Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition
Hubei Art Museum "Magnificent Voyage - Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China Hubei Excellent Fine Art Works Exhibition" Scene Courtesy of Hubei Art Museum
Jinling Art Museum "Audience is Also Artist" exhibition poster from Jinling Art Museum WeChat public account
The poster of the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts Museum "A Hundred Flowers Blooming - Beijing Academy of Fine Arts Creation and Collection Exhibition" comes from the WeChat public account of the Beijing Academy of Painting
A few days ago, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced the list of outstanding projects of the National Art Museum in 2020-2021, and after review and publicity, a total of 10 excellent exhibition projects, 10 excellent public education projects, 20 excellent exhibition nomination projects, and 10 outstanding public education nomination projects were selected.
Since the implementation of the national art museum excellent project selection, it has played an active role in promoting the professional development of the art museum and meeting the needs of the people for a better life. Under the situation of the centenary of the founding of the party in 2021 and the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, this selection has shown new characteristics and has new enlightenment for the future development of the industry.
Large-scale exhibitions are juxtaposed with case studies
The art exhibition with the theme of the glorious course of the Communist Party of China in the past century will be held on the occasion of the party's centennial birthday in 2021. This phenomenon is also reflected in this list of outstanding projects. Hubei Art Museum's "Magnificent Voyage - Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China Hubei Excellent Fine Art Works Exhibition", CAFA Art Museum's "Spiritual Atlas of the Centenary Journey - Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China", Zhejiang Art Museum's "Star Rushing Tide - Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China Theme Art Special Exhibition", Beijing Academy of Fine Arts "A Hundred Flowers Blooming - Beijing Academy of Painting Creation and Collection Exhibition", etc., are all exhibitions planned around the theme of the centenary of the founding of the Party and based on their own characteristics. The artistic picture scroll presents the magnificent century-long course of the Communist Party of China, and connects history and reality with poetic visual chapters.
These large-scale commemorative exhibitions have the common characteristics of academic, popular and aesthetic education, and most of them are organized by the National Key Art Museum. Shang Hui, director of the Art Theory Committee of the China Artists Association, said: "For a period of time, the National Key Art Museum has played a demonstration and guiding role in both exhibition planning and public education activities. Especially on the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the Party in 2021, the large-scale key exhibitions launched by the National Key Art Museum undoubtedly reflect the characteristics of the annual art activities. ”
In addition, projects of various art museums at other levels in the country are also on the list. Hunan Art Museum's "Leaving the Green Mountains alone to illuminate the mountains and rivers - Commemorating the 160th Anniversary of Zeng Xi's Birth" Calligraphy and Painting Special Exhibition, Liu Haisu Art Museum (Changzhou) "Kangxi South Tour" Documentary Research Exhibition and "Jinling Fengya Longcheng Jisheng - Changzhou School of Fine Painting Exhibition", Chongqing Art Museum's "Knife Casting Zhengrong - "Red Rock" Printmaking Art Document Exhibition", Jinling Art Museum's "Audience is also an Artist" exhibition, etc., are all representatives.
Some exhibitions dig deep into historical materials, focusing on a person and a work, the content has historical thickness, cultural depth, and reflects distinct regional characteristics. For example, "Leaving The Green Mountains and Rivers Alone - Special Exhibition of Calligraphy and Paintings to Commemorate the 160th Anniversary of Zeng Xi's Birth" exhibits nearly 200 works of Zeng Xi's calligraphy and paintings, as well as physical documents such as manuscripts, letters and publications of the Republic of China and stationery supplies that have been made public for the first time, so that the image of this little-known representative of modern Haipai calligraphy and painting has gradually become clear. The "Kangxi Southern Tour" Document Research Exhibition combines the culture of the Grand Canal, interprets a painting with an exhibition, and sorts out the research results of domestic and foreign art history experts on the work, and many documents are the first public exhibition in China.
"An important part of art exhibitions is to constantly update the public's understanding of history." Shang Hui said that these case study exhibitions focus on the excavation of documents, focusing on the relationship between the images of works and documents, so that academic texts become visual displays.
In fact, how to drive the development of various art museums at all levels in the country under the exemplary role of the national key art museums has always been the vision of art museum construction. Based on the current situation of the prosperity and development of the national art museum in the new era, this selection strives to show the new changes of various types of art museums at all levels in the country that are developing.
The museum seeks to transform online
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the operation of the museum face unprecedented challenges. Under the premise of doing a good job in epidemic prevention and control, all kinds of art museums at all levels across the country continue to launch new projects and activities. The epidemic has forced art museums to make timely adjustments and transformations in the planning of exhibitions and public education activities. Such adjustment and transformation ushered in a new opportunity for the development of the art museum.
In the past two years, the public education activities of the art museum have shown a new look: on the one hand, there have been changes in the service targets, in addition to students, migrant workers and other groups, there have also been public education projects specially held for anti-epidemic medical personnel; On the other hand, online exhibitions and events are normalized.
The construction of online art museums has developed by leaps and bounds in the past two years. Online art activities not only further enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the public, but also form a new normal channel for the development of public education in art museums.
Most of the outstanding public education projects selected this time reflect such a trend of online transformation. For example, the National Art Museum of China's "Big Hands Holding Small Hands" New Year of the Ox Special Children's Education Activity, jointly with the Central Radio and Television Corporation, was carried out in the form of "exhibition hall activities + network synchronization + television broadcasting", and the number of audience participants exceeded 2.86 million. The "Technique and Taoism - Beijing Academy of Fine Arts Artist Art Promotion Public Education Project" of the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, in the form of "interview + video + online push + television broadcast", not only records the artist's thinking and practice of technology and Tao, but also shows the artist's working mode and artistic concept to the public, so that more people can enter the artist's art world and feel the beauty and emotion brought by art. These public education activities with diverse contents and forms have not only promoted the development and popularization of art research, but also promoted the development of aesthetic education for the whole people.
Nearly ten years of outstanding project selection of national art museums has led to a virtuous circle of excellent art collections and the normal operation of public education activities. Now, for every exhibition, even in the absence of an exhibition, the museum relies on its collections to carry out public education activities. The selection of outstanding projects of the National Art Museum has enhanced the cultural influence and social contribution rate of the art museum, promoted the prosperity and development of cultural and artistic undertakings, and allowed beauty to nourish more people.
Reporter Lai Rui
People's Daily Overseas Edition ( April 14, 2022, 12th Edition)