On April 8th, the Chengdu Daily Rong Media Interview Team came to Sichuan Fubao Art Museum, No. 1 Art Center of Duobao Temple in Chenghua District. Behind the rice-colored walls, the vibrant grass and trees are full of vitality, and the garden is full of birds and flowers, interpreting the gentleness of spring. Surrounded by greenery, the sun shines through the gate into the Fubao Art Museum, there is sunlight, and there are wonderful stories written.
"This work is full of vitality and has the characteristics of our city of Chengdu" "This work is vigorous and vivid"... The interview team saw that the artists of the Chengdu Calligraphers Association were conducting a preliminary evaluation of the works collected by the Chengdu Universiade Art Exhibition (Calligraphy).
"Calligraphy is a special art with core in Chinese culture, and it is also the closest to our daily life. At the same time, it can show traditional Chinese culture to the world. On June 26, the 31st Summer Universiade will be held in Chengdu, which is also an opportunity to promote Chinese culture and Chengdu. Shu Jiong, vice chairman of the Chengdu Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature and chairman of the Chengdu Book Association, said. Through this Universiade, we can pass on the power of this culture.
The universiade theme activities are aimed at influential calligraphers and painters from all over the country and the present, and there are many impressive works at the preliminary evaluation site. The seal engraving screen work submitted by an artist is a cute giant panda - the giant panda, as the city card of Chengdu, represents the "cute" image of Chengdu.
The collection of works in the Chengdu Universiade Art Exhibition, including calligraphy, fine arts, photography, and folk handicrafts, has been very popular since the launch of the activities. "We receive 30 or 40 consultation calls every day, and the response is very enthusiastic." Fang Mengxue, a staff member of the Chengdu Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature and director of the Office of the Chengdu Book Association, said that from 8-year-old children to 94-year-old people are participating in the activity, of which only calligraphy works, the organizer received more than 3,000 paintings.
In addition to the calligraphy review of the theme activities of the Universiade, in fact, Chengdu has always been a well-deserved "calligraphy city". According to incomplete statistics, in the various national calligraphy and seal engraving exhibitions held by the China Book Association from 2012 to 2021, the number of authors in Chengdu accounted for more than 36% of the total number of authors in Sichuan Province. Among the 201 authors of the "Book Saint Hometown, China Linyi" Chinese Calligraphy Linyi Conference held by the China Calligraphers Association in 2020, 11 authors from Sichuan and 4 authors from Chengdu, and the proportion of Chengdu authors participating in the exhibition accounted for 2% of the country.
Since 2020, 10 members of the Chengdu Calligraphers Association have been hired as contracted artists by the Chengdu Municipal Literary Association, 20 young and middle-aged backbones have joined the city's young and middle-aged literary and artistic talent pool, and dozens of people have joined the Chinese Calligraphers Association and the Sichuan Calligraphers Association.
"We continue to play the leading role of old artists, cultivate more young artists, and create works that are in line with our times." Shu Jiong said that the Chengdu Calligraphers Association will hold a calligraphy training for the whole society every month, and we will continue to invite outstanding calligraphers from all over the country to participate.
At present, Chengdu has undertaken the organization and management of more than 200 backbone calligraphy backbones in Chengdu, Deyang, Suining, Neijiang, Panzhihua, Meishan, Guang'an, Ziyang and Aba Prefectures.
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