Ink artist celebrates lives of the working class

Chuan Zhen: Portraying the Working People, an ongoing exhibition of ink artist Li Chuanzhen in Beijing, reviews her creative endeavors over the years in depicting the lives of the working class, such as rural migrants in urban construction.

She is displaying dozens of paintings, primarily individual and group portraits, and images, of the working class in big cities of varied backgrounds, revealing their inner worlds, and documenting the industrialization and urbanization of a country from the 1990s through to the 21st century.

To better engage the audience in the painterly narratives, the working and living environments of these in Li's works have been reenacted at the exhibition, such as double-deck beds and scaffolds.

The exhibition is being held at the National Art Museum of China until June 3.