As heat waves continue to pester, art galleries are one of the prime choices to beat the heat. With a cool environment and refreshing artistic works, it can help us relax in the sweltering summer.

Recently, some new exhibitions have been launchedby the Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Painting and the Guangdong Museum of Art, providing visitors with tours of time, captivating visual experiences, and a glimpse of landscape paintings of the Lingnan area.

The Mind of Clouds and Mountains

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More than 100 pieces of landscape paintings, created by over ten contemporary artists of Lingnan, will be exhibited in The Mind of Clouds and Mountains exhibition. As a significant part of Chinese paintings, the Lingnan landscape paintings are developed based on Lingnan culture, combining the picturesque scenes of southern China and its historical elements. It carries sentimental and cultural memories,and embodies the Lingnan people's affection for their homeland and pursuit of better lives.

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Tickets: Free

Date: July 21 – August 20, 2023

Opening hours: 9 am – 5 pm (closed on Monday)

Venue: Hall 10-12, the Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Painting (广州画院美术馆)

Add.: 1F, No. 66, Neihuan Xilu, Panyu District, Guangzhou (广州市番禺区大学城内环西路66号一楼)

Paintings: Places, Stories, Customs, and Fables

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The places, stories, customs, and fables endow paintings with a wider connection with the cultural world. Through artworks of Mao Xuhui, Ma Ke, Qin Qi, and Chen Yingjie, this exhibition explores these elements from various perspectives. Visitors will see multifarious images in the paintings covering still life, people, folklore, as well as natural scenery.

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Tickets: Free

Date: July 26 – August 20, 2023

Opening hours: 9 am – 5 pm (closed on Monday)

Venue: Hall 5,6,8 and 9, Guangdong Museum of Art (广东美术馆)

Add.: No. 38 Yanyu Road, Ersha Island, Guangzhou (广州市越秀区二沙岛烟雨路38号)

Flowers of Inspiration—The Image Evolution of Landscape and its Contemporary Turn

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This exhibition is a diachronic reflection on changing times and iterating painting techniques. Time is a basic clue to it. In the exhibited paintings, landscapes are presented, transformed, and interpreted with different historic backgrounds, techniques, and forms as an effort to contemplate repeatedly mentioned motifs, including time, memory, life, and death.

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It not only takes audiences on a retrospective journey of the image evolution but also reveals the contemporary turn of art creating context and human being's reality. Come and see this exhibition, you may get some inspiration and answer the motifs in your lives.

Tickets: Free

Date: July 25 – August 27, 2023

Opening hours: 9 am – 5 pm (closed on Monday)

Venue: Hall 1-4 Guangdong Museum of Art (广东美术馆)

Add.: No. 38 Yanyu Road, Ersha Island, Guangzhou (广州市越秀区二沙岛烟雨路38号)