Landscape master
"I grew up in the embrace of mountains and waters of Sichuan, … and I was somewhat guided to talk with nature in the path of art," says Shen Beixin, a prominent landscape artist. Color carries the most important message in his oil paintings, and a broad vision of the world and life introduces the audience to the magnificence of nature and a humanistic perspective. An exhibition showing dozens of his landscape paintings over the decades is being held at Tsinghua University Art Museum through to March 26.Shen not only seeks to present a poetic atmosphere in his work but also pursues the presentation of an ideal lifestyle that ancient Chinese intellectuals envisioned. In childhood, he had read Zuiwengting Ji (Account of the Pavilion of an Old Drunkard), an essay of the 11th-century author Ouyang Xiu, which expressed the pleasures of living a carefree, reclusive life in the embrace of mountains and waters, and it has influenced Shen's art. Ten paintings on show, including one that depicts a pond of water lilies in Claude Monet's home in Giverny, France, have been donated to the museum.
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