The 5th edition of the China International Gallery Exposition (CIGE 2008) took place at the Exhibition Hall of the China World Trade Center (CWTC) in Beijing since April 25-28.
In 2004, the China International Gallery Exposition(CIGE) was launched in Beijing, on the purpose of "Internationalism, Professionalism and Futurism", exhibiting galleries. After 4 years, CIGE is considered as the most international art fair in China and the most established art fair in Asia.
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Op art, also known as optical art, is a genre of visual art, especially painting, that makes use of optical illusions. Op art is also known as geometric abstraction and hard-edge abstraction, although the preferred term for it is perceptual abstraction.
"Optical Art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing."( John Lancaster,1973)
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Abstract beauty is an important character of modern arts. Abstract stone may become the development trend of the stone for appreciation in the world. The graceful and dulcet rain flower pebbles, which can be called as the outstanding of abstract stones, bring forth their abstract beauty with unique charm depending on their natural and daedal lines and florid colors. More and more international collectors attach importance to the abstract beauty of rain flower pebbles. There are several Manifestation of rain flower pebbles’ abstract beauty.
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This exhibition can be considered as a great event in the Chinese culture and art circles during the Olympic Games, a creative activity in the history of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, an artistic expression for the idea of building a harmonious world, and a good chance and a platform for traditional Chinese painting to display its charm.
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Three years ago, the ten year old luxury furniture brand Boloni Home Décor purchased a furniture factory in the Gaobeidian area of Beijing in the hopes of establishing its own factory district. Soon afterwards, the area was incorporated into the CBD business district. Boloni was determined to look towards the future and contribute to future city planning based on its status as a professional business.
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Brewery International Art Garden was founded in the original Chaoyang Brewery, which had a history of 30 years. The Art Garden locates Beihuqu, Beiyuan, Anwai, Chaoyang District of Beijing, with Wangjing Block on the east and The Asian Games Village on the west. Its total construction acreage is around 20, 000 square meters and several art institutions and more than one hundred artists have gathered in the garden.
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"Tiananmen Square," by Zhang Xiaogang, recently sold for just over US$2.3 million.

With prices for Chinese contemporary art soaring, Christie's opened its week of art auctions in Hong Kong by realizing a record-breaking US$67.9 million in its sales of Asian contemporary and Chinese 20th-century art.
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    Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (1884-1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor who was born in Livorno, Tuscany.    In 1902, Amedeo Modigliani enrolled in the Scuola libera di Nudo (Free School of Nude Studies) in Florence and a year later moved to Venice where he registered to study at the Istituto per le Belle Arti di Venezia.
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The 8th China, Shanghai International Arts Festival was unveiled at Shanghai Grand Theater last night. The opening performance was Shanxi dancing drama" A handful of sour jujubes" which depicted a legendary story of a business family in Shanxi province.

With the invention and using of Internet, lives of people have changed rapidly and greatly. Internet brings changes not only to every field of the society but also to people’s relations and the whole living environment. Today we use QQ to do the art exhibition and communicating. In the real space which fictitious information technique brings us, we could find a new form of expression of art.
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The cradle of Shanghai's modern art scene, M50 at 50 Moganshan Road now attracts 400 visitors per day, all eager to check out the work of the 100 artists in residence in the former factories and warehouses on the banks of the Suzhou Creek, writes Wang Jie. If you have never been to 50 Moganshan Road, you are out of Shanghai's art loop.

NANTUCKET, MASS. - A rare Chinese Export interior genre scene depicting a reclining mother and daughter in elaborate clothing, accompanied by a naked infant with genitalia showing. An unusual feature of the painting was a view of the Hongs with a paddle wheeler and other vessels seen through a window. The rare painting sold for $230,000.

More than any other calligrapher in China today, Zhang Qiang has set to transform the art in radical ways. His notion of modern calligraphy challenges traditional assumptions-and may even undermine the entire history of calligraphy-by stressing the interaction of two agents, and the creative process itself, rather than the final product.