In anticipation of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, the Art Museum of the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts opened two new exhibitions this week. Among them, the "Focus - 2022 Winter Olympic Games Theme International Printmaking Exchange Exhibition" selected the works of 53 artists from 42 countries, reflecting the perfect integration of printmaking art and the Olympic spirit; "Three Years of The Three Dynasties - Beijing Academy of Paintings Collection of Qi Baishi Works new year special exhibition" focused on the works qi Baishi painted for the New Year festival and a better life, setting off the happy, peaceful and festive festive atmosphere of the Chinese New Year.
53 artists from 42 countries paint "The Beauty of the Winter Olympics"
In order to enhance the understanding and attention of people from all over the world to the Beijing Winter Olympic Games and ice and snow projects, the "Focus - 2022 Winter Olympic Games Theme International Printmaking Exchange Exhibition" launched on January 18 invited artists who are more active in the contemporary international printmaking industry to take the Beijing Winter Olympics as the theme and carefully create works that not only have the artistic value of printmaking, but also reflect the Olympic spirit. The event was enthusiastically participated by artists from all over the world, and a total of 53 artists from 42 countries were selected to participate in the exhibition.
Participating artists from China, Vietnam, usa/cuba (dual nationality), Ukraine, united Kingdom, Thailand, Syria, Sri Lanka, Spain, South Korea, South Africa, Slovakia, Singapore, Serbia, Russia, Romania, Portugal, Poland, Palestine, Pakistan, Macedonia, Netherlands, Nepal, Morocco, Mexico, Latvia, Kosovo, Italy, Ireland, Iraq, India, Hungary, Greece, Germany, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Chile , Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bangladesh, Australia, Argentina. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, artists from all over the world have completed the main creation of their works in their own countries, and through digital cloud video communication technology, they have communicated online with the technicians of the Guanlan Printmaking Base to print prints remotely. This is also a successful attempt at international cooperation, expanding a new model of international printmaking art exchange.
In the exhibition, artists from all over the world depict the charm and characteristics of ice and snow sports through prints, and engrave "the beauty of world civilization", "the beauty of Chinese culture" and "the beauty of the Beijing Olympic scene" with iron pens, especially the "beauty of sports" and the "spiritual beauty" of Olympic athletes in the ice and snow world. Their art carries their own unique cultural concepts, printmaking skills, and praise for the "beauty of the Winter Olympics" in Beijing, expressing mankind's vision of a better tomorrow under the guidance of the Olympic spirit and the spirit of internationalism, and conveying the confidence and strength to overcome difficulties. The concentrated display of these masterpieces also allows the world to share the excitement of the Beijing Winter Olympics through the creative printmaking art, share the Olympic spirit of fair competition, mutual understanding, unity and fraternity, and let different civilizations and different races work together to the future and paint a beautiful picture of common progress.
The exhibition was included in the "Meet in Beijing" Olympic Cultural Festival and the 22nd "Meet in Beijing" International Art Festival, which will be on display until February 20.
Qi Baishi's masterpieces bring together good New Year wishes
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.
As a special exhibition specially planned for the Chinese New Year Festival, the theme of the "Three Years of the Dynasty and the Three Years - The New Year Special Exhibition of Qi Baishi's Works collected by the Beijing Academy of Paintings" launched on January 21 covers a variety of genres such as aquariums, flowers, birds, vegetables and fruits, figures, miscellaneous paintings, calligraphy and so on, hoping to borrow Qi Baishi's artistic masterpieces full of auspicious atmosphere to accompany the audience to usher in a tiger and tiger vitality.
"Year Dynasty Chart" refers to the painting of the first year of the spring. Qi Baishi's year map is different from the aristocratic life or literati character of his predecessors, and 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 to the lives of the people. In the exhibition hall, Qi Baishi's drawings of the Dynasty and a number of calligraphy and paintings with auspicious meanings not only represent the old man's wish for a good year, but also create a strong sense of spring for the audience.
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 Ulshan. 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". Audiences can learn more about the story behind this set of works in the video played live in the exhibition hall.
Qi Baishi is a well-known "People's Artist" in China, and his small fish, shrimp and grass worms have left a deep impression on people. After the founding of New China, although the material conditions were relatively scarce, there were also aesthetic needs in people's daily lives, so many daily necessities such as washbasins, warm pots, notebooks, etc., were selected from Qi Baishi's image of aquariums and grass worms, becoming the most successful "cultural and creative" products in the last century. In recent years, the Beijing Academy of Painting has designed the elements in Qi Baishi's art to develop "cultural and creative" products that are more in line with people's aesthetics today. In this exhibition, the daily necessities such as enamel washbasins and warm pots produced in the early days of the founding of New China are displayed side by side with the newly developed cultural and creative products of the Beijing Academy of Painting, and the audience can feel the changes of the times and the eternal charm of Qi Baishi art in the strong contrast between new and old products.
On the occasion of the exhibition, the WeChat emoji "Baishi Coming , New Year' Chapter" 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. The exhibition will be on view until April 5.