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Zigzagging through childhood memories
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A 200-meter-long, 2-meter-wide oil painting — the longest of its kind in the country — by Shanghai-native painter Tang Yaozhong is on display at the Shanghai Urban Exhibition Center.
“Childhood Memories” shows daily life, working scenes and water towns in the 1950s, all of which are deeply rooted in Tang’s childhood memories.
The work took him two decades and survived several floods in his basement studio.
The painting is set in the 1950s, when the New China was just been born. Everyone was full of vigor and life was new, starting from scratch.
In the long scroll, old-fashioned customs and traditions in Shanghai are brought to life: Customers bargain with street vendors; housewives clean their courtyards; elders sit on their doorsteps, chatting; a kid pesters his mother to buy sugar-coated haws; crowds celebrate a wedding as the live band beat drums and gongs clang to welcome the bride in a sedan chair.
Combining the oil painting’s realism and the techniques of Chinese ink brush, Tang skillfully depicts even the subtlest facial expressions on every figure and their different gestures.
China’s 24 solar terms and seasonal changes are cleverly arranged in the long scroll, showing people’s changes of clothes and behavior.
The exhibition center displays the painting in a zig-zag, which feels like strolling on the cobble-stone streets in a water town. So intimate, you can feel the hustle and bustle.
Date: Through June 1 (closed on Mondays), 9am-5pm
Admission: 40 yuan
Venue: 2/F, Shanghai Urban Exhibition Center
Address: 100 People’s Ave
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