A landscape painting exhibition is on view to commemorate Chen Zuoding

In memory of Chen Zuoding, a landscape painting exhibition is currently on display at Hall 6 until Jan. 19, 2011. Chen Zuoding, founder of the Changjiang painting school, died at the age of 89 two months ago. The exhibits comprise a total of more than 70 works by the artist in the past decades, including a number of paintings reflecting the beauty of the Three Georges.

Chen Zuoding has been devoted to the painting creation for sixty years. He used to be vice chairman of Wuhan Artists Association and academician of Hubei Academy of Calligraphy and Painting. He held a solo exhibition in Chongqing in 1948, which was the first focused on the laborers on the Three Georges.

The painting Female navigator created in 1964 was collected by the National Art Museum of China. In 1979, along with Tang Wenxuan and Feng Jinsong, Chen Zuoding founded Qingchuan Academy along with ten representative artists including Tang Wenxuan and Feng Jinsong in 1979 and was then chosen as chairman of the academy.

The academy held a number of tournament exhibition in such places as Beijing, Xi an, Chongqing and Chengdu and was called the Changjiang painting school.

Chen Zuoding led a group of artists to travel through the Changjiang River for three years since 1984. The collective painting Changjiang River, 150m long, was displayed at the National Art Museum of China and make a hit about the enthusiasm of the Changjiang River at home and abroad.