政府新闻
水墨上海简史 2023-03-26
The Chinese ink painting exhibition History Retracted: Shanghai in the Past Century will open in Shanghai on March 25.
The Chinese ink painting exhibition History Retracted: Shanghai in the Past Century will open at the Jiushi Art Gallery at Bund 18 on March 25.
The exhibition, which will run until May 21, features more than 20 works from the Shanghai Figure Painting Institute, a group led by renowned artists such as Wang Guanqing, Zhang Peichu and Han Shuo.
The Chinese ink painting exhibition History Retracted: Shanghai in the Past Century will open in Shanghai on March 25.
Many of these artists started their careers creating picture books, which were comic-strip-style publications that enjoyed great popularity in China till the 1990s. These artists developed a distinctive style that featured the elegance of Chinese ink art as well as vivid depictions of ordinary people's life scenes, and had over the past decades become known for their large-scale paintings.
The Chinese ink painting exhibition History Retracted: Shanghai in the Past Century will open in Shanghai on March 25.
For this exhibition, the artists had set out to document the changes in Shanghai since the mid-1800s, when the city first became an open harbor. On exhibition are paintings that show Zhaojiabang Creek, an old slum that eventually made way for the construction of today's Zhaojiabang Road, a collective portrait of leading artists in Shanghai in the early 1900s who laid the foundation for the modern Chinese arts scene, as well as festival celebrations and milestone events such as the World Expo that was held in Shanghai in 2010.
Source: China Daily
