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szdaily -> Culture -> 
Huizhou Museum showcases He Xiangning’s artworks
    2015-09-29  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    Cao Zhen

    caozhen0806@126.com

    TRAVELERS who visit neighboring Huizhou City during the National Day holiday can check out Huizhou Museum, where 40 paintings by late Chinese artist He Xiangning (1878-1972) are on display.

    The exhibits were provided by Shenzhen’s He Xiangning Art Museum, which is closed for renovations until next June.

    At the Huizhou Museum, visitors can see He’s classic paintings — featuring plum blossoms, pine trees, lions, tigers and landscapes — until Jan. 3. From Jan. 14 to April 24, 35 paintings by He and her son Liao Chengzhi (1908-1983) will be shown.

    A native of Nanhai in today’s Foshan City in central Guangdong, He was one of the earliest Chinese students to study in Japan. She studied landscape and flower painting at the Hongo Women’s School of Fine Arts in Tokyo and then continued to study animal painting under the Japanese royal artist Raiaki Tanaka. Her style was also influenced by the Lingnan School of Painting, a modern school of Chinese brush painting in South China, led by renowned artists Chen Shuren and Gao Jianfu.

    He was the widow of Liao Zhongkai, the leader of the left wing of the Kuomintang during the 1920s. A native of Huizhou, Liao was expected to become the KMT leader after Sun Yat-sen’s death, but he was assassinated by gangsters allegedly hired by Chiang Kai-shek. He then became an important leader of the leftist wing of the Kuomintang and after 1949 stayed in Beijing. Throughout her life, she enjoyed using her paintings to express her political views.

    He’s son, Liao Chengzhi, was also a revolutionist. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1928 and rose to the position of director of the Xinhua News Agency; after 1949, he worked in various positions related to foreign affairs, most prominently president of the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute, president of the Sino-Japanese Friendship Society and minister of the Office of Overseas Chinese Affairs. Liao studied painting with his mother during his childhood and collaborated with his mother on many landscape and figure paintings.

    The He Xiangning Art Museum was the first national museum named after an individual and was the second national modern art museum after the National Art Gallery of China. The museum is mainly engaged in collecting, displaying and studying He’s painting and calligraphy. It is also devoted to sorting, selecting and preserving historical materials and artworks by other artists, organizing exhibitions and collecting invaluable artworks from home and abroad. Since 2003, the He Xiangning Art Museum has curated exhibition tours of He’s works in various Chinese cities. Starting next year, the museum plans to exhibit many works in Japan and Southeast Asia.

    Located in Huicheng District, the Huizhou Museum exhibits ancient bronzes, pottery, ceramics and traditional Hakka life scenario waxworks. Some exhibits have English captions.

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