Shanghai is the birthplace of modern Chinese comics, and generations of cartoonists such as Feng Zikai, Zhang Leping, He Youzhi, Dai Dunbang, and Ding Cong have used their brushes to record the city's changing times and unique charm. The art exhibition "Painting Shanghai - Shanghai Style in Comics" came into being, jointly curated by French comic research scholar Yohan Radomski (Wang You'an) and famous Chinese curator Zhou Yi, using Chinese, English and French characters. This morning, nearly 600 masterpieces by 18 Chinese and foreign cartoonists and four collectors appeared in Shanghai Culture Square, telling the inseparable relationship between Chinese and foreign comics and the city of Shanghai.
Illustration: Exhibition site Official picture (the same below)
Look at the comic strip Shanghai New Year's Taste
"In the middle of winter, the kitchen, which has been silent for a long time, is hot, killing chickens and ducks, grinding glutinous rice flour, omelette dumplings, making smoked fish, plus cleaning inside and outside, changing bed sheets and duvet covers, and rushing in and out of the Shikumen, full of joy." This is the picture of the festival depicted by Luo Xixian in "Preparing for the Most Noisy New Year". Fan Shengfu's children's paintings "pasting spring leagues", "firing cannons" and "pulling rabbit lights", the atmosphere of the old and small lively New Year's day came alive on the paper. The "Paint Shanghai" comic exhibition is on the occasion of the New Year, a series of vivid cartoons, with the audience to reminisce about the daily and festive atmosphere of shikumen, the crowded and lively scene is filled with a strong new year and human touch, depicting the people's love for life and the surging vitality of the city life, and more reflecting the harmony of neighbors, watching out for each other, and the paradise of happy life.
Overlooking the new and old Shanghai style
The combination of East and West and the sea is the charm of Haipai culture. Artists from all over the world gather in Shanghai to find the source of spiritual belonging and creation. Whether it is "Kiss" painted by Feng Zikai, "Baimei Tu" by Ding Shu, "Sanmao" by Zhang Leping and Dai Dunbang, "I Came from the Folk", Ding Cong's literati portrait cartoon, the humorous small painting of contemporary cartoonists Tango and La Ptite Lu (France), or Thierry Robin (France) 'Ball Lightning" based on Liu Cixin's science fiction novel, they are all depicting and thanking the city of Shanghai with their own works. Bring the comfort of the heart and the fun imagination to the vast number of readers.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, known as the "cradle of Chinese comic strips", and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mr. He Youzhilao, who served as an editor in the company. The series of "Walking through the Streets and Reminiscing about the Past" in this exhibition, as well as the four original works "He YouZhi Painting Three Hundred and Sixty Lines" series provided by the Shanghai Municipal History Museum, were all painted by Elder He at the age of eighty or ninety, completely based on his own memory. With this special talent and the way he painted about old Shanghai, he left us with precious historical fragments. Another example is the painter Dai Hongqian, who poured his consistent humanistic feelings into urban architecture, and was invited by Shanghai Airlines magazine to paint a series of paintings for the 17th district of Shanghai (now merged into 16 districts) for his hometown. (Chief reporter of Xinmin Evening News, Sun Jiayin)