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First lady portrait highlight of art show

By Wang Jie | May 6, 2015, Wednesday | Print Edition

AN exhibition entitled “The Temperature of History” is currently running at the China Art Museum.

The show, which features nearly 30 representational oil masterpieces from the collections of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and the China Art Museum, has already garnered considerable public attention as it features a portrait depicting a young Peng Liyuan, the wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

“All the paintings on display focus on the realistic style of the 20th century,” said Fan Dian, a consultant behind the show. “This is a retrospective and rare exhibition of the development of Chinese oil paintings. To be more exact ... these oil paintings reflect the merger of a Western art form with distinctive Chinese characteristics.”

The portrait of Peng, painted in 1984 by artist Jin Shangyi, is considered a masterpiece of China’s new classicalism movement. Jin’s arrangement references Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” yet with a traditional Chinese landscape scene in the background.

At the time of the painting’s creation, Peng was a graduate student at the China Conservatory of Music — hence its title “The Young Female Singer.” Later Peng rose to fame because of her beautiful singing voice.

Peng had asked Jin for the original painting, but Jin refused. Instead, he sent her a copy and donated the original to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1988.

 

Date: Through August 2,
10am-5pm

Venue: China Art Museum

Address: 205 Shangnan Rd

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