As we move through autumn, blue skies, crystalline dewdrops and the bejewelled flora usher in one of the more transient, but aesthetic, periods, Zhang Lei reports.
The 2022 "Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition - Calligraphy and Painting Challenge" has attracted a lot of attention since its start in June, and many works have been submitted by Chinese language lovers worldwide.
The 13th China Art Festival opened at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Sept 1 and will run through until Sept 15. The opening ceremony featured diversiform performances, such as traditional drama, opera and dance.
In his ink-brush paintings, Fang Xiang uses loose strokes to create a half-real, half-imagined world. His depictions of these landscapes are full of details of animation, expressing his reflections of worldly affairs and interpersonal relations, and provoking a shared yearning for a simple life.
Exhibition reflects the boom of portraiture during the Ming and Qing dynasties, Lin Qi reports.
Ecologist plants seeds of knowledge to protect landscape exposed to the elements and tackle the fury of nature, Chen Nan reports.
"I never pictured myself playing the cello in the rice paddies and my performance being live online," says Chen Shuaiping, 66, recalling the Field Concert held in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, in May.
Chinese children grow up with tales from the 16th-century classic Journey to the West, which has been adapted into various art forms, such as animation movies, TV dramas, comic books and theatrical productions, catering to contemporary audiences.
Hungarian artist Szabolcs Bozo opened his first solo museum exhibition worldwide at the M Woods art museum in Beijing on Aug 4. Must You Dance features over 50 pieces of the artist's most recent works, including paintings and images on paper, as well as sculptures and site-specific painting installations created for this exhibition.
Amid colorful contrails and aerial stunts, the five-day Changchun Air Show concluded on Tuesday, wowing an audience of more than 450,000 in Northeast China's Jilin province. Attracting fans from across the country, the show in Changchun was the first public event hosted by the People's Liberation Army Air Force in three years since the COVID-19 pandemic.
The annual Gateway to Arts summer festival ended with a ballet gala at the Forbidden City Concert Hall on Aug 31.
The 2022 "Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition - Calligraphy and Painting Challenge" has attracted a lot of attention since its start in June, and many works have been submitted by Chinese language lovers worldwide.