Paintings on village houses are an unusual attraction

By Liu Kun in Wuhan | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-01-19 18:05
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A copy of French painter Henri Rousseau's Exotic Landscape appears on a wall of a traditional Chinese house in Dawangtai village of Wuhan, Hubei province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

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.

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