The 2023 China Freehand Oil Painting School Annual Exhibition, titled "Cultural Heritage and Salary Transmission", recently opened at the Guanshanyue Art Museum in Shenzhen. The exhibition showcases a total of 111 works by 111 artists, covering three generations of important artists, including the old, middle, and young. It comprehensively presents the latest appearance of freehand brushwork oil painting in contemporary contexts. As an important annual project of the Guan Shan Yue Art Museum, the annual exhibition starts with the exhibition, research, and publication of the works of famous artists from the "Chinese Freehand Painting School". It sorts out and conducts academic research on "Freehand Painting", and collects the latest achievements in the form of an annual exhibition. Through continuous exhibitions, academic exchanges, and research, as well as touring exhibitions nationwide in Beijing, Wuhan, Xi'an, and other areas, Make unremitting efforts for the development of Chinese freehand brushwork oil painting. The participating artists include artistic predecessors such as Wang Chengyi, Cao Xinlin, and Yang Yao, as well as pillars such as Fan Dian, Wang Hui, Yang Canjun, Zhao Peizhi, and Wen Zhenfei. They are also young art inheritors, and the works of three generations of artists, old, middle, and young. With full creative enthusiasm and rich painting language, they strive to present the overall academic landscape with rich individual achievements through continuous exploration. In the global cultural context, Explore a development path for Chinese oil painting through cultural consciousness. As the core concept of Chinese aesthetics, "freehand brushwork" contains profound historical accumulation and cultural connotations. The essence of freehand brushwork oil painting is the "freehand spirit". As an important feature of Chinese art tradition, its connotation is broad and profound. Freehand brushwork oil painting adheres to an open, inclusive, and inclusive attitude towards foreign cultures, promoting the exploration of "nationalization of oil painting" and moving towards the path of self construction and integrated development. In the view of Chen Xiangbo, the director of the Guan Shan Yue Art Museum, from the "integration of China and the West" advocated by Lin Fengmian, who returned from studying in France in the 1920s, to the "nationalization of oil painting" proposed by artists studying in the Soviet Union, represented by Luo Gongliu in the 1960s, and since the new era, Chinese oil painters have adhered to the concept of putting the people at the center. On the one hand, they have set their feet on the land of China and examined the rich and diverse real life, On the other hand, efforts were made to draw nourishment from the ideological concepts and visual methodology of traditional Chinese culture, expressing a vivid sense of the times and reality in the works, thus forming a rich achievement of the Chinese freehand oil painting school. Zheng Gong, the director of the Art Research Center of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, as the academic host of the exhibition, believes that contemporary Chinese freehand brushwork oil painting shoulders a dual mission. On the one hand, in the context of globalization, it uses foreign media to activate traditional spirit and achieve cross-cultural communication at the language level; On the other hand, seeking the meaning of human life in individual artistic practices and pushing differentiation back to the forefront in public issues. It is reported that the exhibition will continue until October 6th, and plans to tour to the Li Zijian Art Museum in Changsha, Hunan. (New News Agency)