On the afternoon of November 8th, the "Golf Scenery: Zhang Shaoxia's Oil Painting Exhibition" opened in the auditorium of the Art Museum of Nanjing Academy of Arts. This oil painting exhibition showcases 40 landscape oil paintings by Zhang Shaoxia drawn from his personal life, as well as several of his works and working manuscripts from the 1980s.

Zhang Shaoxia is a renowned Western art history researcher in contemporary China. He studied at Nanjing Academy of Arts under the guidance of Professor Liu Ruli, a renowned figure in art history. Zhang Shaoxia devoted himself to the research and compilation of foreign arts and crafts history. In the 1980s, he published a series of academic monographs such as the Outline of European Arts and Crafts History, Asian Arts and Crafts History, and African and American Arts and Crafts, filling a gap in the study of world arts and crafts history in China. He is one of the founders of the discipline of arts and crafts history. Zhang Shaoxia and student Li Xiaoshan jointly wrote and published a representative academic monograph "The History of Western Art Development", and later published "The World Collection of Painting Series", which is highly valued by art history researchers.

The curator of this exhibition, Lin Shuchuan, the deputy director of the Art Museum of Nanjing Academy of Arts, introduced the basic situation of the exhibition. The exhibition drew on Zhang Shaoxia's life as a golfer and depicted the scenery he saw while playing golf around the world. These 40 paintings were selected from nearly four to five hundred works in his studio and are representative. "From this exhibition, we can see the rigorous scholarship of the older generation of art history researchers, as well as some things that our younger generation of art history workers need to learn."

Professor Zhu Qingsheng from the Department of History at Peking University and rotating chairman of the International Society of Art History discussed the landmark of the "Golf Course" and his experience in the development and transformation of contemporary Chinese art at the opening ceremony. When discussing the current situation, Mr. Zhu believes that the emergence of new media has brought us tremendous pressure and fear. The materials and images replicated by artificial intelligence and machines cover most of the art, and humans have substitutability. Mr. Zhu Qingsheng stated that in painting creation, only through "gaze" can the last gap and path of human dignity not be deprived.

At the opening ceremony, Professor Liu Weidong of Art History at Nanjing Academy of Arts talked to everyone about two or three things he had spent with Zhang Shaoxia when he was young. He highly praised Zhang Shaoxia's academic sensitivity and rigorous academic attitude, and affirmed Zhang Shaoxia's foundational role in the development of Nanyi and the construction of the teaching material system. Liu Weidong said, "Learning art is very fortunate, art is our enlightenment, allowing us to appreciate the beauty of life. Being with art, I think we will live even happier!"

The artist Zhang Shaoxia from this exhibition expresses sincere gratitude to the exhibition team and staff. After the opening ceremony, Zhang Shaoxia donated his works to the Nanjing Academy of Arts Art Museum, and Lin Shuchuan, the deputy director of the museum, accepted the donation on behalf of the museum.

Not only students from Nanyi, but also colleagues from the art and academic circles came to visit the art exhibition. Professor Hang Jian from the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts gave an interview to the Yangtze Evening News | Ziniu News reporter during the exhibition, and he affirmed the artistic quality of the exhibition. "I have known Teacher Zhang Shaoxia for many years, and these works are actually remnants of Zhang Shaoxia's participation in golf. He is immersed in them, expressing his love for golf through painting, and it can also be seen that the more he draws, the more relaxed he becomes." It is worth mentioning that Zhang Shaoxia's landscape oil paintings lean towards tradition, and even ordinary audiences can appreciate them. The beauty of the scenery may also be related to the tradition of Nanyi, according to Hang Jian, "Western painting went from classicism to realism, requiring the depiction of the object's authenticity. When it came to expressionism, it also became freehand, but this kind of freehand brushwork is different from that of Chinese painting. Nanyi has a traditional oil painting tradition of Eastern lyrical painting, such as Su Tianci and others, which is a traditional characteristic of Chinese oil painting. I think Zhang Shaoxia is also gradually moving towards this direction."

It is reported that the exhibition will continue until November 27th.