The Year of the Tiger coincides with the Winter Olympics, such a different kind of "encounter", is destined to make the Annual Flavor of this year's Spring Festival more intense and more unique, "driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports", Chinese leaving a romantic memory of the New Year and ice and snow; some friends from afar, while expressing the good wishes of "going to the future together", China and the world play the "Song of Ice and Fire" to share the beauty and common Chinese New Year.
In recent years, celebrating the New Year in an art museum has become a New Year custom. This year, art galleries and museums in many parts of the country have played the notes of the Winter Olympics and the New Year in unison, and have launched distinctive cultural activities, and the Olympic elements have undoubtedly become the biggest highlight.
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Spring Festival plus Winter Olympics Special New Year flavor
"Ice piers" and "snow melting" entered the central axis of Beijing, traditional paper-cutting cuts cut out shougang ski jumps, ink shows the beauty of ice and snow sports... As an important part of the "New Life, New Fashion, New Year Painting" theme art creation collection and display activity sponsored by the Literature and Art Bureau of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, the First Bureau of the Central Civilization Office, the Public Service Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the China Artists Association, and undertaken by the National Public Cultural Development Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the China Culture and Media Group, the "New Year Painting and New Year Painting" activity was organized in Beijing during the Spring Festival, that is, through the exhibition of "New Year Painting and Good Year", "New Year Painting and Greeting the New Year" Mass cultural activities, "Celebrating the New Year paintings and promoting consumption" and other methods allow the general public to paint New Year paintings, talk about New Year paintings, appreciate New Year paintings, find New Year paintings, and enjoy New Year paintings. "This New Year painting display activity is like the Spring Festival Gala, which is popular among the people, so I am willing to call it the 'Spring Festival Gala' of the art world." In the view of Liao Kaiming, a folk art research scholar, it is of great and far-reaching cultural significance to return excellent national cultural traditions to the homes of the people and achieve creative transformation and innovative development.
More than 270 key New Year paintings collected and selected from the nationwide organization cover a well-off life, agricultural harvest, festivals and auspiciousness, including dozens of New Year paintings created by professional artists and citizens around the theme of the Winter Olympics and the central axis. In the "Art Painting Winter Olympics" feature section, elements of the Winter Olympics such as crystal snowflakes, Olympic five-ring symbols, and ice and snow sports scenes can be seen everywhere in the exhibits. The "Ice and Snow Beijing" series of New Year paintings, collectively planned and drawn by the Jitufang illustration team, combines the intangible rabbit grandfather with ice and snow sports, and 15 works respectively show curling, ice hockey, speed skating, snowmobiling, alpine skiing, biathlon and other Winter Olympic sports, which are full of traditional taste and fashion dynamics. In the "Most Beautiful Central Axis Warm Chinese New Year" special exhibition area, as well as the designated areas of the Winter Olympic Village and the Winter Olympic City Cultural Square, the Elements of New Year Paintings and New Year Painting Works are also integrated, creating the Annual Painting Exhibition in the Winter Olympics and the Annual Painting Exhibition on the Central Axis. The New Year paintings full of New Year's flavor, full of temperature, vivid and vivid are infiltrated into people's hearts, fully demonstrating the charm of the new era emitted by China's excellent traditional culture.
At the National Art Museum of China, the activities related to the Winter Olympics and the art works on the theme of the Olympic Games have been warmly welcomed by the audience, and according to the relevant staff of the National Art Museum of China, the tickets during the 7-day long holiday have been fully booked before the festival. Before the Spring Festival, at the launching ceremony of the "Hehe Winter Olympics" champion poetry chanting and calligraphy works exhibition, Wang Chunlu, Zhang Hui, Yang Ling and Zhang Xiangxiang, four Olympic champions, recited sports poems in unison, sending deep blessings to the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. In the exhibition hall, the calligraphy work "Peace" created by former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is particularly eye-catching. A number of celebrity calligraphy and painting works were also exhibited at the scene, such as the famous painter Huang Yongyu's painting "Yi Bird Ye", and the calligraphy work written by Wu Weishan, director of the National Art Museum of China, for the Winter Olympics, "Nine Circulation of All Nations, Four Kuze Thousand Autumns." Harmony for the Winter Olympics, painting the earth with one heart" and so on. The calligraphy works on display were donated by the author to the public welfare activities of the "Youth Popularization and Training Program of China's Ice and Snow Sports Projects".
▲ Audiences enjoy the oil painting "Sports Power, Dreams Stir" at the 9th Beijing International Art Biennale at the National Art Museum of China
▲ Span (Sculpture) 2021 Zhang Hua
With the theme of "Light of Life", the 9th China Beijing International Art Biennale interprets the Olympic spirit and humanistic Olympic concept from the perspective of fine arts through contemporary visual arts such as world painting and sculpture, which plays a positive role in creating a warm Winter Olympic atmosphere in Beijing. Some of the works praise the white-clad angels who save lives, some praise the ice and snow athletes who challenge the limits, some reflect the happy life, some express the pursuit of ideals, and some reflect the reflection on the common destiny of mankind and the ultimate meaning of life. "Art has once again become a bridge between the victory over the epidemic and the Olympic spirit, highlighting the background of building a community with a shared future for mankind." These works with temperature and depth dispel the cold and have a strong response and resonance among the audience. Wu Weishan, director of the National Art Museum of China, said.
In addition, the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts' "Focus - 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics International Printmaking Exchange Exhibition", the China Millennium Monument's "Imprint winter Olympics - Mass Seal Engraving Works Exhibition", the Capital Museum's "Inheritance and Transcendence - The Road to the Double Olympics Chinese Sports Culture Exhibition", the "Winter Dreams Flying - China Science and Technology Museum Science and Technology Winter Olympics Theme Exhibition" held by the China Science and Technology Museum, the "Decisive Winter Olympics Meet in Beijing" 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Theme Exhibition unveiled at the Tianjin Art Museum, and the "Flying Beauty and Building Dreams Together" at the China Art Palace in Shanghai The online exhibition of sports-themed fine art works, the "Dream of the Winter Olympics - Winter Scene Painting and Sports Relics Special Exhibition" of the Liaoning Provincial Museum, and the "Sheng Sheng - Yang Gang Art Works Exhibition" exhibited by the Shenzhen Art Museum all meet with the audience during the New Year. These exhibitions vividly tell the story of China's sports development to the world, show the wonderful scenes of the Olympic Competition and the spiritual outlook of the Olympic athletes, and use beauty as the medium to illustrate the beauty of "faster, higher, stronger and more united" Olympic competition and Olympic culture.
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"Art enjoyment" traditional tiger culture
The Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger is naturally inseparable from tiger culture and tiger art. Regarding tigers, people have woven many moving stories and legends in the inheritance of generations, forming a variety of zodiac customs and very distinctive tiger culture, leaving a wealth of cultural relics. During the Spring Festival, major museums and art galleries have selected cultural relics and artworks related to tigers, allowing the audience to enjoy the traditional tiger culture.
▲ "Tiggo You'an - 2022 Chinese New Year Exhibition" held by the National Museum of China
The National Museum of China held the "Ruihu You'an - 2022 New Year Exhibition" selected exhibits from the Shang Dynasty to the beginning of the 21st century, including precious utensils with brilliant gold and jade and fine craftsmanship, as well as the remains of coarse pottery gray tiles, simple and cute city wells, with a rich variety of categories, from the aspects of religious etiquette, history and culture, artistic life and other aspects of the tiger's history, culture and customary beliefs related to tigers. More than 70% of the exhibits are exhibited for the first time. Majestic tigers, brave tigers, naughty tigers, auspicious tigers, the totems of these tigers pinned on people's beautiful visions.
The Shanghai Museum, together with the "Year of the Tiger laughing in the Year of the Tiger – The Spring Festival Exhibition of the Year of the Tiger in China and Japan" held by the National Museum of Kyushu, exhibited 10 cultural relics (including online exhibits), including 6 fine cultural relics selected by the Shanghai Museum and 4 exchange cultural relics from the Kyushu National Museum in Japan. The Golden Dynasty Yellow Land Black Colored Goose Reed Pattern Tiger Pillow, the Western Han Dynasty Gilded Golden Tiger Town, the Jin Dynasty Akiyama Jade Ornament, and two Edo Period Imari Blue and White Plates... Most of the tiger figures in these cultural relics are gentle and amiable, full of different imaginative interest. Yang Zhigang, director of the Shanghai Museum, said that the exhibition is titled "The Year of the Tiger Laughing", hoping to convey the resilience of the Chinese nation - to resolve the cold of winter with laughter, to enhance the connection between each other's hearts and hands with smiles, and to declare a better tomorrow with laughter.
In addition to the theme cultural relics exhibition of the Year of the Tiger, a comic exhibition with the theme of "Passionate Winter Olympics, Fuhu Welcoming Spring" was unveiled at the Zhejiang Exhibition Hall on the eve of the Spring Festival, which is also one of the series of activities of the Zhejiang Provincial Federation of Literature and Art "Celebrating a Literary and Art Year in 'Zhejiang'". In the beautiful moment of retiring the old and welcoming the new, how to use comic art to show the prosperous picture of the new era, cartoonists actively take action to complete a comic feast with "color and fragrance" in a short period of time. Zhejiang and Shanghai both have a deep history of comics, and many comic book celebrities have emerged in the contemporary era. The "Fuhu Yingchun" section once again joined hands with the "Old Brother of Comics" in Shanghai, and more than 70 cartoonists from the two places jointly drew 100 works of "Fuhu", who had both ingenious ideas and realistic freehand, and strived to draw new ideas and new horizons. It is worth mentioning that after the exhibition, 100 works of "Fuhu Yingchun" will carry the good wishes of cartoonists and enter the homes of ordinary people free of charge in the form of public welfare and benefits. Letting art come to life is the original intention of every cartoonist, and it is also the meaning of this exhibition.
In the New Year of the Tiger, there is also a festive and wonderful literary and artistic feast unveiled in the clouds, which is the "Hundred Tigers Celebrating the New Year and Folk Art Innovation Exhibition" and the "Literature and Art Two New" exhibition of young and middle-aged folk writers jointly sponsored by the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University and the China Folk Writers Association. The exhibition exhibits a total of 634 sets of works by folk art workers, artists, designers and teachers and students of art academies from all over the country, covering folk artworks, art design works with tiger themes and derivative cultural creations, with a total of 1034 tiger images presented. From the multiple dimensions of history and culture, folk art, artistic creation and design transformation, the New Year picture of "Hundred Tigers Celebrating the New Year" is constructed. Zhang Xi, advisor to the China Folk Writers Association and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, said that the exhibition not only traces the origin and history of the tigers through the remains of the tiger forms of the past, but also shows the zodiac tigers of different regional cultures in the contemporary context, and also presents the original works of the zodiac tigers full of imagination and wisdom of the contemporary folk artists who are honest and innovative. These works all contain profound cultural connotations, reflect rich cultural concepts and aesthetic pursuits, and contain a memory, a story, and an experience, from which the artistic charm of "heart and materialization, imagery and imagery" can be understood.
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Help safe New Year docking the lives of the people
In order to respond to the call for the New Year at home and the New Year in place, and to have a safe, healthy, joyful and peaceful Spring Festival, many museums and art galleries have adopted the method of booking offline exhibitions on WeChat public accounts and Douyin, and pay special attention to online activity planning, carefully preparing a rich "cloud" cultural feast, so that the public can enjoy excellent art works without leaving home, participate in online interaction, and appreciate the beauty of excellent traditional culture with creators, experts and scholars.
The Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Tiger and the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics frequently appeared in the Elements of Chinese Green Landscape Painting, so that the Chinese people and even the world marveled at the charm of Chinese culture that transcends time and space, the spring festival gala debut dance poetry drama "Only This Green" is based on "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", between movement and stillness, frozen in a thousand years of green, dancing out of the infinite rivers and mountains like a fantasy. And the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics also appeared a beautiful touch of "green" - Chinese ice dancers Wang Shiyue and Liu Xinyu wearing free dance competition uniforms, the creativity is also derived from Chinese green landscape painting, male companion for the mountain, female companion for the water, painted with Chinese classical patterns, taking the meaning of green mountains and green water.
▲ Taohuayuan Tu (Chinese painting) Li Hanyan, collection of Guangzhou Museum of Art
With this as a clue, the Guangzhou Museum of Art specially planned a special public education project during the Spring Festival, and through the appreciation of the collection of ancient green landscape masterpieces, such as Li Hanyan's "Peach Blossom Source Map" in the Qing Dynasty, etc., to popularize the small knowledge of green landscapes and guide the public to enjoy the wonderland of green and green Taoyuan. Not only the green landscape, the Guangzhou Art Museum also extracted the image of the "Fairy Sister" in ancient paintings from the "Art Sea Collection Treasures - Guangzhou Art Museum Collection of Paintings and Figures", presenting to the public the thousands of postures of Chinese classical women or elegant and elegant, or delicate and quiet, or clever and lively.
In order to broaden the artistic horizons of the general public and add to the New Year atmosphere, Guan Shanyue Art Museum launched the "New Year Guanguan Cloud Classroom" activity to interact with the audience. The "cloud classroom" such as the curator teaching you to draw a cute tiger, the famous teacher taking you to make your own guardian tiger, and the artist telling the audience about the taste of the year of the year is deeply loved by the audience. Inspired by the theme of the ecological Winter Olympic documentary "The Beauty of the Winter Olympics, Between the Mountains and The Mountains", the Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum has sorted out some Chinese paintings, oil paintings, prints, etc. that express the theme of snow scenes from the collection of works, and invited the public to "enjoy the snow" online and taste the snow landscape ink with great cultural charm and artistic charm in Chinese paintings. Shaanxi History Museum to the collection of cultural relics "Warring States Wrong Golden Du Hu Fu" as the core exhibits, launched the online exhibition "Year of the Tiger to see the Tiger Symbol - Shaanxi National Treasure Special Exhibition of Du Hu Fu Exhibition", the audience can deeply understand the relevant knowledge of Du Hu Fu through interactive games, and according to their own understanding of Du Hu Fu to arrange their own exclusive exhibition hall, and finally share this new experience of the New Year to more people.
February 5 is a good day for the Lunar New Year to "break the fifth", go out to visit relatives, and open the door to welcome guests. Against the background of the blue sky, the brick red volley "Duobaoge" building next to the Olympic Forest Park, the China Arts and Crafts Museum (China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum), was officially opened, marking another important cultural landmark on the mainland that represents the cultural image of the country and the capital and highlights the cultural prosperity and development of the new era. The opening exhibition "Treasures of China" and the venue complement each other perfectly, which is an important cultural content during the Beijing Winter Olympics. There is no shortage of highlights in the exhibition planning, which not only highlights the cultural connotation and artistic charm of the exhibits, but also finds the intersection with the lives of the people, and adds many interactive links, such as a large number of audio-visual audio-visual, non-genetic heir performances, etc., so that the traditional culture is more vivid and vivid.
Starting from a fingerprint in yangshao cultural artifacts, with the color of the rainbow as an extension, the door of Chinese treasures has been opened, standing at this new starting point, I believe that art will innovate, transform and grow in a new context, and art institutions will build, examine and explore in continuous hard work, and "art" will rise to the future!
February 13, 2022 China Culture Daily
The first edition featured a special report
"The Year of the Tiger New Year Beijing Winter Olympics Different Encounters: Art" Rises to the Future"
Editor-in-charge: Chen Xiaoyue