Having toured several cities and attracted 500,000 viewers, the exhibition Oriental Aesthetics brings about 160 paintings back to its final destination, Beijing. The traveling show of Chinese oil works displays the various facets of the genre over the past three decades, presenting leading painters of different periods, such as Zhong Han, Shang Yang, Guo Runwen and Xin Dongwang.

9 am-4:30 pm, closed on Mondays,until Sept 10. Chinese Fine Art Center of China National Academy of Painting, 3/F, Building 1 of China International Exhibition Center, 6 Dongsanhuan Bei Lu (Road), Chaoyang district, Beijing. Reservation needed, 4000-678-688, 010-8414-1900.

Fishing Season in North China, by Liu Daming. Photos provided to China Daily