Editor's Note
He is in Liang Shiqiu's heart
"Tsinghua's only poet now"
His work has been described as
"Countless colorful flowers grow under a brush"
He just smells a lot
He gathered the Qinghua people
Fine cultural traditions and glorious revolutionary traditions
To promote social progress in China
Reshape the noble spiritual values of the Chinese nation
Unremitting efforts have been made
Recently, Tsinghua University Art Museum
Titled "Ode to the Red Candle"
Held Wen Yiduo and Wen Lipeng art exhibitions
Show the world how much you smell and smell Lipeng
The artistic talents of father and son
Admire their artwork
Think about their aesthetic value
Feel their spiritual charm
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The art works of Wen Yiduo and Wen Lipeng's father and son are displayed at the Art Museum of Tsinghua University, which has special cultural and historical significance. This not only reminds us of the ideal spirit of "deep roots and leaf roots" and "passing on the fire" that China has always praised, but also allows us to experience how deep the cultural fertile soil of Mizuki Tsinghua, which grew up in a special historical environment, is.
Cover of "Xin Youjing"
Cover design: Smell a lot
Beijing Tsinghua School Xin Unitary Grade issued in June 1917
Collection of Tsinghua University History Museum
In 1912, at the age of 13, Wen Yiduo was admitted to Tsinghua School (the predecessor of Tsinghua University) and immediately showed a special artistic talent in drawing class. In September 1919, under the influence of Ms. Sdal, an American art teacher, he, together with Yang Tingbao, Fang Lai and others, jointly initiated the Tsinghua Art Society to organize painting exercises and discuss art theory. In December of the following year, together with Pu Xuefeng, Liang Sicheng and others, he initiated the establishment of the society "Meisisi" (the name of which is taken from the transliteration of the goddess Muses) to study literature, music and various art forms. In November 1921, together with Liang Shiqiu, Gu Yuxuan and others, he established the Tsinghua Literary Society to carry out new literary creation and criticism. Liang Shiqiu said: "When I compose more poems, I desperately write poetry, and when I study, I desperately try to govern learning... Concentrate on art and treat life as art. ”
1921 Tsinghua Annual Collection Ticket
"Gentleman: Self-improvement and virtue carrier"
Smell a lot
On July 16, 1922, Wen Yiduo took a boat from Shanghai to the United States and entered the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts to study fine arts. When he was studying in the United States, his longing for his homeland never stopped: "I think about China's mountains and rivers, China's grass and trees, China's birds and animals, China's houses - Chinese people." This sentiment is epitomized in his poetry collection The Red Candle, thus establishing Wen Yiduo's place in the history of New Chinese poetry. When the cultural people of his contemporaries talked about the literati at that time, they all believed that "from the study of Western literature to Chinese literature, Yiduo was the only successful person at that time." In fact, Wen Yiduo is also a successful person who has transferred from Western art to Chinese art. It dominates the boundaries of plastic arts and poetic literature, runs through the pursuit of Eastern and Western cultures, and leaps from the beauty of art forms to the beauty of soul connotation. This has become a unique life charm of Wen Yiduo.
Author of "Red Candle", cover design: Wen Yiduo, first edition of Tsinghua University Library Collection in September 1923
Wen Lipeng was born in a poet's family and was the third son of the famous poet and scholar Mr. Wen Yiduo. Childhood experiences have a profound impact on his character and temperament, and his early years were spent in turbulent environments. In the late 1970s, after the spiritual liberation of the Chinese people, the painter's long-suppressed passion was given the opportunity to express, and he painted works such as "Daughter of the Earth", "Ode to the Red Candle", "Wind" and so on. From these works, it can be seen that Wen Lipeng inherited his father's pursuit of sublimity and heroism, which added a deep and dignified emotional color because of special historical encounters. In the search for the east and the west, up and down, he more and more realized that the many opposing factors of the East and the West, the ancient and the modern, the rational and the perceptual, creating a sublime and magnificent artistic conception, is obviously the ideal artistic realm.
"Smell a lot of images"
Wen Lipeng
Oil on canvas 116cm×116cm, 2016
The Red Candle comes from the prologue to Wen Yiduo's first collection of poems, which uses the burning red candle as a metaphor for the poet who sings. The burning candle has been a symbol of emotional color familiar to Chinese literati since ancient times. The red candle burns to ashes and emits light at the same time, and the one who smells a lot of praise is "the burning of the light of creation mixed with tears of sadness" (Xie Guan's theory of smelling a lot). This is both in line with the image of the candle in traditional poetry full of helpless sorrow and variation.
Wen Lipeng emphasized in "Ode to the Red Candle" that the red candle creates the burning of light, and omits the "tears of sadness". He once said: "From the day I began to learn to paint, I looked forward to the day when I would use my own brush to express the noble and kind image of my father." The most shocking thing about the poet's deeds is the tragic end of his full life when his career was nearing its peak. After the advent of "Ode to the Red Candle", people not only think of this painting when they think of Wen Lipeng, but people often think of this painting when they think of Smelling a lot. This is an irreplaceable success and comfort for Wen Lipeng as a painter and Wen Lipeng as the son of a poet.
White Stone Series: Pathos No. 3
Wen Lipeng
Oil on canvas 80cm×100cm, 1990
From the attitude towards the tragic pursuit of the sublime and magnificent, we can feel the development characteristics of the artistic spirit of an era. For this pursuit is, in essence, the pursuit of the noble, great human soul. It is at this point that Wen Yiduo's poetry and Wen Lipeng's paintings have irreplaceable and far-reaching significance in modern Chinese culture.
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On the west side of the majestic Tsinghua Auditorium, stands a reddish-brown granite statue, sitting down, Mr. Wen Yiduo, with a deep gaze, staring into the distance, and on the black marble wall behind him, his famous words are engraved: "The poet's main talent is love, love for his motherland, love for his people." ”
"Smell a lot of portrait group painting - sacrifice"
Wen Lipeng
Oil on canvas, 162cm×130cm, 1988
Mr. Wen Yiduo, a poet, scholar and democracy fighter, is widely known, but Mr. Wen's artistic talent is rarely known. At the beginning of the school, Tsinghua first opened the atmosphere, and hired an American teacher, Ms. Sdal, to teach and open a Western-style drawing course. In 1912, Wen Yiduo was admitted to tsinghua school, and during his time in school, he showed excellent artistic talents: in the summer of 1914, he participated in the drawing off-campus sketching group, and Starr commented that he was "watercolor landscape painting, good at dewing the sun, and there are scenes of brilliant sunny days"; in 1915, he served as the picture editor of the "Tsinghua Annual Report"; in 1916, he participated in the establishment of the "Amusement Society" and was promoted as vice president; in 1919, he initiated the establishment of the art club with Wu Zelin, Yang Tingbao, Fang Lai and other students; on October 1, 1920, he published the "Tsinghua Weekly" "The Art Club" was published in "Tsinghua Weekly" The long article "Soliciting the Voice of Peers specializing in art" put forward the views that art can "promote human friendship", "raise the degree of social foundation", and is "the fundamental way to transform society", which is his declaration of determination to transform society with art. On December 1, 1920, Wen Yiduo, Together with Pu Xuefeng and Liang Sicheng, founded the organization "Meses" (derived from the transliteration of the nine goddesses of literature and science in Greek mythology) to "study literature, music, and various figurative arts", and its "Declaration of Meses" pointed out that "we are convinced that the evolution of human beings is based on matter to spirit... The art of life is the only way for life to reach the bottom of the high-depth and mellow bottom crane", from which it can be seen that tsinghua scholars represented by Wen Yiduo have a firm pursuit of the noble spirit, while art is "the bottom material that can elevate, deepen, nourish and beautify our life".
"Chong'an River Chain Bridge"
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Pencil on paper 18.0cm×13.5cm, March 24, 1938
Wen Yiduo has pursued and practiced this ideal all his life. In 1922, he studied in the United States with gengfu, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Chicago, the Fine Arts Department of the University of Colorado, and the New York Institute of Art, specializing in fine arts. After returning to China in 1925, he served as provost of the newly reorganized National Beijing Art College, after which he turned more energy to literary creation and academic research, and published his personal poetry collections "Red Candle" and "Backwater" in 1923 and 1928, which established his historical position in China's new poetry circle. In the autumn of 1932, Wen Yiduo was hired by his alma mater, Tsinghua University, as a professor in the Department of Chinese Literature. In 1937, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing, he moved south to Changsha with the school, and then participated in the Xiangqian dian tour group on foot from Changsha to Kunming, recording the wind and objects along the way with a paintbrush on the way, leaving behind more than 50 precious sketches. During the difficult years of Southwest United University in Kunming, he immersed himself in academia, once supplementing his family with the seal of the seal, leaving behind hundreds of square seal engraving works. On July 15, 1946, Wen Yiduo attended the report meeting on the martyrdom of Li Gongpu and made an impromptu speech "The Last Lecture". On the way home in the afternoon, he was shot by agents and died heroically. Although Wen Yiduo was eventually remembered as a poet, scholar, and devotee of the modern national liberation and democracy movement, he also left a large number of works of art in his life, which have always wandered between literature and fine arts, and have closely linked the two. The Complete Works of Wen Yiduo and the Fine Arts Volume includes 38 paintings, 37 book binding designs and illustrations, 52 calligraphy works, and 561 seal engraving works.
The Pinnacle of Books
Tsinghua University Archives Collection
Hua Luo Gengyin
Huasu offers
Sun Yutang
Li Shengye provided
Wu Youxun
Wu Jun donated it to the collection of the Art Museum of Tsinghua University
Art not only nourished and shaped Mr. Wen Yiduo's great spiritual character, but also subtly penetrated into his education of his children. Children are not only of high character and accomplished in their studies, but also of many talents. In particular, the third son, Wen Lipeng, influenced by his father, liked literature and art since childhood, entered the Fine Arts Department of the College of Literature and Art of Northern University in 1947, later entered the Central Academy of Fine Arts to study oil painting, and in 1958 was promoted to the oil painting research class, stayed in the school to teach after graduation, engaged in oil painting creation and art theory research, is the direct successor of Mr. Wen Yiduo's artistic ideas and personality strength, and is also an excellent representative of the first generation of oil painters trained in New China.
"Midnight Birch"
Wen Lipeng
Oil on canvas 130cm×162cm, 2007
Mizuki Qinghua, Zhong Lingyuxiu. In the course of running the school for more than 110 years, Tsinghua people have shaped two traditions with practical actions: excellent cultural traditions and glorious revolutionary traditions. Mr. Wen Yiduo is undoubtedly one of the most prominent representatives of these two traditions. The salary is passed on, and the spirit is immortal. Today, we hold the exhibition of Wen Yiduo and Wen Lipeng's art works at the Art Museum of Tsinghua University under the theme of "Ode to the Red Candle", although it is aimed at showing the artistic talents of father and son to the world, but we hope that the audience will think about their aesthetic value, feel their spiritual charm while appreciating their works of art, understand and remember the unremitting efforts made by the generation of scholars represented by Mr. Wen Yiduo from a new perspective to promote the progress of Chinese society and reshape the noble spiritual values of the Chinese nation.
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1899-1946
Born in 1899 in Hubei Province. In 1912, he entered tsinghua school, and graduated in 1922 to study fine arts in the United States. After returning to China in 1925, he successively served as a professor at Beijing Art College, Wuhan University, Qingdao University, Tsinghua University, Southwest United University and other universities, as well as the dean of literature and the head of the Chinese Department. On July 15, 1946, he was assassinated by agents in Kunming, Yunnan Province, at the age of 47.
Wen Yiduo was a famous poet who was enthusiastic about the creation and theoretical study of new poems in his early years, and opened up a generation of poetry styles with two collections of poems, "Red Candle" and "Backwater", and advocated new gelatin poetry; at the same time, he was also a well-known scholar, integrating Chinese and Western traditional and modern research methods, and was quite accomplished in the field of classical Chinese literature; in the late period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, based on the righteous indignation against the kuomintang dictatorship and corruption, he threw himself into the democratic movement. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it resolutely opposed the Kuomintang in launching an all-out civil war, opposed dictatorship, opposed civil war, and fought for democracy. In 1947, Mr. Zhu Ziqing summed up his life as a "poet, scholar, and democracy fighter" in the preface to the Complete Works of Wen Yiduo.
Due to its age, scattered information, and little is known to the world about Wen Yiduo's painting skills, this exhibition focuses on his achievements in fine arts.
Wen Lipeng
Born in 1931 in Hubei Province. He is a famous Chinese oil painter and professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Influenced by the family from childhood to like literature and art, in 1937 the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, with his father Wen Yiduo left Tsinghua Garden to Kunming, in 1947 entered the Liberated Area North University College of Literature and Art School of fine arts to study, in 1949 with the army into Beiping, and then merged with the Beiping National Art College to form the Central Academy of Fine Arts, continue to study, work, graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1958, graduated from the Oil Painting Research Class of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1963 and taught in the Oil Painting Department. He once served as the director of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the deputy director of the Oil Painting Art Committee of the China Artists Association, and the vice chairman of the China Oil Painting Society.
The graduates of the research class created the "International Song", praising the martyrs with a solemn and tragic mood, which had a wide influence. "Ode to the Red Candle" is not only a deep nostalgia for his father, Wen Yiduo, but also a perfect fusion of content and form. The landscape painting creation of nearly 30 years contains tragic and lofty artistic conception and connotation, and has formed a unique artistic style with symbolic colors and subjective composition.
Ode to red candles
Wen Yiduo, Wen Lipeng art exhibition
Exhibition time
April 2, 2022 - July 3, 2022
Exhibition venue
Exhibition Hall on the third floor of Tsinghua University Art Museum
Overall planning
Du Pengfei
Academic Host
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Curator
Xu Hong
Project coordination
Wang Chenya Zhao Chen
Curatorial Assistant
Liu Shuo Zhao Chen
Exhibit co-ordination
Li Yunfeng, Zhu Junpeng, Wei Chengguang, Dai Hong
Visual co-ordination
Wang Peng
Visual design
Wang Peng, Yang Hui, Wang Meiyi
Exhibition design
Liu Huijian
Exhibition execution
Chen Xinglu Liu Huijian Liu Shuo
Xie Anjie Gao Ning Wu Shuang Jia Lei
Publicity and promotion
Li Zhe, Liu Yaomeng, Zhou Xinxin, Xiao Fei
Organizers
Tsinghua University Art Museum
Co-organizers
Tsinghua University Archives
Tsinghua University History Museum
Tsinghua University Library
Special thanks
Wen Danqing Zong Pu Hua Su Li Shengye
Wu Jun, Zhang Shenbing, Pu Hanming
Opening hours
The main building implements a limited flow of reservations
Every Tuesday to Sunday 9:00-17:00
(Admission closes at 16:30 and membership closes at 16:00)
Closed on Mondays
Entrance tickets to the tour
Tsinghua teachers and students: With the campus card, you can get free general admission and special exhibition tickets
Social audience: need to purchase 20 yuan general tickets or 60 yuan special exhibition tickets (including general exhibition)
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