Shaanxi Art Museum
Folk art hall of painted farm animals and harvests beneath a light-filled Roman-style dome.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Shaanxi Art Museum in Xi'an starts with a duck riding in a bicycle basket, one of the paintings filling the folk-art floor at the top of this domed rotunda. It follows the farmers of Huxian county who picked up a brush for the first time in the 1950s, borrowing the reds and yellows of local paper-cutting and embroidery to paint the animals and harvests they lived among. Climb the stairwell slowly and let the light from the dome guide you up to that top floor.
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