Today, the Encounter Museum located in the Jing'an Xinyefang Park, No. 210 Wenshui Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai Was officially unveiled.
At the opening of the museum, two major exhibitions, "Meeting the Impressionist Normandy Dawn: The Flow of Nineteenth-Century European Painting" and "Meeting the Golden Mummies of Ancient Egypt", opened simultaneously. From ancient Egyptian civilization to 19th-century European painting, the time and space of history and art are intertwined and dialogued in the Jing'an Museum in Shanghai.
The Shanghai Jing'an Pavilion was officially unveiled today
Normandy Forever: Departure and Return
In the footsteps of the nineteenth-century Impressionists, Normandy is a glorious stroke of light. In 1845, at the age of 5, Monet returned from Paris to his home in Normandy. Here, he met many painters who came here to sketch and create, and also felt the dawn from the exploration of artistic innovation.
If Monet could be called the "father of Impressionism", then Normandy could be called the "cradle of Impressionism". From here, Normandy illuminates a glorious history of European art.
Exhibition site
The exhibition "Meeting the Dawn of Impressionism normandy: The Flow of European Painting in the Nineteenth Century" focuses on Normandy, combing through the exhibition space of different colors, combing and presenting the artists' paintings associated with Normandy, leading the audience to explore the traces of various artistic changes in nineteenth-century European art from romanticism, realism, and barbizonism to Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, symbolism and so on.
The exhibition is divided into five parts, namely "The Landscape Is Unique", "Barbizon and Normandy", "Monet: I am from Normandy", "Cradle of Impressionism", and "Forever Normandy".
The exhibits are all from the collection of 61 masterpieces by the French Normandy Painting Society. The participating artists include French painting masters such as Delacroix, Courbet, Corot, Manet, Monet and Morisso.
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Crossing the Great Currents of Civilization: Meeting Ancient Egypt
Mummies, gold, and a fascination with the afterlife —these are all important ideas we have about ancient Egyptian civilization. But how important were these ideas to the Egyptians, and how long did they affect Egypt after the last pharaoh?
The exhibition "Meeting ancient Egypt: The Golden Mummy" reveals to the viewer what Egyptians expected from the afterlife during the relatively unknown "Greco-Roman" period (between 300 BC and 300 AD) in Egyptian history.
Exhibition scene, mummified mask
Entering the exhibition hall, the dark-toned light and shadow space, the frosted texture of the wall and the CT scan display screen lead the audience to start a journey of exotic culture. The display cases display portraits of Egyptians, Romans and Greeks from different periods of multicultural society, masks, clay pots, jewelry, glass containers, papyrus documents and so on. Among them, the most eye-catching is the 6 golden mummies that appear in the middle of different exhibition areas, all from ancient Egypt during the "Greco-Roman" period around the 1st century AD.
At the exhibition site, the mummy with CT scan display screen
At the exhibition site, the papyrus paper of the slave girls is recorded
The exhibition also includes 11 fayum mummies from about 2000 years ago and 2 portrait mummies. Mummified portraits of the Roman period, the so-called "Fayoum portraits", are one of the oldest surviving types of portraiture in the world, which were discovered in the 1880s and changed the way people thought about the development of art. Each portrait is painted on a thin wooden board with a mixture of hot wax and pigments, creating a realistic effect that meets modern tastes.
It is understood that the Encounter Museum Shanghai Jing'an Pavilion is positioned as a "Chinese and foreign art parlor". Qiu Tong, chairman of Beijing Zhongchuang Cultural Tourism Group, said that large-scale authentic exhibitions, light and shadow art spaces, art and cultural stores, art IP authorization, cultural and artistic exchanges and other sections will be the main product ecology of the museum.
In addition to the above two exhibitions, the Encounter Museum Shanghai Jing'an Pavilion will also launch original works in 2022, including Rococo artist Boucher, Impressionist artist Renoir, Raphael pre-Art artist Miles, Cubist artist Picasso, street graffiti artist Keith Haring, Japanese ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige, Kitagawa Koji and other art masters. At the same time, the "Meet Dunhuang" Light and Shadow Art Exhibition will also meet the audience in Shanghai in the second half of 2022.