Guomei gold bookshelf| Xu Jiang: "Wangjing", "Sir", "Words on the Shelf"

He has been at the helm of the highest school of Chinese art for 20 years

With the concept of "pluralistic interaction, harmony and difference"

Put forward the school motto of "Walking Healthy, Respecting, Meeting, and Performing Far"

The China Academy of Art, which created the "world"

He has the concept of "looking at the horizon"

Committed to the creation of "Shanshui Academy"

Supported Wang Shu in designing the Xiangshan Campus of the China Academy of Fine Arts

In 2012, Chinese won for the first time

The Nobel Prize in architecture - the Pritzker Architecture Prize

He was a standout for painting on the shelf

For decades, it has been like painting sunflowers, writing sunflowers, and writing flowers

With the vicissitudes and strength of the group Aoi

Recreate the grand narrative of the times

Recreate the spiritual map of a generation of Chinese that has been tried and lost

He became a leading figure in contemporary Chinese expressive painting

He is an important promoter of Chinese contemporary art

It has created many international academic platforms for Chinese contemporary art

He founded the School of Transmedia Arts

He has also long pondered the question of "what is painting in the image era"

Emphasize the importance of feelings and thoughts

He was the twelfth president of the China Academy of Art

Xu Jiang

He was an artist, but also a thinker

He is passionate and sane and calm

Visionary and strategic

It is a comprehensive figure that is almost difficult to replicate in the current art world

In mid-March 2022, the two sessions of the National People's Congress were successfully concluded in Beijing. This is the 20th time that Xu Jiang, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, chairman of the China Oil Painting Society, vice chairman of the China Artists Association, chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, and director of the Academic Committee of the China Academy of Art, has gone to Beijing to attend the two sessions of the National People's Congress. On the hot topic of "aesthetic education" in recent years, Xu Jiang put forward the proposal of "Beauty, Nurturing The Heart, and Enhancing the Heart" at the meeting.

He pointed out that aesthetic education is not only aesthetic education in colleges and universities, nor is it just professional and professional aesthetic education, but also aesthetic education as an education for young people's values, and it is the aesthetic education of China's national style spiritual education. The true creator must be a person with a cultural consciousness of life, a person with public values, a person with a skillful hand and a philosophical mind. In such a craftsman system developed by heart, we emphasize "getting started with hard work, reading and nourishing the heart". Train dexterous skills with continuous labor, cultivate the taste and thinking of skills, and let this taste and thinking be integrated into the skills, raise your hands to leave incense, and wave your arms wonderfully. At the same time, with a lot of reading to enrich knowledge, moisturize skills, nourish our hearts, and enhance our hearts.

This is not the first time that Xu Jiang has shouted to the society and the government on the topic of "aesthetic education". Over the years, as an art creator, art educator and manager, he has always consciously shouldered this mission and responsibility.

Recently, the special edition of "Hushan Art Cong, Thinker Xu Jiang" published by Zhejiang People's Fine Arts Publishing House (3 volumes) carefully selects the classic chapters written by Xu Jiang over the years and collects them into three small books, "Wangjing", "Sir" and "Words on the Shelf", presenting his profound thinking on art, culture, aesthetics and education from three far-reaching perspectives.

"Hopeland"

The ideal university, the ideal of the university

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"Wangjing" is a very important artistic concept put forward by Xu Jiang, which refers to the realm where lakes and mountains look at each other, and is also the realm of spiritual shaping facing the historical context, values and spiritual quality. On the one hand, it contains the poetry of landscape and water, and on the other hand, it carries the mission and responsibility. This realm of mutual communication and mutual existence and mutual respect makes people clear and open.

The whole book takes this concept as the overall photograph, conveys to the reader that university education should cultivate people, and art education also needs to pay attention to the cultivation of learning and spiritual realm, and puts forward thoughts and suggestions on the current situation of specialized discipline education in contemporary China, which is of great help to contemporary confused college students and educators.

"Sir"

Look up at the peak of Chinese art and culture

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Looking up to a generation of masters is intended to cultivate people's minds, improve people's hearts, and enhance people's hearts. The masters discussed in the book include Lin Fengmian, the first president of the China Academy of Art, Wu Dayu, a master of modern art, Huang Binhong, a master of modern and contemporary Chinese painting, Pan Tianshou, a master of Chinese painting who has served twice as the president of the Academy of Fine Arts, Wu Guanzhong, who has made outstanding achievements in the integration of Chinese and Western painting, as well as Wang Yuanhua, a famous cultural scholar, Xu Wei, an artistic wizard, and Jin Shangyi, Zhan Jianjun and Quan Shanshi, as well as contemporary oil painters Jin Shangyi, Zhan Jianjun and Quan Shanshi.

Several essays, whether it is the written rules, or the life experiences of the people they write about, and their devotion to art and culture, have the power to move.

"Talk on the Shelf"

The pursuit and mission of art

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The main topics discussed in this book are painting and other visual arts, including "Talk on the Shelf", "Dialogue with Mr. Wu Guanzhong", "The Entanglement and Poetry of Painting", "Yaji Xing answer" and other articles. Among them, "Talk on the Shelf" discusses what painting in the image era is through several parts: "Visual Figuration", "Water Trace, Heart Trace", and "Post-Appearance and Non-Line". "Dialogue with Mr. Wu Guanzhong" starts from the review of Xu Jiang's works, talks about the importance of artistic sensitivity and the ability to appreciate beauty, and discusses what is the most important connotation of painting. "The Entanglement and Poetry of Painting" returns to the source of sensibility, and discusses how painting poeticizes personal experience from three aspects: "body and body image", "challenge and transformation", and "slow process and intuitive generation". "Yaji Xing answer" talks about the importance of traditional yaji, including the realms of ascending to the victory trail, going far away, sadness and sorrow, and imperial wind intoxication.

Several articles have deeply explored the appreciation of artistic sensibility and beauty, and the articles have a broad connotation, unique thinking, and simple depth, which is worthy of deep consideration by art students and the general public who love art.

In the three small books of "Wangjing", "Sir" and "Talk on the Shelf", the reader will see a thinker Xu Jiang. Brew a pot of tea, open a book casually, listen to the thinker Xu Jiang talk about art, culture and education, take you to appreciate the value concept, spiritual pursuit, artistic height and academic lifeline of a century-old famous school, and analyze for you why the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts has become the intrinsic gene of the Chinese Academy of Art.

Recommended by famous artists

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● Wu Guanzhong: "Xu Jiang's paintings have poetic power. There is always a sense of vicissitudes in his paintings, as if looking at the mountains from afar, looking at the vicissitudes of history and seeing the distant vicissitudes. What he seeks is to expose the essence of life. ”

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● Chen Jiaying: "Among contemporary Chinese painters, painting and literature are excellent, Xu Jiang is famous, and his words reflect the artistic conception of his paintings, giving rise to the ideas in the paintings, and reflect each other." ...... We in the fifties are often called idealists, and Xu Jiang is particularly idealistic. Xu Jiang's paintings and texts richly interpret the positive meaning of idealism, or rather, interpret what idealism is in the proper sense. ”

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● Fan Di'an: "The biggest feature of Xujiang art is the simplicity of artistic themes and the richness of artistic expression language. ...... Xu Jiang's multiple professional identities such as art education, art organization and management, theoretical thinking and creative practice have made him see a wide range of people and know many people, but back to his own creation, his artistic concerns are more and more focused, more and more towards deep thinking. It can be said that in the organic unity of the depth of artistic thinking and the breadth of artistic language, he is a prominent phenomenon in the contemporary Chinese art world. ”

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● Yu Hua: "Xu Jiang, born in 1955, me born in 1960, born in the 1950s and 1960s, people who did not know each other, sunflowers are a common memory for us, an image that makes our generation Chinese tearful." ”

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● Gao Shiming: "Xu Jiang has two pens, one of which is scribbled on the canvas, and the other pen is reined on the manuscript paper. With the temperament of these two pens, he constructed a world in which the interaction between pictures and texts, speech and vision occurs. ”

The source | Zhejiang People's Fine Arts Publishing House

Editor| Ark Zhao Yucen

Review and | Ding Hongqi

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