In order to welcome the New Year, the Beijing Academy of Painting has specially planned to launch the "Three Years of the Dynasty - The New Year Special Exhibition of Qi Baishi Works Collected by the Beijing Academy of Paintings" which will meet with the general public on January 21, 2022. As a special exhibition specially planned for the Chinese New Year festival, this exhibition focuses on the works painted by Qi Baishi for the Spring Festival and a better life, and the themes cover a variety of genres such as aquariums, flowers and birds, vegetables and fruits, figures, miscellaneous paintings, calligraphy and so on.
"Year Dynasty Map" refers to the painting of the first spring of the year, which is not only the traditional subject of Chinese painting, but also an important part of the traditional Chinese traditional culture. Since its birth, the year of the dynasty has been circulated in the inner court of the court and the literati and scholars, and the content of the picture is mostly flowers, trees, gold stones, etc. that express the life of the nobility or the character of the literati. Qi Baishi's year map is different from his predecessors, he brings together the firecrackers, red lanterns and winter fruits commonly used by the people during the New Year, with a red color representing auspiciousness and festivity, which greatly popularizes the "year map" into the lives of ordinary people. Qi Baishi's paintings of the New Year dynasty and a number of calligraphy and paintings with auspicious meanings not only represent the old people's wishes for a good year, but also create a strong sense of spring for the audience.
"Sanyu" is an allusion to the ancients' education of cherishing time, and chen shou's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Zhi, Dong Yu Biography" reads: "The winter is the rest of the year, the night is the day, and the rain is also the time of the rain." Qi Baishi's life was very diligent in learning for art, and he summed up his "three surpluses" in combination with his own situation, that is, "when the poet sleeps, when the painter works, and when the life expectancy is robbed." This can be understood as his attitude towards literary and artistic creation and his feelings about life experiences, and although the sentences are simple, they contain deep meaning.
What is more worth mentioning is that the exhibition will also focus on Qi Baishi's extremely rare zodiac group painting "Twelve Genera Diagrams", which was composed by Qi Baishi's friend Guan Ulsan. Initially, in the face of Guan Weishan's request for painting, Qi Baishi refused. The reason is that he has never seen a dragon, which violates his principle of not painting unseen things. Fortunately, Guan Ulsan did not give up, and every year through the painting shop to qi Baishi to order paintings, and finally spent four years to finally collect this set of "Twelve Genera Diagrams".
Many of Qi Baishi's works were born in turbulent times, so the old people who have experienced vicissitudes often express their yearning and wishes for a peaceful and peaceful life at the end of their pens, and the peaceful and auspicious meanings in the paintings have also deeply touched the audience in the past hundred years. This exhibition also hopes to borrow Qi Baishi's artistic masterpieces full of auspicious atmosphere to set off the festive atmosphere of joy, harmony and festivities of the Chinese New Year, and more importantly, to bring spiritual pleasure to the audience and usher in a tiger and tiger year.
On the occasion of the official launch of the exhibition, the WeChat emoji "Baishi Coming , New Year" designed with Qi Baishi's paintings and calligraphy works as elements and combined with the scene of online chat dialogue was also officially launched, and from January 21, the audience can download it for free and receive a copy of Qi Baishi's New Year's wishes on their mobile phones.
It is reported that the exhibition will last until April 5.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Wang Yan
Editor/Ying Qiao