Qilu Evening News Qilu One-Point Reporter Cheng Jianhua Correspondent Hou Fuchang
On December 16, the website of the China Gongbi Painting Society released the announcement and list of new members of the 2021 China Gongbi Painting Society, and 418 people across the country were selected as the 15th batch of members of the China Gongbi Painting Society, of which juye painters Liu Xiuling, Xu Fengqiu, Wang Zhaoyi, Shen Fengxia and Wang Huili successfully advanced. Up to now, Juye has 19 members of the China Artists Association, 20 members of the China Gongbi Painting Society, 70 members of the Shandong Artists Association, and 16 members of the Shandong Gongbi Painting Society.
The continuous driving force for the development and upgrading of Juye Gongbi peony painting is talent, the industry is moving toward prosperity, and it is inseparable from the artists who are mainly based on high-level creation, and the original ability of Juye calligraphers and painters or their performance in various national and provincial exhibitions determines the artistic height of Juye Gongbi peony painting. In order to improve the artistic level of creative painters, Juye County Calligraphy and Painting Institute adopts a development model of introduction and going out. Famous teachers are often invited to Juye for training and guidance, focusing on the special sketching and public welfare creation training classes around the members of the art associations at or above the provincial level, the members of the book associations and the young and middle-aged painters with a certain level of creation. In recent years, the famous painters Pan Lusheng, Wang Tiansheng, Tang Xiuling, Yao Xiuming, Meng Xiangshun, Zhang Naixing, Wang Zhongyi, etc., have been invited to train and guide painters more than 15,000 times. Select excellent painters to go out for further study. To Shandong Academy of Arts and Crafts, Shandong Academy of Arts and other institutions of higher learning, as well as to participate in the series of training courses organized by the China Gongbi Painting Society, the Modern Gongbi Painting Institute, the Shandong Provincial Artists Association, and the Gongbi Painting Society, a total of 1,000 people participated in the study and study. Organize observation exchanges and sketching activities. Every year, the County Academy of Calligraphy and Painting regularly organizes members of the Sino-American Association and the Chinese Book Association, members of the Book Association and the American Association at or above the provincial level, and outstanding talents in young and middle-aged calligraphy and painting to participate in observation and exchange activities at the National Art Museum of China, shandong Art Museum, Li Ronghai Art Museum, etc., and regularly organize painters to sketch and collect style in Yunnan, Guizhou, Weishan Lake, Heze Peony Garden and other places. Encourage more boutiques. Encourage painters to continue to innovate on the basis of inheriting traditional painting methods, and continuously improve the level of work stroke creation in the county.
As an industry that continues to grow, Juye Gongbi Peony Painting needs to create more and more marketable works of art, the most basic support is the quantity and quality of professional painters and their works, and the most critical thing is the need for a steady stream of professional newcomers to join. In order to cultivate professional painters and reserve reserve talents, the County Academy of Calligraphy and Painting launched a five-year plan for the infrastructure construction of Peony Painting by Juye Gongbi. Carry out demonstration activities for the creation of grass-roots calligraphy and painting institutes, and guide 3-5 grass-roots calligraphy and painting institutes to comprehensively improve their infrastructure, scale of hospitals, creative level, and the creation of intangible cultural heritage master studios every year. Carry out the basic painter cultivation project, hold a juye gong pen peony painting popularization training class, train more than 1,500 painters in stages every year, and focus on training those who have the desire to get started. The Youth Calligraphy and Painting Art Festival is held regularly, which builds a platform for the young people of the whole county to display their talents and learn from each other, and further creates a good atmosphere for the whole society to learn calligraphy and painting, appreciate calligraphy and painting, fall in love with calligraphy and painting, and study classics.
Since 2018, juye County Calligraphy and Painting Institute has organized the creation of more than 600 fine works of various kinds, 17 award-winning works and more than 60 selected works in various calligraphy and painting exhibitions held by the Sino-American Association and the China Book Association; 7 works have been selected for the 13th National Art Exhibition Shandong Works Exhibition; Li Rui's calligraphy works have been selected for the 12th National Calligraphy Seal Engraving Exhibition and won the "Lanting Award", the highest award of Chinese calligraphy, four times; Yao Shuzhao's painting "Shengshi Collection" was selected for the 13th National Fine Arts Exhibition. Works such as "Blossoming Prosperity", "Splendid Spring Light", "Guanyan Qunfang", "National Treasure Xianrui", "Prosperous China" and other works have successively appeared in major events such as the Qingdao Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Cooperation, the China International Import Expo, the China-ASEAN Expo, the China Forest Products Fair, the China International Cultural Tourism Expo, and important venues such as the Shandong Hall of the Great Hall of the People and the National Ceremony Exhibition Hall of the National Convention Center, which not only display the artistic charm of Giant Wild Gong pen peony paintings, but also show the cultural self-confidence of Chinese farmers to the world.
Since 2018, 10 painters in Juye have been promoted to members of the China Artists Association, 9 painters have been promoted to the members of the China Gongbi Painting Society, and 19 painters have been promoted to the Shandong Artists Association; 5 painters have been hired as part-time professors of the Shandong Academy of Arts and Crafts, and 7 painters have become directors of the Shandong Gongbi Painting Society, including 1 presidium member and 1 deputy secretary-general. Juye County Calligraphy and Painting Institute and related works have won the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization Qingdao Summit" positive contribution award, the first China International Import Expo "Art Creation Chen" Outstanding Contribution Award, the 16th China Forest Products Fair Gold Award and other honorary titles; Juye Gong Pen Peony Painting was selected into the fifth batch of Shandong Province Intangible Cultural Heritage List, was rated as the first prize of the First Heze City Cultural Tourism Creative Products Competition; in 2019, the creative team of "Flower Blossom" was rated as the top ten figures who touched Heze (the only collective). In 2021, it was awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award of China Peony Capital by Heze Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, and the 2021 World Peony Conference China Gongbi Muhua Development Forum was successfully held in Juye. Relying on the Gongbi Peony Painting Project, Juye was successfully named "The Hometown of Folk Culture and Art in Shandong Province" and awarded the Shandong Provincial Cultural Innovation Award by the provincial government.