Master learner

Octogenarian Cui Zhenkuan puts up a solo show, telling the world his art is still evolving, Lin Qi reports.

Cui Zhenkuan is still seeking change and innovation at the age of 80. With a career spanning more than six decades, the painter has committed himself to pushing the boundaries of ink art.

Through a solo exhibition, titled Tremendous Mountains in Silence, currently on at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, Cui is presenting his renewed engagement with ink and water - displaying dozens of mountain-and-water paintings and sketches, which boast of his relentless attempts to try to perfect bimo (brush and ink) techniques.