Chengdu: A City of Art

Chengdu is not only represented for its cuisine. It is the art and culture that makes this city more addictive. The city is a shining metropolis which satisfies the yearning for dreams. Full of romance from artists and creations, you will come across the surprises of life’s beauty, fashion, and art.

Release time : 2016-12-26 14:42:49

source : Lonely Planet

Chengdu is not only represented for its cuisine. It is the art and culture that makes this city more addictive. The city is a shining metropolis which satisfies the yearning for dreams. Full of romance from artists and creations, you will come across the surprises of life’s beauty, fashion, and art.

For those who have never been to Chengdu, they will imagine like this; an inland city away from pressure. Comfortable and rich, life is slow and silent. They are right. But the young men living in this city are eager to get rid of these old tags. Instead of discussing the cuisine, tea houses and beautiful girls, they prefer to analyze the living aesthetics and art fashion. Nowadays, the Chinese city culture is falling into two extremes----reviving of an international metropolis like Shanghai or a dream land like Dali. However Chengdu found the balance between the two extremes. The land of abundance though, because of Dujiangyan, a city of art and culture now, has become the common sense of Chengdu city.

Newland of Art

Blue Roof Art Center & Eastern Suburb Memory

The Blue Roof Art Center, located in San Sheng Town in the eastern suburb, was named after a studio with a blue roof which was established by Zhou Chunya and other artists in the suburb of Chengdu. After that, more artists like Luo Fahui, He Duoling joined in and the studio with blue roof quickly developed into a community of artists and continued to develop. Due to this, the Chengdu Government established an art center and named as Blue Roof Art Center.

Different from the creation material coming from street life 20 years ago, the artists now prefer to live and work in the Blue Roof Art Center in the suburb. But what is similar with 20 years ago is that the art community still lives with the things that are of interest by the general public. The San Sheng Town in the eastern suburb of Chengdu is considered to be one of the best vacation destinations by the residence for its beautiful