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Scrolls of beautiful Xiaoxiang unfold the past and present of HunanGreat Beauty of Xiaoxiang, an exhibition at the National Art Museum of China, celebrates the natural and cultural landscapes of Hunan.[Photo provided to China Daily]The beauty of the Xiaojiang and Xiangjiang rivers, in Hunan province, has been presented in poems, paintings and historic stories...
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Prominent Chilean artist's Chinese odyssey celebratedJose Venturelli shows his print to artist Li Keran in Beijing in the 1950s.[Photo provided to China Daily]Chile is almost as far as it is possible to get from China. When in March 1952, a Chilean artist named Jose Venturelli (1924-88) arrived to attend an international conference, the journey...
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Stories and scenes of the world bloom under a writer's painting brushesShanghai author Jin Yucheng sketched illustrations forBlossoms(Fan Hua), his novel which evolves around the changing life scenes of Shanghai between the 1960s and '90s and won him the Mao Dun Literature Prize — one of the country's top literary accolades — in 2015. His sketches...
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Classic works present a landscape of humans in harmony with natureLandscape, a painting by Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) painter Zhang Hong on show. CHINA DAILYIn his Complete Essays on Shanshui Paintings, 12th-century artist and theorist Han Zhuo wrote about how painters of classical Chinese landscapes could portray people's activities depending on the varying fou...
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The Re-enchantment of Literary Qi in Contemporary Art and Its PossibilityView of the exhibition,Appreciating the Wonderful and Analysing the Doubtful: An exhibition of research into contemporary Chinese art. Image by Shixiang SpaceUnderstand the title before understanding the exhibition …Encountered with such an exhibition title, one may, if lacking a systematic k...
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SCAD Museum of Art presents "Yu Hong: Night Walk" in USExhibition View ofNight WalkInNight Walk, preeminent painter Yu Hong weaves together her personal experiences and memories with significant collective shifts in contemporary China, portraying epochal transformation within sprawling compositions.Exhibition View ofNight WalkIn...
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