The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics has begun, and the Winter Olympic Media Center specially presents three works invited by artist Song Lianmin for the Winter Olympics, namely "Song of the Winter Olympics", "Ruixue Red Plum" and "Qinglian Yicai".
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"Winter Olympic Song" 5x14 meters, canvas, acrylic painting, China National Convention Center Phase II, the first floor hall of the Winter Olympics Media Center, is also the only huge painting.
Artistic creation concept elaboration:
1. The Winter Olympics are "ice and snow sports"
The work "Song of the Winter Olympics" uses "ice and snow" as the basic element of creation. The whole picture from the subject matter to the tone is integrated into the atmosphere of the ice and snow world.
The water is transparent and smooth, the sex is soft, invisible and changeable, and the shape is malleable. Ice is the solid and morphological presentation of water, snow is white and pure, is the symbol of human noble sentiments, human beings dance in the world of ice, intoxicated in the falling snow, ice and snow sports embody the spirit of human beings constantly challenging the ultimate and enjoy unlimited romantic feelings. The cold hardness of the ice and the sprinkling and fluttering of snow release eternal hymns in correspondence with the spirit of human progress and pursuit of beauty.
Snowboarding is one of the coolest individual sports in the Winter Olympics, with a highly personalized posture, strong visibility, and no restriction on combination coordination. In the performance of painting, there can be cool dynamics, very dazzling costumes.
2. Beijing Winter Olympics
Both the Great Wall and the Dragon-shaped Ski Resort are important elements of Beijing, the Great Wall expresses the idea that the Chinese people adhere to their homeland and never expand and invade, and the Dragon-shaped Ski Resort embodies the romantic imagination of the Chinese people.
3. The core spirit of the Olympic Games is peace for mankind. The peace dove in the picture is a celebration of the core spirit of the Olympic Games, the peace dove unified white artistic treatment, coupled with the multicolored light refracted on the body of the pigeon, so that the whole picture is more full of pure, noble romantic feelings, but also make this sports event full of more joyful and celebratory atmosphere.
4. Expression and artistic language
The work uses the artistic expression of the fusion of Chinese and Western, in order to more fully express the connotation of the theme, the use of passionate and dynamic dazzling colors. The deep and boundless Lan steadily supports the beating of various forms in the whole picture. In the vast universe there is a planet that longs for love and peace, and the full dove of peace fills the whole picture. The artistic treatment of the pigeon's almost flat sense makes the natural mass attribute of the pigeon weakened, and to a greater extent reflects the symbolism on the spiritual level. Dove, she carries the beautiful expectations of the people of Chinese and the people of the world for peace.
In the treatment of snowy mountains, the simplicity of the language of printmaking is also used. The entire mountain background is uniformly covered with white snow to further highlight the theme spirit of the Winter Olympics. At the same time, it also sets off the vivid and dazzling dynamic characters.
The Winter Olympics is the spiritual presentation of a community with a shared future for mankind.
"Ruixue Red Plum" 3.3x6 m Chinese painting on paper. The second phase of the National Convention Center, the deputy 2nd floor of the Winter Olympics Media Center, and the global media work floor.
"Plum blossom fragrance comes from bitter cold" Her fragrance experienced severe cold. Her pride corresponds to the spiritual character of the famous Chinese people who are not afraid of difficulties and self-improvement. "No intention to fight for spring" is the presentation of our national temperament of being kind to people, being humble and self-disciplined. Red plum is the counterpart of the auspicious chinese red color of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Part of the work
2. Ruixue, koi
Ruixue and koi are all manifestations of the auspicious culture of the Chinese nation, and Ruixue red plum koi both embody the beautiful meaning of peace and Regis.
3. The work is completed with Chinese rice paper and brush, this brush leads Chinese culture through thousands of years of civilization accumulation, the brush comparison and grasp is an uninterrupted inheritance, so that the world can feel the charm of Chinese painting. Thick snow crushes the red plums. The Winter Olympics are in the middle of China's Spring Festival. The dots of snowflakes falling in the sky are superimposed with the joyful dots of red plums. Full of composition, full of festivities, full of auspiciousness in Chinese culture. We share our festivities and good wishes with guests from all over the world.
"Qinglian Yicai" 3.5x4.8 meters, Chinese painting on paper. The second phase of the National Convention Center, the second floor of the Media Center of the Winter Olympics, and the media work layer of the world.
The first two paintings are descriptions of winter, we experience winter looking forward to spring and summer, lotus blossoms in summer, lotus out of the mud and not, our culture's understanding of lotus flowers beyond the general sense of natural flowers, she carries our nation's beautiful hope for elegant and noble character.
The realistic portrayal of flowers and the freehand expression of the background form a contrast between the objective and the spiritual world. The special technique shows the infinite charm of Chinese painting. The plump red lotus is particularly dazzling against the green background, and the flower core is fragrant in the wind. Infinite elegance and romance, infinite beauty and hope.
About the Artist:
Song Lianmin, whose ancestral home is Anhui. In 1981, he was admitted to the Decorative Painting Major of the Special Arts Department of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts (now Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts), and stayed on as a teacher in 1985; He moved to Singapore in 1993 and returned to China in 2008 and now lives in Beijing. Professional artist. Over the years, he has been focusing on the artistic exploration of the fusion of traditional pen and ink and light and color, and has continuously studied and explored the creation of oil paintings and color ink paintings that integrate Chinese and Western styles, and is the leader of the integration of Chinese and Western countries after Mr. Wu Guanzhong. His works are widely recognized and loved by experts and the society at home and abroad.