[Photo provided to China Daily]

Huang Binhong, the 20th-century ink artist of repute, created a distinctive style of accentuating the depth and extensiveness of nature and the universe with heavy shades. In the oil works of Ma Yuru, who, like Huang, lives in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, that same feeling has also been conveyed although the two work with different art forms.

Ma, now 93, has held his first one-man exhibition at the art museum of China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, the prestigious school where he studied and taught for decades.

An Everlasting Joy Knows No End, running until Sept 15, gathers oil works, watercolors and drawings that navigated Ma's career as an artist and teacher who has witnessed the art development since the 1940s.

At the exhibition opening, Ma donated dozens of his works to his alma mater.

9 am-5 pm, daily. 218 Nanshan Lu, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.0571-8661-1569.