• Liu Shangying: I Never Want to Produce Stories

    While “Painting, Wandering” featuring recent paintings by Liu Shangying was closed at FutureLand Art Center, this artist who have devoted himself to seeking the unknown had a different psychological feeling from before. “The sense of loss is actually a question about how to start over,” said Liu. In addition to the painting series that he completed in Lop Nur and A-erh-chin Mountains of Xinjiang, Ejina Banner of Inner Mongolia from 2016 through to 2021, “Painting, Wandering” focused on the site-specific paintings by the artist along the Eastern Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang from 2022 through to 2024. During the exhibition, the film “Lost Journey” which took the artist three years to finish editing was open to the public for the first time.
    2025.03.19

  • Xue Tianchong: Curating Design, provides a way to write the history of Chinese design

    Ever since the first World Expo “The Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations” (1851) held at the Crystal Palace (giant glass-and-iron exhibition hall in Hyde Park) in UK to the all-round transformation of industrial production, art and design education and even lifestyle triggered by the Bauhaus (school of design, architecture and applied arts that existed in Germany from 1919 to 1933), modern design has undergone vigorous development throughout the 20th century.
    2025.02.28

  • 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.
    2024.11.13

  • Meng Luding: Retrospection for Moving Forward

    “@Wu Han 2024: Meng Luding in 1975/1990/2006/2024” at the Hubei Museum of Art is subconsciously regarded as a retrospective of the artist, but for Meng, the main purpose of this exhibition is to carefully organize and select his creations in a slice-of-life way. Four important years in his oeuvre are highlighted, which coincide with the epochal changes also mark several transitions in Meng’s personal life trajectory and artistic concepts.
    2024.11.7

  • Design School’s “Bronco Universe” School-Enterprise Cooperation Project Successfully Concludes

    Recently, the “Bronco Universe INTO THE BRONCO-VERSE” school-enterprise cooperation project, jointly organized by the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Design School and Ford China Design Center, successfully completed its final review. Three students from the Travel Innovation Design program at CAFA presented impressive results after a two-month summer internship at the Ford China Design Center. As the first school-enterprise cooperation project since the establishment of the Ford China Design Center, the “Bronco Universe” design project provided interns with a platform for creative freedom and expanded the limitless possibilities of the iconic Ford Bronco.
    2024.09.29

  • The winning works of "The Global Zodiac Design Competition" entered the Capital Cultural heritage site "Auspicious Year after Year" Chinese Zodiac Art invitational exhibition in Beihai Park Chanfu Temple exhibition review

    The Global Zodiac Design Competition is a brand cultural event jointly sponsored by Beijing Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau and Central Academy of Fine Arts, and undertaken by Beijing Overseas Cultural Exchange Center and other units.
    2024.03.21

  • Liu Zhao attend the academic conference "Face/Interface: Global Type Design and Human-Computer Interaction" at Stanford University and delivered a presentation

    40 years ago, Turing Award winner and computer scientist Donald Knuth, along with MacArthur Fellow font designer Chuck Bigelow, jointly organized the conference "The Computer and the Hand in Type Design." This conference, sponsored by ATypI (International Typographic Association), was one of the world's earliest research projects in digital typeface design.
    2023.12.5

  • 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."
    2023.11.29

  • Wang Chuan X NOW | When Urban fashion meets Art

    An attention-grabbing collaboration among artists, cultural institutions, and a fashion brand has brought to life a vibrant fusion of traditional Chinese culture and contemporary fashion streetwear.
    2023.09.21

  • Wu Xiaohai – Intranquil Nature

    Before the opening of the exhibition, poet Xi Chuan sent Wu Xiaohai a poem by Hai Zi: “If you love nature, you have to love the dirty side of nature.” Dirtiness, as opposed to truth, goodness and beauty, is a demarcation of standards and a product of culture. However, it is the so-called dirtiness and mess that provide a breeding ground for diversity and leave room for individuality and even prejudice. The development of art comes exactly from individuality.
    2023.03.23

  • Why skeletons in this painting can show joy?

    When talking about skeletons, what comes to your mind first? The answer is usually death. However, Skeleton Puppet Play by Li Song from the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) shows a different image of skeletons. It depicts a scene where an adult skeleton pulls the strings of a puppet, a smaller skeleton. What does this scene mean? Why was this ancient Chinese painting created? Professor Huang Xiaofeng from the Central Academy of Fine Arts shares his views.
    2023.03.17

  • 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.
    2023.03.3

  • What did an extravagant party look like a thousand years ago?

    The Night Revels of Han Xizai is a top 10 classic among all surviving Chinese paintings. It's attributed to court painter Gu Hongzhong during the Five Dynasties. The painting vividly represents a night party hosted by Han Xizai, a high-ranking official of the Later Tang Dynasty. How's the party like? And why did Gu Hongzhong make such a painting? Professor Fei Jun from the Central Academy of Fine Arts answers these questions.
    2023.02.3

  • Wandering Towards Sixty Years of Age, Feeling Free and Broadminded—Regarding Chen Qi's Artistic Pursuit

    In the spring of 2010, when I was an intern at CAFA ART INFO, I usually wrote articles at the big conference table in the department. I would always see Mr. Chen Qi rushing in and out of the office when I looked up. At that time, our department was named “Educational Technology Center”, which was responsible for network technical support in CAFA, and also contributing to the construction of the official website of the Academy and CAFA ART INFO.
    2023.01.27

  • 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.
    2023.01.21

  • Unlock the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty through the CGTN Art Series

    Song Dynasty (960-1276) paintings undoubtedly marked the heyday of ancient Chinese art and have been widely recognized as treasures of Chinese civilization. To spotlight their legacy, CGTN has launched "The Song, Painted," an immersive interactive virtual exhibition that features six themes – Children, Style, Stage, Class, Market, and Faith – to decode traditional Chinese aesthetics via the lifestyles depicted in the paintings.
    2023.01.12

  • 【Rural Revitalization】Rural revitalization through art

    Villages are evolving every day. A clear link between rural revitalization and national development has emerged over the past 40-plus years since China's reform and opening up. Rural revitalization through art is a rather complex and systematic endeavor, demanding respect for culture, region, ethnicity, and individual rights and interests.
    2022.10.31

  • 【Chinese language + Art】Appreciating Chinese Language in Art

    Co-produced by Center for Language Education and Cooperation and Central Academy of Fine Arts, the video series The Imagination of Art (Chinese Language + Arts) was unveiled on October 24, 2022, in a bid to inspire the peoples of various countries to learn Chinese through an approach integrating language learning and the education of art.
    2022.10.24

  • Lyu Yue (Aluna) and Her Fashion Actions

    The interview with Ms. Lyu Yue (Aluna) took place at a café in 751D·PARK, in the adjoining fashion corridor, “Beyond Seeing: From the Brother Cup to Hempel Award”: China International Young Fashion Designers Contest 30 Years 1993-2022 which was the latest exhibition on display curated by her. In 1993 following the establishment of CHIC, China International Young Fashion Designers Contest was founded. Over the past 30 years, the Contest has cultivated a group of leading figures and outstanding clothing designers for the Chinese clothing industry. In Lyu Yue’s words, it is “a competition with the most influential power, the highest success rate and the highest attention in our industry.” The exhibition presents a microcosm of the 30-year development and changes in China’s fashion industry with more than 60 award-winning works, documents and historical video materials from the Contest over the past 30 years.
    2022.10.11

  • 【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.
    2022.10.8
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