The picture below is from the OCAT Contemporary Art Museum, which we hope to visit again this month as it has a new exhibit. What we saw back in October displayed a project from a group of artists who had all traveled together to the industrial city of Yulin in the north of Shaanxi Province. It's a town in a desolate area that borders a part of the Great Wall and the desert. In the past 20 to 30 years Yulin has been transformed by coal mining as well as petroleum and gas drilling. It has brought a lot of money to some people there and a whole lot of environmental problems to everyone. This group of artists came back and created different works depending on their own interpretations of what they found.
You can see this piece shows something which is probably a common site, some coal left behind from a coal truck.
We stumbled upon another museum in the same area of the city called Xi'an Contemporary Art Gallery. Here we saw some great paintings and have shared some of them with you below. The first one is a peasant painting that are well known from a town nearby Xi'an.
This pictures some of the very common cave dwellings that we have heard so much about but are still waiting to encounter.
We loved finding these scenes featuring some common and famous people. The last painting is of current President, Xi Jinping, visiting with some construction workers.
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