The first solo exhibition in Beijing by China's classical oil painting master Yang Feiyun has opened at the National Museum of Fine Arts. He usually offers his guidance to students at the Central Conservatory of Fine Arts but now his class has moved to the museum's exhibition hall.

Though Yang Feiyun's solo exhibition has been on for nearly a week, the visitors also still coming in an endless stream.

The simple and modest artist finds that it is more comfortable to face students but not flatterers. Describing his inspiration, technique and spiritual approach to these young faces, he has never met before, Yang Feiyun looks confident and eloquent.

A diligent artist will never stop trying to go further along the road of art. Yang Feiyun is such a man on one such journey. And through his contact with impassioned amateurs, he may find new directions and come up with surprises in the near future.

(CCTV.com November 14, 2003)