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Drawing What You Love, With Love
In the Meimei Yugong series—Symbiosis, Resonance and Empathy—Zhang Jiahe draws animals, nature, the violin, butterflies, flowers and everyday experience into one visual world. Because they come from what she genuinely loves, the works carry both vitality and feeling. China Cup also opened unfamiliar perspectives: another person, another idea, another story.
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Twin Flowers: Bringing Social Questions Into the Image
Chen Yixin continues an inquiry into consumerism, women’s rights and freedom of dress. A wave-like black-and-white structure drawn from barcodes moves behind the two protagonists, suggesting the surrounding force of consumer culture and its entanglement with gender stereotypes.
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Making Room for Every Original Voice
Principal Gary Zhou emphasises that students use art to express ideas, not technique alone. Vice Principal Maggie Zhou connects individual growth with the development of thinking, while Head of Visual Arts Agnes Zhang describes a through-school curriculum built around aesthetic perception, artistic expression, creative practice and cultural understanding, alongside an annual exhibition sustained for seven years in which every student presents at least one work.