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The true art of friendship on display
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AN exhibition of works by painter Lu Yanshao (1909-1993) and painter and calligrapher Fei Xinwo (1903-1992) opened at the Lu Yanshao Art Gallery on August 30 after a year’s preparation.
Lu got to know Fei on Shangbai Hill in the Mogan Mountains of Zhejiang Province in 1934. They soon became good friends and promised each other that they would spend their retirement in houses built by Lu on the hill.
However, in the 1940s during World War II, they lost touch.
Fei died in Suzhou and was buried on the city’s Jinji Hill. When Lu heard the news he told his family he wanted to be buried in the same place.
This exhibition of works by two true friends is dedicated to their great and enduring friendship as well as completing their last wishes, said Fei Zhixiong, Fei’s son.
The exhibition includes two of Lu’s original paintings of Shangbai Hill and the only replica of another painting, now lost, of the hill.
Lu saved enough money to buy land on Shangbai Hill for a farm and an orchard. He planted more than 1,000 pear trees and many bamboos.
“One of the reasons I planted the bamboos is that my father loved to eat bamboo sprouts with plain and salted pork,” recalled Lu Heng, Lu’s son.
The exhibition also includes photos, letters and stationary of the two art masters.
More than 60 works are displayed, with about half of them exhibited in public for the first time.
The exhibition will be on until October 16 and it will then go on show at the Fei-
xinwo Art Gallery in Shuang-lin, Zhejiang Province, from October 22 to December 4.
Date: Through October 16,
9am-4pm (Closed on Mondays)
Tel: 5952-9530
Venue: Lu Yanshao Art Gallery
Address: 358 Dongdajie Street
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