"Teacher Liu Wenxi has been obsessed with one thing in his life, going deep into the people's lives, and interpreting the spiritual outlook of the people in northwest China with a paintbrush!"
"He is the predecessor of my struggle, the predecessor of a literary and art worker on the road of people-centered struggle."
"Don't forget the original heart, don't forget the people." This is the source of creation, but also the height of creation. ”
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"Art for the People - Liu Wenxi Art Exhibition" has been exhibited at the National Museum of China, the painter's exquisite skills and abundant emotions have touched the audience, and the official website, Weibo and WeChat of the National Museum are full of touching messages.
This is the largest exhibition of Liu Wenxi's art in recent years, co-sponsored by the National Museum, the Propaganda Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, the China Artists Association, the China Culture and Art Development Promotion Association, and the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. More than 200 works of Liu Wenxi's fine arts, manuscripts, documents and photos, such as "Heaven in the Liberated Areas", "Loess Love", "People in the Ditch", "Mountain Girl", "Zaoyuan Peach and Plum", etc., are exhibited in three units: "Painting leaders with full of true feelings", "Pen and ink Danqing for the people" and "Going deep into life to seek creation", showing the painter's deep and lasting love for the yellow land and the people living in this land.
Liu Wanming, deputy director of the National Museum, said that the people's painter Liu Wenxi has always adhered to the people-centered creative orientation, rooted in the yellow land of northern Shaanxi all his life, penetrated into the people's lives, and appealed to the love for the leader, the people, and life, and the sense of mission to make statues for the people and for the times.
Liu Wenxi has created a large number of works of art depicting the people's leaders, and many of the works in the exhibition hall are scenes showing the leaders and the people together, such as "Chairman Mao and the Shepherd" and "Beside Chairman Mao".
Since 1957, Liu Wenxi has gone deep into northern Shaanxi more than 100 times, walked through 26 counties, spent more than 30 Spring Festivals in northern Shaanxi, made friends with local farmers, and learned about the lives of the people of northern Shaanxi.
Paint a portrait of the people and a legacy for the times. Among Liu Wenxi's many works, "Four Generations of Grandchildren" is one of the most classic works, which condenses the historical era of China's transformation from traditional farming civilization to modern industrial civilization by showing the moment when four generations of grandchildren rest in the field, which is not only a figurative painting of ordinary rural families, but also a microcosm of the era group.
Zhu Wanzhang, a research librarian at the National Museum, said that Liu Wenxi's pen has a lingering loess plateau symbol, which represents a spiritual symbol of the northwest region that is relatively majestic, simple and solid, and gives the social function of "enlightenment and helping people" in traditional Chinese figure paintings a new connotation of the times.
As the founder of the Loess School, Liu Wenxi proposed to "familiarize with people, strictly model, talk about pen and ink, and seek innovation", which has also become the artistic purpose of the Loess School.
Liu Wenxi's 100-meter-long volume "The Master of the Yellow Land", which liu Wenxi painstakingly completed, uses a magnificent and magnificent picture to vividly convey the gods and vivid characters, and outlines the picture of the era in which the people of northern Shaanxi have striden towards a well-off society in an all-round way since the reform and opening up.
In the first exhibition of the 100-meter-long volume, he once said: "I love to paint the working people, especially the working people in northern Shaanxi, they are upright, simple, kind, and kind, they are not only the people we will always care about, but also the people we will always worship." They deserve to be painted forever by us painters. ”
Since its opening in October, the "Art for the People - Liu Wenxi Art Exhibition" has attracted widespread attention from the society and attracted many groups and individuals to visit. Despite the strict restrictions on the number of people entering the National Museum every day according to the requirements of epidemic prevention, the number of individual appointments for the exhibition reached 65,000.
In order to respond to the long-term and sustained enthusiasm of the audience, the exhibition period was postponed again and again. Recently, the National Museum decided to postpone the exhibition again to January 5, 2022.
Reporter: Zhou Wei
Images courtesy of the National Museum