Editor's note: The people are the mother of literature and art. Originating from the people, serving the people, and belonging to the people is the fundamental stand of socialist literature and art, and it is also the driving force for the prosperity and development of socialist literature and art. Literary and art workers shoulder the great mission of educating people with culture, educating people with culture, and cultivating yuan with culture, and are the backbone of promoting the great development and prosperity of socialist culture. All along, Guangdong has firmly promoted the construction of a culturally strong province, and the Southern Network Culture Channel has launched a series of reports on "People's Literature and Art", inviting literary and artistic workers in various fields in Guangdong Province to be interviewed to talk about their feelings about the construction of a culturally strong province, cultural self-confidence, and cultural inheritance and innovation.
Lingnan art culture is an important part of Chinese culture. In recent years, the Guangdong Provincial Artists Association (hereinafter referred to as the "Provincial Artists Association") has always adhered to the center, served the overall situation, took the cultivation of talents and promoted creation as its own responsibility, and insisted on helping to prosper the creation of fine arts in Guangdong and promote the prosperity and development of cultural undertakings. Recently, the reporter of the Southern Network interviewed Li Jinkun, vice chairman of the China Artists Association, chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Artists Association, and president of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.
Many large exhibitions have demonstrated the status of art as a strong province
In 2017, at the Guan Shanyue Art Museum in Shenzhen, the exhibition attracted many "little painters" to copy the works of artists who came to study artists. Nanfang Daily reporter Zhu Hongbo photographed
In recent years, Guangdong's fine arts circles have been frequently produced, and large-scale exhibitions have been continuously held, and a series of fine exhibitions have been held successively, such as "Its Destiny is New -- Guangdong Art Centennial Exhibition", "Damei 'Double Zone' - Guangdong Province Celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Special Economic Zone", "Guangdong Province Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China Fine Arts Exhibition", which show Guangdong's profound cultural heritage and long revolutionary tradition, and show the spiritual outlook and creative achievements of Guangdong artists who keep up with the times, shoulder their mission, and forge ahead.
"I think Guangdong has a good creative ecology, and the Cantonese works in these exhibitions are also the best embodiment of the quality of Guangdong's artistic creation." Li Jinkun said.
Guangdong Province Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China, an exhibition of fine art works opened, and Shi Lei, a reporter from Nanfang Daily, photographed
In 2021, the "Guangdong Provincial Exhibition of Fine Arts Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China" exhibited a total of 230 works, gathering outstanding party history themes and realistic theme works collected by the Guangdong Museum of Art and collected for the society, covering Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking, sculpture and other art categories, including the classic works of famous masters in various periods in our province, as well as the new masterpieces of outstanding young and middle-aged artists that have emerged in recent years.
Li Jinkun commented, "The exhibition comprehensively shows that over the past hundred years, under the guidance of the party's literary and artistic policy, the artists in our province have gone deep into life, rooted in the people, highlighted their social responsibilities and artistic missions, and achieved fruitful results in the creation of thematic art, and also highlighted the status and radiation of Guangdong as a strong province of fine arts." ”
Motivate creativity and drive talent training
Guangdong attaches great importance to the cultivation of art talents. Li Jinkun said that in recent years, Guangdong has done a lot of large-scale art research and exhibitions, using research and exhibitions to stimulate creation and promote talent training. At present, Guangdong already has a large number of ways to support talents and stimulate creation, such as galaxy exhibition, young seedlings project, national creative history theme base, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangdong Academy of Painting, Guangzhou Academy of Painting, etc.
Galaxy Exhibition - The 8th Guangdong Young Photographers Exhibition and Commendation Ceremony was held in Guangzhou 289 Art Space, attracting many audiences to come to see the exhibition. Nanfang Daily reporter Wan Wenlong intern Xu Jie photographed
Among them, galaxy exhibition, as the brand exhibition of the Provincial Artists Association, is an important platform for the Provincial Artists Association to promote young and middle-aged artists for a long time, aiming to promote outstanding young and middle-aged artists who have unique insights and innovative development in artistic thinking, language exploration, visual experience, and select potential artists from all over the province, hold exhibitions for them for free, and vigorously promote their artistic talents to the society. It is understood that the exhibition has been established since 1986, and this year will hold the seventy-fourth galaxy exhibition.
Guangzhou Yuexiu District Culture and Arts Center has become a national training base for young painters.
Under the leadership of the Guangdong Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Guangdong Artists Association and various art committees jointly carry out the cultivation of artistic talents, and at the same time gradually transition to the cultivation of art creation and the cultivation of art talents to the promotion of fine arts.
"In this 13th National Fine Arts Exhibition, the number of selected works in Guangdong accounted for the first place in the country. With the joint support of the provincial party committee, the provincial government and various institutions, Guangdong's fine arts and artistic creation has shown a good trend of vigorous development. Li Jinkun said that Guangdong has formed a series of art museums such as the Guangdong Museum of Art, the Lingnan Painting Museum, and the Guangdong Academy of Painting Art Museum as a consortium of talents and Guangdong cultural publicity, creating Guangdong's forefront position in the country in art creation and art exhibitions.
Do not forget the original intention to pay attention to the social and people's livelihood
When it comes to creation, Li Jinkun has quite a feeling, "I have always advocated, 'you pay attention to society, society pays attention to you' Writers and artists must maintain such a original intention, so that our creation can accompany this era and accompany history with greater development." ”
In 2021, 50 Guangdong artists, lasting 3 months, went deep into Yingde Lianzhang Village, as well as Dongxiang in Gansu, Baise in Guangxi, Liangshan Prefecture in Sichuan and Shucheng in Anhui Province to collect styles and create styles, recording the great course of winning the battle against poverty and winning the all-round well-off in the form of art, carrying out theme literary and artistic publicity, and creating a number of excellent works based on the "three rural areas", focusing on the decisive battle against poverty, serving rural revitalization, and full of the spirit of the times.
"The 'five-point hope' put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping at the National Literary Congress and the National Congress of Writers is not only an emphasis on culture, but also a very high demand on literary and art workers." Li Jinkun believes that literary and artistic creation is not only the reaction of the writers and artists themselves to society, but also the place where literary and art workers should think about how Chinese culture can show its important influence in the 21st century when China is moving to the center stage of the world.
It is understood that in order to welcome the grand convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Provincial Artists Association will continue to organize various exhibitions, and this year will combine the implementation of the Lingnan Fine Arts Creation Project to hold the "Southern Guangdong New Era ~ Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era Guangdong Practical Fine Arts Works Exhibition" to make its own contributions to the prosperity of Guangdong's art cause and the realization of the goal of building a large cultural province.
Reporter Zhou Cun, videographer Guo Haoqi, edited by Li Jiangrui, Edited by Wu Junli, correspondent Jiang Yuejun