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Dong Xiyuan: Painting TomorrowScenic View of Towering Mountains, 375×145cm.The long history of Chinese painting art is sated with numerous great artists and works alike. How can people today inherit tradition while developing a new artistic language that captures the spirit of the times? Dong Xiyuan, a contemporary Chinese pain...
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Wang Haibin: Blending Clarity and StrengthSacred Mountain, color on silk, 150cm×195cm, 2015.On January 19, 2019, “A Blend of Clarity and Strength – Wang Haibin Chinese Painting Exhibition” will open in Renqiu City, Hebei Province. The exhibition will display more than 100 works by young Chinese painter Wang Haibin, including fine brushw...
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Treasures of Tibetan History and CulturePart of Bunian Tu painted by Yan Liben, Tang Dynasty, 38.5×129.6cm, collected at the Palace Museum. courtesy of the Palace Museumunless otherwise credited Humans have been inhabiting the Himalayan mountains between the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the South Asian subcontinent since remote antiquity, a...
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Strokes of HarmonyCamel Bell Along the Silk Road, 138 x 69 cm, a painting created by Liu Nanping on February 15, 2020.Over five decades later, Liu Nanping, honorary president of Yangzhou Chinese Painting Academy, still clearly remembers first seeing a painter in action as a child.One day after school, he saw a...
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Chinese Ink Painting: Fusing Soul and NatureProtecting Calves by Liu Wanming, 2016.Chinese painting derived from Fuxi Bagua (Eight Trigrams) and Chinese characters and has developed for thousands of years. Traditional Chinese painting is a complete and independent art system deeply rooted in the cultural soil of the Chinese nation and the cou...
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Sharing BeautyHave you ever seen a Chinese painting by Pablo Picasso, among the pioneers of Western modern art? If not, you now have the chance to do so at Beijing’s National Art Museum of China (NAMOC).From June 27 to July 8, 2018, the “Harmonious Coexistence” exhibition is staged at NAMOC, displaying 224 art...
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