Decoding creativity

Artworks by Hou Zhuowu is on show at Minsheng Art Museum Beijing. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Zhu Qingsheng, the Minsheng exhibition curator and a history professor at Peking University, says that while the ancient Chinese saw classic mountain-and-water paintings as "wo you (bed travel)",meaning that one could enjoy landscapes by looking at paintings and not leave home, in the modern world people no longer need the paintings.

"The internet has turned the world into a network of information that connects people even more closely than how people connected with nature earlier," Zhu says.

He says while "bed travel" moved people with beautiful landscape, today there is a new form of that travel－accessible information through all kinds of devices that is invading people's lives.

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If you go

11 am-6 pm, Mondays closed, through Aug 3. Minsheng Art Museum Beijing, Universal Creative Park, 9 Jiuxianqiao Bei Lu, Chaoyang district, Beijing. 010-5323-2111.