China National Fine Arts Museum

The address of China National Fine Arts Museum is No.1, Wusi Street, Dongcheng District. Its construction started in 1958, and was completed in 1962. In June 1963, Chairman Mao inscribed its name, and its status and nature as a national gallery were defined. It is a state-level plastic arts museum that focuses on the collection, study, and display of modern Chinese works of art.

The main building is modeled on the classical pavilion. Its gallery and its large roof covered with yellow glazed tiles speak of a distinctive Chinese national style. It has a floor space of 22,379 square meters. It has 20 exhibition halls on 5 floors, which cover an area of 7,000 square meters. The total length of its exhibition line is 2,110 meters. The 9 halls on the 1st floor and the 3 smaller ones between the 1st floor and the 2nd cover an area of 4,305 square meters along a 1,400-meter-long line. The 5 halls on the 2nd floor cover 1,500 square meters along a 429-meter-long line. The 3 halls on the 3rd floor cover 863 square meters along a 235-meter-long line.

The gallery keeps nearly 70,000 works of fine arts. Most of them date to the years around the founding of the People's Republic, while some masterpieces were created in the late Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and the early Republican Period. Works by a single master Qi Baishi number as many as 410. There are works by such masters as Shi Tao, Xu Gu, Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo, Huang Binhong, Xu Beihong, Liu Haisu, Fu Baoshi, Pan Tianshou, Li Keran, Jiang Zhaohe, and Wu Guanzhong; also kept here are the magnum opuses of other renowned Chinese fine artists and prize-winning works in important exhibitions.

The gallery's collection falls into dozens of categories, such as paintings, sculptures, pottery, (the following are works of folk fine arts) New Year pictures, paper-cuts, toys, shadow puppets, color modeling, paraphernalia, puppets, kites, folk paintings, and embroidery. The collection also includes 117 European and American works of art donated by German collectors Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig. Four of them are by Picasso. These are the first large collections of western works of art in China. Also kept here are hundreds of African wooden sculptures and other foreign works of art.

Over the past 40 years, over 3,100 exhibitions of fine arts or works by renowned Chinese or foreign artists have been held in the gallery. It has become an important place for popular fine arts education.

Address:No.1, Wusi Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing

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