Briton Christopher Le Brun has been celebrated as a painter, printmaker and sculptor since the early 1980s. He was also president of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2011 to 2019. On November 5, 2019, Le Brun's solo exhibition in Shanghai opened for the first time. In an interview with CGTN's Icon, Le Brun shares the thinking behind the paintings in the exhibition called Diptychs.