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2010-09-03
A girl poses near a poster for the 789 Art and Cultural Festival, which will run until Sept 4 in hutong areas near Lama Temple. It features a series of cultural activities, including seminars, movies and performances to showcase the lives of young people.
Linda
Beijing,China
2010-09-03
It has been said that admission fees to tourist attractions in China are the highest in the world but it's worth noting that some hotspots are free of charge, including West Lake, Jinji Lake, Juzizhou Islet, Phoenix city and North Sea Silver Beach.
West Lake, Hangzhou:
This well-known scenic spot has been admission-free except for some temples since 2002. This year, eight more attractions have been added to the free list. If you are looking for a natural setting of peaks, serene forests, dense foliage and various blossoms, West Lake is a must-see retreat.
Yujiao
Beijing,China
2010-09-02
A visitor picks grapes at Xiangyuan Grape Park in Changping district. The park, opened in 2008, is 30 kilometers away from downtown Beijing and is famous for its 36 grape varieties.
Linda
Beijing,China
2010-09-02
With the establishment of Shaolin Europe Association announced in Vienna on Wednesday, Chinese Kung Fu fans and Zen Buddhism culture enthusiasts across Europe will have a new platform to exchange ideas and promote Shaolin culture.
"Since Shaolin culture was introduced into Europe 20 years ago, it has been deeply loved by European people and become part of their life," said Shi Yongxin, Abbot of Shaolin Temple, which has been announced part of humanity's cultural heritage by UNESCO.
Shi Yongxin, who is visiting Austria for an international meeting, also said at a press conference that although hundreds of thousands of European people have had access to Shaolin Kung Fu training programs, there is still room for improvement in terms of inadequate channels to spread Chaolin culture. That is where the new association comes in to better provide Shaolin culture for European people, he said.
Headquartered in the Shaolin Culture Center in the German capital of Berlin, the association has been joined by 10 Shaolin branch units in Europe, according to an organizer at the press conference held in Hilton Vienna Plaza Hotel.
Nestled in the Songshan Mountains of China's Henan Province, and with a history of more than 1,500 years, the Shaolin Temple has long been considered by many as the Cradle of Chinese Kung Fu and home of Zen Buddhism culture. In recent years, it has sent its Kungfu masters to perform Kungfu arts all over the world and established Shaolin culture centers to help promote cultural exchanges between China and other countries.
Yujiao
Beijing,China
2010-09-01
If you want to look for me, find me in my works, as I am alive in them. -Wu Guanzhong
Two months after Wu Guanzhong, one of modern China's most forward-looking and admired artists, passed away, a special exhibition was opened on Monday to commemorate the 90-year-old master of Chinese painting, who did not want any memorial service to be held after his death and wanted his ashes scattered at sea.
The commemoration exhibition, held by Beijing Poly International Auction and Poly Arts Museum, showcases more than 100 delicated works of art, representing five decades of the artist's creative oeuvre and reflecting his fusion of Western modernism and traditional Chinese painting.
Art lovers will not only see some of the most acclaimed pieces such as The Ancient City of Jiaohe, The Grand Canyon in America, as well as Paradise of Little Birds , but also some rarely displayed pieces, such as his 1974 oil painting Panoramic View of the Yangtze River .
Wu,born in 1919 in Yixing, in East China's Jiangsu province, was trained as a painter in both China and later France, which helped establish his reputation for being good at integrating Chinese ink and brush painting with Western painting methods.
Wu was also known as a prolific writer of essays on art theory. Art historian Michael Sullivan once said that he and Vincent Van Gogh were rare examples of artists who were deeply thoughtful and articulate with both the brush and the pen.
In the 1980s, Wu became a darling of collectors at home and abroad and his works kept breaking records for Chinese paintings at public auctions. And he was also named by China's Hurun art list among the top five Chinese artists, ranking No 2 with total sales last year of around 200 million yuan ($29 million) in auctions around the world.
Just before his passing, his Panoramic View of the Yangtze River sold for 57.12 million yuan at the Hanhai spring auction in 2010.
In contrast with the skyrocketing price of his works, the artist always led a simple and frugal life. Wu donated his works to public museums several times. In 2008, he donated 113 of his works to the new National Art Gallery of Singapore, and later to public art museums in Beijing and Shanghai.
Just before his death, Wu donated five recent paintings to the Hong Kong Museum of Arts.
Unlike a previous commemoration exhibition held in Beijing's National Art Museum in July and others to be held in other public museums elsewhere, the artwork displayed in Poly Art Museum is different because it is all owned by different private collectors living in Beijing, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Singapore and other places.
"It is a rare and cherished opportunity to see them together and to once again be inspired by the artist through them," said Zhao Zhunwang, a famous Chinese artist and one of Wu's students.
The works exhibited are estimated to be valued at more than one billion yuan, according to the organizers. The exhibit will be open to the public for free from Aug 30 to Sept 6.
Linda,
Beijing,China
2010-09-01
A girl poses near a poster for the 789 Art and Cultural Festival, which will run until Sept 4 in hutong areas near Lama Temple. It features a series of cultural activities, including seminars, movies and performances to showcase the lives of young people.
Yujiao
Beijing,China
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