【Xinyuan】Shanghai Metro Public Cultural Center
【Photo】 Yao Zhenyu
Edit: Calvin_J
Recently, "the sunshine of the first day of winter is like a VC", "the invention of the blind box, understand the reasons for life", "like the reasons for winter, there are fewer flies, mosquitoes are gone" and other paintings are bold and uninhibited, and the calligraphy sketches that read humorously are displayed in the cultural corridor of Nanjing East Road Station of the Shanghai Metro. This is the third exhibition of the "Haipai Famous Artists Metro Line" brand project, "Flower Rain Mingxin Maofan Calligraphy and Painting", 25 paintings and calligraphy works such as Zhangcao, Lishu, Landscape and Flowers and a number of calligraphy sketches will be exhibited until after the Spring Festival.
This morning (January 6), Mao Fan, a famous calligrapher and painter and librarian of the Shanghai Research Museum of Literature and History, Dong Yanfang, vice president of Xiling Printing Agency, a famous golden stone seal engraver, and Ge Shiping, deputy secretary of the party committee of Shanghai Shentong Metro Group Co., Ltd., attended the opening ceremony held in the cultural corridor of Nanjing East Road Station of shanghai metro. The Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger is approaching, and Mr. Mao Fan, who is famous for the "Mao Gong You Talk" series, specially hand-wrote 50 "Fu" characters, some of which will be used to create a New Year atmosphere at the station, and the other part will be distributed to lucky passengers through the official WeChat of Shanghai Metro "Shanghai Metro Shmetro".
At the same time, Mao Fan painted with the theme of "Meng Hu Ying Chun", which shanghai metro made into a subway commemorative card; he also donated some of the works in the exhibition to the Shanghai Metro Museum. At the ceremony, Ge Shiping issued a donation certificate to Maofan and jointly unveiled the subway card. In his speech, Mr. Dong Yanfang introduced Mr. Mao Fan and his works.
At present, Shanghai has formed the world's largest rail transit network of 831 kilometers, 20 lines and 508 stations. While ensuring the safety of operation and construction, Shanghai Metro also actively implements the "culture into the subway" project, inherits the urban context, creates a city cultural brand, and helps comprehensively enhance the soft power of the city. In 2021, Shanghai Metro created the "Haipai Famous Artists into the Metro" brand project, working closely with Shanghai famous artists Zhang Dingchang, Le Zhenwen, Zhang Chi, etc., so that citizens and passengers can feel the charm of Haipai art when wandering the subway space. In the future, Shanghai Metro will also work with more artists to create a "second space" for the city that is "readable, warm and affectionate".
【Artist Introduction】
Mao Fan, whose real name is Luan Guofan, is the owner of the House of LeiBu Mountain. Born in Shanghai in 1949, his ancestral home is Shandong. Mao Fan is currently a librarian of the Shanghai Municipal Museum of Culture and History, a member of the Shanghai Artists Association, a member of the Shanghai Calligraphers Association, the first batch of members of the Shanghai Printing Society, the vice president of the Shanghai Poetry Society, the chinese poetry society, and the Chinese Calligraphers Association. He has studied poetry, calligraphy and painting since childhood, and is one of the few artists who is good at poetry, books, paintings and printing. The famous calligrapher Su Juxian once wrote a poem praising the young Mao Fan for "not only the three masterpieces of Guangwen, but also the style of the Stone Han Family, and the high talent is both heavenly and thick, and the skill is self-sufficient and the world is heroic." Mao Gong believes that the way of calligraphy and painting can best reflect the essence of traditional Chinese culture, although it is broad and profound, but there should be no obscure interpretation of the mysterious. Therefore, in the process of creation, he was also influenced by the young people's Weibo and WeChat circle of friends, and created a new style of calligraphy and lettering small paintings - Mao Gong Painting Words, and calligraphy sketches - Mao Gong You Dialect. Although Mao Gong has passed the age of ancient rarity, he has always been absorbing new methods, new ideas, and new cultures, and combining traditional calligraphy and painting creation with popular culture. It is precisely his creative method of "learning from the ancients and not muding the ancients, breaking the law without violating the law" that not only makes China's excellent traditional culture an important source of literary and artistic innovation, but also gives calligraphy and painting works more humanistic connotations through new technologies, new means and new inspirations, and moves towards a new realm with more potential.
There are prizes for activities
Q: As of January 6, 2021, how many lines of the Shanghai Metro have achieved GoA4-level fully autonomous driving technology?
Xiaobian will select 5 lucky netizens among the netizens who answered correctly and give away prizes.~
Participation method: Send "#Calligraphy Sketch#+ Answer+ Name + Contact Information + Prize Address" to the WeChat public account "Shanghai Metro Shmetro"