Beijing, September 26 (China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Jiang Xiaobin) Qingdao watercolor painting is a symphony of the sea and the sky, and an important part of Chinese watercolor painting. Yesterday afternoon, the "National Art Museum of China Academic Invitation Series Exhibition - Qingdao Watercolor" exhibition opened at the National Art Museum of China. The exhibition features more than 200 works by more than 100 artists, including Works from the Collection of the National Art Museum of China such as Chen Jian's Harvest and Wang Shaobo's Fishing Song.
Wang Shaobo, "Fishing Song", 150cmX170cm, 2005, National Art Museum of China
Chen Jian, Harvest, 2010, Watercolor on Paper, 151.3×101.4cm, National Art Museum of China
Wu Weishan, director of the National Art Museum of China, said that Qingdao itself is a beautiful watercolor painting on earth: blue sea and blue sky, red tiles and green trees, sail films, shadows between the verdants, and bright colors. As one of the first places in China to introduce watercolor painting, Qingdao, regardless of urban style or climatic characteristics, inherently contains a "sense of substitution" of watercolor expression.
As early as the 1920s and 1930s, watercolor painting swept through the area, and through the efforts of several generations of artists, it took root, germinated and grew in the land of Qingdao, and finally formed a magnificent, cheerful and flexible regional style. The development process of Qingdao watercolor painting has witnessed the institutional and social changes of Qingdao city since the 20th century, with distinct regional and contemporary characteristics. Wen Yiduo, Xu Yongqing, Lü Pin... Qingdao has bred a large number of excellent painters, and Qingdao has become a veritable watercolor town.
Du Dakai, "One impression of Qingdao", 31cm×41cm, 2018 Private collection
Yan Wenzheng, "Wind and Rain Pier", 37cm×50cm, 1989 Private collection
Especially in the 1990s, a large number of Qingdao watercolor painters based on the cultural context of Qingdao City created a large number of watercolor works with local characteristics and group characteristics, which had an important impact on the national watercolor industry.
The exhibition is sponsored by the National Art Museum of China, the Qingdao Municipal People's Government, and the Qingdao Municipal Committee of the Chinese Political Consultative Conference. The exhibition is presented in Halls 3, 5, 7 and 11 of the National Art Museum of China and will be on display until October 7 (closed on Monday).
Source: China Youth Daily client