A historical city's past and present at painting show in capital

Xi'an, in Shaanxi province, is one of the cities one must visit in his/her lifetime if wanting to be marveled by the vivid examples of Chinese history spanning centuries. Of all those cultural and artistic heritages Xi'an has produced, there was the Chang'an School, a painting movement after the city's older name which was initiated by several artists living in or hailing from Shaanxi, in the early 1960s. The style was marked with a realistic attitude depicting the natural wonders and day-to-day life of the ordinary people in Northwest China.

Since then the school has produced generations of painters to keep revealing to the audience the cultural lineage and social development of the region. And just like the founding artists of Chang'an School who introduced their work to the world at that iconic show in Beijing, in 1961, successive painters have been bringing their output to the capital including one that was held at the Yanhuang Art Museum from July 4-8. Titled A New Chapter of Yellow River, From Chang'an, it displayed over 120 works to show Xi'an's changing look in urbanization and modernization.