Old galleries were still a core force at the 2011 Shanghai Art Fair. Their leading artists were Fang Zengxian, Zhang Guiming, Chen Youhua, Lu Chuntao, Chen Wuyi, Zhang Weiren, Liu Xiaodong, Ji Wenyu, Yang Peijiang, Qiu Deshu, Zhao Erjun, Wang Xiangming and Ma Xiaojuan.

At the same time, a large number of new galleries also displayed their extraordinary strength through famous paintings drawn by Picasso, Renoir, Cheng Shifa, Ding Xiongquan, Zhu Xinjian, Zhang Guolong, Qu Qianmei, Cui Xiaodong, Wang Tianyang, Zhe Wu, Zhang Hong and Ma Tian.

Fantasy (sculpture) by Gustavo Bruce

A team consisting of 13 American galleries took part in the 2011 Shanghai Art Fair, which offered American Civic Landscape Exhibition — an exhibition of unusual visual impact.

“American galleries aim to tell Chinese collectors how western artists bring artistic originality to the Orient and arouse inspiration by blending it with Oriental culture,” said Aldo Castillo, Curator of the exhibition.

The exhibition showed the Chinese audience how American artists reacted to world wars, consumerism, planned washout and urban sprawl, as well as the consequent changes of art patterns. It also demonstrated how American citizens changed their psychological attitudes according to the changes which happed in American cities.

Hollowed-out sculpture of Venus (crystal) by Dali

ICARUS’s Dream — After that (ink-and-water painting) by Cao Enling