This exhibition attempts to look beyond this generalisation to show how Ming and Qing figure paintings can actually be said to represent the culmination of many centuries of experimentation and achievement in the arts. The exhibition shows the diversity of painters who depicted figures over this period and includes literati painters, court painters, as well as professional painters. Some of the artists represent certain schools of painting such as the Ming artist, Wu Wei, a pioneer master of the Zhe School, as well as Huang Shen and Luo Ping among the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. Other artists specialised in certain subject matter, which includes historical events, myths and legends, folklore and customs, religious figures and immortals, ladies, children, scholars and men in seclusion. All are welcome.
Admission is free.