Foreign culture has been intimately introduced to the people of Great Britain in recent years by the series of special art exhibitions arranged at Burlington House, Lon~ }don, by the Royal Academy Arts, In successive seasons paintings and other art works of Netherlands, Flemish, French, Ttalian, Persian and Spanish artists have been shown to the great attraction, of visitors from all parts of the British Isles. The Italian exhibition which was the latest of these successful enterprises drew no less than 580,000 visitors during the few months of its occupancy of the, Royal Academy's galleries. Owing. to suggestions put forward by Mr. Quo Tai-chi, the present Chinese Minister to the Court of St. James, the possibility of giving Chinese art the next opportunity of ministering, to the cultural requirements of the British people came under consideration. It was felt that such a project, difficult though it might be to carry into effect, would help to foster Sino-British' understand-jing, besides providing a large European public with a most valuable extension in its knowledge of art matters. Mr. Laurence Binyon who is one of the foremost British students of oriental paint ing, has declared that it is in China
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