Dreams of Chinese Painters – Yitao Collection
Visual Arts
Description
Description
Chinese painting is based on real life to express an artist’s thoughts and feelings. Chinese artists portray their inner world by blending techniques, themes and embodied meanings into a single piece of artwork. With this theme, the exhibition showcases some 50 pieces of paintings selected from the Yitao Collection. They are from the “Four Monks” of the early Qing Dynasty including Bada Shanren and Shitao, advocates of the reformation of Chinese painting in the first half of the twentieth century such as Gao Jianfu and Xu Beihong, and celebrated masters who made remarkable breakthroughs within tradition such as Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian. Altogether, 22 artists are featured in this exhibition. They delivered different beautiful dreams in their paintings to invite the audience to indulge in.
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