In early spring, the temperature warms up, and more people visit the museum. Just after the Spring Festival, the National Art Museum of China's "Collection Revitalization" series of exhibitions opened three consecutive exhibitions, respectively, exhibiting the collection of landscape and landscape works, works created and donated by the famous printmaker Li Pingfan, and folk art masterpieces, providing the audience with an art feast in the spring.
The painting is a tour of the magnificent rivers and mountains
The flowers of the mountains stain the mountains red, two sailing boats ride between the blue waves, and an ink painting "The Earth is Spring" brings a strong sense of spring. This work was created by the famous artist Zhu Qizhan in 1984, when he was 93 years old. The work uses the painter's original splash color painting method to show the life interest of all things germinated in spring. In the "Magnificent Rivers and Mountains - Exhibition of Landscapes and Landscapes collected by the National Art Museum of China" on February 20, the National Art Museum of China exhibited more than 130 masterpieces of Chinese landscapes and landscapes in the collection, covering Chinese paintings, oil paintings, prints, watercolors, sculptures and other art types.
Stepping into the three-story exhibition hall, the first thing you see is the first chapter of the exhibition, "Alpine Elevation", where the classic works of modern and contemporary masters such as Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong, Lin Fengmian, Liu Haisu, Pan Tianshou, Li Keyan, Fu Baoshi, Guan Shanyue and other modern masters have been displayed. Among them, Qi Baishi's "Lonely Sail in the Cave Garden" creates a long artistic conception with a few strokes, and Li Keyan's "Ten Thousand Mountains Red All Over the Forest" shows the charm of late autumn in the southern country with strong colors.
Wu Weishan, director of the National Art Museum of China, said that from the founding of New China to the reform and opening up period and the new era, the image of Jiangshan created by Chinese artists has shown different faces with the transmutation and innovation of aesthetic styles in different periods. "These works convey affection with things and use beautiful words to lead the audience to feel the artist's personal mental image, the weather of the times and the natural scene into the trajectory of the moving works, and understand the great Chinese spirit contained in it."
Extraordinary life in printmaking
Three children of different skin colors snuggled together smiling, one of them holding a white dove symbolizing peace. The print "We Want Peace" won the silver medal at the 1959 Leipzig International Printmaking Exhibition in Germany and became a classic of Chinese art that many people are familiar with. This work appeared in the "Ordinary and Extraordinary - Li Pingfan Creation and Donation Works Exhibition", and it is also a representative work that best reflects the characteristics of Li Pingfan's art.
The famous printmaker Li Pingfan was born in 1922, his original name was Li Wenkun. When he was fifteen years old, the "July 7 Incident" occurred. Inspired by the emerging woodcut movement advocated by Mr. Lu Xun, he began to teach himself woodcut, and since then, his printmaking has been closely linked to the context of the times. His early works were mainly to express the hard life of the toiling masses, and after the founding of New China, he turned to celebrating peace and depicting a happy life.
The exhibition features more than 100 selected works from more than 1,600 works donated by Mr. Li Pingfan. The exhibition is divided into two sections, of which "Extraordinary Sword and Pen" exhibits Li Pingfan's prints, Chinese paintings, and art diaries; "Gifts for Extraordinary" exhibits Japanese ukiyo-e, Japanese modern prints, Japanese book tickets and international prints donated by Li Pingfan to the National Art Museum of China, and works by many important artists such as Hiroshige Ando, Katsushika Hokusai, Kitagawa Kakuto, and Fumio Kitaoka are listed.
Folk art is concentrated
"Grass warblers fly on February days", the time to fly kites is coming. In the "National Style Tangible - Folk Art Exhibition of the Year of the Tiger of the National Art of China" launched on February 22, a huge dragon-headed centipede kite hung high in the exhibition hall, and the wind was majestic. The exhibition selects more than 160 pieces from many folk art works in the collection, covering New Year paintings, paper-cutting, shadow puppets, painted sculptures, kites and other categories, showing the cultures and customs of different ethnic groups and different regions in China.
"The National Art Museum of China has a total collection of about 60,000 pieces of folk art in the form of almost all varieties. These diverse forms of folk art have formed the basic content of the original culture of the Chinese nation and have become the common spiritual memory of our nation. Wu Weishan introduced that the exhibition highlights the two elements of "tiger" and "spring", of which the first chapter is "Hundred Tigers In Spring", which focuses on the images of various "tigers" in folk art, such as tiger head hats, tiger head shoes, cloth tigers, etc., as well as various tiger-shaped paper cuts and New Year paintings.
The exhibition's chapter "Spring Wind Cutting" focuses on the theme of "Spring" and shows the scene of spring in folk art. Among them, the works of Ku Shulan, one of the outstanding representatives of Chinese folk paper-cutting art, are exhibited. Ku Shulan is known as the "flower-cutting lady", she has experienced ups and downs in her life, and she has taken paper-cutting as the spiritual sustenance. Her composition is novel and bold, and the colors are gorgeous, especially the paper-cut works with the theme of "Flower Cut Lady" created in her later years, which express her rich inner world.
It is reported that the "Magnificent Rivers and Mountains - Exhibition of Landscape and Landscape Works Collected by the National Art Museum of China" and "Ordinary and Extraordinary - Exhibition of Li Pingfan's Creation and Donation Works" will be exhibited until March 9, and "National Style is Tangible - The National Art Museum of china's Spring Festival in the Year of the Tiger" will be exhibited until March 23.