How many secrets can an ancient painting hide? If this paint is an authentic one from a master, then could it tell the social features or historical background of the master’s era? Or if it’s fake, what is the connection between this fake painting and the authentic one? Is it a genuinely copy work, a mis-understanding re-paint, or a new creation?

We invited art historian Xu Xiaohu and painter Chen Danqing, to look at Chinese paintings in history, to tell the aesthetic standard and their view on cosmos behind those paintings.

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Joan Stanley-Baker, Phd from Oriental Institute, Oxford University. She was born in Nanjing, got education in Rome, Chongqing and Shanghai, and received multi-cultural education. Her love and passion for visual and perfoming arts started when at Bennington College, Vermont, and studied History of Chinese Art in Princeton University. Her published work include Japanese Art, Old Masters Repainted, Wu Zhen (12901354) Prime Objects & Accretions, etc.

Chen Danqing, born in Shanghai in 1953, and started to study painting when he lived in the village of North Jiangsu province from 1970 to 1978, and continued study in Oil Painting department, China Central Academy of Fine Arts. He then lived in the New York City for 18 years as free painter. He is a writer as well, works including Random Notes from New York, Extra Materials, Tui Bu Ji, Tui Bu Ji II, Huang Fei Ji, Foreign Music at Abroad, etc.

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