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Huo Chengju and Mo Cheng
THE Third Chinese Painting Exhibition of Guangdong
Province was unveiled at Guan Shanyue Art Museum Thursday.
The biennial exhibition is a showcase of 200 pieces of
work Guangdong artists have produced over the past two years.
More than 200 guests, including 13 members of the judging
panel and 21 prize winners, attended the opening ceremony. At
the ceremony Wang Jingsheng, head of the Shenzhen Municipal
Culture Bureau, said the exhibition is a big event in the
cultural circles of the city.
The exhibition, which in previous years was held in
Shantou and Zhuhai, has won the attention of professional and
amateur Guangdong artists specializing in Chinese painting.
Wang Yujue, president of Guangdong Art Academy says that
the purpose of the exhibition is to promote new works and new
artists, as well as offer artists a chance to communicate and
learn from each other.
“Thus it is very exciting to see that we have many new
and young faces among the prize winners,” he said.
Fang Chuqiao, deputy director of the Art Department of
Jinan University and one of the three gold medal winners, says
he is neither a traditionalist nor a vanguard modernist. A
little suprised by his success, he said he believes that the
works’ perfect combination of traditional and modern methods
helped him win.
Zhao Zhiting, deputy chairman of the Guangdong Provincial
Association of Fine Artists, said the prize-winning works
reflected the main trends of Chinese painting in Guangdong.
“Deeply influenced by various art groups in other
provinces as well as Western-style art, Guangdong artists are
losing some of their distinctive characteristics as a local
art group,” Zhao said.
He said that artists choose traditionalism, modernism,
Westernization, or any kind of combination of them to create
whatever they want. It is because of this borrowing of other
styles that Guangdong artists are losing their
distinctiveness.
Still, their work is quite remarkable and worth seeing.
The exhibition will end Oct. 13.
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