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Painting, Wandering: Liu Shangying's recent paintings are presented at FutureLand Art Center

Themed on “Painting, Wandering”, the latest solo exhibition by Prof. Liu Shangying from the Central Academy of Fine Arts is on display at the FutureLand Art Center in Beijing. Curated by French curator Olivier Kaeppelin, the exhibition focuses on Liu Shangying’s latest on-site paintings at the southern and northern foothills of the East Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang from 2022 through to 2024, and it also includes his practice in outdoor paintings in Lop Nur, Altyn Mountains in Xinjiang, and Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia from 2016 through to 2021.

Exhibition | "Brazil, Back to the Land – Sebastião Salgado"

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and the Federative Republic of Brazil. The exhibition "Brazil, Back to the Land" by the Brazilian photography master Sebastião Salgado is being held at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum.

Solo Exhibition | Wang Yuyang: Painting

On November 7, a solo exhibition by Professor Wang Yuyang from the Central Academy of Fine Arts titled "Painting" opened at the Long Museum in Shanghai. This exhibition presents a fresh showcase and review of Wang’s painting practice, which spans over a decade. His work demonstrates a highly varied approach with a complex language and conceptual depth, deconstructing and subverting traditional painting while creating contemporary images that blend human, non-human, and natural elements.

Wang Chuan’s Solo Exhibition |Re-creation: the Classic of Mountains and Seas

On November 1, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) professor Wang Chuan’s solo exhibition " Re-creation the Classic of Mountains and Seas" opened at Hubei Museum of Art. The exhibition features more than 40 works created over the past three years, including lenticular lightboxes and reinterpretations of classical paintings. Inspired by the ancient Chinese text Shan Hai Jing (The Classic of Mountains and Seas), the artist integrates photography and Chinese classical masterpieces, blending media such as painting, photography, and lenticular lightboxes. Through this fusion, Wang brings distant traditions and history into modern social reality, presenting a visually immersive experience that is both realistic and illusory. The exhibition is curated by Ji Shaofeng, director of Hubei Museum of Art.

Write Beautiful Chinese Characters, Attend Great Art Classes: International Students Applaud "Chinese Language Class"

"Language is a tool for human communication, a carrier of civilization, and a bridge for mutual understanding." On November 15, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the 2024 World Chinese Language Conference, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Confucius Institute. He expressed his hopes for the conference to make new and greater contributions to building a shared future for humanity.

CULTURE FOCUS

Wang Chuan: “Releasing” the ancient mythical beasts from “The Classic of Mountains and Seas”

From November 1 through to November 24, 2024, Hubei Museum of Art presents “Re-creation: The Classic of Mountains and Seas” featuring the latest work by Wang Chuan. In the series “Mythical Beasts from Mountains and Seas”, the artist has liberated these mythical beasts of various shapes and colors that exude ancient mysterious atmosphere from classical texts. Through the intriguing combination of painting and photography, Wang has placed these imagined animals in the scenes of well-known Chinese classic ancient paintings, or scattered them in the life scenes that contemporary people feel so close to. In his ongoing project, the artist further “releases” these beasts into a scenic mountain forest in Hunan, endowing them with a completely new freedom and expanding the boundaries of art display, viewing and dissemination.

Introducing a Character Recognition Picture Book on Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Crafted by a Central Academy of Fine Arts Team Over 3 Years

Oracle Bone Inscriptions are primitive "pictographic characters," resembling the childhood appearance of Chinese characters and serving as a natural bridge between pictures and Chinese characters. Oracle Bone Inscriptions fully demonstrate the characteristic of ancient Chinese characters as ideographic characters "expressing meaning through form."

Why did many Song-dynasty paintings depict children at play?

In the Song Dynasty, paintings of the "children at play" subject matter were unprecedentedly popular. Why did this genre flourish in this period? What do children play in this kind of painting? Professor Huang Xiaofeng from the Central Academy of Fine Arts shares his views.

【China in Poetry and Painting】The 'living landscapes' of a Song Dynasty masterpiece

Why did ancient Chinese artists have such a deep love for landscape paintings? The answer may be found in the most acclaimed work of Fan Kuan, considered the finest painter of this genre from the Song Dynasty. Fan was one of the most famous painters in the Northern Landscape Painting School during this period. The mountains rendered under his brushstrokes were majestic and craggy, different from those presented under the "Southern School," which used smoother lines to portray the elegant landscapes south of the Yangtze River.

Dunhuang murals on stage: A juxtaposition of ancient charm and modern vigor

Known as a treasure trove of Buddhist art, Dunhuang is a tourist Mecca in northwest China's Gansu Province. Its most representative historical landmark is the Mogao Grottoes, the best known of all China's Buddhist grottoes, and home to a vast collection of exquisite murals and statues.

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