"Art First Glance" is the first glance at art, and it can also be the first step into art. On the afternoon of March 12, the "Dahu Art Space" on Maoming South Road welcomed the first release of the contemporary art criticism collection "Art First Glance".
Published by Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House, Art First Glance is a project funded by the Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation, including Shanghai media personality and art observer Xu Jiahe's art criticism and literary essays accumulated over the years. The book is about 280,000 words, illustrated and illustrated to show readers the style of the contemporary art world, not only depicting the development of art, but also depicting the spiritual picture of the integration and development of art and Shanghai, an international metropolis.
In "They Have Come", the author has a dialogue with a number of art masters who have crossed the port of Shanghai, colliding with the spiritual spark of Eastern and Western art; the artistic past and the deceased people involved in the "Past Hook sinking", the author tries his best to restore the original appearance; "I come to paint" is to depict the original life of Chinese artists with a unique vision, there are writers who paint, poets who have photography... They are restless, do not accept defeat, and have a sensitive and jumping heart; "I have 'art opinions'" based on an objective examination of the strange phenomena in the art circle, and put forward "art views".
Through "Art at first glance", readers can see the visit to Shanghai of many influential contemporary painters, photographers, art museum directors and curators and their relationship with the city, and can also read the arduous exploration of art and the affectionate return of Shanghai artists in a foreign land, not to mention the "one-eyed fake" Xu Beihong's "Jiufanggao" shooting sky-high price, "more like Pollock's painting" American "master of fake paintings" and other suspenseful news investigations and interviews.
In the preface to the new book, the newspaperman and the scholar solemnly believe that what is the value of works of art? What is the artist's initial state of mind? The author strives to express the more profound philosophical connotations in plain language, and strives to avoid adding an aura to contemporary art with concepts that were regarded as golden rules centuries ago. As a writer, Xu Jiahe pursues the depiction of various people in the contemporary art world in a literary way, and reconstructs the past of the art world with novel brushwork. She admits that she is not an art major, all the accumulation of art knowledge is in daily reading, over the years wandering the world's major art museums, museums, art fairs to face the opportunity of art treasures, direct communication with various art professionals, hoping to open up a path to art cognition, with readers a light step.