The exhibition scene is photographed by Shi Chunyang
BEIJING, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- The "Jiashan - Fang Jun Art Exhibition," co-sponsored by the National Art Museum of China, the Propaganda Department of the Jiangsu Provincial CPC Committee, and the Nanjing Academy of the Arts, opened at the National Art Museum of China on February 21. This exhibition is an academic invitation series of exhibitions of the National Art Museum of China, exhibiting more than 200 Chinese paintings by Fang Jun, as well as a large number of sketches and related documents, comprehensively reviewing his artistic life.
Fang Jun (1943-2020), graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Normal University in 1965, and graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Academy of Arts in 1981 with a master's degree in Chinese Painting. In the 40 years of teaching from art, Fang Jun has worked hard and achieved fruitful results.
The exhibition scene is photographed by Shi Chunyang
The exhibition comprehensively shows the Chinese painter's art world in four chapters: "Leaning on the South of the River", "XintianYou", "Western Scenery" and "Sketching Love". Among them, the "Huwan Chronicle" group painting showing gusu style, the "Four Seasons Screen of Yunshan Mountain" and "Good in Jiangnan Mountain" with Jiangnan style, the "Winding Moon of Northern Shaanxi" and "Narrative of Northern Shaanxi" depicting the style of northern Shaanxi, and the group painting of "Danube River in Europe" with European style are all unveiled in this exhibition. The exhibition was also strongly supported by the National Academy of Painting of China.
Wu Weishan, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, director of the National Art Museum of China, and vice chairman of the China Artists Association, commented in the preface to the exhibition, "Fang Jun swims in the traditional Lingshan Daohai, feels in life, and writes about the 'family mountain' that is permeated with the transparency and interest of Jiangnan, and finds a path for self-improvement for the creation of contemporary landscapes."
Wu Weishan (right) presents a donation certificate to Mr. Fang Jun's wife, Ms. Tang Huili (left). Photo by Shi Chunyang
He pointed out that the formation of Fang Jun's landscape painting style was largely due to the Song Ci. In the history of ancient Chinese poetry, Song Ci is the best at painting sounds and shadows, light and color, light and shade, movement and stillness, virtual reality, staggered and staggered. Mr. Tang Guizhang, a lexicographer, called it "like a painting scene". Fang Jun, who was immersed in the artistic conception of Song Ci, had some understanding of this, so he externalized the synaesthesia of the words and paintings, creating a visual space of "nine stacks of clouds and brocade on the screen, and the shadow falling on the clear light of Ming Lake". Its color setting jumped out of the long-term debate between ink and color in landscape paintings, so that ink has also become one of many hues, and it is the same as "doing their duty" and "respecting each other like guests" in the picture.
The title of the exhibition is taken from the Song dynasty phrase "Home Mountain is Countless Mountains, Recognize the Spring Breeze and Be Pleasant", and will be exhibited in Halls 1, 8 and 9 of the National Art Museum of China until March 2 (closed on Monday). (End)