French connection

A Beijing exhibition spotlights links between the Academy of Fine Arts of France and top Chinese artists through dozens of paintings and engravings. Lin Qi reports.

For Chinese art lovers, the Academy of Fine Arts of France is as familiar as the distinguished National School of Fine Arts in Paris where many leading Chinese artists studied.

Abstract painter Chu Teh-chun (1920-2014), who was born in East China's Anhui province and became a French citizen in 1980, was the first ethnic Chinese to be elected a member of the French academy in 1997.