Pictures of China: Artworks by Lin Fengmian and Wu Guanzhong is on display at the China Art Museum in Shanghai until May 5. The exhibition features 200 paintings, sketches and other works by the two artists spanning different phases of their careers.
Lin and Wu left large collections of paintings in Shanghai. The second donated many of his paintings to the city's Museum of Arts, which organized two major retrospectives of the artist in 2006 and 2010. Lin was convinced that Chinese art should break away from the stylized aesthetic tradition of the literati and artistic elite, and participate in real life.