Oil Paintings from Young Chinese Artists | Beijing Art Museums

Hey, welcome back to my channel. Today is 5th of March 2021. It has been over a week, actually a little longer than that, since my last upload to this channel. Today I'd like to give you a life update and bring you to an art exhibition I have just visited yesterday. I'm here visiting my family in Beijing. I came out of quarantine in December and in the past few months since I was able to go out freely, I've been interviewing artists and art professionals for my new Chinese channel. That's one of the things I've been busy with and I've been preparing my PhD applications. That took me also a lot of energy. After graduating from Master in Business Administration three years ago, I've always wanted to pursue a PhD and I think now is the perfect time. And of course, I won't waste this great opportunity to visit some art exhibitions in because in many parts of the world, gathering and open public exhibitions are still prohibited due to COVID. So I do feel very lucky to be able to do this. I've probably visited over a dozen exhibitions and made some videos on some of the exhibitions like the New Media Art Exhibition at Today Art Museum, visiting Watercolor Exhibition at Yanhuang Art Museum. But I also have so many different exhibitions that I haven't had the chance to show you. And I was thinking how to, how about putting all the materials like dumping everything into just one single video, like 10 exhibitions in one video. But I think it won't make sense because the style, the techniques are very diverse. So I thought perhaps I just show you what I see in the exhibition without commentary like a pure documentary. I'm not an art critic. I don't feel comfortable or qualified enough to speak about techniques or art history. I think it's a good idea to show you the art with maybe a little bit of music the way it is. Let me know if you like this format. The only downside is that it won't work if you listen to this video as a podcast. So do let me know how you consume my content in a comment below so I can make different and better videos for your kind of habit or preference. And now let's start with the exhibition I visited yesterday at China Oyu Painting Institute Art Museum. As you can imagine, it's an art museum inside the China Oyu Painting Institute. It's a public museum inside this public institution. There wasn't much information online about this place or this exhibition when I went. I wasn't even sure if there was an exhibition after all. It was great to have visited this beautiful place anyway, even without the art, especially this monument in the courtyard. Behind it, I found a hidden art exhibition without any signs leading to it. Inside, there were many, many great artworks from highly qualified, highly skilled Chinese Oyu painters. And the best part, the entry was free. I was allowed to take as many photos as I wanted. I had the whole exhibition center to myself for like 10 minutes before another person came in. I felt lucky to have discovered this place. Without further ado, I present you this exhibition.