Chinese Nude Oils Exhibition
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Chinese Nude Oils Exhibition (油画人体艺术大展) is the first public exhibition of nude art in Beijing and it is considered one of the most significant exhibitions in the history of Chinese contemporary art.[1] Opening on December 12, 1988, at the National Art Museum of China, this exhibition included over 136 paintings of nude art from 28 artists in Central Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition lasted for 18 days, with more than 220,000 visitors attended.[2]
At this time, the introduction of nude models into the teaching of human body painting in Chinese art academies was less than ten years old, and the public was still controversial about human body painting. Models at the Central Academy of Fine Arts suspended classes to protest the school's breach of its promise to keep them confidential.[3] Since this exhibition, portraits and body paintings have gradually entered the Chinese public's horizons.