Yangtze River Daily Wuhan client December 16 news (reporter Zhou Manzhen correspondent Pu Xuanxuan) Wuhan is a drama dock, Peking Opera Han opera Chu opera has a variety of plays, Wuhan intangible cultural heritage tricks, paper-cutting clay sculpture tie-dye can not be finished. Recently, Wuhan's enthusiasm for creating the "East Asian Cultural Capital" has infected a group of young artists aged 4-12, who picked up paintbrushes to draw the beauty of Wuhan's traditional culture in their hearts and expressed "Wuhan has drama" to the world.
Glamorous opera. Author: Zhou Jinghan, 6 and a half years old
Peking Opera characters. Author: Yang Xiaoyun, 9 years old
Wuhan has a drama and a wonderful heritage. Author: Wu Xuanbing, 10 years old
Guzheng playing. Author: Le Zilin, 8 years old
Diverse operas converge in Wuhan. Author: Han Zhengcheng, 7 years old
The painting speaks of tie-dye art. Author: Le Jinyu, 7 and a half years old
This group of children is from Wuhan Muma Art Museum. They looked for materials from the two major themes of intangible cultural heritage and Wuhan opera, expressed the beauty of traditional culture in their minds, and helped Wuhan create a "capital of East Asian culture", and has created more than 60 works so far and will continue to create. These freshly baked works include traditional arts such as paper-cutting and tie-dyeing, as well as some opera elements such as faces and New Year paintings. Interestingly, they expressed their own traditional culture from the perspective of children.
8-year-old Liu Jiaqi painted the beauty of paper-cutting.
Liu Jiaqi has participated in the exhibition in South Korea.
8-year-old Liu Jiaqi once took the works "A Corner of the Forbidden City", "Chinese Knot" and "Chinese Opera" to represent the children of Wuhan to the Wuhan sister city of Daejeon, South Korea. She first repeatedly understands the process of paper-cutting, and then draws the essence of paper-cutting art, with blank space, hollowing, and simple edges. She wants to promote traditional Chinese culture and Wuhan to foreign friends through this work, "Paper-cutting is Chinese art, and the paper-cutting works that symbolize auspiciousness and blessings are Chinese red, which I learned in Wuhan." ”
At the age of 7, Han Zhengyu was inspired by theatrical face. In order to create, he read a lot of materials, knowing that Wuhan is a drama dock, Peking Opera, Han Opera, Chu Opera has a long history, famous throughout the country, and different appearances, faces, in the opera represent different characters and styles. His work is centered on an enlarged Peking Opera face, surrounded by a group of children holding faces representing a variety of different characters, expressing the diversity and excitement of Wuhan as an important opera town.
"The use of paintings to express Wuhan Intangible Cultural Heritage is intuitive and imaginative." Ma Pingping, founder of Muma Art Museum, marveled at the child's creativity. 10-year-old Li Xiaohuan combined non-heritage paper-cutting with the zodiac signs and painted them with a paintbrush, showing the vigorous vitality of paper-cutting in the new era, and the image was vivid. "There are also children who choose to paint the lion and dragon dance in the New Year painting and spread Chinese culture in their own way, which is very interesting."
Ma Pingping introduced that the young artists who participated in the creation this time, at a young age, are "regular visitors" to East Asian cultural exchanges. In addition to having exhibited many picture books in Japan, his works have also been collected by the Iwasaki Tomohiro Museum of Art, which is where "The Little Bean by the Window" was created. In January 2020, their paintings were also exhibited in Daejeon, South Korea.
【Editor: Zhang Wenhui】
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