20th century Chinese painters – Fang Junbi, Li Shuang, Ling Shuhua, Wu Shujuan and Zeng Youhe
Fang Junbi. Winter morning in Beijing. 1973. Ink and colors on paper. MC 9720. Gift of the artist. 1984. ©Paris Musées/Musée Cernuschi
The 25 15 September 2024 June
As part of a summer dedicated to Chinese art, the Cernuschi museum is exhibiting a selection of works by Chinese artists from the 20nd century. This display presents the works of Fang Junbi, Li Shuang, Ling Shuhua, Wu Shujuan et Zeng Youhe. A sculpture of Pan Yuliang is also presented on this occasion.
The history of Chinese art has remembered the names of many painters and calligraphers from the imperial period. However, on the 20thnd century offers Chinese artists new opportunities and allows them to claim better recognition. They have access to art schools, travel, exhibit and publish like their male colleagues. The result is works in all areas of creation. This exhibition, which draws from the rich collection of modern and contemporary painting at the Cernuschi Museum, brings together six artists belonging to different generations. Their works demonstrate the diversity of pictorial expression techniques, from ink to oil through collage, but also the permanence and reinterpretation, realistic or abstract, of certain traditional themes such as landscape. As a counterpoint to the paintings presented on the occasion of this hanging, the sculpted self-portrait of Pan Yuliang is exposed nearby.
