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By Xu Wenwen |
August 14, 2012, Tuesday
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SCENIC scenes and emblems of West Lake, from lotus flowers to pavilions and bridges, are reproduced on handbags, fashion, porcelain and furniture in the West Lake Art Life Exhibition underway through September 8.
The display at West Lake Museum in Hangzhou features around 100 different types of items, including umbrellas, china ware, carpets, sofas and postcards.
All the decorative elements are based on 10 Scenes of West Lake depicted in 10 traditional ink-wash paintings by Chen Jialing, a noted painter of the Shanghai school.
The sites include "Spring Dawn at Su Causeway," "Autumn Moon over the Calm Lake" and "Twin Peaks Piercing Clouds." They are represented in colorful, mural-like scenes in ink-and-water style.
The items on display include bags decorated with lotus, a carpet with a flowing water pattern, an umbrella on which goldfish swim and a fan decorated with a bridge.
Though the 10 original paintings are not exhibited, reproductions are printed on silk scarves, which will be sold.
All items will be priced in two weeks and sold. Many are expected to be reproduced as Hangzhou souvenirs.
"We definitely will make the price affordable so ordinary people can enjoy an artistic part of West Lake in their lives," museum curator Jin Xiaoxia says.
The daily-life items are displayed like commodities so people can touch and feel them; they are not shown under glass.
In June last year, West Lake was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List of Landscapes. Since then the city has been designing creative souvenirs for tourists.
Date: Through September 8
Address: 89 Nanshan Rd
Tel: (0571) 8788-2279
Admission: Free
The display at West Lake Museum in Hangzhou features around 100 different types of items, including umbrellas, china ware, carpets, sofas and postcards.
All the decorative elements are based on 10 Scenes of West Lake depicted in 10 traditional ink-wash paintings by Chen Jialing, a noted painter of the Shanghai school.
The sites include "Spring Dawn at Su Causeway," "Autumn Moon over the Calm Lake" and "Twin Peaks Piercing Clouds." They are represented in colorful, mural-like scenes in ink-and-water style.
The items on display include bags decorated with lotus, a carpet with a flowing water pattern, an umbrella on which goldfish swim and a fan decorated with a bridge.
Though the 10 original paintings are not exhibited, reproductions are printed on silk scarves, which will be sold.
All items will be priced in two weeks and sold. Many are expected to be reproduced as Hangzhou souvenirs.
"We definitely will make the price affordable so ordinary people can enjoy an artistic part of West Lake in their lives," museum curator Jin Xiaoxia says.
The daily-life items are displayed like commodities so people can touch and feel them; they are not shown under glass.
In June last year, West Lake was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List of Landscapes. Since then the city has been designing creative souvenirs for tourists.
Date: Through September 8
Address: 89 Nanshan Rd
Tel: (0571) 8788-2279
Admission: Free
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