The French President Mr. Macron did his first official tour in China in January 2018. The artist painter Christian Lu was honored to be part of the French cultural delegation.
For this occasion, the French President Mr Macron donated one of Christian Lu’s artwork (oil painting entitled “La Force d’un Rêve” – “Strength of a Dream” ) to the Chinese President Mr Xi as a token of the friendship between France and China.
BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) — A national exhibition of fine arts has opened at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, showcasing a lineup of carefully selected and award-winning works that depict China’s new era.
The 13th National Exhibition of Fine Arts features a total of 573 artworks, which were selected from among over 4,000 works from 13 exhibitions across the country, including 37 award-winning works and 62 nominated works from the third Chinese Fine Art Awards.
Covering various genres including Chinese painting, oil painting, sculpture, architecture and graphic design, the works put the spotlight on everyday people, different communities and symbolic snapshots of China’s development, showing remarkable changes and progress in the country and moments in Chinese history.
The 13th National Exhibition of Fine Arts Works reunites artists from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese
The exhibition is jointly organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the Chinese Artists Association.
The opening ceremony was held at the University City Art Museum of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts on September 7, 2019. The exhibition will continue until October 7.
The National Exhibition of Fine Arts coincides with the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
Christian Lu’s painting at the exhibition
