Recently, the "Remember Nostalgia - Lingnan Water Town Theme Painting Invitation Exhibition in the New Era" was launched at the Foshan Cultural Center, presenting more than 80 works by 69 artists. The exhibition runs until 12 April.
The exhibition brings together professional painters from several professional art units such as the National Academy of Painting of China, the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, the Guangdong Academy of Painting, the Foshan Academy of Art Creation, the Foshan Academy of Painting, and the most representative and powerful water town painting painters, and presents a high-level academic feast of Lingnan water town painting to the public with the academic support of the Guangdong Provincial Artists Association, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Artists Alliance, and the Guangdong Provincial Chinese Painting Society.
As the academic host of this exhibition, Liang Jiang, a researcher at the National Art Museum of China and director of the Institute of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, pointed out that lingnan is the water and soil of our spirit and the homesickness. As a hot land of reform and opening up, Lingnan is a new water town and new pastoral garden that is urbanized, and it is a new life that needs to be deepened from multiple angles. Retaining nostalgia is the most prominent theme of this exhibition. The exhibits include a review of the past as well as an examination of the present. The good news is that we can see the unremitting efforts of today's artists to continue to forge ahead.
Guo Mangyuan "Hometown Water"
Xia Jinwang, director of the exhibition, said that as a unique painting creation theme, the vigorous development of Lingnan Water Town Theme Painting has attracted the attention of art workers in Guangdong and even the whole country, and as a case of painting practice, it has its own unique value. Focusing on the theme of "Remembering Nostalgia", this exhibition not only praises the green mountains and rivers of the Pearl River Delta, beautiful urban and rural areas, but also depicts the unique customs and customs of the water towns, happy life, and rural revitalization, showing the painters' spiritual outlook and creative achievements of keeping up with the times, shouldering the mission, and forging ahead.
Mo Zhaosheng's "Listening to Fishing Songs in the Middle of the Woods"
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City reporter Li Qiaorong
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Some of the image sources: organizers
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Li Yani