The works of the previous winners of the Cangxin Art Scholarship were put on display at the Kunming Municipal Museum on Nov 26, in a month-long exhibition celebrating the artistic achievements of young up-and-coming artists.

The scholarship, awarded to talented postgraduate painters, was established by the Chinese Culture promotion Society and the Beijing Cultural Development Foundation in 2014.

Visitors to the Kunming municipal museum admire paintings which have won the Cangxin Art Scholarship. [Photo/yunnan.cn]

A maximum of 20 scholarships are awarded each year, with the top three painters being earmarked as “artists with the most potential”, and taken on an eight-day tour abroad to meet other artists and figures in the industry.

A girl photographs the works of a previous winner of the Cangxin Art Scholarship. [Photo/yunnan.cn]

The judging panel is made up of eight art experts including Wang Yong, a doctoral supervisor at the Graduate School of the Chinese National Academy of Arts.

“The Cangxin scholarship is a social platform for the development of the new generation of Chinese artists,” said Zhou Cangxin, head of the newly-established Yunnan University New International Academy of Arts.

Portraits of some of the winners of the Cangxin Art Scholarship are on display at the Kunming municipal museum. [Photo/yunnan.cn]