In a period of nearly five months earlier this year, members of the teaching faculty of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, in Beijing, visited people who have been recognized as "role models" and "master craftsman" in different trades in Shanghai, and portrayed them in various forms of art.
Now, these paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and digital works, some 200 pieces depicting 75 figures, are on show at Shanghai Workers' Cultural Palace to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and to pay tribute to these endeavoring at the grassroots, from different walks of life.
