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In the eyes of the artist, the landscape of the city is the landscape of culture and the material for creation. The picturesque Weihai is naturally more favored by painters. In 2017, the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government proposed to build Weihai into an original base for oil painting art, and the Chinese oil painting town located in Sun Jia yan came into being. This year, Chen Wenwen, who worked in the Huancui District Education and Sports Bureau, was transferred here, and in the past five years, the oil painting town has changed a small fishing village and also changed Chen Wenwen's life.
Chen Wenwen, director of the China Oil Painting Town Construction Guidance Center: "(These paintings) are all children (works), you see, whether from the specifications or from the content, these two (works) are better to put together ..."
In the past few days, nearly 200 more oil paintings have arrived in the Chinese oil painting town, and Chen Wenwen and the resident painters who came to set up the exhibition have begun to get busy. Exhibitions of oil paintings like this are the norm here. As one of the builders of the town, Chen Wenwen and his colleagues have been busy organizing high-quality, large-scale and influential brand exhibitions, academic exchanges and popularization activities for the past five years.
Chen Wenwen, director of the China Oil Painting Town Construction Guidance Center: "In recent years, we have carried out a series of academic mutual visits, exchanges and cultural promotion activities with professional institutions and groups in Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Shaanxi, Hunan and other provinces, and now, we have formed a cooperative relationship with nearly 100 professional institutions and universities in China. ”
After busy setting up the exhibition, Chen Wenwen remembered a batch of oil paintings recently created by young painters in the artist's residence.
Chen Wenwen, director of the China Oil Painting Town Construction Guidance Center: "The size of the entire batch of works is relatively small, and the content is based on the natural scenery and humanities of Weihai, so such works are still relatively marketable for our mass consumption." ”
The creative activities of more than 60 resident painters and 8 famous artists have injected a steady stream of vitality into the development of the town. Chen Wenwen told us that in the past five years, cultivating and introducing artists in order to build a Chinese oil painting town has always been the top priority of his work.
Chen Wenwen, director of the China Oil Painting Town Construction Guidance Center: "Because the number and scale of our artists are concentrated to a certain extent, then their needs will naturally be transformed into a market." ”
In order to make the oil painting town grow faster and better, the Weihai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have introduced one support policy after another, throwing an "olive branch" to outstanding painters at home and abroad. Chen Wenwen is the inviter and gatekeeper of the painters to settle in the town.
Chen Wenwen, director of the China Oil Painting Town Construction Guidance Center: "Because our oil painting town project is based on original oil painting as the academic positioning, we have an academic committee to review the academic level of each painter who is stationed. We also have requirements for the use of the studio, and we must make normal and full use of such a studio. ”
Unable to eat lunch, Chen Wenwen rushed to the Tianhe Art Museum again, and when the person in charge here was free, they chatted about the recent revenue of the art museum. Tianhe Art Museum is currently the largest and most professional comprehensive art venue in China's oil painting town, and every exhibition and art trading activity held here is exploring the way for the industrial development of oil painting town.
Chen Wenwen, director of the China Oil Painting Town Construction Guidance Center: "This is why our government actively supports and encourages our private capital and private enterprises to devote themselves to cultural industry projects in the process of building an oil painting town, and at the same time, our state-owned enterprise urban investment company is the mainstay, and we are art institutions to jointly exert our respective characteristics to build a trading platform for oil painting artworks and related cultural creation, derivative research and development, research and development, education and training, art exchanges and a series of industrial projects." ”
In the past five years, the Chinese oil painting town has grown from scratch and has become another unique scenery on Weihai's thousand-mile coastline. The city empowers art; art also adds more charm to the city's culture.