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There is another treasure place in the Expo Park
This treasure site is related to an 82-year-old gentleman
This one is known as
"The first person to paint chinese plant science"
All his life he insisted on painting everything in nature
Let Yunnan be rich in biodiversity
It was presented with the most image and warmth
He is Zeng Xiaolian
Zeng Xiaolian was present at CGK's "One Flower, One Bird, One World" solo exhibition
Early December
Zeng Xiaolian Art Museum is open to the public
It fulfilled the masses and Zeng Xiaolian
Man and nature coexist in harmony
The infinite approaching of the concept of artistic creation
Zeng Xiaolian Art Museum
Tsang Hyo-lin Art Museum is located in the original site of pakistan garden and Vietnam garden in expo park, covering an area of 1300 square meters, of which the main exhibition hall is repaired and transformed on the basis of pakistan garden. The museum is dominated by a large area of white, with exotic floor tiles, columns, and decorations. "The fathers and villagers in Yunnan want to see it, and they are also looking for a home for my works." In a previous interview with the media, Zeng Xiaolian said.
"The exhibition hall has four distinctive gardens, namely wilderness, field, countryside and field." Zhou Zhijian, head of the operation office of Zeng Xiaolian Art Museum, introduced to reporters.
At the entrance of the Zeng Xiaolian Art Museum is the Wilderness Garden. The central lawn is an artist's installation made of fountain stones from the former Pakistan Garden, and the periphery is lined with cedar and cedar, which is empty and wide, which is evocative.
Entering the museum, the first thing that comes into sight is the huge tropical rainforest landscape - a section of dead willow trunks has been dismantled and suspended, and each trunk is planted with orchids, ferns, stone pines, and lichen symbiotic plant communities, which together present the most representative "hanging garden" of Xishuangbanna Rainforest. Underneath it are the star species in the Xishuangbanna rainforest: tiger whiskers, giant bird's nest ferns, hooded orchids, Tiannanxing family, ginger family, palm family and other different forms and colors.
Zeng Xiaolian once said that painting illustrations for flora accounts for 80% of his life, and his naturalist paintings add up to more than 2,000, reflecting the morphological characteristics of species, or the relationship between species and species, and the relationship between species and the environment. In the process of painting, he also slowly deepened his understanding of nature, and deeply realized that as a part of nature, human beings should respect nature, conform to nature, and return to nature.
Photo by Li Xilin
Around the tropical rainforest landscape, Zeng Xiaolian's paintings of flowers and birds are either hung on the wall or displayed in cabinets, and the living plants echo Zeng Xiaolian's natural brushstrokes. Inspire art with nature and enrich nature with art.
The rainforest landscape in the museum contrasts with the paintings
The museum also combined Zeng Xiaolian's "Yunnan Bird" and "Yunnan Flower" and other works, and specially designed two gardens in the field and the countryside.
The field garden is densely planted with ornamental grasses and flowers, and the bird works of Zeng Xiaoyi will be combined to create a scene of abundant grain and birds jubilant in the field.
The country garden is planted with rhododendrons, camellias, frangipani, hydrangeas and other flower plants, and when the flowering period arrives, a hundred flowers will bloom here.
"This exhibition hall is a circular structure based on the Pakistan Garden, and behind the circular glass frame are ornamental flowers and plants that we have specially planted, which will be particularly beautiful when they bloom next year." Zhou Zhijian said. Along the circular exhibition hall, Zeng Xiaolian's paintings of flowers and birds were placed on all sides. Behind the circular frame are colonized and buried seeds of various varieties of plateau wildflowers, which will gradually present the wild nature of the "wilderness of the four seasons".
Stamps painted by Tsang Hyo-lin
Flowers bloom in the garden
In the VietnamEse Garden next door, the museum has transformed it into a leisure activity area while retaining the Vietnamese style architecture, with cafes, Tsang Hyo-leung's studio and art shop.
Exotic columns and floor tiles set the museum apart
At present, Zeng Xiaolian Art Museum is still in the soft opening period, exhibiting more than 30 flower and bird paintings and manuscripts of Zeng Xiaolian. It is expected that next year, zeng xiaolian art museum will be officially opened to the public, when in addition to the number of paintings on display will be more abundant, will continue to carry out various art and popular science lectures.
Participated in the compilation of flora of China for more than 30 years
He has published more than 2,000 illustrations of various scientific works
Design of "Rhododendron" and "Artemisia versus"
Nine sets of stamps, including "Chinese Birds"
He painted 100 more flowers and 100 birds
……
Entered from 1958
The Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences began
Zeng Xiaolian never put down his paintbrush again
"When I was a child, my hobby turned out to be a lifelong career.
I was lucky. ”
Zeng Xiaolian sighed
This love affair with plant paintings
It lasts for 60 years
"No flower, no provenance, no leaf without basis"
In 1958, Zeng Xiaolian, who graduated from high school, entered the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as a trainee draftsman. "Mainstream painters criticize who doesn't paint well, and they will say that you paint like a specimen; but for plant science painting, painting specimens is the most basic requirement." Zeng Xiaolian said that in order to complete the illustration of "Flora of China", many students of the Academy of Fine Arts were drawn; but the rigor of plant science painting made many students retreat, but plant science painting enthusiasts like Zeng Xiaolian insisted...
"In fact, plant science painting is more difficult than gong pen painting, is a flower 5 stamens or 6 stamens? This cannot be drawn wrong. Without botanical knowledge as a support, it is easy to make mistakes. Zeng Xiaolian said that plant science painting must be done "without a flower, without a source, without a leaf without evidence."
Originally, flora illustrations were generally black and white line drawings copied against wax leaf specimens, but the young Zeng Xiaolian believed that the illustrations should not only be drawn correctly, but also sketched in nature, otherwise there was no vitality. "The leaders and experts in the institute knew that this meant that the delivery time would be extended, but they supported my proposal." Zeng Xiaolian said that at that time in the Kunming Botanical Garden, in order to compete with the natural decay of flowers, he often did not eat, drink, or go to the toilet all morning, and concentrated on creation. He first drafted each drawing with a pencil, then showed it to the botanist, and then used the pen to ink after confirmation. This lasted for about several months, and Zeng Xiaolian's ability to paint color painting was much higher than when he joined the work in the early days.
"Every painting is not perfect, but it will be better to paint on the spot"
After retirement, Zeng Xiaolian still wants to maximize the use of time and continue to paint nature with a paintbrush. According to his original idea, he would paint 100 flowers, 100 birds, and 100 beasts. The first two items have "turned in homework", and the third item Zeng Xiaolian chose to give up. "It's hard to find 100 species of beasts in nature to stay there quietly for me to draw, and the beasts in the zoo always make me feel less alive." Zeng Xiaolian said.
Zeng Xiaolian 《Yunnan Camellia》
After painting plant science paintings for more than 60 years, Zeng Xiaolian has his own persistence. "You can't deliberately draw the wrong picture for the sake of looking good. Each painting is not perfect, but it will be better to draw on the spot. "Zeng Xiaolian said that before he arrived at the scene, there was no first impression of living things in nature, and that state of life could not be felt." That feeling guides my entire painting process. Zeng Xiaolian said that he had "obsessive-compulsive disorder", painting plants must first look at the photos, have a superficial understanding of the plants, and then go to the place of origin to observe the growth of plants, get the specimen and perform a comprehensive dissection...
Not all sites are so easy to reach. In order to paint the green velvet artemisia, Zeng Xiaolian climbed the White Horse Snow Mountain at an altitude of 4700 meters and completed the painting in a state of lack of oxygen. "If you haven't been to that environment, you can't see the real artemisia verstia." The magic of that kind of life cannot be felt without going to the scene. ”
Sketching and collecting specimens in the wild is more difficult than people can imagine, and "close contact" with ants, ants, wasps, and road lice is a common occurrence. Once when he returned from collecting specimens, Zeng Xiaolian felt that his body was not right, but he fell asleep because he was too tired; when he woke up the next day, he found that many places on his body were stuck to the sheets, and there were 42 blood clots in one count. "That was the most bitten I've ever had an ant." Others are often surprised to hear it, but Zeng Xiaolian smiled, as if telling his happy past.
Zeng Xiaolian "Dian Zhong Lou"
The most dangerous thing about sketching in the wild is encountering snakes. Once a field expedition encountered a cobra in a state of attack, Zeng Xiaolian did not hide, but took out his camera to capture the moment. "Afterwards, my companion said that the nearest hospital there was a full two hours, and if I was bitten, the consequences would be unimaginable..."
"I want to use the brush to praise nature and let more people pay attention to nature"
Nowadays, plant science drawings can be synthesized by computer, but Zeng Xiaolian still believes that hand drawing is irreplaceable. "The paintings made with computers are, after all, stiff and stiff." Now, Zeng Xiaolian is increasingly moving from simply painting creatures to painting "ecology". "I want to use the brush to praise nature and let more people pay attention to nature." He said, "Man is not the master of nature, nor is he a spectator, but a part of it." ”
Zeng Xiaolian said: "The highest state of scientific painting is that it can burst out the power of life there. I don't expect everyone to like these paintings, but I hope that the people who see them will care for the life in nature. He liked Tao Xingzhi's self-exhortation poem: "Between the heavens and the earth of life, each has its own endowment." Come for a big thing, do a big thing go. With the purest and most primitive care for nature, painting plant paintings and promoting plant paintings is the only "big event" in Zeng Xiaolian's life.
In addition to creation, Zeng Xiaolian will also be a judge and give lectures from time to time. "With the completion of the compilation of "Flora of China", we who are in the industry, retired retirement, change careers, I want more people to know and contact the science of painting this kind of painting." In recent years, many paintings participating in the competition have refreshed him, and the emergence of young people has made him feel as if he has seen the spring of plant painting. "Today's young people have more aesthetic appeals, which can evoke more people's sense of identity and intimacy with nature."
However, Zeng Xiaolian has a belief: "Unnecessary social activities, if you can participate less, you will participate less." "The person who draws still has to talk about painting." Zeng Xiaolian likes to be lonely, "When you are lonely, you can learn more from nature." ”
Every flower and bird is life
A branch and a leaf are always concerned
Zeng Xiaolian said that he did not have extravagant expectations
Everyone loves plant science painting
I hope that people who look at the paintings can care
These are the lives in nature.
"I've painted plants all my life,
I'm not alone, I feel happy! ”
Zeng Xiaolian said
Yunnan Net (ID: yunnancn) synthesized from People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Yunnan Net (reporter Li Xilin)
Some of the images are courtesy of Tsang Hsiao-lin Art Museum
Editor: Wang Xiting