The Painted Screen: Past and Future
4 years, 7 months ago

The Painted Screen: Past and Future

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The Painted Screen: Past and Future 画屏：传统与未来 Dates: Sep6 - Dec 6, 2019 Location: Suzhou Museum, Suzhou city, Jiangsu province Organized by Suzhou Museum and curated by Wu Hung, an art history professor with the University of Chicago, the exhibition was China’s first large display of painted screens. Screens displayed in the exhibition gallery The exhibition juxtaposed modern and past, focusing on the unique art format of the painted screen. In the ancient part of the exhibition, 93 exhibits fell into three units themed on Screens and Ritual Space, Painted Screens, and Paintings Depicting Screens. Art works created by contemporary artists in the gallery Suzhou Museum also provided online resources to the public.

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Seven decades of China's arts and crafts on display
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Seven decades of China's arts and crafts on display

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Taizhou holds its first digital photography art exhibition

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Themed exhibitions on Buddha trail open in Zhejiang
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Themed exhibitions on Buddha trail open in Zhejiang

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Guangdong exhibition celebrates iconic Qing Dynasty artist
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Guangdong exhibition celebrates iconic Qing Dynasty artist

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Guangdong exhibition celebrates iconic Qing Dynasty artist
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Guangdong exhibition celebrates iconic Qing Dynasty artist

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Visitors at the exhibition, Elegance, Refinement, Style: Paintings of Hua Yan, in Guangdong Museum. ZHENG ERQI/CHINA DAILY An exhibition featuring Qing Dynasty artist Hua Yan, which opened at Guangdong Museum on July 10 in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, allows audiences to sense and appreciate the essence and beauty of landscape paintings from the dynasty. Hua was known for his …

Guangdong exhibition celebrates iconic Qing Dynasty artist
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Guangdong exhibition celebrates iconic Qing Dynasty artist

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Historical temple hosts painter's solo show

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Historical temple hosts painter's solo show

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Zheng Qinyan's works now on show at the historical Yunju Temple in Beijing deliver a serene mood of meditation. Nestled amid the mountains of Beijing's Fangshan district, the storied Yunju Temple stands as a testament to history, boasting several pagodas dating back to the eighth century and intricate Buddhist sutras etched onto stone, chronicling the evolution of Buddhism and calligraphy …

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Historical temple hosts painter's solo show

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Art academy showcases graduate talent in public exhibition

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Historical temple hosts painter's solo show

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Art academy showcases graduate talent in public exhibition
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Shanghai exhibition paints picture of change

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Shanghai exhibition paints picture of change
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Shanghai exhibition paints picture of change

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11 months, 1 week ago

Shanghai exhibition paints picture of change

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China Art Museum, Shanghai, opens largest exhibition in China
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China Art Museum, Shanghai, opens largest exhibition in China

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Ancient art's new life

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The bronze statue uncovered in 2021 at the Sanxingdui site. The public can learn about Chinese history this year through Shanghai Museum's forthcoming satellite venue and special exhibitions, Wang Xin reports. Shanghai Museum is revving up for an eventful year, with the forthcoming opening of its new eastern campus in Pudong New Area, and 18 high-profile special exhibitions it will …

What's on
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What's on

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What's on
1 year ago

What's on

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Upcoming exhibition pays tribute to masters passing on heritage

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Ancient paintings offer clues to literary classics at new Hangzhou exhibition
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Ancient paintings offer clues to literary classics at new Hangzhou exhibition

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Ancient paintings restored using cutting-edge technology reflect traditional Chinese culture and ideas related to reading, Chinese literary classics and cross-cultural exchanges, at a newly opened exhibition in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang on April 10, 2023. It boasts a collection of ancient paintings restored using cutting-edge technology that reflect traditional Chinese culture and ideas related to reading, Chinese literary classics and …

Modern masters
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Modern masters

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Modern masters
2 years, 2 months ago

Modern masters

China Daily  

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Modern masters
2 years, 2 months ago

Modern masters

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What's on
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What's on

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Modern masters The Infinite Universe of Wuji, an exhibition at the China Millennium Monument in Beijing, navigates the course of modern and contemporary Western art since the 19th century. The works on show are from the collection of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, located near Valle Giulia in Rome, which hosts an assembly of 20,000 paintings, drawings, …

A glimpse into how it all started
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A glimpse into how it all started

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Visitors admire the cultural relics at the exhibition The Making of China: The Civilization of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, which will run to Oct 23 at Shanghai Museum. Exhibition provides intriguing insight into the first three dynasties of recorded Chinese history, Zhang Kun reports. An exhibition at Shanghai Museum, The Making of China: The Civilization of Xia, Shang and …

A glimpse into how it all started
2 years, 5 months ago

A glimpse into how it all started

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A glimpse into how it all started
2 years, 5 months ago

A glimpse into how it all started

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Visitors admire the cultural relics at the exhibition The Making of China: The Civilization of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, which will run to Oct 23 at Shanghai Museum. Exhibition provides intriguing insight into the first three dynasties of recorded Chinese history, Zhang Kun reports. An exhibition at Shanghai Museum, The Making of China: The Civilization of Xia, Shang and …

Shanghai Museum showcases the dawn of China
2 years, 5 months ago

Shanghai Museum showcases the dawn of China

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A jade ornament on show. An ongoing exhibition at Shanghai Museum, The Making of China: The Civilization of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, takes visitors on a journey to the beginning of Chinese civilization thousands of years ago. The exhibition, which kicked off July 30 and will run till Oct 23, features 314 cultural relics from more than 20 museums, …

Shanghai Museum showcases the dawn of China
2 years, 5 months ago

Shanghai Museum showcases the dawn of China

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A jade ornament on show. An ongoing exhibition at Shanghai Museum, The Making of China: The Civilization of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, takes visitors on a journey to the beginning of Chinese civilization thousands of years ago. The exhibition, which kicked off July 30 and will run till Oct 23, features 314 cultural relics from more than 20 museums, …

Attachment to Jiangnan at the heart of painter’s solo exhibition in Beijing
2 years, 8 months ago

Attachment to Jiangnan at the heart of painter’s solo exhibition in Beijing

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Bridge, by Yang Mingyi. "Painting Jiangnan and painting it well is my lifetime commitment," says Yang Mingyi, an ink-color painter who hails from Suzhou, Jiangsu province, one of those sparkling towns in Jiangnan. Yang, now 79, has created a body of works praising Jiangnan's ever-changing beauty, poetic atmosphere and cultural depth which have cultivated generations of intellectuals, artists and luminaries …

Attachment to Jiangnan at the heart of painter’s solo exhibition in Beijing
2 years, 8 months ago

Attachment to Jiangnan at the heart of painter’s solo exhibition in Beijing

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Bridge, by Yang Mingyi. "Painting Jiangnan and painting it well is my lifetime commitment," says Yang Mingyi, an ink-color painter who hails from Suzhou, Jiangsu province, one of those sparkling towns in Jiangnan. Yang, now 79, has created a body of works praising Jiangnan's ever-changing beauty, poetic atmosphere and cultural depth which have cultivated generations of intellectuals, artists and luminaries …

Zhejiang compiles digital archives of ancient Chinese paintings
2 years, 11 months ago

Zhejiang compiles digital archives of ancient Chinese paintings

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A corner of the exhibition featuring "The Series of Ancient Chinese Paintings" held in the Zhejiang University campus in November 2021. The Song Dynasty is widely regarded as the golden era for ancient Chinese paintings as the works then boasted diverse themes and painting techniques, masterly skills, and elegant aesthetics that were all unrivalled in any other periods. Afterwards, the …

Zhejiang compiles digital archives of ancient Chinese paintings
2 years, 11 months ago

Zhejiang compiles digital archives of ancient Chinese paintings

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A corner of the exhibition featuring "The Series of Ancient Chinese Paintings" held in the Zhejiang University campus in November 2021. In November 2021, colored prints of some 500 ancient Chinese paintings went on display at an exhibition in the Zhejiang University campus in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. The exhibition presented some of the achievements of a 16-year national cultural project, …

Zhejiang compiles digital archives of ancient Chinese paintings
2 years, 11 months ago

Zhejiang compiles digital archives of ancient Chinese paintings

China Daily  

A corner of the exhibition featuring "The Series of Ancient Chinese Paintings" held in the Zhejiang University campus in November 2021. In November 2021, colored prints of some 500 ancient Chinese paintings went on display at an exhibition in the Zhejiang University campus in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. The exhibition presented some of the achievements of a 16-year national cultural project, …

Exhibition is a portrait of another time and ethos
3 years ago

Exhibition is a portrait of another time and ethos

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Lifelike as Reflections in the Mirror, an exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, shows portraiture from the Ming and Qing dynasties. It may not measure up to the glory of, say, the Renaissance or Impressionism, but taking good selfies is nonetheless a new form of art for people in the digital age. The exhibition, running through …

What's on
3 years, 4 months ago

What's on

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Youth art An exhibition of paintings by 100 artists, aged 30 to 45, is being held at the China National Academy of Painting through Saturday. On show are oil and ink-wash paintings encompassing the three classical Chinese art genres of landscape, flowers-and-birds, and figures. Humans and universe Cosmoscapes: Ink Paintings by Tai Xiangzhou, an ongoing show at Nanchizi Museum in …

What's on
3 years, 6 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 …

New Year painting exhibition celebrates 100 years of CPC
3 years, 6 months ago

New Year painting exhibition celebrates 100 years of CPC

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A New Year painting exhibition kicked off on June 6 at the Qingdao West Coast New Area Art Museum as part of the city's celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. More than 200 New Year and farmer paintings, created by artists from Qingdao, Yantai, Weifang, Weihai, and Rizhao, are on display. New …

New Year painting exhibition celebrates 100 years of CPC
3 years, 6 months ago

New Year painting exhibition celebrates 100 years of CPC

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A New Year painting exhibition kicked off on June 6 at the Qingdao West Coast New Area Art Museum as part of the city's celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. More than 200 New Year and farmer paintings, created by artists from Qingdao, Yantai, Weifang, Weihai, and Rizhao, are on display. New …

What's on
3 years, 11 months ago

What's on

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The art of elegance Yaji, or "elegant gatherings" organized and attended by creative individuals, were popular centuries ago in China. A high-strung show Under the baton of conductor Zhang Yi, the symphony orchestra of the National Ballet of China will perform a concert featuring programs including Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 3 in D major, Nino Rota's Harp Concerto and …

What's on
3 years, 11 months ago

What's on

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The art of elegance Yaji, or "elegant gatherings" organized and attended by creative individuals, were popular centuries ago in China. A high-strung show Under the baton of conductor Zhang Yi, the symphony orchestra of the National Ballet of China will perform a concert featuring programs including Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 3 in D major, Nino Rota's Harp Concerto and …

Yan Huang Art Museum marks 30th anniversary
3 years, 11 months ago

Yan Huang Art Museum marks 30th anniversary

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The late painter Huang Zhou is a leading figure of 20th-century Chinese art, whose ink paintings won popularity for their rich color schemes, sketchy strokes and vivid depictions of people's life, especially those living in ethnic communities such as the Xinjiang Uygur and Xizang autonomous regions and Qinghai province. Huang's last complete work wasn't a painting, though — it was …

Yan Huang Art Museum marks 30th anniversary
3 years, 11 months ago

Yan Huang Art Museum marks 30th anniversary

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The late painter Huang Zhou is a leading figure of 20th-century Chinese art, whose ink paintings won popularity for their rich color schemes, sketchy strokes and vivid depictions of people's life, especially those living in ethnic communities such as the Xinjiang Uygur and Xizang autonomous regions and Qinghai province. Huang's last complete work wasn't a painting, though — it was …

Prehistoric Civilization of the Sanjiangyuan Region: Qinghai Liuwan Painted Pottery
4 years, 7 months ago

Prehistoric Civilization of the Sanjiangyuan Region: Qinghai Liuwan Painted Pottery

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Prehistoric Civilization of the Sanjiangyuan Region: Qinghai Liuwan Painted Pottery 江河源人类史前文明—青海柳湾彩陶展 From May 1, 2019 Location: Qinghai Liuwan Painted Pottery Museum, Haidong city, Qinghai province This exhibition displays the wisdom and extraordinary artistic achievements of the ancient people who lived near the source of three rivers and demonstrates that Qinghai area is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization. Interior …

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