Exhibition celebrates the value of revival

For decades afterward, he taught fine arts at his alma mater, and later at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, where he wrote about his findings and was involved in designs to integrate aesthetic traditions with modern crafts.

An exhibition now on at the Tsinghua University Art Museum, For the Revival of Chinese Art, introduces Wang's academic, educational and design accomplishments, which he hoped would continue the country's cultural lineage and encourage his students to feed hearts and minds with their own artistic practice.