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Ink exploration

Pathway to Art, an exhibition of classical paintings and oil works, shows artists who have, since the 1980s, striven to uphold ink traditions or explore Chinese approaches to oil painting. The exhibition, until July 18, at the Chinese Academy of Oil Painting, features prominent painters, including Jin Shangyi and Yang Feiyun, who are known for bringing the art form, which was introduced to the country more than a century ago by European missionaries, into a Chinese context. Their works, while retaining an academic, figurative tradition, attest to the aesthetics of Chinese culture, and the values and emotional needs of the domestic audience. The ink paintings on display show a different course in which painters try to invigorate the traditional style with an experimental spirit, like their predecessors did in the early 20th century.

9 am-5 pm, closed on Mondays.1704 Wenhua Xindajie, Gaobeidian, Chaoyang district, Beijing.