Watching art exhibitions in Shanghai's subway stations is nothing new.
Since the beginning of this year, after Wang Guanqing's "Dawu Powerful" Bronze Bull Sculpture settled in People's Square Station, the Cultural Corridor of Nanjing East Road Station has launched Zhang Dingchang Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition. Not long ago, a replica of the collection of the Prado Museum in Spain was unveiled at the Longhua Middle Road Metro Station.
Recently, 20 sketches by Haipai artists Le Zhenwen and Zhang Chi were exhibited in the cultural corridor of the South Shaanxi Road Subway Station.
In this exhibition entitled "Splendid Rivers and Mountains", works such as "Spring Breeze and Zhi", "Master of Nets Garden Listening to Autumn", "Chishui Creek", and "Snowy Castle" bring reasons for passers-by who are in a hurry to stop and appreciate art.
South Shaanxi Road Subway Station Cultural Corridor
People who are familiar with Le Zhenwen and Zhang Chi feel that the spirit of the two is very similar, but the painting style has its own characteristics. The mountains painted by Le Zhenwen are majestic and elegant; the water trickles of the painting are continuous, and they convey the gods all the way; the light of the painting is brilliant and beautiful, and warm and pleasant; the clouds of the painting are flowing and flowing, and they are soft and emotional. And Zhang Chi's painting is just as the name suggests: Zhang Chi has a good time. Mr. Chen Peiqiu once commented on her paintings: "The color ink rhyme is fresh, the pen is elegant, and it has the ability to win the shanghai landscape painting championship." ”
The scenery of Gangnam is an indispensable part of this exhibition. Le Zhenwen depicts Suzhou with paintings such as "Deep Courtyard", "Listening to Autumn in the Master of Nets Garden", and "Hanging On the Missing Moon", and the scenery in the painting is more interesting and poetic than the well-known Jiangnan. This time, Zhang Chi brought several works depicting Siming Mountain, presenting a different Jiangnan artistic conception.
Le Zhenwen told reporters that although he lives in Jiangnan, it is not easy to really show his interest in Jiangnan. The beauty of Jiangnan has long been vividly expressed by Kun opera, commentary and painting. There is only one way to express another Jiangnan or Jiangnan in the painter's heart: to find the painter's own heart. Over the years, he has traveled all over the water towns and gardens in Jiangnan, wherever he went, where he sketched. These experiences awakened Jiangnan, which belonged to his heart, and maintained a piece of his own nature in this hustle and bustle of the city.
Zhang Chi said: "Painting is that we receive the information of the universe of heaven and earth in nature, and then feedback that information on the picture, and we are just the transmitter." ”
Zhang Chi ,"The Sound of the Waves Under the Moon"
There are also a number of works depicting Liangjiahe, Yellow Land and Dabie Mountain in the exhibition, which are all the artists' creations of collecting wind and touching the scenery in the red landmarks, witnessing their traces of the route taken by the revolutionary ancestors and recording the changes in the style of the times.
In 1996, Le Zhenwen took students to Shanxi to sketch, and they went all the way from Taiyuan to the Yellow River and Yan'an. The first time I came to the Loess Plateau, I basically couldn't see green along the way, and occasionally I saw a rare pond in a deep ditch and an endless flat river at the top of the hillside. What is said to be a ravine is actually a crack in the loess soil. At that time, they deeply felt the smallness of man and the tenacity of life. "Wanting to express these landscapes is not something that can be covered by the original methods. If you don't look for the source with your heart, how can you break the original cocoon? Le Zhenwen said.
Le Zhenwen "Lintong October"
Around this exhibition, Shanghai Metro made a subway commemorative card with the themes of Le Zhenwen's "Path to Grass And Survival", "Master of Nets Garden Listening to Autumn" and Zhang Chi's "Cold Forest Moon" and "Jinzhai Xiahui". The two artists donated two works, "Lintong October" and "The Sound of the Waves Under the Moon", to the Shanghai Metro Museum.