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Museum of fusion art

You've heard of fusion cooking. Now veteran artist Chen Fucheng pushes the bounds of "fusion art" - combining calligraphy, seal cutting and purple clay pottery-making in his own signature style. The Chen Fucheng Art Museum, which opened this week in Beijing's Chaoyang district, displays over 500 selected teapots, as well as unique works of brick carving and calligraphy.

Born in 1943, Chen was trained in traditional Chinese arts and culture. From the 1960s until the 1980s, he earned a reputation as a distinguished scholar on the topic of ancient Chinese characters, while working for the Liaoning Provincial Museum. Today Chen's work draws inspiration from ancient art in Qin and Han dynasties, yet pushes tradition further with the inclusion of poetic lines, couplets and iconic images engraved on the teapots.