Paintings on village houses are an unusual attraction
Art galleries are not the only places where famous Western paintings can be exhibited. Now copies adorn the walls of traditional village houses.
A copy of French painter Henri Rousseau's Exotic Landscape, which depicts a jungle scene in which monkeys are cavorting and picking up fruit, was put on the wall of a house in Dawangtai village in the Dongxihu district of Wuhan, Hubei province. Real-life entangled grapevines in front of the house almost add to the visual effect.
Several wall paintings have been completed in the village. At the entrance, a field of sunflowers appears on a wall with the imprimatur of the Chinese Art Gallery Artists' Farm, Wuhan (China). Walk inside and an owl stands on a branch, and no matter from which angle you look at it, the bird seems to be watching you. Walk further and you'll encounter a painting of lotus leaves across the street from a real lotus pond just outside the village.