關山月中國畫學院首屆高級研修班畢業作品亮相深圳 Cao Zhen caozhen0806@126.com Graduation marks an end but also the beginning of a new period in the lives of art students. A graduation exhibition at Guan Shanyue Art Museum in Shenzhen gathers 46 traditional Chinese paintings by 22 students from the Advanced Research and Studies Class of Guan Shanyue Chinese Painting Institute of Guangzhou City Polytechnic. “Most of the students have jobs and they attended the one-year course as a personal hobby. Either practicing inside the classroom in Guangzhou or painting from nature in mountainous Guizhou, they all studied very hard,” said Huang Jiansheng, head of the institute, which was established last year. Ni Huiying, a famous Cantonese opera artist and vice chairwoman of Guangdong Provincial Literary Federation, is exhibiting two paintings at the exhibition. “I never studied painting before attending this class. A great traditional Chinese landscape painting should make viewers have the desire to travel to or live in the place on the painting. Although my paintings are not perfect, this institute creates chances for amateurs to learn art and improve ourselves,” she said. According to Huang, the institute, with teachers from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and established painters in Guangdong, will enroll students for three-year college programs from this September. The programs will include Chinese landscape painting, bird-and-flower painting and figure painting. The institute will also enroll students in undergraduate programs in the future. The exhibition ends on June 30. | 