Xu Peichen with his nine art galleries
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Xu Peichen, born in 1951, is a native of Pei County, Jiangsu Province. He is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Fine Arts of Nanjing Normal University, a cooperative tutor of the postdoctoral mobile station (fine arts), a member of the 10th Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the China Artists Association, the president of the China Friendship International Art Exchange Institute of the Chinese Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the chief expert of the Jiangsu Provincial Art Construction Research Base, the researcher of the Calligraphy and Painting Institute of the Central Research Museum of Literature and History, the librarian of the Jiangsu Provincial Research Museum of Literature and History, and the honorary president of the Jiangsu Provincial Flower and Bird Painting Research Association.
His works have participated in many national art exhibitions and won gold medals in national fine art exhibitions. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the National Art Museum of China, the National Museum of China, Zhongnanhai, the Great Hall of the People, chairman Mao Memorial Hall and other units have collected his masterpieces.
He has published more than 40 books, including the collection of essays and paintings, "Xu Peichen's Art Anthology", "Outline of Monkey Painting Techniques", "Xu Peichen's Painting Collection", "Chinese Modern and Contemporary Famous Artists' Painting Collection-Xu Peichen", "Vitality and Elegance- The World of Chinese Flower and Bird Painting" (Commercial Press), "Mountain Forest Han Ink Love" (People's Publishing House) and so on.
The museum was originally a tree beauty style
Text/Gao Zehong
I remember that it was the spring of 2005, Teacher Xu Peichen led more than 20 students from the Calligraphy Department of Nanjing Normal University to Ma'anshan to collect wind, and we enjoyed the beautiful scenery of Jiangji in Quarry Rock Park, and saw the contemporary Grass Sacred Forest Scattered Art Museum next to Wanzhu Garden, and the Li Baiguan Tomb and TaibaiLou on the mountainside.
In front of The Cursive Couplet of Fan Pei of Lin Sanzhi Art Museum, I stopped and talked with Teacher Xu, who said to me: "Ma'anshan City wants to create three urban cultural business cards of poetry, books and paintings, poetry is Li Bai, books are Lin Sanzhi, paintings are selected by me in the country, the art museum is currently planning and construction, and I am also carefully preparing my own works." ”
At the end of 2007, I suddenly received a call from Mr. Xu, telling me that his art museum would hold an opening ceremony in Ma'anshan Zhuran Cultural Park on New Year's Day in 2008, inviting our classmates to go to the bustle together, and Chang Chang and I and other students witnessed this historic moment.
In the more than ten years from 2008 to 2021, local governments have set up nine art museums for Mr. Xu Peichen, which I have personally witnessed and executed many things. From Lianyungang Huaguo Mountain at the top of Jiangsu to Tianmu Lake in Liyang, from the foothills of Yunlong Mountain in Xuzhou to the ancient town under the river in Huai'an, from the city living room on tianjin coast to the Chinese Water Margin Garden in Dafeng, to the Gefeng Terrace in the hometown of the Han Emperor, I have left my footprints for the opening of the art museum.
And we saw more than 1,000 paintings of Professor Xu Peichen's exquisite works in nine art galleries as large as six feet of the whole twelve-tone screen, as small as a flat foot of the fan, the expression techniques from the brush to the freehand, the paintings cover landscapes, flowers and birds, people, each work is the expression of Mr. Wang's emotions at the end of the pen. In particular, Teacher Xu's ape can be described as a lyrical spirit. He gave the spirit of the ape era, and conveyed the voice-over to everyone in his own pen and ink language - harmony and symbiosis, which is the profound beauty of Xu's art.
For nearly twenty years, I have the impression that the gentleman has been waving his pen before the plate wall, and it is really appropriate to use "swing the board wall to make a public". Therefore, I also thought of using the verse of Bai Juyi's "Selling Charcoal" to describe Teacher Xu, where does Mr. Xu paint? In fact, since Mr. Xu stayed in school in 1976, he has purchased four treasures for each student, taken students to Zhaji, Huangshan, Xishuangbanna and other places at his own expense to sketch, donated funds to build roads for poor mountainous areas, and supported the Red Cross and the Hope Project. However, Teacher Xu's life is too simple to be simple, a bunch of cloth clothes, coarse tea and light rice, the four walls of the home in addition to a few shelves of books and rice paper are painting board walls, he can be said to be extremely harsh on his living life. He spent more energy on the purchase of ancient calligraphy and painting works, Han portrait stones (bricks), Han seals, Han Jane, Han bronzes, Majiayao cultural faience pottery, etc., and the calligraphy and painting cultural relics he purchased were all donated to the art museum set up by the state. Among these famous calligraphy and painting works are Wen Zhengming, Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Duo, Zheng Banqiao, Jin Nong, Li Fangyi, Li Kun, Wang Wenzhi, Ding Guanpeng, Su Liupeng, Li Ruiqing, Wu Changshuo, Xu Gu, Li Shutong, Huang Binhong, Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Lin Fengmian, Fu Baoshi, Yu Feimin, Gao Qifeng, Guo Moruo, Li Keyan, Li Kuchan, Liu Haisu, Shi Lu, Huang Yin, Pu Ru, Lu Yushao, Liu Jijie, Qian Songyan, Yaming, Song Wenzhi, Wei Zixi, Lin Sanzhi, Guo Weiruo, Qi Gong, Xu Bangda and others. Teacher Xu Peichen once said at a work donation ceremony - "These works can only be appreciated by our family at home, and donating to the country can make more people appreciate", I think this may be the original intention of Teacher Xu to build the museum and realize the aesthetic value of art. He is a teacher, he uses the brush in his hand to preach and teach, he expresses to the public his artistic aesthetic orientation and cultural composition, and at the same time subtly realizes the social value of purifying the public's soul.
(About author:Gao Zehong, born in 1986, a native of Pizhou, Jiangsu Province, master of calligraphy from Nanjing Normal University, member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, member of the Seal Committee of the Jiangsu Young Calligraphers Association, director of the Nanjing Calligraphers Association, and vice chairman of the Gulou District Calligraphers Association. ）
Anhui Ma'anshan
The museum opened on January 1, 2008
Ma'anshan Xu Peichen Art Museum
On January 1, 2008, the "Xu Peichen Art Museum" named after Xu Peichen, the "Monkey King of the East", was inaugurated in Zhuran Park, Ma'anshan. The museum is another cultural project in Ma'anshan City after the Shixian Li Bai Memorial Hall and the Contemporary Grass Sacred Forest Sanzhi Art Museum, which is of great significance to promoting cultural exchanges in the Yangtze River Delta. The city attaches great importance to the demonstration and construction of Xu Peichen Art Museum, inspected Xu Peichen's art for two years, invested 20 million yuan in the first phase, and set up Xu Peichen Art Museum in Zhuran Park with the connotation of The Culture of the Three Kingdoms on the side of Zhu Ran Cemetery, a key cultural relics protection unit in the country. Zhuran Cultural Park is a commemorative park with the theme of Zhu Ran, a historical figure of Eastern Wu, and the culture of the Three Kingdoms, covering an area of 82,000 square meters and a green area of 65,000 square meters. The park has a large bronze relief wall showing the war scenes of the Three Kingdoms period, and the ancient tomb of Zhu Ran, a national key cultural relic, is preserved on one side of the park. The main hall of Xu Peichen Art Museum is built on the east side of the park square, which is an antique two-story building in imitation of the Han style, displaying more than 200 representative works of painters in various periods, which are both refined by gong pen and freehand. On the second floor, 100 calligraphy and painting works and 104 Chinese seals collected by the painter such as Zheng Banqiao, Dai Xi, Fu Baoshi, Wu Hufan and other ancient and modern masters are exhibited. Located on the south side of the Park Square, the annex is also an antique building in the imitation of han style, displaying more than 100 pieces of Qin and Han portrait bricks with different decorations collected by the painter.
Jiangsu Lianyungang Huaguo Mountain
The museum opened on October 26, 2013
Huaguoshan Xu Peichen Art Museum
Jiangsu Lianyungang Huaguoshan Xu Peichen Art Museum with a total investment of 25 million yuan, covers an area of 4,000 square meters, construction area of 2,000 square meters, with five halls, two corridors and one pavilion, exhibiting more than 200 Chinese paintings of apes by Professor Xu Peichen, with different themes and forms of expression, including the huge twelve-tone screen "Xianshan Hundred Monkeys" with painstakingly planned six-foot paper, the Zhangliu giant "Rui Xuefei in front of the Water Curtain Cave", and also a one-foot fan surface with meticulous handwriting; both the white drawings of the 1980s "Qunxian ZhushouTu" and the gongbi " Rainforest Ape Sound" "Red-faced Monkey", there are also self-painted blue and white porcelain plum vases, purple sand pots, etc.; its collection of guo Moruo, Yu Feimin, YaMing, Chen Dayu, Wu Hufan, Li Kuchan and other celebrity calligraphy and paintings and precious Han portrait stones, Han seals, Han mirrors and Han figurines have also been donated and publicly displayed, in order to enrich the cultural connotation of Huaguoshan Scenic Area, so that the "monkey" culture of Lianyungang is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Wu Cheng'en wrote a monkey alive, Xu Peichen painted a monkey alive, and through the series of activities of Lianyungang's "2013 Journey to the West Cultural Festival and Silk Road Economic Belt (East, Central and Western Region) Cooperation Forum", the popularity of the HuaguoShan Scenic Area of Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area was pushed to a new height.
Liyang City, Jiangsu Province
The museum opened on April 30, 2014
Liyang Xu Peichen Art Museum
Liyang Art Museum and Xu Peichen Art Museum are state-owned public cultural institutions approved by the municipal party committee, which undertake many functions such as the prosperity and development of the city's public art undertakings and Xu Peichen's chinese painting art research and exchange training. Xu Peichen Art Museum is located in the cultural and art center of Liyang Cultural Park, with an area of 4300 square meters, two large blocks: branch building area and landscape area. Among them, the use area of the pavilion area is 3300 square meters, which is divided into theme exhibition halls, public exhibition halls, Chinese painting studios, calligraphy studios and other functional facilities. Liyang Xu Peichen Art Museum has a total of 232 pieces of Calligraphy and Painting Works such as Xu Peichen's Chinese Paintings of Apes, and also collects 254 pieces donated by Mr. Xu Peichen, including 77 celebrity calligraphy paintings, 4 ancient fabrics, 10 Majiayao pottery pots, 1 woodcut, 1 bronze Ding, 1 Tang San color plate (set), 3 fossil fish, 40 ancient Persian seals, 32 Han portrait bricks, 37 Han portrait stones, and 48 Han pottery figurines. There are 87 pieces on display this time, many of which are rare treasures, including the inscription of Ma Shijun of Liyang in the eighteenth year of Qing Shunzhi (1661), and the works of contemporary masters such as Yu Fei, Wu Guanzhong, Lu Yushao, YaMing, Li Kuchan, qigong and so on; there are ancient Chinese artworks such as Han portrait stones, Majiayao faience pottery, bronze Ding, Tang San color plates, and ancient extraterritorial artworks such as ancient Persian seals, which can be described as exquisite and beautiful. The museum will add elegant and bright colors to the beautiful Liyang, become a dazzling new cultural attraction, and provide a platform for tourists at home and abroad to appreciate classic art.
Xuzhou, Jiangsu
The museum opened on May 30, 2014
Xuzhou Xu Peichen Art Museum
Xu Peichen Art Museum was established in Xuzhou Museum. The museum collects more than 120 pieces of his personal works donated by Xu Peichen and 30 pieces of hand-painted blue and white porcelain and purple sand pots, and donated more than 500 works of calligraphy and paintings and more than 1,000 pieces of famous calligraphy and painting works such as Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Li Kun, Zhang Daqian, Wu Changshuo and other calligraphy and paintings in his collection, and he has donated more than 500 works he has created and a batch of Majiayao cultural colored pottery, bronzes, Han portrait stones, Han portrait bricks, Han Jian, Han Seal, Han mirrors, Han Tang figurines and other precious cultural relics and more than 1,000 pieces of famous calligraphy and painting works that he has carefully collected over the years. Among them, famous calligraphers and painters include Zheng Banqiao, Fu Baoshi, Shi Lu, Li Kuchan, Wang Fuchang, Zhao Yuncheng, Zhang Boying, Bai Shao, Guo Moruo, Yu Feimin, Lu Yushao, Qi Gong, Xu Bangda, Lin Sanzhi, Fei Xinmei, Xiao Xian, Gao Ershi, Guo Weiruo, Liao Jingwen, Wang Xuezhong, Li Jianchen, Yu Jianhua, Yaming, Song Wenzhi, Wu Guanzhong, Li Qun, Cheng Shifa, Yang Renkai, Li Xiongcai, Liu Wenxi, Wang Gegui, Yu Jigao, Wei Tianchi, etc., and their influence and value are immeasurable.
Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province
The museum opened on September 28, 2017
Huai'an Xu Peichen Art Museum
Wu Cheng'en Former Residence Xu Peichen Art Museum is located in the former residence of Wu Chengen in Hexia Ancient Town, Huai'an District, Huai'an City, and is a national AAAA-level scenic spot. Xu Peichen Art Museum is an imitation Ming Dynasty building, with a construction area of about 10,000 square meters. A total of 108 works by Professor Xu Peichen from various periods are exhibited in the art museum.
The establishment of The Xu Peichen Art Museum, the former residence of Wu Cheng'en, has added a strong stroke to the creation of the "Journey to the West" culture in Huai'an District. On the morning of September 28, 2017, Huai'an Art Museum held the opening ceremony of "Xu Peichen Art Museum" and the donation of works. Dai Shunzhi, former vice governor of Jiangsu Provincial Government, Zhang Jianhua, director of the Education, Science, Culture and Health Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress, chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, and secretary of the party leading group, Cai Lixin, deputy secretary of the Huai'an Municipal Party Committee and acting mayor, and Xu Zijia, secretary of the Huai'an District Party Committee, attended the opening ceremony and unveiled the "Xu Peichen Art Museum". Tang Hui, director of the China Artists Association and deputy general manager of Rong Baozhai, Li Zhonghua, honorary chairman of the Chinese Poetry Association, Ni Yannian, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Nanjing Normal University, Xu Peichen, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Nanjing Normal University, and district leaders Shi Enpei and Yan Fu attended the ceremony. The ceremony was presided over by Zhang Jianchuang, member of the Standing Committee of the Huai'an District CPC Committee and director of the Propaganda Department.
Dafeng District, Yancheng, Jiangsu Province
The museum opened on October 27, 2018
Dafeng Xu Peichen Art Museum
Shi Nai'an Hometown Scenic Area is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction, and the establishment of Xu Peichen Art Museum in Shi Nai'an Hometown Scenic Area to add new cultural highlights is the need of the development of the times and the desire of the people. Xu Peichen Art Museum settled in the home of the author of the cultural giant 'Water Margin', which added a rich and colorful stroke to this place that originally had historical and cultural heritage.
In 2018, the main body of the Shuihu Cultural Experience Center was completed, in order to create a brand of poetry and painting Baiju and add the cultural connotation of the thousand-year-old town, Baiju Town sincerely invited Mr. Xu Peichen, a famous calligrapher and painter in the mainland, to build the "Xu Peichen Calligraphy and Painting Art Museum" in the experience center, with an exhibition area of 1,000 square meters, and the existing calligraphy and painting works carefully created by mr. Xu Peichen, a famous calligrapher and painter, and his personal collection of nearly 150 calligraphy and painting treasures of Yang Jianhou, He Jingzhi and Yu Jigao, have been donated to the Shi Nai'an Hometown Scenic Area for permanent exhibition. Xu Peichen Calligraphy and Painting Fine Art Exhibition Hall is the sixth Xu Peichen Art Exhibition Hall in China, which carefully plans the layout according to the theme of calligraphy and painting and the cultural elements of Shuihu, creating a rich atmosphere of exhibition art, presenting the unique charm of Shuihu culture for tourists.
Tianjin Binhai New Area
May 28
Xu Peichen Art Museum on the coast
Tianjin Binhai New Area Xu Peichen Art Museum is located in the Tianjin Binhai New Area Cultural Center Art Museum. Binhai New Area Art Museum is a collection of modern and contemporary art
A comprehensive venue integrating art exhibitions, art collections, academic research, art promotion, art education and cultural exchanges. The museum houses Xu Peichen
A total of more than 70 masterpieces from various periods have been taught, laying a profound cultural foundation for building a living room in a coastal city and enriching the cultural life of the people.
Pei County, Jiangsu
May 18, 2020
Peixian Xu Peichen Art Museum
Jiangsu Peixian Xu Peichen Art Museum is located in the Peixian Scenic Area Songfeng Terrace, the venue construction area of 3600 square meters, by Xu Peichen Calligraphy and Painting Museum, Xu Peichen donated calligraphy and painting collection hall, Xu Peichen donated Han portrait stone hall and Xu Peichen art studio three parts, a total of more than 180 Xu Peichen calligraphy and painting works, Xu Peichen donated more than 200 pieces of calligraphy and painting collection and more than 30 pieces of Han portrait stone.
Changzhou University, Jiangsu
September 29, 2021
Xu Peichen Art Museum, Changzhou University
On the afternoon of September 29, 2021, the signing ceremony of "Xu Peichen Art Museum of Changzhou University" was held in the Lixing Building of West Taihu Lake Campus. Xu Peichen, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Nanjing Normal University, Chen Qun, secretary of the Party Committee of Changzhou University, Huang Haiyan, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and vice president, and Yang Lin, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and director of the Propaganda Department, attended the meeting. The operation team of Xu Peichen Art Research Institute and the heads of relevant departments such as the Party Office, the Development Regulation Office, and the School of Art and Design of Changzhou University attended the meeting. Huang Haiyan presided over the signing ceremony. Chen Qun pointed out that the school will take the title of "Xu Peichen Art Museum of Changzhou University" as an opportunity to inherit Mr. Xu Peichen's great love and great beauty, strengthen the leading role of art and culture, and build the art museum into a cultural business card of Changda. Xu Peichen introduced the 100 self-created calligraphy and painting works and 40 famous calligraphy and paintings that he intends to donate to the art museum. Chen Qun and Xu Peichen jointly signed the cooperation agreement of "Xu Peichen Art Museum of Changzhou University", and the school issued a letter of appointment to Xu Peichen as a master tutor. The Xu Peichen Art Museum of Changzhou University is the first art museum established by Professor Xu Peichen in the university.
Xu Peichen Art Museum collection and Xu Peichen donated cultural relics
Xu Peichen donated more than 370 Han portrait stones (bricks) to the art museum
Painted Brick "God of War Veyron"
"Greeting the Carriage horse"
"Greeting the Carriage and Horse Diagram" (partial)
Xu Peichen Art Museum has dozens of pieces of Majiayao faience pottery in its collection
An ancient seal donated by Xu Peichen to the Art Museum
Han Jian in the collection of Xu Peichen Art Museum
Xu Peichen Art Museum has a collection of bronzes such as Ding, Jue, Dun, and Gong, which provide important physical materials for the study of ancient ceremonial vessels on the mainland
Xu Peichen donated ancient and modern calligraphy and paintings to the art museum
Xu Peichen is a calligrapher and painter with collection standards and artistic height. Unlike investment, investment is dedicated to collecting what others like, and what he likes, he is willing to show it to others, or even donate it free of charge, so that more people have the opportunity to watch and get their own share of the influence. He donated more than 400 paintings and calligraphy works by famous artists, including Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Zheng Banqiao, Li Kun, Ding Guanpeng, Su Liupeng, Wang Duo, Wu Changshuo, Zhang Daqian, Li Keyan, Huang Binhong, Shi Lu, Guo Moruo, Yu Feimin, Wang Gegui, Qian Shantie, Zhao Yuncheng, Lin Sanzhi and other famous artists. These works have accompanied him, and he hopes that through the display, these calligraphy and painting works will accompany more people.
Title: Ming Wen Zhengming "Long Forest Over the Rain"
Xu Peichen's paintings
Apes are natural treasures, animal primates, human companions. After the appreciation and analysis of Xu Peichen's ape paintings, the commentators have produced a horizontal comparison of artistic cognition, Wu Cheng'en has written monkeys as gods, six-year-old children have refined monkeys, and Xu Peichen has painted monkeys to the end. Here, different forms and fields of artistic creation are compared, and they can reach a wonderful realm. Wu Cheng'en is god-oriented, and at the cultural level, he borrows pen power to make monkeys magically descend demons and demons; six-year-old children are people-oriented, and use their acting skills to make monkeys the ultimate expression of characterization at the mythological level; Xu Peichen takes monkeys as the foundation and uses pen and ink at the artistic level to restore conceptual monkeys to the main body of life in nature, drawing the true nature of monkeys.
Xu Peichen has achieved the unity of painting-oriented, monkey-oriented, and people-oriented aesthetics, and can be declared that his monkey painting creation full of monkey nature has been completed. On the road of philosophical culture and family building, he will continue to explore the historic humanistic space and expand the Garden of Eden for artistic beings.
——Sha Ke, "Restoring the True Nature of Apes with Danqing Freehand: On the Aesthetic Correspondence of Xu Peichen's Paintings, Monkeys, and Humanities" (excerpted from Discourse on Literary and Art Criticism, Unity Publishing House, 2020)
Title: "Lyrical Song"
Title: "Endless Yangtze River Rolling"
"Hundred Monkeys" - Chinese painting