Two artists from Shanghai Museum have introduced Athens Acropolis Museum visitors to the Chinese arts of calligraphy and traditional painting in a four-day workshop.
The showcase was part of the Shanghai Museum Treasures show, part of the 2017 Greece-China Year of Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation in Creative Industries.
Calligrapher, exhibition designer and associate curator Yuan Qiming along with painter and assistant curator of painting and calligraphy Yan Xiaojun worked before visitors, as if they were in their own studios.
Yuan presented major script types of Chinese calligraphy, one of the trademarks of this culture.
Yan improvised with freehand skill and ink-wash on various subjects such as colored landscapes and flowers.
Two significant exhibits from Shanghai Museum are on display at the Acropolis Museum until April 30.
The two masterpieces are the bronze pan of Zi Zhong Jiang dating to the 7th century BC, and a hand scroll painting — Traveling Along the Clear River — created by artist Wu Hong during the 17th century.
In the spirit of cultural exchange, the Athens Acropolis Museum has loaned two masterpieces of its own to the Shanghai Museum to be displayed until April 8.
Specifically, a marble statue of a Kore from the Acropolis (520-510BC), and a red-figure basin lid depicting a Dionysian scene (350-325BC).
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