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Thursday, March 28, 2024


Exhibition Public - Asia

Two Masters, Two Generations, and Two Alternatives of Modern Chinese Painting

Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T.,
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dec 07, 2013 To May 15, 2014


Detail: Under the auspice to celebrate the Golden Anniversary of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the university’s Art Museum joins forces with the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, to organize an exhibition on two well-known Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Drawing exclusively from the university collections, this exhibition features 50 masterpieces of Gao Jianfu (1879-1951) and Lui Shoukun (1919-1975) to demonstrate two ways to modernize Chinese painting in the twentieth century. Gao’s incorporation of western painting techniques and Lui’s appropriation of Abstract Expressionism represent two approaches endorsed by two generations of Chinese ink painters working actively from the early to mid-twentieth century. A scholarly catalogue investigates how the two universities became important repositories of Gao and Lui’s works, and sheds new light on these celebrated artists.

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