Local residents visit Wang Zhanwu's arts exhibition at the Heyang Gallery in Datong, Northern China's Shanxi province on July 19 [Photo by Zhao Jingxin/dtnews.cn]

The Wang Zhanwu Oil Painting Exhibition opened at the Heyang Gallery in Datong, Northern China's Shanxi province on July 19. The city's publicity department, in a joint effort with the Association of Oil-Painters in Shanxi province and the Datong Artists Association, hosted the event.

The city's beautiful scenery, people and customs are presented vividly in more than 120 artworks. The show has already attracted a large number of art lovers.

One of Wang Zhanwu's oil paintings, "Spring Thunder on the Field", hangs in the Heyang Gallery in Datong, Northern China's Shanxi province on July 19 [Photo/dtnews.cn]

Wang Zhanwu, a member of the Shanxi Association of Oil-Painters and the Shanxi Provincial Artists Association, began painting as a child and later studied painting at Shanxi University in the 1980s. After graduation, he was Datong Daily's arts editor, now he works in newspaper advertising. Still, he has never stopped oil painting, and has especially progressed within the last decade. Many of his pieces, featuring both the suburbs and countryside surrounding Datong, are exhibited across the province.

His paintings use different styles, but almost all of them portray everyday life in Datong. Wang observes his surroundings with great insight, and this is clear through his artistic achievements.

Part of the exhibition hall of the Heyang Gallery in Datong, Northern China's Shanxi province [Photo/sxdt.gov.cn]

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