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. 

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Farewell to My Concubine

Ink and Color on Paper,68×68cm,2013

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Hiding in the Boat

Ink and Color on Paper,68×68cm,2013

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Matchmaking

Ink and Color on Paper,68×68cm,2013

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A Poor Scholar and His Marriage

Ink and Color on Paper,68×68cm,2013

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Romantic Day(I)

Ink and Color on Paper,68×68cm,2013

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Romantic Day(II)

Ink and Color on Paper,68×50cm,2019

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Wang Zhaojun Departs for the Frontier(I)

Ink and Color on Paper,68×54cm,2013

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Wang Zhaojun Departs for the Frontier (II)

Ink and Color on Paper,68×68cm,2018

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Consort(I)

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Consort(II)

Ink and Color on Paper,68×57cm,2017

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Consort(III)

Ink and Color on Paper,68×68cm,2017

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Disaster Strikes and Death of Lady Yang

Ink and Color on Paper,68×68cm,2013

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Du Liniang

Ink and Color on Paper,68×54cm,2016

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Peony Pavilion

Ink and Color on Paper,68×68cm,2016

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The Protector of the Horses

Ink and Color on Paper,68×68cm,2014

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Kill the Tiger

Ink and Color on Paper,68×68cm,2018

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Stopping the Horse

Ink and Color on Paper,68×68cm,2013

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A Fortune-teller in Disguise

Ink on Paper,68×55cm,2018

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Sun Wukong (III)

Ink and Color on Paper,50×40cm,2018

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Battling Down-sliding Chariots

Ink and Color on Paper,68×68cm,2013

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Missing Home

Ink and Color on Paper,78×54cm,2019

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Fleeing by Night(I)

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Fleeing by Night(II)

Ink and Color on Paper,70×40cm,2018

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Yue Fei’s Mother Tattooing Yue Fei

Ink and Color on Paper,54×54cm,2019

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Zhong Kui Marrying off His Sister(I)

Ink and Color on Paper,68×55cm,2018

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Zhong Kui Marrying off His Sister(II)

Ink and Color on Paper,135×68cm,2019