75 paintings of ancient women's themes, more than 80 pieces of ornaments, costumes, daily necessities and other objects related to ancient women's ornaments, with the help of modern technology two-dimensional images and three-dimensional paintings reproduced... Today, on the 112th "March 8th International Women's Day", a specially planned "Liren Xing - Ancient Chinese Women's Image Exhibition" opened on the shore of Xizi Lake, and the millennium cultural relics + modern technology allowed the audience to truly appreciate the diversity of ancient women.
"Li Ren Xing - Ancient Chinese Women's Image Exhibition" is divided into three units: "Boudoir Charm", "Cloud Curtain Pepper Room" and "Courtyard Spring Deep". "Boudoir Charm" focuses on the external image of ancient women. Among them, the "State of Thick Meaning" section explores the changes in the aesthetic fashion of female images in different eras under the action of various social and cultural factors; the "Embroidery Luo Cuiwei" section shows the rich and diverse hairstyles, makeup, jewelry and clothing of ancient women, showing the unremitting pursuit of beauty by women of all generations. The second unit, "Yunmu Pepper Room", mainly displays the activity space of ancient women, and is divided into two sections: "Liju Jinghao" and "Landscape Garden". From the indoor boudoir world to the outdoor garden mountains and rivers, compared with the vast world of men, the female space depicted in the painting is full of limitations, which can be seen in the ancient society of "male lord outside the female lead" under the norm of female spiritual feelings.
The third unit, "Courtyard Spring Depth", focuses on the multidimensional identity of ancient women. Among them, the paintings in the three subsections in the "Year of Passing Water" section show the ancient women's talents in piano, chess, poetry, and painting as talented women, their family life as virtuous wives and mothers, and the labor of female celebrities; the "Boudoir Fangfei" section selects the works of ancient female painters to explore their spiritual world and self-awareness. It is understood that in order to help the audience better understand the connotation of the exhibition, the exhibition line set up an automatic playback of audio explanation points to provide guided services for the audience, and during the weekends and holidays during the exhibition, there will be volunteers to provide regular interpretation services.
"The rich and diverse exhibits are a highlight of this exhibition, from images to physical objects, from whole to part, from ancient to contemporary, which will bring the audience a vivid and three-dimensional viewing experience." Cai Qin, a researcher at the Zhejiang Provincial Museum and the curator of this exhibition, introduced that it is the regret of many calligraphy and painting exhibitions that the details cannot be seen clearly through the glass of the display cabinet, and this exhibition has specially designed a partial enlarged version of the female image to clearly present the details in front of the audience, while also immersing the audience in the exhibition. In the exhibition, the key exhibit "Thirteen Women Asking for Employment Picture Scroll" is dynamically displayed, which records the elegant gathering of Yuan Ming, a Hangzhou native of the Qing Dynasty, who taught at the West Lake Gem Mountain Villa, and each girl in the painting left her name with her talent, and the audience can know the characters in the painting one by one through animation.
In the exhibition space of "Li Ren Xing", the audience will be surrounded by many detailed designs that integrate the characteristics of the exhibition, and in addition to appreciating the exhibits and reading the story, they can also discover and dialogue in this special field and feel the aftertaste of the details. In order to enhance the interactivity and interest of the exhibition, the negative floor exhibition hall is also designed with a humanoid standing sign group photo area, in the light gauze drapery, there are 11 female figures based on the paintings in this exhibition, and the audience can punch in and take a group photo with them, where they can meet their ancient selves.
In addition, the exhibition also specially set up a space for contemporary female artists, exhibiting the unique styles of art works of three female artists of different ages, Shi Hui, Pan Wenxun and Liu Yujun, and launching a dialogue between classical and contemporary, inside and outside the painting, individual and group. Ancient and modern echoes, showing the talents of contemporary "beautiful people".
It is understood that today' simultaneous opening with the Zhejiang Provincial Museum's "Li Ren Xing - Ancient Chinese Women's Image Exhibition" is also the Anhui Museum's "Green Sideburns Zhu Yan - Ming and Qing Dynasty Women's Theme Painting Exhibition", jiangxi provincial museum's "Porcelain · "Jiangnan Jiali - Suzhou Museum Collection of Female Paintings Exhibition" at Suzhou Museum, "Beautiful And Picturesque Beauty - East Asian Female Figure Painting Art Exhibition from the Nineteenth to twentieth Centuries" at Huzhou Museum. The five halls are linked to form a "1+4" exhibition mode of one main exhibition hall and four sub-pavilions, and the "cloud interaction" between the five halls is realized with the help of digital technology. Audiences from all over the world can cross the barrier of the epidemic, view the live pictures of other museum exhibitions through multimedia screens, and browse the exhibits of each museum.
The exhibition will run until May 8.
Author: Liu Haibo
Editor: Fu Xinxin
Editor-in-charge: Jiang Ping
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