Art Community

BF has been scouring the art scene in Beijing with some knowledgeable expats. She has been to several. She has been making some purchases along the way. The art is so varied and finding something that she truly likes has been a little difficult. She is making good headway.

Last weekend we went with another expat couple to a community center that had three artists featured. The exhibit was scouted out the previous day and it was time to make some purchase decisions. The genre of art was called folk art. There was an artist who created block prints with a Cultural Revolution theme, a colored folk painting artist named Wang Xingke, and a paper cutting artist. We bought a framed watercolor folk painting and a block print on Sunday. BF went back on Thursday to get a collectible book from Wang Xingke and one more art piece. HE is from a small village from the Shaanxi province. We visited there in the Fall to see the Terracotta soldiers in Xi'an.