Taiwan artist Liu Guosong holds a painting exhibition

Sponsored by China Friendship Association of Cultural Circles and the National Art Museum of China, a painting exhibition entitled A review at the age of 80 is currently on display to showcase the paintings by Liu Guosong at Hall 1, 2, 3 and 9 since Mar. 21 until Apr. 3. The artist from Taiwan donated a total of 10 masterpieces to the National Art Museum of China.

The exhibition comprising a total of more than 150 artworks by the artist from 1949 to 2011, is expected to provide an overview of his unique artist style and innovative artistic dedication. A number of masterpieces fully reflect the theory and the practice of the concept of the modernization of the traditional Chinese painting proposed by Liu Guosong.

Born in Anhui province in 1932, Liu Guosong settled down in Taiwan since 1949, moved to Hong Kong as a teacher in the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1971 and went back to Taiwan in 1992. The artist founded "May Art Association", one of important societies in the history of Taiwan art in a bid to initiate the movement of the modern. In the 1960s, the painter was devoted to the innovation of the ink painting. In the 1970s, Liu Guosong proposed to establish new traditions of the Chinese paintings in the 20th century.

The artist, full of originality and creativity, has always maintained full passion and innovative spirit in the artistic creation. He has always emphasized on the Chinese traditional elements in his artworks. Since 1965, Liu Guosong has been invited by various art galleries and museums across the globe to hold his solo exhibitions for more than eighty times. A number of his works have been collected by more than 50 museums and galleries all over the world.

Liu Guosong is outstanding representative of the culture across the Straits and also an envoy of cultural exchange between the two sides. In 1983, Liu Guosong held the first solo exhibition in Chinese Mainland and then held various exhibitions and made lectures across the country. Such efforts by the artist had far-reaching influence on the young and mid-aged painters and promoted the emergence of various modern ink paintings in the past three decades.