundaries of printmaking.

Hangzhou teacher brings art and inspiration to Tibetan boarding school
6 months, 1 week ago

Hangzhou teacher brings art and inspiration to Tibetan boarding school

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Wu Pengbo, an art teacher from Hangzhou of Zhejiang province is sorting students' painting at the Gala township of Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan province. "Previously, the school had no dedicated art teacher, and other teachers, who were not professionally trained but served as substitutes for art teachers, sometimes lacked confidence," Principal Mao said. I also support Wu's suggestion to …

Hangzhou teacher brings art and inspiration to Tibetan boarding school
6 months, 1 week ago

Hangzhou teacher brings art and inspiration to Tibetan boarding school

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Wu Pengbo, an art teacher from Hangzhou of Zhejiang province is sorting students' painting at the Gala township of Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan province. "Previously, the school had no dedicated art teacher, and other teachers, who were not professionally trained but served as substitutes for art teachers, sometimes lacked confidence," Principal Mao said. I also support Wu's suggestion to …

An artist of the people
1 year ago

An artist of the people

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Ancient luminaries of literature and science. New portraiture Jiang, who basically taught himself to paint, sculpt and design, became a professor of Chinese painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1950, under the deanship of Xu Beihong, another great modern artist who favored a realistic approach to art. His subjects were farmers and workers engaged in the booming …

Home is where the art is
1 year, 5 months ago

Home is where the art is

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A group photo of Zao and those attending his workshop. "Zao pointed at his well-insulated studio and told us that he was always caught up in a struggle there," Xu says. "Sometimes, a large painting fell on him, which trapped and 'buried' him for as long as 10 minutes," Xu recalls, adding that Zao's sincere pursuit of great art was …

It all starts with art
1 year, 7 months ago

It all starts with art

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In the latest episode of Youth Power, young people from China and other countries and regions around the world gather at the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts in Dalian, Liaoning province, to discuss their understandings of Chinese art and art as a whole. In the latest episode of China Daily's video series Youth Power, which aired online on July 30, …

Veteran of art leaves deep spiritual legacy
1 year, 9 months ago

Veteran of art leaves deep spiritual legacy

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Traveling Afar, part of the Powerlong Museum's collection in Shanghai. Huang, a self-taught artist and former professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, witnessed the progress of Chinese art throughout the 20th century, and he himself took an active part in the course. Born to a family in destitution, Huang finished primary school and in his early teens, he …

An artist of the people
2 years, 6 months ago

An artist of the people

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Ye Qianyu's sketches shown at an ongoing exhibition at the China National Academy of Painting include examples of work the artist created for Mao Dun's novel Ziye and drafts for his seminal piece The Liberation of Beiping. Ye's works were drawn from his personal experiences of living in Shanghai and socializing with people from different backgrounds. These drawings are on …

What's on
3 years, 9 months ago

What's on

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Joint display Han Yu is an eminent painter and comic artist who has won several awards. In this regard, Beijing Fine Art Academy mounted an exhibition to juxtapose artworks by Qi and Han, now aged 90, to show a spiritual communication transgressing time. The ongoing exhibition, until Oct 8, shows selected paintings from the academy's collection of Qi's oeuvre and …

Eminent artist opens online courses
5 years ago

Eminent artist opens online courses

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Veteran artist and designer Han Meilin displays a bear cub he painted during a livestreaming course on Feb 20. At the beginning of his first livestream show on Feb 20, Han Meilin, the prominent artist and designer, joked about being a typical zhai nan, a pop-culture buzzword meaning a man who prefers staying at home. With time on his hands, …

Show marks six decades of passion
5 years, 11 months ago

Show marks six decades of passion

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Liu Shaohui's painting, My Dunhuang, is on show at his exhibition at Tsinghua University Art Museum. A retrospective of Liu Shaohui's work at Tsinghua University Art Museum highlights the modernist painter's vibrant pursuit of eternal beauty. When Liu Shaohui enrolled at the Central Academy of Arts and Design, now the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University, in 1960, …

Show marks six decades of passion
5 years, 11 months ago

Show marks six decades of passion

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Liu Shaohui's painting, My Dunhuang, is on show at his exhibition at Tsinghua University Art Museum. A retrospective of Liu Shaohui's work at Tsinghua University Art Museum highlights the modernist painter's vibrant pursuit of eternal beauty. When Liu Shaohui enrolled at the Central Academy of Arts and Design, now the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University, in 1960, …

Tribute to master of rural landscapes[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
7 years, 4 months ago

Tribute to master of rural landscapes[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

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Artists Luo Erchun and Zhan Jianjun once shared a studio at the Central Academy of Fine Arts for several years. Echoes of Canglang, an ongoing exhibition in Beijing, looks at Luo Erchun's artistic evolution over six decades. Oil painter and educator Luo Erchun always liked to visit the Canglang Pavilion whenever he returned to Suzhou, in East China's Jiangsu province. …

Nanjing painter Zhuang's works go on diplay
7 years, 7 months ago

Nanjing painter Zhuang's works go on diplay

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A painting by Zhuang Hongxing is now on show at his solo exhibition at the National Art Museum of China, The Dreamland, through Saturday. Nanjing-based painter Zhuang Hongxing, 77, grew up in Nanxun, a water town in Zhejiang province, that boast a landscape typical to the southern bank of Yangtz River and historic courtyards as refined examples of classic Chinese …

Nanjing painter Zhuang's works go on diplay[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
7 years, 7 months ago

Nanjing painter Zhuang's works go on diplay[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

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A painting by Zhuang Hongxing is now on show at his solo exhibition at the National Art Museum of China, The Dreamland, through Saturday. Nanjing-based painter Zhuang Hongxing, 77, grew up in Nanxun, a water town in Zhejiang province, that boast a landscape typical to the southern bank of Yangtz River and historic courtyards as refined examples of classic Chinese …

Nanjing painter Zhuang's works go on diplay[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
7 years, 7 months ago

Nanjing painter Zhuang's works go on diplay[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

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A painting by Zhuang Hongxing is now on show at his solo exhibition at the National Art Museum of China, The Dreamland, through Saturday. Nanjing-based painter Zhuang Hongxing, 77, grew up in Nanxun, a water town in Zhejiang province, that boast a landscape typical to the southern bank of Yangtz River and historic courtyards as refined examples of classic Chinese …

Nanjing painter Zhuang's works go on diplay
7 years, 7 months ago

Nanjing painter Zhuang's works go on diplay

China Daily  

A painting by Zhuang Hongxing is now on show at his solo exhibition at the National Art Museum of China, The Dreamland, through Saturday. Nanjing-based painter Zhuang Hongxing, 77, grew up in Nanxun, a water town in Zhejiang province, that boast a landscape typical to the southern bank of Yangtz River and historic courtyards as refined examples of classic Chinese …

Beijing exhibition displays works by artists from Guangdong[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
7 years, 8 months ago

Beijing exhibition displays works by artists from Guangdong[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

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Jiangshan Ruci Duojiao, Guan Shanyue Of the first-generation Chinese artists who studied abroad in the turn of 20th century, many were natives of Guangdong province, such as Gao Jianfu, co-founder of the Lingnan School of Painting, and Lin Fengmian, the master painter who revolutionized Chinese painting with Western techniques. An ongoing grand exhibition at the National Art Museum of China …

Beijing exhibition displays works by artists from Guangdong
7 years, 8 months ago

Beijing exhibition displays works by artists from Guangdong

China Daily  

Jiangshan Ruci Duojiao, Guan Shanyue Of the first-generation Chinese artists who studied abroad in the turn of 20th century, many were natives of Guangdong province, such as Gao Jianfu, co-founder of the Lingnan School of Painting, and Lin Fengmian, the master painter who revolutionized Chinese painting with Western techniques. An ongoing grand exhibition at the National Art Museum of China …

Beijing exhibition displays works by artists from Guangdong
7 years, 8 months ago

Beijing exhibition displays works by artists from Guangdong

China Daily  

Jiangshan Ruci Duojiao, Guan Shanyue Of the first-generation Chinese artists who studied abroad in the turn of 20th century, many were natives of Guangdong province, such as Gao Jianfu, co-founder of the Lingnan School of Painting, and Lin Fengmian, the master painter who revolutionized Chinese painting with Western techniques. An ongoing grand exhibition at the National Art Museum of China …

Beijing exhibition displays works by artists from Guangdong[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
7 years, 8 months ago

Beijing exhibition displays works by artists from Guangdong[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

Jiangshan Ruci Duojiao, Guan Shanyue Of the first-generation Chinese artists who studied abroad in the turn of 20th century, many were natives of Guangdong province, such as Gao Jianfu, co-founder of the Lingnan School of Painting, and Lin Fengmian, the master painter who revolutionized Chinese painting with Western techniques. An ongoing grand exhibition at the National Art Museum of China …

Works by pioneer of night scenes on display
7 years, 8 months ago

Works by pioneer of night scenes on display

China Daily  

A commemorative exhibition in Beijing is showing Zong's famous pieces. He was so touched by the scene that he produced several watercolors of the night view, and he posted them with a letter to his mentor, artist and educator Xu Beihong. Xu's reply read: "Ancient Chinese painted night scenes in a symbolic way and they failed to present the luminous …

Works by pioneer of night scenes on display
7 years, 8 months ago

Works by pioneer of night scenes on display

China Daily  

A commemorative exhibition in Beijing is showing Zong's famous pieces. He was so touched by the scene that he produced several watercolors of the night view, and he posted them with a letter to his mentor, artist and educator Xu Beihong. Xu's reply read: "Ancient Chinese painted night scenes in a symbolic way and they failed to present the luminous …

Works by pioneer of night scenes on display
7 years, 8 months ago

Works by pioneer of night scenes on display

China Daily  

A commemorative exhibition in Beijing is showing Zong's famous pieces. He was so touched by the scene that he produced several watercolors of the night view, and he posted them with a letter to his mentor, artist and educator Xu Beihong. Xu's reply read: "Ancient Chinese painted night scenes in a symbolic way and they failed to present the luminous …

Traditional culture blossoms in Shandong schools
8 years ago

Traditional culture blossoms in Shandong schools

China Daily  

Younger generations in Shandong will better understand traditional stories and culture by experiencing live artistic performances to be given at 100 newly established art workstations at local primary and secondary schools. The No 2 Primary School Affiliated to Shandong University was the first to be designated as a "Bud Art Workstation" on March 2, with an array of exciting performances …

Traditional culture blossoms in Shandong schools
8 years ago

Traditional culture blossoms in Shandong schools

China Daily  

Younger generations in Shandong will better understand traditional stories and culture by experiencing live artistic performances to be given at 100 newly established art workstations at local primary and secondary schools. The No 2 Primary School Affiliated to Shandong University was the first to be designated as a "Bud Art Workstation" on March 2, with an array of exciting performances …

Modern Chinese art masters in the limelight[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
9 years ago

Modern Chinese art masters in the limelight[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

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Fu Baoshi shows sublime imagination in his mythical-themed ink painting God of Cloud and Great Lord of Fate. Photos provided to China Daily Works by two leaders of modern Chinese painting will be on view in Hong Kong before going up for auction, Lin Qi reports. Two huge paintings, by Chinese modern masters Wu Guanzhong and Fu Baoshi respectively, will …

Worldwide gathering with a common artistic theme[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
9 years, 6 months ago

Worldwide gathering with a common artistic theme[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

Wang Zhenmei with his painting Yi Jiang Nan. The 18th Beijing Art Expo attracted a large turnout of aficionados from around the world, with one thing in common - the pursuit of art and the different approaches to portraying beauty. Integrating western techniques with Chinese traditions "Though the painting techniques and tools of China and the West are so different, …

Worldwide gathering with a common artistic theme[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
9 years, 6 months ago

Worldwide gathering with a common artistic theme[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

Wang Zhenmei with his painting Yi Jiang Nan. The 18th Beijing Art Expo attracted a large turnout of aficionados from around the world, with one thing in common - the pursuit of art and the different approaches to portraying beauty. Integrating western techniques with Chinese traditions "Though the painting techniques and tools of China and the West are so different, …

Artworks on China's countryside generate nostalgia[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
10 years, 7 months ago

Artworks on China's countryside generate nostalgia[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

Artworks on China's countryside generate nostalgia. China has been through tremendous change over the past decades, and there will be more as the country keeps pushing forward the course of urbanization. The artist behind the works is Li Zijian, who grew up in a small village in Hunan province. All the memories form pictures in my mind and naturally come …

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