Focus: Integration of Art between China and the West in the 18th-19th Centuries
MOP 950.00
This catalogue features the exhibit images of Focus: Integration of Art between China and the West in the 18th-19th Centuries. With the export paintings and works influenced by George Chinnery from the collections of the Macao Cultural Affairs Bureau’s Macao Museum of Art and the Guangdong Museum as its core, this exhibition is also a collaboration with the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Macao Museum. Featuring over 300 pieces of artwork that look into painting style, painting skills and painting materials, the exhibition unveils the visual dialogue and integration between China and the West, which local and foreign artists brought about in the Pearl River Delta area during the 18th and 19th centuries.
The exhibition features three sections: 1. Integration of Painting Styles: George Chinnery and His Painting Styles 2. Acclimation of Painting Skills, and 3. Adaptation of Painting Materials. The exhibition offers a glimpse of the visual dialogue and integration of Chinese and Western painting skills through an array of botanical paintings, ship portraits, landscapes, and genres. It also offers an overview of the adaptation and integration of Chinese and Western painting materials through various Chinese and Western painting materials, including oils, watercolours, gouache, sketches, and printmaking.