A JOINT father-daughter art exhibit from Shenzhen was hailed as a success when it was staged from May 23 to Sunday in Japan.

The exhibit featured more than 60 Chinese paintings by renowned artist Cui Peilu and his daughter Cui Wentong. It attracted a large number of viewers and collectors from Japan and Hong Kong when it opened at the Great Wall Gallery in Osaka.

Li Geng, professor of Kyoto University of Art and Design and son of the late master Chinese painter Li Keran (1907-1989), made a special trip to Osaka to attend the opening ceremony.

More than 10 works on display were reportedly purchased by Japanese collectors on the first day. Japanese especially like the elder Cui's freehand ink-and-wash brushworks of subjects such as grapes, peonies, bamboo and cherry blossoms.

Though it was her first time to hold a joint exhibit abroad with her father, Cui Wentong's brushworks of figures, birds and flowers were also reportedly well received.

The father also held a successful one-man exhibit in San Francisco, California from April 20 to 26.

Born in 1944 in Shandong Province, Cui has been a professional painter since he graduated from the Linqi Art School in the province in 1960.

In 1992, he moved from Shandong to Shenzhen and founded the Nanshan Fine Art Institute. Following his first one-man art exhibit in Shanghai in 1985, Cui has also successfully exhibited in Singapore, India, Britain, Thailand, and Hong Kong.

 
Editor: Wings