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Quan Shanshi Art Center

January 18, 2016 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

ARTIST RESIDENCY CHINA — HANGZHOU, no. 32

Hangzhou

After lunch in the tea plantation region outside Hangzhou, the bus delivered six of us to the Quan Shanshi Art Center. It is a private museum that displays, collects, and promotes oil paintings from around the world. The center includes instruction, research, and free public access. The special exhibit during my visit was 19th Century French Realist Painting. The museum is named for the Chinese painter Quan Shanshi (1930— ) who is a graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. He studied at the Repin Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad, Soviet Union from 1954–1960, then became an instructor at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. His use of color is considered to be more complex than the typical social realist style that dominated Chinese painting in the 20th century.

Hangzhou

Hangzhou

students paint copies in the galleries

Hangzhou

storage space for student easels

Hangzhou

Hangzhou

Hangzhou

Hangzhou

Hangzhou

a portrait by Quan Shanshi

Hangzhou

A. Milnikov, 1926

Hangzhou

Giorgio de Chirico, 1948

Hangzhou

Giorgio de Chirico, 1949

Hangzhou

Fra Falippo Lippi, 1490, with Elena and Wang

Hangzhou

Elena found an authentic Hangzhou cuisine restaurant for our dinner

Hangzhou

Hangzhou

Hangzhou

we took a cab to walk along the edge of West Lake at the end of a long day — the unphotographable pagoda at night

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