Master painter Wang Qijun's works remind visitors of good old days

After visiting the painting exhibition of Professor Wang Qijun of China Central Academy of Fine Arts on Friday, Qing Hong, a 72-year-old, said the paintings are so wonderful that they remind her of the good old days.

Hailed as one of the 60 most influential Chinese painters after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang, 57, is exhibiting more than 100 paintings in the Chengdu Art Gallery in Sichuan province.

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They include oil and traditional Chinese paintings featuring the Forbidden City in Beijing, waterside towns in Wang's home province of Jiangsu, beautiful Chinese and foreign women as well as mysterious Peking Opera figures.

What is unique about Wang's oil paintings is that he has introduced China's time-honored calligraphy and the skill of traditional Chinese painting into them.

Visitors to Wang's exhibition in the Chengdu Art Academy are impressed with the visual impact of his oil paintings whose resolution is so high that they look like photos, said Pu Sanliu, an art lover.

The creativity expressed in Wang's paintings cannot be imitated and the technological content and wisdom in his works are unrivalled and cannot be mastered by average painters, comments professor Du Zhesen of China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Du, a famous art critic, is the editor-in-chief of Art Research, a publication of China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Wang's paintings known for their visual impact are much sought after by collectors.

His representative oil painting Forbidden City after the Rain was sold for 896,000 yuan in an auction by the Beijing Poly International Auction Company last year.