In a collaboration wiht the Changshu Art Museum, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern is presenting an exhibition of works by Chinese artist Pang Xunqin (1906-1995), who studied art in Paris in the 1920s. The bright colors of Fauvism and the intricate brushwork of Impressionism inspired him greatly. Pang Xunqin's earlier works demonstrated influences of Cubism, Purism, Futurism and other Western art movements. Although his styles underwent dramatic changes due to social and political flux post-1949, vestiges of his art education in Europe remained in his later work. The eighty-four pieces were all made in 1939, and represent a laboratory for the study and analysis of the globalised trends that arose in China over seventy years ago.
The exhibition tires to impress that one of the greatest achievements of this artist and decorator was to renovate traditional Chinese decoration by incorporating elements that placed it in the context of modernity.
