This exhibition can be seen as a complete presentation of the 60 years of Liu Shaohui’s art. Since studying in Central Academy of Art & Design in the early 1960s, he has been pursuing the concept of “Grand Art”. Though most of his early artistic works were created as works of applied arts, they have well reflected the comprehensive art education mode at that time. Liu Shaohui has broken through the barriers among contemporary art, folk art, heavy-color art and Eastern and Western cultures. The seven sections of “Folk Magic”, “Line Drawing of Everything in the Nature”, “The Brave Soul in Rain Forest”, “The Energy of Stone”, “Civilization Variant”, “Unworldly Rule” and “Animated Movie” have better represented his diversified explorations in the art world. Despite the fact that the exhibition is a solo exhibition, it is still one of the most representative case reflecting the development of Chinese contemporary art. Mr. Zhang Ding has ever initiated a creative notion of “Picasso+Chenghuang Temple”. Liu Shaohui further broadened this dimension from DunHuang paintings to modern heavy-color drawings, folk legends to animated movies, traditional ink painting to brave souls in rain forests and civilized dialogues to abstract art, and in his art inspired by the southwest region of China, Liu Shaohui has explored a modern path of directly facing arts for life and expressing himself for freedom.

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