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The Chinese giant panda enters world of famous paintings.
A-Long, a Shenzhen-based online illustrator, is fond of China's national treasure - the giant panda.
Recently, he has combined the panda image with various internationally renowned paintings, causing an internet sensation.
“He is so imaginative and I love his paintings. Chinese giant pandas are born to model and can be easily adapted into so many oil paintings,” Weibo user Cao Xiaoli said.
According to the illustrator, he has been planning to do these creative paintings for some time, and is glad that so many people like his style.
“I not only pay attention to Chinese traditional paintings, but western masterpieces, and I want to show that the Chinese panda not only matches well with Chinese style elements, but stands as a potential image for world culture,” he added.
Now, let’s check out what it looks like when the Chinese panda steps into the world of famous paintings.
Portrait of a Flower-wearing Maid by Chinese painter Zhou Fang of the Tang Dynasty (618-907)
Qiuqiang Yuying, a traditional painting describing a man living as a recluse.
Emperor Kangxi Reading a Book painted in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)
Dunhuang Rebounding Lute painted in the Qin Dynasty (BC221-BC 207)
Splashed-Inked Immortal by painter Liang Kai of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279)
Painting of Emperors of Past Dynasties by painter Yan Liben
Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy, a painting on silk by Yan Liben to show the friendly encounter between the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and Tibet.
Practicing and Working by Chinese painter Zhang Xuan of the Tang Dynasty
The Creation of Adam, a fresco painting by Florentine sculptor and painter Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.
Mona Lisa by Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci
Girl with a Pearl Earring by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer
Self portrait by the post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh
The Scream by Norwegian expressionist artist Edvard Munch
The Birth of Venusa by Italian painter Sandro Botticelli
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
