2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. In order to join the celebration of this special year, the large exhibition of “Report to the Motherland – Sixty Years of Art in the New China” will be launched. This exhibition is hosted by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China and undertaken by the National Art Museum of China. As an important part of the “Report to the Motherland – Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China Artistic Activity Series”, this exhibition is aimed to display the art achievement since the establishment of the New China to celebrate the motherland’s birthday. Since the project was initiated, the Ministry of Culture and the Art Museum have invested magnificent effort and devotion. After meticulous planning, design and implementation, this exhibition is expected to be unprecedented in capacity, scale, variety, quality and significance.
The nearly 700 exhibited items are selected by the Artistic Panel through strict procedure. This epoch-making exhibition represents China’s 60 years of art achievement – its magnificence is unmatched. The exhibited items embody the hard work by generations of artists and witness the evolutions of various art fields. Not only do they convey the historic connotation from which people can tell China’s transformation from establishment, development to becoming a world power, but also display the unique cultural value of China’s art through rich visual communications and diverse aesthetic approaches. This exhibition shows the authenticity of Chinese painting, oil painting, engraving, sculpture, watercolor, lunar year painting, children’s strip, cartoon, and poster in the process of nationalization, popularization and modernization of art. This exhibition is a starting point to observe and understand China’s 60 years of art development and draw conclusions of historic value.
The art development indicated different characteristics in different phases in the past 60 years, and every phase had its own artistic course. Prior to the reform and opening up, Chinese artists highly associated art with policy in expressing either revolutionary historic or realistic themes. However, in the 30 years after the reform and opening up, Chinese artists sought individual choice out of Chinese-Western artistic relationship in the “cosmopolitan” context. They combined exotic art and self innovation on a broad base to carry out Chinese art practices of richness and diversity.

Exhibition Period:
2009.08.21 -  2009.09.14
Hall 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21