Beijing China Oil Painting Academy: An Art Tour of White Churches and Red Brick Secret Realms

#MarchGoodPlaces2025 Stepping into the China Oil Painting Academy, it feels like traveling back to a small town in medieval Europe. The gray and white-dominated building complex outlines a sense of holiness with minimalist lines. The iconic white spire church stands in the center, and geometric light and shadow interweave in the 23-meter-high space to create a sacred and solemn atmosphere. The church's exterior walls have no unnecessary decorations. The pure white color and stepped structure form a natural photo studio, where newlyweds' wedding photos and art films are captured. Move to the red brick museum area, where the scattered red brick buildings subvert the traditional impression - the rough brick surface and arched doors and windows collide to create an industrial poetic style, while the stacked steps and glass skylights perform light and shadow magic, as if you have entered the magic corridor of "Harry Potter". The permanent exhibition hall displays more than 200 contemporary masterpieces titled "The Road to Masters", which use oil painting language that interweaves classical realism and modern abstraction to present an epic scroll of dialogue between Eastern and Western art. The most surprising thing is the perfect fusion of art and life: the ginkgo trees in the courtyard are splashed with golden paint in autumn, the caramel aroma wafting from the cafe is wonderfully intertwined with the turpentine smell in the exhibition hall, and visitors can sit on the floor and read art albums, or leave their creative inspiration on the message wall. The open policy without reservations allows everyone to establish a private dialogue with art.