When Painting Meets Opera: Zhu Gang's Life of Opera Sketching
Zhu Gang is President of Shanghai Art Museum Association, Dean of the School of Fine Arts of Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, and a famous opera sketcher. He began to learn painting when he was a child. In his career of opera sketching spanning nearly 40 years, he has always pursued the integration of Chinese operas and modern painting to express traditional Chinese culture in Chinese operas. The historical stories of Wang Zhaojun Departs for the Frontier, the Drunken Concubine, Farewell to My Concubine and others are often the subjects of his works.