Rendering on Painting №2

The article published on the website theartnewspaper.com on February 12, 2013 is headlined “Life on the South China Sea”.

The article reports that the work of Hong Kong’s museum-in-the-making of contemporary visual culture will reopen on 26 February. The Hong Kong Maritime Museum is moving to a three-storey pier in the city’s central business district. This article touches upon that the space will be six times bigger than the museum’s previous home.

Anthony Hardy gives the reader the information about the waterfront and maritime trade where Hong Kong started.

This extract is said about the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, one of the highlights of the museum was founded in 2003. The exhibition created around Pacifying the South China Sea, a rare and highly detailed Qing Dynasty scroll. Firstly, historians considered the event vital to the Qing Dynasty’s ability to exercise power in the early 19th century. Secondly, the work was acquired by the museum from a French family’s collection in 2006. It was made by an unknown artist in the early 1800s, around the time of the campaign. Next, other galleries will shed light on Hong Kong’s history as a world maritime capital, the evolution of seafaring life through the centuries, and the development of China’s export trade in ceramics and other coastal-based trades and industries. In addition, Anthony Hardy says that the museum also plans to bring at least two major exhibitions from world-class collections to Hong Kong in 2013 and it will display more than 1,000 of the 5,000 objects in its collection.

The author comes to the conclusion that the new space will include 13 permanent galleries, two spaces for visiting exhibitions, a cafe and two shops. Representatives estimate that the museum, with its new, more convenient location and larger floor plan, can attract at least 140,000 visitors in its first year—more than triple the number it drew in Stanley. It is suggested that the museum has the backing of the government, it is a privately run institution, and will be financed primarily by funding from the local shipping industry.

As for me, the museums play an important part in our life. They tell us about our past. Through the works of art we can see the beauty of outward things.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Life-on-the-South-China-Sea/28349