Shao Dazhen's solo exhibition presents Wenxin Ink Rhyme_Shenzhen News Network

The "National Art Museum of China Academic Invitation Series Exhibition: Wenxin Ink Rhyme - Shao Dazhen Art Exhibition" recently opened at the National Art Museum of China. This exhibition focuses on a large number of precious documents from Shao Dazhen's artistic research achievements, as well as more than 100 works of Chinese painting and calligraphy created in recent years, comprehensively reviewing his artistic life. Born in 1934 in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, Shao Dazhen graduated from the Leningrad Repin Academy of Fine Arts in the Soviet Union in 1960, and is a professor and doctoral supervisor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Shao Dazhen devoted his life to the study of art history, and published works such as "A Brief Discussion of Modernist Art", "Traditional Art and Modernism", "History of Greco-Roman Art", "A Brief History of European Painting" (co-authored with his wife Xi Jingzhi) and other works. Wu Weishan, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, director of the National Art Museum of China, and vice chairman of the China Artists Association, as the chief curator of this exhibition, distilled Shao Dazhen's academic and artistic achievements into 7 keywords, namely "teaching", "editing", "translating", "writing", "commenting", "painting" and "book", summarizing Shao Dazhen's achievements, not only because of his fruitful academic and artistic achievements, but also because his art history and art criticism directly promoted the healthy development of modern Chinese art. He is a thinker, scholar, professor and artist who can closely relate to the pulse of the development of new Chinese art and resonate with the times. Through academic combing, the exhibition exhibits more than 130 precious documents and physical objects reflecting Shao Dazhen's fruitful achievements in introducing Western art, studying traditional Chinese culture, constructing contemporary art criticism, and teaching and educating people from the beginning of his study abroad in the 1950s to his return to China. Among them are the original precious manuscripts of "Shao Dazhen's Lecture Notes on the History of Art in Greece, Rome, Egypt and Other Countries During Classes to Students of the Central Academy of Fine Arts" in the 1960s, as well as the manuscripts of important papers such as "On the Art of Picasso", "Impressionism: Aesthetic Concepts and Others", and "World Art", No. 1, 1979 (inaugural issue). The exhibition also exhibits the fruitful achievements of Xi Jingzhi, the wife of Shao Dazhen, who is also an art historian, in the research, education and theoretical construction of art history. Regarding Shao Dazhen's achievements in art theory, Xu Lian, a student and vice president of the National Academy of Painting of China, said: "Mr. Shao Dazhen has written a large number of articles and monographs, including an introduction to Western modern art and art trends, as well as research on contemporary Chinese art issues, and his artistic views and artistic views have become representatives of the mainstream views of the art industry since the reform and opening up. With a truth-seeking and pragmatic attitude, he made a constructive response to the development of art, and had a profound impact on the artists who have grown up since the reform and opening up. "Shao Dazhen's paintings on display in the exhibition are the results of his artistic creation practice. Most of Shao Dazhen's works are landscape works, based on ink painting, slightly pasteled, no matter how large or small, there is a sense of ease and calm writing, full of authentic "literati painting" style. The style of his calligraphy works is also extremely unique, simple and natural, implicit and restrained. Many of these works combine the art of calligraphy with their own profound artistic theories, presenting a unique artistic style. (The original title is "Shao Dazhen Solo Exhibition Presents Wenxin Ink Rhyme") window. HLBath=1; window. HLBath=1;