Speech on 2024 CAA Report Day by Gao Shiming, CAA president
In the spring of 1924, a group of more than twenty Chinese artists in Europe, including Lin Fengmian, Lin Wenzheng, Li Jinfa, Liu Jipiao, and Wang Daizhi, founded the "Opus Society" (also known as the Overseas Art Movement Society) in Paris. In the same year, these artists held the first overseas Chinese art exhibition in Strasbourg, on the Franco-German border. This exhibition introduced Mr. Cai Yuanpei, who then resided in Strasbourg, to these exuberant young artists. Encouraged by M