Time and date: 17:30, Monday, 15 April 2013.

Place: University of Szeged Rector’s Office, Room 5.

What are works of art? How is the intellectual power of art reflected? How are the works of art to be understood? These questions are the most fundamental and most significant ones in the field of humanities. The lecture by Professor Wang Hanwei will reveal and emphasize the function of the works of fine arts by interpreting and analyzing these questions/the fundamental questions with the art of Chinese painter Zong Bing in South dynasty, French painter Miller, and French painter of Chinese origin Zhao Wuji, and by recovering some conditions of fresco copying and researching at the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang by some great masters such as Zhang Daqian and Xie Zhiliu. The lecture highlight the great art works from Dunhuang in an effort to understand works of art as a link in the history as the sources of understanding some phenomenon and idea and of generating profound insight.

Wang Hanwei is a well-known professor of the Art History Department of the University of Nanjing, the author of several articles, owner of a great number of art awards including winning the 12th Jiangsu Philosophy and Social Studies Conference on Outstanding Results award for her research on the calligraphies of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.