Ever since its establishment in 1928, the China Academy of Art, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, has been on the forefront of the reform of Chinese painting. Its first dean, Lin Fengmian, who had studied art in France, initiated the integration of Chinese and Western art styles; Pan Tianshou, a professor and ink artist of repute, explored the modernization of teaching Chinese painting; and Huang Binhong, a great painter and art theorist, born in Jinhua, Zhejiang, took the creation of the mountain-and-water genre of painting to a new height.

Ever Glow, an exhibition now on at China Art Museum, Shanghai, until Oct 27, navigates the reinvention of Chinese painting at the academy, pushed forward by teachers of the academy, who have also been celebrated artists of the classical style, throughout decades, and by the students.

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