Guangming Daily reporter Rong Chi
The snowy plains stretch endlessly, and the rolling mountains and staggered houses are tightly wrapped in dazzling white. A galloping figure rushed into view like lightning, breaking through the silence. I saw the ski jumpers rising in the air lower their bodies, maintaining their balance while allowing their speed to reach their limits. His red coat turned into a flame in the winter, igniting this land of dreams. This is the artist Wan Xiao's 30th ink sketch of the Winter Olympic sports project, and it is still a long way from her "small goal" of "drawing 7 major events, 15 sub-events and 109 minor events".
Dong Yue (Chinese painting) Shi Quan
The Olympic Games have always been closely linked to art, and the Winter Olympics, with its unique charm of ice and snow sports, have attracted many artists to use a variety of art forms to express the spirit of hard work and enterprising. In order to help the Beijing Winter Olympics, interpret the Olympic spirit with artistic works, and tell the development story of China's ice and snow sports, many art exhibitions and creative activities with the theme of "Winter Olympics" were held during the Winter Olympics throughout the country, among which a large number of new works and masterpieces emerged. These works have a variety of themes and styles, both ancient law and innovation, which not only show the unique charm of ice and snow sports and ice and snow landscapes, but also highlight the high enthusiasm of artists to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics in the form of artistic creation, and present an artistic feast for the audience to integrate strength and beauty.
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For artists, the "Winter Olympics" is undoubtedly a relatively new creative theme, and the new theme is bound to be accompanied by a new experience in terms of creative perspective and artistic techniques. The process of completing such a work is also a process of breaking through the previous creative formula and re-learning.
"As a creator of the winter Olympics theme art, we must first thoroughly understand those confusing projects. Such as snowmobiles, steel frame snowmobiles, bobsleighs and other projects, on the basis of consulting the information and familiarizing myself with the rules of the competition, I will portray each project and interpret its representative sports state from different angles, so that the viewer can feel the best dynamics of the athletes on the field as if they were immersed in the scene. Wan Xiao said that after each completion of the creation, she will display her works on the online platform with the corresponding competition rules. For her, the creation of winter Olympics theme art is a good opportunity to deeply understand the spirit of ice and snow sports and show the cultural connotation of ice and snow sports.
Ski jumping (Chinese painting) Wan Xiao
Singing Winter Olympics Ice and Snow (print) Ren Huihui
Morning Song (print) Zhang Shuying
Also expressing the Winter Olympics, artist Ren Huihui focused her creative perspective on the development and evolution of ancient and modern ice and snow sports. In the form of chromatic woodcuts, she depicts the scenes of "ice frolic" and modern ice and snow sports in the Qing Dynasty. On top of the two folded long scrolls juxtaposed above and below, although the ice and snow sports of different eras have different venues, different equipment, and different rules, the same is the same momentum of fighting hard and striving for the upstream. When talking about her creative experience, Ren Huihui admitted that her biggest gain lies in the in-depth combing of the historical materials related to the "Ice Play" in the Qing Dynasty, and the expression of the new Winter Olympic theme in the traditional printmaking language is also a new direction for her creative exploration.
In addition, we can appreciate the graceful posture of athletes in Chinese paintings such as Jiang Bo's "Dance of Ice" and Liu Zhan's "The Place of The Five Continents of Caiyun"; we can appreciate the majestic winter scenery in oil paintings such as Chi Yinghong's "Ice and Snow Love" and Liu Jidi's "Winter Rhymes"; and we can also feel the cohesion of teamwork in Sha Yonghui's "Chasing the Ball" and Wang Qishan's "Iron Horse Glacier" and other prints.
"The creation of winter Olympic theme art is not just a simple combination or superposition of ice and snow natural landscapes and ice and snow sports images, but it is necessary to realize the integration of 'one plus one is greater than two' on the basis of a deep understanding of the Olympic spirit, which is a visual bloom and a spiritual sublimation." As Ren Huihui said, artists from understanding the Winter Olympics, loving the Winter Olympics to recording the Winter Olympics, they and the ice and snow athletes who galloped the arena have completed their own dream journey.
Guangming Daily (2022-02-20 11th edition)
Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily