An abstract painting exhibition took place at Shanghai International Cultural Exchange Association Art Museum on March 10, showing the art works of Wang Jieyin, Zha Guojun, Zhao Weiliang, Wang Keliang, Lu Zhiping, Tong Jianying, Xu Demin, Wang Yuan and other artists.

Wang Yuan’s painting on cloth in 2007-2011: An equilateral triangle

Wu Chenrong’s work in 2007

Shanghai opened up a wave of Chinese modernism art in the early 1930s. The Shanghai painter Wu Dayu who once studied in France and returned to his home, and his students Zhao Wuji, Zhu Dequn and Wu Guanzhong later became the most influential abstract artists among the Chinese worldwide and also the representatives of abstract art in Shanghai.

Xu Demin, the first president of Shanghai Abstract Painting Association said, the members have built up an “abstract art collection” with faith in the country, historical consciousness, academic thinking, and passion for culture after about 20 years.

Xu Demin’s work in 2006

Wang Yihui who has been a painter since the 1980s thinks that China is in great need of abstract art as the basis of art teaching, adding, “Difference is the essence of art and human and a kind of competition, which can explain Shanghai’s prosperity in the 1930s and 1940s.

Wang Jieyin’s work in 2017

Zha Guojun’s work in 2018