Ink artist Tang Wenxuan caught attention in the 1950s for producing a body of works in which he explored with the highly-expressive, semiabstract style of classic Chinese paintings. He is best known for the flower-and-bird subject and figure paintings which show the influences of master painters, such as Bada Shanren, Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi.

His endeavors in art went on to inspire the career of his son, Tang Li, who has further pushed forward the boundary of Chinese ink paintings.

Dozens of paintings by the father-son duo are now on show at the gallery of China National Academy of Painting through July 28, engaging the audience in an atmosphere of scholarly elegance and animation of lives.