Veteran ink artist Cui Ruzhuo's solo exhibition of finger painting is running at the Museum of the Beijing Academy of Fine Art.

On show are over 200 huge hanging landscape scrolls, hand scrolls of flowers-and-birds paintings, and calligraphic pieces that he has created over the past decade.

Finger painting is a rare genre, created in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) by Guangdong artists Gao Qipei and Gao Fenghan, in which painters uses their fingers instead of a brush to paint images and write Chinese characters on the rice paper with Chinese ink.

It has been practiced and advanced in the last century by master painters such as Pan Tianshou and Li Kuchan.

Time: 9 am-5 pm, until Aug 19.

Venue: Museum of Beijing Fine Art Academy, 1 Liulitun Beili, Chaoyang district.

Tel: 010-6507-1285

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