-- Preface

Chinese watercolorists are first-rate in the world in the mastery of basic skills. Vast territory and abundant resources, natural beauty and cultural splendor, rich and colorful life, admirable cultural background, all this have provided rich nutrition and adequate materials for watercolorists. Since the reforms and opening-up, the Chinese watercolorists have come to know more about the outside world of fine arts and achieved much progress in ideology. Watercolor painting is much cherished by the public with its unique language, elegance and gracefulness that is close to life. The advancement of the times and the changes in conception are inevitably reflected in the field of arts. Therefore, transformation and attempts that go beyond the limit of painting classification, whether in idea, skill or material, are in conformity to the trend of times and therefore beneficial to the development of arts. The watercolor paintings exhibited here give an expression to the phenomenal talents of the artists.

Guan Weixing, Member of Chinese Watercolor Art Appraising Committee

Qianmen in Beijing        40x60       By Hua Yiyu	Anchoring              52x74         By Chi Zhengming
Boat                       50x87        By Song Bin	Wishing                63x53        By Zhang Yingjie
Studio                   60x52        By Chen Jian	Still Life                 60x52        By Tian Li