Compared with "Only This Green" presents the poetic Northern Song Dynasty painter Wang Ximeng's "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" through dance movements, "Remembering Jiangnan" integrates music, dance, poetry, painting and other art forms into the artistic conception of "Fuchun Mountain Jutu", a Chinese landscape painting that has been handed down through the world, presenting a beautiful picture of the new era for the audience of the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Tiger. The creative music and dance poetry painting "Remembering Jiangnan" is planned by Fan Andy, chairman of the China Artists Association and president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Kang Zhen, professor of the College of Literature of Beijing Normal University, composed by Chen Qigang, and directed by Tang Ye, director of Beijing Renyi, and the work is a collection of eight actors, Pu Cunxin, Feng Yuanzheng, Li Liqun (Taiwan), Ding Zhicheng and Ayunga, Yang Zongwei (Taiwan), Zheng Qiyuan, and Cai Chengyu in the avatars of the "fisherman, woodcutter, walker, and reader" eight characters, and Huang Gongwang's masterpiece "The Four Greats of the Yuan Dynasty" Fuchun Mountain Residence" forms a visual painting that conforms to the aesthetics of contemporary stage. The Beijing News reporter interviewed director Tang Ye to reveal the story behind the creation of the show.
"Memories of Jiangnan" several starring modeling diagrams (from top to bottom: Pu Cunxin, Feng Yuanzheng, Li Liqun).
One of China's top ten world-famous paintings "Fuchun Mountain Jutu", and the two surviving "Leftover Mountain Map" and "Useless Teacher Volume" are stored in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum and the National Palace Museum in Taipei, respectively, and the music and dance poetry painting "Remembering Jiangnan" as a creative literary and artistic work of "science and technology + culture + art + thought" has reached the combination of "Fuchun Mountain Jutu" on the Spring Festival Gala stage, interpreting "the culture of the two sides of the strait is one" in an artistic way of expression. At the same time, as a literary and artistic work that takes the improvement of the cultural connotation of the Spring Festival Gala as the starting point, director Tang Ye recalled that from the beginning of December 2021, the whole team began to devote itself to creation, in addition to the communication in the early stage of music, clothing, modeling, props, etc., the most important link is to invite experts to select poems in combination with the painting "Fuchun Mountain Jutu". Tang Ye remembered that in the two poems of the Tang Dynasty poet Wu Rong's "Fuchun" and the Yuan Dynasty poet Zhou Xun's "Diaoyutai" interpreted by Feng Yuanzheng and Li Liqun respectively, there were two different versions of one sentence, and finally Tang Ye and the main creative team decided to record both versions, and then go to experts to confirm. Tang Ye recalled that the first of the four poems that appeared in "Remembrance of Jiangnan" was Su Shi's "Xingxiangzi Guoqi Lise" recited by Pu Cunxin, which was praised by experts as the work with the painting "Fuchun Mountain Jutu" among all poems. At the same time, Pu Cunxin, who was attending the "WenDai Meeting", used his leisure time to recite multiple versions in a variety of ways for the creative team to select, which also deeply touched the director Tang Ye.
According to the Central Academy of Fine Arts, this time, the program team cooperated with the artists of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and five Chinese painting artists split the "Fuchun Mountain Jutu" into nearly 150 Chinese painting elements, refining the elements that originally had only two or three strokes of ink into two flat feet to four flat feet of painting images, and striving to refine and restore on the basis of retaining the charm of Huang Gongwang's painting style. All more than 150 Chinese painting elements, after three-dimensional modeling and restoration, constitute a pure three-dimensional "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map". The hand-painting of each element ensures that the mountains, stones, and water trees of each scene are different. To restore the blank space and artistic sense of Chinese painting in the three-dimensional landscape, it is necessary to think about and grasp the scale between three-dimensional painting and Chinese painting, which is also the difficulty of this project. Tang Ye said, "The Central Academy of Fine Arts's restoration of the original painting "Fuchun Mountain Jutu" allows every actor and singer to clearly see the position of their role in the painting. It allows the actor to combine the character poems and paintings in his own limited space to make accurate interpretations. ”
It is worth mentioning that as eight characters who came out of the painting, their shape is completely based on the costumes in the painting, and the character setting requires the director and the main creative team to conceive and create by themselves. Tang Ye admitted that one of the main tasks of the main creative team at that time was to study and restore the appearance of the characters in the painting as much as possible. She requires the chanting of the characters in the play not only limited to a kind of performance-level recitation, but starting from the character setting played by each actor, with a poetic expression that conforms to the mood and mood of the role. In Tang Ye's view, the creative music and dance poetry painting "Remembering Jiangnan" most wants to highlight the joyful and peaceful scene when the family reunion Chinese New Year's Eve night, at least in the "Remembrance of Jiangnan" The eight characters in the work show leisurely self-sufficiency, and the current growing happiness index of people's lives, found a point of convergence.
Liu Zhen, a senior reporter of the Beijing News
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