"Firmly, I am rooted in the soil of Chinese culture, and meanwhile, I reach out to absorb the nutrition of foreign art," He says.

According to He, the artist should truly understand the core values of Chinese art and build a confidence in it before they can further push the front line of traditional gongbi paintings.

The exhibition also set off a surge of appreciation for gongbi art at the National Art Museum. The museum organized another two shows-Exhibition of Fine Brushwork Paintings Collected by NAMOC, which also wrapped up on Sunday, and Standing Out From Three Centuries, a collaboration with Nanjing Museum to show works by Chen Zhifo, a modern master of gongbi paintings, which runs through May 9.