Mountain and water
Fu Baoshi's reform of classic Chinese painting in the 1950s and '60s ushered the mountain-and-water genre into a new era. Prior to that, paintings of the genre normally expressed a feeling of detachment for worldly affairs. Fu heralded a movement that added the mountain-and-water paintings to the trend to show the magnificence of landscapes, and depict the country's Communist course and socialist construction, imbued with revolutionary romanticism. Jiangshan Ruci Duojiao (How Beautiful My Homeland Is), an exhibition now on at Anhui Museum in Hefei, the provincial capital, reviews Fu's endeavors. The exhibition title is borrowed from the name of a series of landscape paintings. Several paintings on show were inspired by poems of Chairman Mao Zedong and are regarded as iconic works from the second half of the 20th century. The exhibition ends on Oct 30.
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