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Beijing

Contemporary oil painting

Having toured several cities and attracted 500,000 viewers, the exhibition Oriental Aesthetics brings about 160 paintings back to its final destination, Beijing. The traveling show of Chinese oil works displays the various facets of the genre over the past three decades, presenting leading painters of different periods, such as Zhong Han, Shang Yang, Guo Runwen and Xin Dongwang.