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正Elements of pop art add new twist to epic portrait series Liu Yigang, a 51-year-old artist, is making efforts to interpret history through painting portraits of well-known international figures. In one of his recent works, Liu painted a confident and strong-willed U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. The     

A New Orientation-The 3rd China Oil Painting Exhibition

AT the end of 2003, the 3rd China Oil Painting Exhibition displayed nearly 10,000 works from 34 places in China. After a three-phase selection process including public appraisal, 20 works were granted China Oil Painting Artistic Awards.The oil painting exhibition acts as a broad showcase for China's oil paintings. Held in 1987 and 1994, the event helped to break the domi-     

Centennial Development of Chinese Oil Painting

THE 20th Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition was held in the Chinese Art Gallery in July 2000. This big event features 400 works by 270 Chinese painters. The exhibition provides a good opportunity to study and explore the historical development of oil painting in China in the last century. Oil painting came to China about 100 years ago and has experienced several stages of development. Fine art historians hold different views on how these stages should be divided. In my opinion, ther…     

A Catalogue of Artistic Firsts

Yu Chengsong has secured a unique position in Chinese art history by virtue of his groundbreaking creation of a new genre combining oil painting and woodcut. Also, applying the techniques of traditional Chinese painting, Yu has reworked portraits of famous people in Chinese and world history, works that have been hailed as landmarks in China＇s portraiture. His are representative works of the fourth wave of Chinese and Western painting art,     

Enjoy Longevity by Practicing Painting and Calligraphy

AMONG China＇s 100 famous masters of painting and calligraphy over the past two centuries, at least 20 of them lived to be over 85. The longest-lived reached 109. Many who have reseateded the secret to longevity hold that there is a certain causal relationship between a long life and the long-term study of Chinese painting and calligraphy.     

Zhang Kun：Capturing the Beauty of Real Life

The first thing that strikes anyone looking at a figure painting by Zhang Kun is a strong sense of realism. Zhang never distorts his figures with exaggerated lines and shapes, nor does he blindly follow any particular fashion, instead concentrating on the depiction of real life. Not only does Zhang imitate nature, he simplifies and orders it so as to capture its essence, and any adjustment he attempts is in order to bring greater depth to such simplicity. His consummate skills contribute to the purity of his paintings, his poetic language being heard through his representation of ordinary life. His works present man and nature in a simple and harmonious relationship, the very thing that modem people yearn for,     

An Ancient Country''''s Love of Modern Western Art

CHINA'S contemporary art is gaining recognition among international artistic circles, despite having got off to a relatively late start. Until the 1980s, Chinese art students were expected to cultivate traditional painting techniques. It was only towards the end of that decade that Western modern art entered China's art scene and more avant-garde works, such as Political Pop, began to emerge. The performance art fad of the mid 1990 gave way to today's high-tech     

A messenger of beauty-a sketch of a Japanese painter

The Sino-Japanese exchange of culture and painting reached its prime during ancient China's Tang and Song dynasties. However, in modern times, due to the sharp decrease in the exchange of painting between the two countries, we know little about each other's development.The Beijing International Art Biennale was held in this year's golden autumn, which included the Painting Exhibition of Takayama Tatsuo - one of the "Four Masters of Modern Japanese Painting". It is undeniable that the biennial event offers the general public a golden chance to have a close look at Japanese painting and appreciate its unique style and great charm from a closer distance.     

An Aesthetic Combination of Poetry,Calligraphy and Phinting

TRADITIONAL Chinese painting is inspired by the imagery of Chinese poetry. Xiao Shu (1940- ) is an accomplished poet and painter. Adept at traditional calligraphy and seal cutting, his works combine poetry, calligraphy, painting and seal cutting. The poems he inscribes on his painted works endorse their themes.     

Fhe Legacy of a Great Master

CELEBRATED artist Wu Guanzhong passed away at the age of 91 on June 25, 2010. His lifetime achievement was to successfully apply Western oil techniques to traditional Chinese painting, making a great contribution to the modernization of the classic ink- and-wash genre. His works continue to set new records at auctions, and at the time this article was written his auctioned volume of work had amounted to a value of RMB 1.78 billion.     

Lacquer Thread Sculpture

LACQUER thread sculpture is a traditional folk handicraft of Fujian Province.It is especially popular in Xiamen and Quanzhou of this southeast coastal province.The delicate and demanding craft derived from decorations on Buddhist statues and evolved into an independent art form some 300 years ago.In the Tang Dynasty (618-907),the prevalence of Buddhism stimulated the craftsmanship for religious statues,which were lavishly decorated with colorful painting of varied kinds.During the Song (960-1279) and the Yuan dynasties (1279-1368),sculptors began to use lacquer threads to outline patterns on the clothing and headwear of the figures they created,giving their works a tri-dimensional aspect.The technique was also widely applied to the modeling of native gods - Mazu and Baosheng Dadi,the divine doctor.Both are found in shrines all over Fujian.     

Ploughing Native Soil for Fine Arts

AN exhibition entitledChinese Fine Arts Todayincluded more than 650works by 300 artists.The show, intended toshowcase China's young artists,new art concepts and a fresh per-ception of contemporary life, isbeing held at the ChinaMillennium Altar in Beijing. Theexhibits cover a great variety ofart forms from diverse schoolsand styles, including traditionalChinese painting, oil painting,watercolors, print, sculpture, pho-tography, video and other experi-mental arts. Many young emerg-     

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Wonderful China - Liu Haixing Landscape Photo Exhibition
The National Art Museum of China raised the curtain on ＂Wonderful China,＂ a showcase of more than 50 works by Liu Haixing, with a formal opening ceremony on May 14, 2009, The exhibition showcases the Great Wall and many other iconic Chinese spots, and features natural sights as welL, such as Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province and Hukou Falls on the border of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces. All the works are on sale to the public, with proceeds going to the Project Hope primary schools of Jinggangshan area in Jiangxi Province, Liu Haixing is vice president of Shenzhen International Chamber of Commerce.     

Huang Zhou’s Octavo Figures Album

Figures Album , a collection of eight paintings by the late Chinese master Huang Zhou (1925-1997), broke the record for the highest price paid for a Chinese painting or work of calligraphy when it sold for RMB 7.245 million at the 2012 China Guardian Quarterly Auction. Huang was not only a master of traditional Chinese painting, but also famous for his extensive art collection. He combined West- ern sketching skills with traditional Chinese painting to capture the movements of people and animals. The album was a long-term project, taking him five years to complete. The paintings depict a shepherd boy, a woman horse trainer, an elegant Korean dancer, and two other gures.     

Art as a Barometer of Changing Times

Prior to the advent of contemporary art in China, the international art scene had a tendency, justifiable or not, to regard Chinese fine arts as being restricted to ceramics, painting and calligraphy. Today, however, Eastern and Western collectors alike have begun to appreciate works of Chinese fine art created after the late 20th century, and world-famous art galleries have begun entering China for the first time.     

Clear Water Flowing Easily,Pure Heart Speaking Naively

Qiu Zhaoming, a renowned Chinese painter, was born in Zhejiang, China in 1940 and graduated from the Central Academy of Fine tArts in 1964. Majoring in Traditional Chinese Painting, she studied from famous painting masters like Li Keran, Li Kuchan, YeQianyu and Zong Qixiang. As a member of Chinese Artist Association and the Editor-in-chief of People＇s Fine Arts Publishing House, she won several national awards. Her works have been displayed and awarded both nationally and internationally. In 1990, she received IBBY meritorious prize and the Hans Christian Andersen Award Nominees for her excellent illustrations for children. She becomes the first Chinese painter to be awarded for this prize. In t999, she was awarded the honorary title of World Outstanding Chinese Artist and Worldwide Golden Prize for Chinese. In 2001, her paintings were selected and displayed at the exhibition ＂Chinese Traditional Paintings of the Past 100 Years.＂ She has numerous publications which are listed in Directory of Famous Painters in Modem China and Collection of Chinese Paintings in the Past Century as well as other encyclopedias and large albums of painting. Moreover, several works of her have been collected by National Museum of China, the head office of IBBY in Swiss and other institutions.     

Absolutely Chinese

Ink painting animation - an exquisite art form that ends up in a museum Little Tadpole Looking for Mummy Little Tadpole Looking for Mummy, China's first ink painting animation, was produced in 1961. With innovation in painting, photography and production technology, it was the first effort at 'animating' ink paintings. Fishes, shrimps, frogs and crabs in the film resemble those in Qi Baishi's works. By any shot, it's an animated painting of fishes and insects, one that is suffused with a taste of Chinese ink-and-wash painting.     

A Festival of Chinese Sports Photographing

CCTV Chinese Sports Figures Photographing Competition was called a period on January 9. The competition combined the advantages of TV and photographing, best manifested the heroic bearing of Chinese athletes. 52 fine works came out, among which "The photo series of Chinese female hockey team", "Lifetime accomplishment" and the other ten works were voted to enter the second round to compete gold medals.The first round was held in Beijing King Wing Hot Spring Hotel. Based on the principle of being fare and square and open to public, the senate who were all experts in the field picked out the twelve works.     

Chen Jing ： Artist with a Poetic Palette

The artist Chen Jing graduated from Harbin Normal University＇s Faculty of Art and then went on to study atthe Faculty of Traditional Chinese Painting of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. She is a member of the China Association of Gongbi Painting, Gongbi is a traditional style of Chinese painting characterized by meticulous attention to detail and delicate brushwork.     

Happy Beach-Li Ronglin''''s Oil Paintings

LI Ronglin got his bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the China Academy of Art, and went on to postgraduate studies at the oil painting department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, where he now works as a teacher. Li's achievements are an indication of his talent. While studying he was awarded the Luo Zhongli Oil Painting Scholarship and the Wang Jialian Oil Painting Scholarship. Hard