Looking back at realism
The China Realism Five Years Retrospective Exhibition is being held at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing until next Tuesday.
Formed in 2005 by a group of realistic oil painters including the late famous artist Chen Yifei (1946-2005), China Realism is a mainstream school of Chinese oil painting. The exhibition presents the works of 30 artists much sought-after by the art market, including Ai Xuan, Yang Feiyun, and the late Chen.
The China Realism school believes that realism has long-lasting value and respects traditional culture, while advocating sincere artistic expression.
Shooting for the top
Hengdian Film Industrial Park, the film and TV location in Zhejiang province, last week signed contracts with China Construction Bank and Bank of China to provide more support for the companies that shoot films or TV there.
China Construction Bank provided a 200 million yuan ($29 million) credit line to Huayi Brothers Media Corporation; while Bank of China lent 300 million yuan to Hengdian Group Entertainment.
Zhang Peimin, vice-president of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the top regulator of the industry, has suggested that Hengdian builds its own brand instead of aspiring to be "China's Hollywood".
Hengdian's strategic cooperation with the two banks follows on the heels of the Chinese government's call for culture industry enterprises to boost their size and quality of products for domestic consumption.
Founded in 2004, Hengdian has become the most popular film location base in China. It was the set of many popular film and TV works such as Mummy 3 and Hero (Yingxiong).
Sinologists gather
The second World Conference on Sinology ended yesterday at Renmin University of China in Beijing.
Over 170 Sinologists, writers and philosophers of the Chinese classics studies attended the event, which began on Friday.
Themed "Sinology and Cross-Cultural Communication", researchers at the conference tackled such topics as Sinology and historical studies, Sinology and Chinese literature, Sinology and Chinese opera, and excavated documents and relics and Sinology.
'Macao In My Heart'
The Tianjin-based Hundred Flowers Publishing House, Essay magazine, and the Beijing Liaison Office of Macao Special Administrative Region, have jointly held a writing competition since June.
Initiated two years ago, the competition has received warm support from Chinese-speaking authors in and outside China. Fifteen works with the theme, Macao In My Heart, have been chosen from over 1,000 entries.
A prize presentation ceremony will be held in Macao on Dec 20, coinciding with celebrations for the 10th anniversary of the territory's return to China.
Sculptures exchanged
Eight 5-m-high sculptures created by veteran Chinese artists such as Ye Yushan, Pan He and Han Meilin, and inscribed with words such as "Peace" and "Friendship", in five languages, will be erected at universities in Georgia, Washington, New Jersey, and Kansas, later this month.
In return, eight sculptural works created by eight famed American artists such as Philip Johnson, will be sent to China and put in universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Foshan, and Guilin, by the end of this year.
Supported by several Chinese private business firms, cultural institutions, and hundreds of overseas Chinese currently living in the United States, the friendship-themed art exchange program "is being carried out to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and the US," said project initiator Zou Wen, a sculpture and art professor with Tsinghua University.
A grand opening ceremony for the sculptures was held in Washington last week and was attended by artists from both countries.
Editor: Feng Hui
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