Cao Zhen

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An exhibition is being held at Guan Shanyue Art Museum to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of renowned Chinese painter Song Wenzhi (1919-1999). The exhibition on the second floor of the museum showcases the master’s old photos, letters, videos and his landscape paintings.

Born in Taicang in Jiangsu Province, Song studied fine art in Suzhou and taught in Taicang and Anting for 16 years. During his time there, he learned from influential painters in Shanghai, such as Zhang Shiyuan, Wu Hufan, Lu Yanshao, Fu Baoshi and Zhu Qizhan, and drew from their techniques. He always explored innovative forms of artistic expression. Enlightened by “splashing color” and other new techniques, his works are full of fresh air and the innovative pioneering nature of modern Chinese landscape painting.

Song’s paintings include both pastoral mountain-and-water paintings and landscapes with natural scenes that are more like backdrops for depicting the construction around the country and the lives of common people.

Although he worked in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, he frequently visited Guangdong. In 1960, a group of painters from Nanjing embarked on a journey across the country, hoping to adapt the classic Chinese mountain-and-water genre of painting to the needs of a new time. Song’s painting “Guangzhou Shipbuilding Plant” was acclaimed by Fu and other painters. Since 1978, he had frequently participated in events and created paintings in Shenzhen.

Dates: Until July 10

Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays

Venue: Guan Shanyue Art Museum, 6026 Hongli Road, Futian District (福田区红荔路6026号关山月美术馆)

Metro: Line 3 or 4 to Children’s Palace Station (少年宫站), Exit B