Pan Gongkai, President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, is known for his proposition in the mid-1980s that "Chinese and Western paintings should complement each other by creating a vast oval-shaped blended zone, with Chinese traditions at one end and Western modernity at the other."

This "two-end" theory is not only a cultural strategy, but also an academic strategy and a methodology for art education, and it exerted an extensive influence on fine arts schools when it was first proposed. Mr. Pan earnestly practices what he advocates. The show, featuring more than 4o paintings by Mr. Pan, is his first large-scale exhibition in China.

Date: April 17 - May 13, 2007

Venue: Halls 6, 7 and 8, Guangdong Museum of Art

(Translated by Guangzhou Association of Foreign Affairs Translators)

Editor: Wing