Beijing Shi Trip Overview
There are two universal languages in the world, one is music, the other is art. From the ancient cave drawings to today’s masterpieces in fancy art galleries, human beings never stopped chasing after beauty. Our art reflects our society, culture, emotions, and philosophy. It is easy to fall in love with the people once you start to appreciate their art. Chinese traditional art was never created to record the reality, but rather to interpret the artists’ own understanding of the world or their innermost desire of the perfect world. Such an approach bears similarity with the impressionists from Europe in the 19th century. Young artists today are encouraged to learn from both the tradition and the Western art world. Their creativity is unique from anywhere else in the world. After this fun tour and discussions with us, you will love China from so many new angles!
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Duration: 7 hours
Starts: Beijing Shi, China
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Beijing Shi, , China
There are two universal languages in the world, one is music, the other is art. From the ancient cave drawings to today’s masterpieces in fancy art galleries, human beings never stopped chasing after beauty. Our art reflects our society, culture, emotions, and philosophy. It is easy to fall in love with the people once you start to appreciate their art. Chinese traditional art was never created to record the reality, but rather to interpret the artists’ own understanding of the world or their innermost desire of the perfect world. Such an approach bears similarity with the impressionists from Europe in the 19th century. Young artists today are encouraged to learn from both the tradition and the Western art world. Their creativity is unique from anywhere else in the world. After this fun tour and discussions with us, you will love China from so many new angles!
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Stop At: Central Academy of Fine Arts, 8 Hua Jia Di Nan Jie, Wang Jing, Chaoyang Qu, Beijing Shi, China
The China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Museum is a professional and international modern art museum that conducts academic research, presents exhibitions, restores artworks, and provides art education. The museum upholds the philosophy of open-mindedness and to bridge the past and the future through presenting great artistic and cultural accomplishments of our humanity.
This museum displays the artwork of the most talented and audacious young artists in China. The exhibits include oil paintings, prints, calligraphy, cartoons and illustrations, sculptures, Chinese paintings, drawing and sketches, watercolor and pastel works, photography and videos, installations, and others.
This museum was designed by the noted Japanese architect Arata Isozaki. The exterior stone walls and the curved roof gradually converge to form a shell shape, like a rounded boomerang. This is by far the best modern art museum in China.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: 798 Art Zone, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015 China
This area was once abandoned factories of mechanic plants (called 798) in the cultural revolution. Many starving artists gathered here to create and sell their artworks. As China is opening up, 798 has become the artsiest and hip place in town.
The architectural style, featuring a simple design and varied composition, follows the Bauhaus way, still with traces of the past cultural revolution. Galleries, design studios, art exhibition spaces, artists’ studios, fashionable shops, restaurants, bars, assemble here. 798 frequently holds top-level art exhibitions as well as fashion shows. This is home to over 500 art studios from China, France, Italy, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Australia, South Korea, and other countries. We will help you to interpret most thought-provoking pieces in the 5 most famous galleries: Platform China, UCCA Contemporary Art, Hive Art, Long March Space, and Galleria Continua.
Duration: 3 hours
