The special exhibition "Dan Qing Mutual Learning - The Art World Created by Qing Dynasty Painter Lang Shining" was held on the 7th at Shenyang Museum. According to Fu Bo, the Minister of Exhibition and Communication at the Shenyang Palace Museum, Lang Shining was born in Italy and entered the Qing Palace in the 54th year of the Kangxi reign (1715). As a court painter, he served in the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties before finally resting in China. On August 7th, the special exhibition "Dan Qing Mutual Learning - The Art World Created by Qing Dynasty Painter Lang Shining" was held at Shenyang Museum. The picture shows tourists visiting the exhibition. Photo by Yu Ruizhai, a reporter from China News Service. This exhibition includes three parts: "All Things are Beautiful and Like Life", "Palace Documentary Writing on Qing History", and "Combining Chinese and Western Styles to Create a New Style". Nearly 50 pieces of paintings by Lang Shining, his students, and successors are exhibited. In the "All Things are Beautiful and Like Life" section, the first-class cultural relic "Bamboo Shadow Journey to the West" from the collection of the Shenyang Palace Museum was unveiled, attracting tourists to stop and watch. In the picture, green leaves intertwine with green bamboo branches, and melons and gourds face each other; A yellow and white hunting dog, with strong limbs and bright eyes. The whole picture shows animals and plants with light and dark facing away, with yin and yang convex and concave, vivid and three-dimensional, making it one of Lang Shining's representative works. The painting "Bamboo Shade West Willow" in the collection of the Shenyang Palace Museum. The "Qianlong Emperor's Military Costume Review" is also on display in this exhibition. The artwork depicts a military costume portrait of Hongli at the age of 29 during a military parade in Nanyuan, a suburb of Beijing. It is a masterpiece of Lang Shining's prime. The grass leaves in the close-up of this picture are almost a Western still life sketch, with only the structure of the distant mountains retaining some of the characteristics of the Qing Dynasty's realistic landscape. It is reported that in the mid Qing Dynasty, painters such as Lang Shining and Wang Zhicheng brought a more realistic Western painting style to the Qing Palace. They created a large number of documentary palace paintings based on the major political and military events that occurred at that time, as well as court etiquette and the life of emperors and empresses. With realistic brushwork techniques, they reproduced many scenes such as Qing court sacrifices, hunting, and martial arts. Paintings such as "Qianlong Emperor's Military Costume Review" have become the best physical evidence for studying historical events. Fu Bo said that the combination of Chinese and Western brushwork created by Lang Shining broke the traditional Chinese painting style of "scattered perspective" and the pursuit of "divine similarity and freehand brushwork" in literati painting, bringing a new concept to painting creation. Lang Shining's lifelong artistic practice in China reflects ancient China's adherence to its own traditions while also embracing, absorbing, and innovating. It is reported that this exhibition will last until November 7th. (New Society)