In a Leafy London Suburb, a Painting Exhibition Shows Persecution in China

“The visual challenges are, for a lot of people, particularly difficult where there are depictions of death, dying, and, of course, the disturbing organ harvesting, which is heart-wrenching for all.”

The first section of the Art of Zhen Shan Ren International Exhibition in the Kingston Museum, February 2013. Simon Gross/The Epoch Times

The Art of Zhen Shan Ren International Exhibition is continuing its month-long stay in Kingston Museum in the leafy south of London. 

The exhibition’s title translates as the Art of Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance, and the work has toured the world since 2004. The paintings are by more than 16 artists, mainly of Chinese ethnicity, trained in the realistic techniques of representational art in oils.

The depiction of many is so exquisite that the paintings look like photographs. They chronicle the creation of a new age, the centre of which is Falun Gong, also know as Falun Dafa, whose core tenets are the Zhen Shan Ren, (Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance) of the title.