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Guanghua Lu is a road that runs east to west through the heart of Guomao, the bustling Central Business District in Beijing. Decades ago, when it was much less crowded and commercial, it was where the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, located.

Among the students who were enrolled at the academy 40 years ago were Yu Huijian, Ma Quan, Zhang Dali and Yuan Jia.

Now the four alumni are jointly showing their works at Hatched From Guanghua Road, an exhibition running until Feb 29 at Tsinghua University Art Museum, which faces the academy in its current location on the Tsinghua campus. It shows their respective experiments in establishing their own distinctive approaches to art, which have ensured them of their positions of prominence in Chinese art circles. Although presenting different styles, the four of them all work to show the education philosophy of their teacher, Yuan Yunfu, a noted artist and educator who asserted that art students should not confine themselves to the mastery of techniques. He said they should also expand their knowledge and vision of the world, so that they would work to keep pace with the time and to truly address people's concerns.

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