| |
|
|
from the issue of June 8, 2006
|
| |
|
|
| |
Lentz Center hosts Silk Road exhibition
Images from along a centuries-old silk trading route in China are coming to the Lentz Center for Asian Culture and the Great Plains Art Museum.
| | SILK ROAD IMAGE - "Colorful Land" by Zhang Lizhu is included in the "Ancient Threads" exhibition at the Lentz Center. Courtesy Image/Lentz Center for Asian Culture.
| |
The exhibition, "Ancient Threads, Newly Woven: Recent Art from China's Silk Road," opens June 24 and will feature 80 paintings from contemporary Chinese artists. The show traces a path of artistic output from five main Chinese cities - Xian, Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi and Kashgar. While the show features a variety of subject matters, two groups of paintings are dominant - the work of life along the silk road (moving of animals) in many scenic backdrops and large portraits of people from the different cities along the road.
The show follows the northern route of the China's Silk Road. The Silk Road name originated in the 19th century. Trade along the route started with horses desired by the Chinese emperor in the 2nd century B.C.
Due to the size of the exhibition, in both the size and number of the paintings, the Lentz Center will exhibit a portion of "Ancient Threads" in the Great Plains Art Museum's southwest gallery.
The exhibition is open from June 24 to Aug. 6.
For more information, go online to www.unl.edu/lentz.
GO TO: ISSUE OF JUNE 8
ARTS HEADLINES FOR JUNE 8
Lentz Center hosts Silk Road exhibition
American Life in Poetry
'Prairie Home Companion' premiere June 9 at the Ross
Repertory opens new season July 6
Statewide exhibition explores connection between music, art
732470S35942X
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|