Confronting adversity
The exhibition, Enjoyable Journey After Passing Great Hurdles in Life, in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, summarizes the attitude of the late ink artist Song Wenzhi (1919-99). He didn't receive formal training in painting but taught himself and learned from ancient artists and leading painters of his time. He experienced ups and downs and optimistically confronted and sailed through difficult situations, depicting his experiences in his landscape paintings.
The exhibition at Shenzhen Art Museum's new venue until April 6 focuses on his paintings of rivers and streams through the high mountains that embody an optimistic tendency toward hardships.
Song is recognized as a core member of the New Jinling School of Painting, which gathered prominent painters hailing from and active in Nanjing, referred to as Jinling, in Jiangsu province. The artists' group inherited the techniques of the Jinling School that emerged in the 17th century while adapting it to exploring aspects of social life in the 1950s and '60s.
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