A "Qi Baishi's Art World" painting copying competition was launched at the Hunan Art Museum on April 25. Chinese painting lovers from all walks of life and in all age groups participated enthusiastically, making their own copies of Qi Baishi's painting works with drawing paper and brush pens.

Participants copy Qi Baishi's paintings at the Hunan Art Museum.


Participants in different age groups copy Qi Baishi's paintings at the Hunan Art Museum.


Two students of the Xiangya School of Medicine of the Central South University draw their paintings.

A student of the Fine Arts Academy of the Hunan Normal University copies a plum blossom painting.


A participant devotes herself to copying a Qi's painting.


A kid tries to make a copy of Qi's painting.

Chinese artist Qi Baishi is a native of Xiangtan, Hunan Province. The exhibition displaying over 140 Qi's original fine works collected by the Beijing Fine Art Academy opened in January and will last until May 3. The works cover painting, calligraphy, seal cutting, literature and many other categories.

The copying competition results will be unveiled in mid-May.

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: changsha.cn