Life丨Creating of an eternal audience

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In an article he wrote in 1979, Landscapes Under the Sun, the prolific artist Huang Yongyu (1924-2023) recounted anecdotes about his uncle-once-removed, Shen Congwen (1902-88), a writer and scholar of repute, and how his attitude toward life and academic research had influenced his own. At the end of the article, he wrote: "What a long life (Shen) lived, and (his experiences were) so rich, and colorful." Today, Huang is also regarded as a prominent figure in art and culture, whose life and career were, like Shen's, long and substantial. A phrase from his commentary about his uncle, For So Long, and Colorful, has become the title of an exhibition of his work being held at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing until Thursday. ▲ Huang drew a remake of his own design of the Golden Monkey stamp, issued in 1980, which attracts admirers to the National Art Museum of China exhibition For So Long, and Colorful in Beijing. In 2013, Huang held an exhibition at the National Museum of Chin ………………………………