Rare display of British landscape works in China

Share - WeChat

When you see some Chinese landscape paintings, especially the long scrolls, you follow a story as the painting spreads, presenting a narrative that is evolving, but usually in a Western painting, only one moment is represented, Lyles says.

However, sometimes the artist paints the landscape in such a way that it encourages the viewer to imagine what happened before that scene and what might come next, she adds.

If you go

Landscapes of the Mind: Masterpieces from Tate Britain (1700-1998)

9 am-5 pm daily, Mondays closed, through Aug 5. Shanghai Museum, 201 Renmin Avenue, Huangpu district, Shanghai 021-6372-3500

|<< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next   >>|