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The exhibition also has a special section dedicated to works created in honor of medical workers.

The National Art Museum was forced to shut down from January to May last year, during the COVID-19 pandemic. It hosted several online exhibitions on its website and WeChat account to show medical-themed works, either already in its collection or those made by artists following an initiative by Wu, the director.

Some of these works are featured in the current exhibition.

They include iconic paintings from the 1950s and throughout the 1980s, such as Doctor by noted oil painter Jin Shangyi, which portrays a tired doctor leaning back in his armchair. Also, there are more recent works which highlight the bravery and sense of duty of the medical workers during their fight against SARS in 2003 and last year's battle with COVID-19.