Throughout the 20th-century Chinese art history, Guan Shanyue is undoubtedly a pioneer and practitioner of the transformation of traditional Chinese painting. In the first half of the 20th century, he used his brush as a weapon to directly depict the resistance against aggression, and in his early years, he sketched landscapes behind the lines to trace back to Dunhuang to absorb the essence of ancient art. At the beginning of the new China, traditional Chinese painting faced skepticism, and its transformation became the direction that Chinese painters strived for. Guan Shanyue, following the concept of new Chinese painting from his mentor Gao Jianfu, continued the action and method of sketching in the 1940s, taking the new China’s literary and artistic ideas as the starting point and foundation, reshaping the sketching of traditional Chinese painting and leading the innovation of the genre. Open from November 13th to June 8th, with specific business status subject to the day’s opening conditions.
People’s Landscape: Guan Shanyue’s New China Sketching Exhibition
Throughout the 20th-century Chinese art history, Guan Shanyue is undoubtedly a pioneer and practitio[...]
