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If you visit The Louvre, don’t even think about getting near the Mona Lisa, let alone touching Leonardo da Vinci’s priceless work of art. But what if you find yourself in Tianjin, China and Mona Lisa touches you?
Famous works of art and new additions to the art world are brought to life in an exhibit of 3D paintings on display at a shopping mall in Tianjin, providing patrons with fun photo opportunities and lots of laughs.
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The Magic Art Special Exhibition at the Hangzhou Peace International Exhibition and Conference Center contains even more 3D painting. Viewers are encouraged to interact with the works of art; sitting on, touching, and in some cases, sticking their heads in the middle of the paintings.
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Tianjin Exhibit photos: MICgadget, 325g
Magic Art Special Exhibition photos: Telegraph
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A watercolor painting bought at a Beijing flea market purportedly by celebrated Chinese master Qi Baishi has excited internet users in China, as it appears to depict three of the Xenomorph creatures from the Alien film franchise.
The design of the monster which terrified audiences in Ridley Scott's 1979 movie Alien and its sequels is usually credited to the Swiss artist HR Giger. Yet though Alien came out some 22 years after the death of Qi Baishi (1864-1957), netizens have joked that Qi successfully predicted the birth of the science fiction terror.
The painting was purchased at the Panjiayuan market and posted on the internet by a netizen going by the handle "Zhao old wet likes to eat meat buns" and quickly went viral, according to Want Daily, our Chinese-language sister newspaper.
The creatures featured in the painting are not Qi's favored subjects of fish and shrimps, but rather menacing dark beasts with long carapaces for heads, baring sharp teeth and whipping their long tensile tails. They are, it is safe to say, not the classical subjects of traditional Chinese watercolors.
Movie-loving internet users identified the creatures immediately but this did not necessarily preclude the idea that Qi had painted them. The official microblog of the Chinese-language news magazine Vista claimed that the painter was a big fan of movies, especially the Alien franchise, it added somewhat anachronistically. If Qi had genuinely painted the creatures decades before their acknowledged conception, the painting would be considered one of the best works of the artist's later years and could worth around 2.5 million yuan (US$ 400,000).
CRI Online, the website of state broadcaster China Radio International, said that whether the painting is by Qi or not (it is not) is of less importance than the interest the painting has generated.
References:
Qi Baishi 齊白石
If you visit The Louvre, don’t even think about getting near the Mona Lisa, let alone touching Leonardo da Vinci’s priceless work of art. But what if you find yourself in Tianjin, China and Mona Lisa touches you?
Famous works of art and new additions to the art world are brought to life in an exhibit of 3D paintings on display at a shopping mall in Tianjin, providing patrons with fun photo opportunities and lots of laughs.
The Magic Art Special Exhibition at the Hangzhou Peace International Exhibition and Conference Center contains even more 3D painting. Viewers are encouraged to interact with the works of art; sitting on, touching, and in some cases, sticking their heads in the middle of the paintings.
Tianjin Exhibit photos: MICgadget, 325g
Magic Art Special Exhibition photos: Telegraph
And ...
Qi Baishi painted Aliens before Giger, say China's netizens
In the Qing Dynasty, no one could hear you scream. (Internet photo)
The design of the monster which terrified audiences in Ridley Scott's 1979 movie Alien and its sequels is usually credited to the Swiss artist HR Giger. Yet though Alien came out some 22 years after the death of Qi Baishi (1864-1957), netizens have joked that Qi successfully predicted the birth of the science fiction terror.
The painting was purchased at the Panjiayuan market and posted on the internet by a netizen going by the handle "Zhao old wet likes to eat meat buns" and quickly went viral, according to Want Daily, our Chinese-language sister newspaper.
The creatures featured in the painting are not Qi's favored subjects of fish and shrimps, but rather menacing dark beasts with long carapaces for heads, baring sharp teeth and whipping their long tensile tails. They are, it is safe to say, not the classical subjects of traditional Chinese watercolors.
Movie-loving internet users identified the creatures immediately but this did not necessarily preclude the idea that Qi had painted them. The official microblog of the Chinese-language news magazine Vista claimed that the painter was a big fan of movies, especially the Alien franchise, it added somewhat anachronistically. If Qi had genuinely painted the creatures decades before their acknowledged conception, the painting would be considered one of the best works of the artist's later years and could worth around 2.5 million yuan (US$ 400,000).
CRI Online, the website of state broadcaster China Radio International, said that whether the painting is by Qi or not (it is not) is of less importance than the interest the painting has generated.
References:
Qi Baishi 齊白石
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