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The avenue goes far - Wang Zhaomin watercolor system inheritance exhibition
Date: November 30, 2021 - February 27, 2022
Venue: Guangzhou Museum of Art
Reason for recommendation: This exhibition proposes the concept of "Wang Zhaomin's watercolor system" for the first time. The exhibition is divided into two important sections: first of all, in the form of a special museum, it focuses on mr. Wang Zhaomin's more than 30 classic watercolor works of various ages, which is another concentrated and public appearance of Wang Zhaomin's paintings after the 2019 Guangdong Museum of Art's "Great Style - Wang Zhaomin Art Research Exhibition". The demeanor of everyone on the square inch scale makes people shocked by the artist's condensation and integration of different artistic techniques and the advanced artistic creativity that integrates the feelings of life. Another section of the exhibition comprehensively presents the works of Artists such as Su Jiafen, Li Xiaocheng, Huang Zengyan, Long Hu, Li Yanxiang, Xu Yiguan, Fang Xiaolong, Chen Chaosheng, Chen Haining and so on. They were all students of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, some directly under Wang Zhaomin, and some indirectly influenced by Wang Zhaomin's art. Because of the existence of this inheritance relationship, with Wang Zhaomin as the founder and followers including the above painters as the successor force, it constitutes an important existence in the history of modern Chinese art - "Wang Zhaomin Watercolor System". This is an open and dynamic system, which goes beyond the imitation of Mr. Wang Zhaomin's skills and painting style, but under the adherence to "character", the practice of new creations under the guidance of Mr. Wang Zhaomin's artistic concept.
Watercolor painting originated in Europe, with its water color flowing, transparent and brisk, is known as the "light music" in painting, and for a time, compared with Chinese painting, oil painting and other "big paintings", it was mistaken for "small painting". From the middle and late 20th century onwards, with the emergence and solid construction of Wang Zhaomin's unique watercolor art language system, people's prejudice against watercolor painting gradually disintegrated. With "single-handed strength", Wang Zhaomin has realized the leap of Chinese watercolor painting from "small painting" to "large painting".
Wang Zhaomin's watercolor paintings, the brushstrokes are firm and powerful, the colors are pure and bold, the picture structure is stable, it has the color appeal of oil painting and the sense of texture and quantity like sculpture, and it is integrated into the brushwork and poetry of Chinese painting, reflecting the concise and condensed natural charm and vigorous artistic realm. He specializes in figures, landscapes, and even more in still life painting. His flowers, fruits, bottles and pots are full of vitality and vascularity, and there is a solemnity in the strangeness, and his watercolor paintings embody a "great style". Wang Zhaomin excavated the potential expressiveness of watercolor painting that has not been discovered, broke through the limitations of the traditional model of watercolor painting, greatly enriched the artistic language of watercolor painting, opened up a new world for the development of watercolor painting, and formed a kind of "Chinese-style watercolor painting", with outstanding achievements and far-reaching influence.
Aiming for the Tao and traveling in the arts : the ideals, life and aesthetics of ancient Chinese scholars
Date: December 7, 2021 - April 10, 2022
Venue: Nanshan Museum, Shenzhen
Reason for recommendation: "Scholars" is an elite social group unique to ancient China. They learn knowledge, disseminate culture, are active participants in the country's political life, and are also the creators and inheritors of traditional Chinese culture. In the long course of history, the Chinese nation has produced a large number of outstanding scholars and doctors, such as Confucius, Cai Yong, the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest", Tao Yuanming, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Lin Zexu, etc. They have left a vast sea of cultural heritage, which not only provided rich nourishment for the Chinese nation, added colorful colors to Chinese civilization, but also contributed a colorful chapter to world civilization.
Relying on the rich collection resources of the National Museum of China, the exhibition selects 150 pieces (sets) of precious cultural relics, divided into three parts: embracing the world, escaping the world and elegant art, through ancient Chinese bronzes, gold and silverware, porcelain, jade, stone carvings, furniture, calligraphy and painting, books and other cultural relics, with "scholars" as the center, expressed under the influence of Confucian traditional culture, their highest life ideal of "self-cultivation, family unity, governance, and peace in the world", as well as the spiritual pursuit and artistic aesthetics reflected in the emphasis on personal cultivation and cultivation of disposition. These elegant tastes are not only the interpretation of their lifestyles, aesthetic attitudes and philosophical ideas, but also an integral part of China's excellent traditional culture. Key exhibits include: "Ming Wanli 40 Years Township Examination Papers", Ming Wen Zhengming's "True Appreciation of Zhai Tu", Ming Dong Qichang's "Beigushan Map", Ming Chen Hongshou's "Lotus Lake Stone Map", Ming Dynasty Flower Poetry Qingyu Amphora Cup, Ming Chongzhen Lu Wang Zhongheqin and so on.
Lang Huan Ink Trace Spike Buddha Rhyme Long - "Guangzhou Canon", Foshan Documenta Exhibition
Date: December 3, 2021 - January 5, 2022
Location: Foshan Shunde Library
Reason for recommendation: The Guangzhou Canon contains a large number of Foshan literature. Fenjiang Ancient Ferry, Xiqiao Yanxia, Fengcheng Pagoda Temple, Sanjiang Flowing Water, the obscure changes of foshan's four-hour scenery, see the changes in The territory of Foshan in the past, humanistic anecdotes, customs and human feelings, all in the "Guangzhou Canon". The exhibition includes the introduction of "Guangzhou Dadian", the Foshan literature in "Guangzhou Dadian", the introduction of Guangzhou Dadian Research Center, etc., which fully demonstrates the historical origin of Guangzhou-Foshan culture and Foshan's profound historical and cultural heritage to the majority of readers and friends, and inherits and carries forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
Stardust Dance: Solo exhibition by French installation artist Vincent Leroy
Date: December 17, 2021 - March 14, 2022
Location: K11, Guangzhou
Why: French installation artist Vincent Leroy is a crossover pioneer who, in addition to his status as an installation artist, loves music, photography and industrial design, and his different interests collide to bring him new inspiration. He is good at sculpting the trajectory of color movement with dynamic installations, combining music, light and shadow, as well as object movement, materials and colors to create cross-border creations, and all the "movements" in nature may become his creative inspiration. In his works, the combination of light and shadow capture, poetic dynamics, and low-tech industrial style are all unified in a smooth rhythm.
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2021 Nandu Annual Top Ten Good Books Conference
When: December 18
Venue: Nanfeng College (No. 11 Shuiyin Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou)
Reason for recommendation: Advocating Chinese originality, public position, and unique value is the purpose of the "Nandu Annual Top Ten Good Books" for many years. Since 2003, The Southern Metropolis Daily has deeply cultivated the cultural field, promoted public reading, published professional book reviews, recommended books for readers, and formed a deep accumulation in advocating high-quality reading and improving the cultural taste of the city. In 2005, the Southern Metropolis Daily Reading Weekly was independently stacked, and in the same year, it launched the "Top Ten Good Books of the Year", which led the way in the trend and had a wide social influence and credibility in the reading circles of Chinese.
2021 The 9th Shenzhen Famous Opera Artists Exhibition: Chao Opera "LiJing"
When: December 17
Venue: Shenzhen Nanshan Cultural and Sports Center Theater Grand Theater
Reason for recommendation: Lead actor Zhang Yihuang is a national first-class actor, winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, and a new generation of leading figures in The art of Chao opera. "Lijing Ji" is one of the traditional repertoire of Chao opera, the story is that Chen San, a native of Quanzhou, Fujian Province, sent his brother and sister-in-law to Guangnan to take up his post, passed through Chaozhou, Guangdong, and met the rich woman Huang Wuniang at the Lantern Festival, and fell in love with each other. Huang Father was greedy for money and loved the situation, and allowed the fifth lady to marry the rich man Lin Da, and the fifth lady was dissatisfied and depressed in her heart. Chen Sanzhong came to Chaozhou, disguised as a mirror grinder, and entered the Huang Mansion, where Wuniang threw lychees and handkerchiefs in the embroidery building to show love. When Chen was sharpening the mirror, he deliberately broke the mirror and sold himself into slavery under the pretext of losing the treasure mirror. After Lin Daqiang married The Fifth Niang, Chen San and the Fifth Niang were helped by Ya Gui Yichun and eloped back to Quanzhou.
Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center's super high-profile work "12 People"
When: December 14
Venue: Foshan Grand Theatre - Grand Theatre
Recommended reason: This is a compact, neatly paced legal theme classic, the lines are wonderful and sharp, reflecting the essence of human nature, the story prototype really affected the American judicial system. The play was adapted into the film Twelve Angry Men, the first feature film directed by American director Sidney Lumet in 1957, which won the Golden Bear Award, the highest honor at the Berlin Film Festival that year, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Director and Adapted Screenplay. The story tells of a 16-year-old boy accused of killing his father at midnight, and the evidence in court is so convincing that the defendant will apparently be found guilty and that the boy can be sent to an electric chair if only 12 "jurors" unanimously pass the guilty. The "jurors" who were summoned temporarily were 12 ordinary people who did not know each other and had different lives, interests and experiences. The seemingly final judgment became cautious and complicated by the objections of one of them. Respect for life, reflection on prejudice, responsibility for justice... Gradually changing their rulings.
"Liang Zhu" "Yellow River" - a classic large-scale symphony concert with eternal melody
Venue: Opera Hall of Guangzhou Opera House
Reason for recommendation: The ACCENT Symphony Orchestra is one of the most professional and competitive symphony orchestras in the current Beijing performance market, with Mr. Fan Tao, a famous conductor in China, as the artistic director. The Violin Concerto "Liang Zhu" is arguably the most famous violin piece ever played in China, completing the genesis of symphonic music nationalization. The piano concerto "Yellow River" is rich in its dramatic creative process and performance history, and its popularity among ordinary Chinese audiences, so far no other piano work can compare with it. "Eternal Melody" is a concerto of violin playing, piano playing combined with a symphony orchestra, using the most classic melody in China to ignite your passion for the future.
Written by: Zhong Yonghong, an intern at Nandu reporter Zhou Peiwen