Oil painting was brought into China from the West. As we assume an open attitude, not merely the form, material and medium, but modern theoretic concept of oil painting has also come accompanying it. However, what we aim at is to merge the western oil painting with the Chinese cultural ideology and to create an ideal sphere for the development of our national art.

The emergence of modern Western art in the 20th century, from our point of view, is a step closer towards the East. The traditional Chinese artists favor traveling ten thousand miles of land, reading ten thousand volumes of books, and being close to nature yet not imitating nature, nor being enslaved by nature.

In the 21st century, we have still an important task i.e. to sum up conscientiously the aesthetic significance of major archeological discoveries in China in the past hundred years. We are to expand our field of vision to more artistic sphere apart from the traditional Chinese paintings. So much new discoveries are there waiting for our younger generation to recognize and explore into so as to be able to make more meaningful creations. We are in the belief that the revival of culture will make up for the deficiencies in one-sided development of science and technology.

Yuan Yunsheng

Professor, Central Academy of Fine Arts           

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