Visitors to the Museum at the Beijing Fine Art Academy are being taken on a special journey. They're tracing the artistic paths of 12 eminent women painters of 20th century China. The works of 12 deceased artists collectively reflect how female artists have contributed to the vibrant modern Chinese art scene in their own special way.

The works of 12 deceased artists collectively reflect how female artists have contributed to the vibrant modern Chinese art scene in their own special way.

The 50 selected works on show adopted typical subjects in traditional Chinese ink and brush paintings, such as landscapes, flowers-and-birds, and portraits. They were composed by such eminent female painters as He Xiangning, Pu Yunyu, Xiao Shufang and Zhou Sicong between the 1950s and the 1980s.

The show's organizer says that the female artists have an edge over their male counterparts in terms of artistic expression.

Gao Yuan from Beijing Fine Art Academy said, "Female artists tend to be more keen to discover the hidden beauty in life. They are also more perceptive to changes happening in their surrounding environments. From these paintings, you can see that they have a more serene state of mind."

One of the featured artists, Zhou Sicong, who lived from 1939 to 1996, was one of the earliest contemporary female artists who consciously expressed her deep concern for Chinese women from an apparently feminist perspective.

The show will run at the Beijing Fine Art Academy's Museum until Sunday.

Many of her 1950s' works reflect how women were actively involved in the construction of socialism.

This kind of self-consciousness and sympathy has been given fuller expression in the works of some Chinese female artists active since the 1980s, when more women artists gained an increasingly strong awareness of the "Self" in their artworks.

The exhibition will tickle the fancy of anyone interested in learning more about the serene and feminine world of art through the perspective of Asian women. The show will run at the Beijing Fine Art Academy's Museum until Sunday.