The humanistic spirit endowed with Chinese gardens is behind Inviting the Moon and Wind,which shows dozens of paintings by Qiu Ting.The humanistic spirit endowed with Chinese gardens is behind Inviting the Moon and Wind, which shows dozens of paintings by Qiu Ting. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Red in art Share CLOSE The ink-and-color works on display at an exhibition at the Beijing Fine Art Academy reveal Chinese artists distinctive approaches to using red in brushwork. Highlights include a landscape painting by Li Keran. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Red is, probably, favored over other colors in the social life of Chinese people. In Chinese culture, red usually means something vigorous, enthusiastic, inspiring or auspicious. It is also a common color in classical Chinese paintings. Red encapsulates rich social, cultural and spiritual meanings.
Red is the name of an exhibition that s ongoing at the Beijing Fine Art Academy, in collaboration with Tsinghua University Art Museum and the museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The display has dozens of works of eminent Chinese ink-and-color painters of the 20th century, showing their distinctive approaches to using red in brushwork.
Paintings on show present spiritual exchanges transgressing time By Lin Qi | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-06-28 09:56 Share
Childhood Plays by Han Yu [Photo provided to China Daily]
Han Yu is an eminent painter and comic artist who has won several awards. Also, an arduous lover of Qi Baishi, one of the most prominent artists of 20th-century China, Han spent years studying and writing about Qi s art.
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 Han s comics, classical ink paintings, calligraphic works and books. It provides Han s perspectives into the creativity of Qi and the Chinese cultural traditions, opening a door for viewers to the core values of classical Chinese art.
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A Full Bloom is among the pieces by Wang Xuetao, a leading artist of the flower-and-bird genre of classical Chinese paintings, on show at the ongoing exhibition, Vitality and Joy, at Beijing s National Museum of China.[Photo provided to China Daily]
Exhibition showcases an artist s lifelong endeavor to inject modernity into classical paintings in 20th-century China, Lin Qi reports.
The late master of classical Chinese paintings Qi Baishi once said he often felt that one of his hands had been stolen by his student Wang Xuetao (1903-82).
Qi was known for his accurate depictions of insects such as butterflies, crickets and dragonflies, and the vivid details of the insects wings and heads stand out in his paintings. While Wang was studying at the Beijing Fine Arts School in the early 1920s, he picked up Qi s excellent brushwork. The school is now known as the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
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The photo taken in 1963 shows He Xiangning jointly creating a painting with prominent artists Fu Baoshi (left) and Pan Tianshou (center). CHINA DAILY
A girl named He Xiangning was born to an affluent family in Hong Kong in 1878.
Her parents had no expectation that she, their ninth child, would become an accomplished person. They only wanted her to be obedient and quiet, like other women were expected to be during China s feudal era.
Decades later, He rose to fame as a revolutionary, social activist and avid advocate of women s rights. She served in a number of high-ranking governmental positions after the founding of the People s Republic of China in 1949, and today she is recognized as one of the nation s greatest women of the 20th century.