In order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, promote the construction of Guangdong as a culturally strong province, carry forward the Guangdong spirit of daring to be the first, open and inclusive, and strengthen the brand value of Lingnan fine arts, the National Art Museum of China and the Guangdong Museum of Art jointly held the "Beauty in Guangdong - Exhibition of Works of Cantonese Artists collected by the National Art Museum of China and the Guangdong Museum of Art".
This exhibition brings together more than 100 works and some specially invited artists from the collection of the National Art Museum of China and the Guangdong Museum of Art, such as Ju Lian, Li Tiefu, Gao Jianfu, Situ Qiao, Guan Liang, Lin Fengmian, Li Hua, Gu Yuan, Huang Xinbo, Hu Yichuan, Guan Shanyue, Li Xiongcai, Yang Zhiguang, Tang Xiaoming and other artists in Guangdong, and strives to fully reproduce the historical landscape of Guangdong art, and from the perspective of examining the history of modern art in Guangdong, starting from the most representative artists. It will arouse people's positive discussion and thinking on the history of modern Chinese art, and provide necessary experience for the development of contemporary Chinese art research and creation.
In the past hundred years, Lingnan has been the first in the world, and has always been at the forefront of the times in the evolution of culture, thought and art. In this process, Guangdong, with its unique cultural geographical location and the most open and confident enterprising mentality of the times, actively absorbs traditional and extraterritorial experience to enrich its own vitality, creating the characteristics of Guangdong art competition and inclusiveness.
From the "Lingnan School" at the beginning of the 20th century, which took the innovation of traditional Chinese painting as its mission in the fierce confrontation between Chinese and Western cultures, to the "Guangdong phenomenon" that appeared in the art world in the 1950s and 1960s, and then to the innovation and exploration of guangdong as the forefront of reform and opening up after the new period, Guangdong artists have exerted a profound impact on China's modern and contemporary cultural ecology with their great power of self-transformation and self-innovation.
△ Li Tiefu"Portrait of Liu Suwei" Oil painting 102×77cm, 1942, Collection of Guangdong Museum of Art
△ Gao Jianfu's "Tomato Bird", Chinese painting, 139.7×45.4cm, national art museum of China
△ Chen Shuren "After the Rain", Chinese painting, 175×93.6cm 1938, National Art Museum of China
△ Lin Fengmian "Early Spring Twilight", Chinese painting 67×66.8cm 1961 Collection of the National Art Museum of China
△ Li Xiongcai "Pine", Chinese painting, 150×81cm, 1983, National Art Museum of China
△ Guan Shanyue, "The Great Wall Inside and Outside the Chaohui", Chinese painting, 141×202cm, 1973, National Art Museum of China
△ Yang Zhiguang's "The Dance of Young Workers", Chinese painting, 115×75cm, 1956, National Art Museum of China
△ Tang Xiaoming's "Full of Enthusiasm" Oil painting 112×89 cm, 1974, National Art Museum of China
△ Li Jinkun's "Twilight of the Desert", Chinese painting, 154×150cm, 1989, Collection of Guangdong Museum of Art
Exhibition Information:
Beauty in Guangdong - Exhibition of Works by Cantonese Artists collected by the National Art Museum of China and the Guangdong Museum of Art
Beauty In Guangdong: NAMOC & GDMOA Art Collections of Guangdong Artists
Duration: 2021/12/21 — 2022/03/09
Exhibition Hall: Hall 1/2/3/4 of the Guangdong Museum of Art
Guiding unit: Department of Culture and Tourism of Guangdong Province
Organizer: National Art Museum of China Guangdong Museum of Art
Academic General Host: Wu Weishan
Exhibition Planner: Wang Shaoqiang