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An artist of the people

Updated: Sep 21, 2022 By Lin Qi China Daily Print
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Ye Qianyu's sketches shown at an ongoing exhibition at the China National Academy of Painting include examples of work the artist created for Mao Dun's novel Ziye and drafts for his seminal piece The Liberation of Beiping.[Photo provided to China Daily]

Ye donated over 5,000 works to the China National Academy of Painting, and the drawings shown at the current exhibition come from this collection.

The exhibition is the second at the academy to show pieces from Ye's donation. The first exhibition was held two years ago.

One of the highlights of the current exhibition is a collection of illustrations Ye drew for Ziye (Midnight), a novel authored in 1933 by Mao Dun, who was not just a novelist, but also an essayist and critic, also from Zhejiang province. The novel depicts the modernity and life of the upper class in metropolitan Shanghai, while exposing a social crisis under the influence of colonialism and capitalism.

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