Featured image above: Labour-exchange Team – Scene of Rural Life in Northern Shaanxi
The exhibition is divided into four sections, namely Revolutionary Epic, Praise of the New Era, Chang’an New Painting and Strength of Character, featuring over 150 outstanding works by Shi Lu, a renowned painter of the Chang’an Painting School, including ink wash paintings, prints, oil paintings, and calligraphies, supplemented by relevant historical materials, documents and pictures, showing the change and innovation of the theme of his works and the formation of his distinctive style.
Shi Lu (1919–1982), a native of Renshou County in Sichuan Province, is the adopted pseudonym of Feng Yaheng, because of his admiration for Shi Tao and Lu Xun. As one of the 20th-century artists with the greatest contemporary spirit and avant-garde vision in the history of Chinese art, Shi Lu devoted his life to the inheritance, innovation, and development of national art, and advocated the artistic principle of “learning from tradition on the one hand and learning from life on the other”, incorporating the scenery of the Loess Plateau and the customs of northern Shaanxi into his paintings. By developing his own style in landscape painting, portraits, bird-and-flower painting, calligraphy, seal carving, poetry, and literature and art theory, he created and promoted one of the most important schools of modern Chinese painting – Chang’an Painting School. Shi Lu led his life exactly as he said: “I believe the intention of the painter is to represent the times.” Through this exhibition, the audience can learn his unique artistic style in the history of modern Chinese art, and experience the spirit of an era from an artistic perspective, not to be missed.
When: September 18–November 12, 2021
Where: Macao Museum of Art, Avenida Xian Xing Hai, NAPE, Macau
How much: Free admission
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Coachman, by Shi Lu
