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Enjoy Shenzhen artists’ paintings on WeChat

Writer: Cao Zhen  |  Editor: Vincent Lin  |  From: Shenzhen Daily 

Guan Shanyue Art Museum, which is temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak, has selected paintings by Shenzhen artists Huang Xishun and Zhuang Xilong from its collection to post on the museum’s official WeChat account “gsyart” for mobile phone users enjoying art at home.

Both artists who moved to Shenzhen in the early 1980s have contributed remarkably to Shenzhen’s fine arts and recorded the city’s development through it. The paintings on WeChat were selected from their donated works to Guan Shanyue Art Museum.

Zhuang Xilong’s caricature “The Tortoise and the Hare” (1999) criticizes some companies’ lacking after-sale service.

Raised in the coastal city of Huizhou, Huang said he is “a son of the sea,” a theme which was also the main subject of his early paintings. Huang later worked at Shenzhen Cultural Hall and has painted landscapes in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Yunnan during his trips across China. His sketches of people portray various persons in different careers and reflect the changes that took place in society.

Huang Xishun’s painting “Dock” (1989).

Zhuang was an art editor at Shenzhen Press Group, and his caricatures reflecting social issues in China have been published in countless newspapers and magazines since the 1980s. He has won numerous national and provincial journalism awards, and his caricature “Amputation on Wrong Leg” was used in the Chinese subject examination in the 1996 National College Entrance Examination.

Art lovers can also check other exhibition posts on Guan Shanyue Art Museum’s WeChat account.