Cultural festivals have always been the Spring Festival tradition of Shanghai citizens. During the Spring Festival holiday in the Year of the Tiger, nearly 40 art museums in Shanghai do not close and accompany the public to celebrate the New Year. While doing a good job in epidemic prevention, everyone may wish to go to the art museum to appreciate art and feel the breath of beauty in the New Year.
During the Spring Festival, the China Art Museum (Shanghai Art Museum) will open as usual. The exhibitions include "So Many Delicacies in Jiangshan - Collection Exhibition", "Yu Yunjie Collection Exhibition", "Born on the Sea Bright Moon - Exhibition donated by Chinese artists in the Collection of the Chinese Art Palace", "Children's Painting China Dream Pudong - The Second Fu Lei Cup National Children's Painting Exhibition", "Into the Wood - Huang Yongyu Printmaking Art Exhibition", "2021 No Question West East Invitation Exhibition", "Shanghai Chinese Academy of Painting 2022 Spring Festival Painting Exhibition", etc.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year on February 1st, the China Art Museum (Shanghai Art Museum) specially launched the "New Year Blessings and Joyful Spirits" activity to send the word "Fu" with good expectations to the first batch of visitors to the China Art Palace on the same day.
At 15:00 on February 3, in the exhibition hall on the 41-meter floor, the China Art Palace planned the "Warm Winter Sun" immersive experience activity for the majority of art lovers during the Spring Festival, which can be booked free of charge through the WeChat public account. The event invited the public to enter the exhibition hall and enjoy a cross-border interpretation of guqin, poetry, Yue opera, song and art guide while enjoying the masterpieces of the "Maritime Painting School".
During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, Liu Haisu Art Museum presented an "online + offline" feast for everyone, including colorful activities such as fighting tigers, painting tigers, printing the god of wealth, and sending blessings. It is worth mentioning that on the fifth day of the Chinese New Year, Liu Haisu Art Museum invited the public to experience printmaking at the art museum and print exclusive "God of Wealth". By printing a woodblock Print of your own, you can feel the wisdom and charm of intangible cultural heritage skills while also bringing home the Joy of the New Year.
Poster of the "Year after Year" printmaking exhibition
In order to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the "Emerging Woodcut Movement", "Year after Year Archives 2021 - The First Shanghai Contemporary Emerging Printmaking Promotion" was exhibited during the Spring Festival as the first annual exhibition of Liu Haisu Art Museum's "Year after Year" printmaking ten-year plan. The exhibition is divided into two sections: "Re-reading China's Emerging Printmaking" and "Shanghai Contemporary Printmaking Artist Promotion", introducing the history of Shanghai as the birthplace of the "Emerging Woodcut Movement", systematically reviewing the growth of "Emerging Printmaking", and also exhibiting 61 printmaking works by 9 Shanghai printmaking artists, including Wang Xilin, Fang Xiaolong, Ning Shuai, Sun Ling, Jin Xianglong, Zhao Yongquan, Xu Zengying, Liao Yang and Xiong Youfei.
"Yusuke Hanai Exhibition"
Shanghai Baolong Art Museum launched "Yinglang Present: Yusuke Hanai Solo Exhibition", "RONG Source Space Art Exhibition", "Modern Pulse: Baolong Art Exhibition", "Playing more imagination - Longbao Cross-border Art Exhibition" and other exhibitions. One hall and four exhibitions, each of which is amazing, is also a great scene for blockbuster shooting. Among them, Japanese artist Yusuke Hanai's first solo exhibition at the Shanghai Large-scale Art Museum exhibited a total of 24 paintings and 3 three-dimensional sculptures, including 12 new oil paintings on canvas that have never been publicly displayed, and the number of exhibits is the highest number of overseas exhibitions of the artist in the past years. "Playing with Imagination - Longbao Cross-border Art Exhibition" is the first solo exhibition of "Longbao" in the art museum, inviting nearly 60 well-known artists and cross-border art creators to create art through graffiti, painting, installation, sculpture and other media. From the four-leaf clover full of oceans to deliver the lucky dragon treasure, to the space dragon treasure wearing a spacesuit, from the soft material and full of handmade felt dragon treasure, to the traditional culture, dancing Tai Chi posture of Cyber Dragon Treasure, and the cockpit operation of the remote pole of the building longbao, the artists use their own language to formulate the role, interpreting the understanding of the IP image, different and wonderful.
Play more imagination - Longbao Crossover Art Exhibition
In addition, the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai exhibits "Green Policy Project 2021", "Liang Shaoji: Silkworm I Silkworm", "John Hayduk: Masquerade at Sea", "Hussein Karajan: Archipelago" and so on. Cheng Shifa Art Museum exhibited "Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China Series, and Now Moving Forward from the Beginning - 2021 Shanghai Chinese Academy of Chinese Painting Mao Zedong Poetry Theme Annual Exhibition", "Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China Series Jiangshan Picturesque - Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy Collection of Mao Zedong Poetry Theme Works Exhibition", "Dedicated to Life - Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy Collection of Cheng Shifa Works Exhibition", "Sea House Traces - Cheng Shifa's Artistic Life" and so on.