CHINA DAILY: Chinese painting
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