Red in art Share CLOSE The ink-and-color works on display at an exhibition at the Beijing Fine Art Academy reveal Chinese artists' distinctive approaches to using red in brushwork. Highlights include a landscape painting by Li Keran. [Photo provided to China Daily] Red is, probably, favored over other colors in the social life of Chinese people. In Chinese culture, red usually means something vigorous, enthusiastic, inspiring or auspicious. It is also a common color in classical Chinese paintings. Red encapsulates rich social, cultural and spiritual meanings. Red is the name of an exhibition that's ongoing at the Beijing Fine Art Academy, in collaboration with Tsinghua University Art Museum and the museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The display has dozens of works of eminent Chinese ink-and-color painters of the 20th century, showing their distinctive approaches to using red in brushwork.