Oil world
Since the 20th century, while adopting the techniques of oil painting, Chinese painters have also integrated the style with cultural traditions and presented the realities of society, making oil painting an important part of the landscape of the country's art and culture.
The National Art Museum of China is showing a selection of oil paintings from its collection to illustrate the domestic development of the medium over the past seven decades. Works on show include A Distant View of Drum Tower, in which Qin Xuanfu used loose strokes and soft colors to capture a serene mood in the late 1940s Beijing; Path to Urumqi, a 1954 landscape by Ai Zhongxin, which highlights the magnificence of snowcapped mountains in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region; and Lotus Flowers, by Wu Guanzhong in the 1990s, a representative work of his exploration of abstract approaches to reproducing the poetic sensibilities of Eastern aesthetics. The exhibition runs through to Jan 2.
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