Countryside vibes
Lu Qinglong's oil landscapes might remind one of works of the Barbizon school, a 19th-century art movement in which painters were drawn to the French village and devoted themselves to portraying the countryside scenery, farmworkers and scenes of daily life. Like Barbizon paintings, Lu presents tonal qualities and serenity as he depicts stacks of hay, vegetable fields, bare trees and riverbanks. With strokes of softness and calmness, he is able to deliver a feeling of homesickness and nostalgia in his works. Lu's canvas of rural scenery is now on show at the National Art Museum of China through to Nov 25.
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