2020 marks the 550th anniversary of Wen Zhengming's birth. The National Museum of Tokyo, Japan, and the Calligraphy Museum jointly held the Ming Dynasty calligrapher and painter Wen Zhengming Exhibition, exhibiting the existing works of Wen Zhengming in Japan and the calligraphy that was active in the same era, and exploring the charm of Wen Zhengming and introducing its influence on future generations, including Wen Zhengming's "Cursive Thousand Character Scrolls" and "Nine Song Scrolls of The Book of Letters".
In Shanghai, in addition to three special exhibitions, the Museum of Paintings of the Past Dynasties has also changed its permanent exhibits; in Beijing, the Beijing Academy of Painting has launched the "Scorching Qihua - Beijing Academy of Fine Paintings of Freehand Flowers and Birds"; the Guangdong Provincial Museum presents a special exhibition of "From Rembrandt to Monet - 500 Years of European Painting".
"The Paper, Art Review" will sort out the selections and lectures of the week's exhibitions for you.
Shanghai
The Shanghai Museum of Paintings of past dynasties was re-exhibited
Exhibition period: December 17, 2019 - February 16, 2020
Venue: Shanghai Museum
At the beginning of 2020, the Shangbo Painting Museum replaced some new exhibits, and some works that had not appeared for a long time, such as the Northern Song Dynasty Wang Yi's "Yanjiang Stacked Mountains Picture Scroll" and the Yuan Dynasty Wang Guan's "MoMei Tu", appeared again, and some works made their debuts. The permanent exhibition of the Past Painting Museum has been replaced and displayed, and the masterpieces used for special exhibitions have been integrated into the permanent exhibition, and 22 new calligraphy and painting works and new products have been added.
Rainbow of the Sea: Tang Zhaoti Temple Authentic Cultural Relics and Dongshan Kuiyi Partition Fan Painting Exhibition
The Shanghai Museum uses the Tang Zhaoti Temple built by Jian Zhen as the specific background, and selects five groups of precious cultural relics related to jian zhen, such as the "Scroll of the Eastern Crusade" (important cultural property) depicting Jian Zhen's promotion of Buddhism and his heroic life. In addition, the exhibition will also show the partition painting created by Dongshan Kuiyi for Tang Zhaoti Temple, in order to highlight the origin of Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges and continue to write a chapter of friendship between China and Japan.
Golden Stone Basket - Special Exhibition of Bamboo Carving Art in Jinxi
Exhibition period: December 7, 2019 - February 23, 2020
Venue: Exhibition Hall 3, 4th Floor, Shanghai Museum
Held to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the death of Mr. Kim Sik-ng and the 130th anniversary of his birth, a systematic exhibition of bamboo and wood carvings by Kim Sik-gwan is exhibited. The exhibition contains a total of 163 exhibits (sets), mainly bamboo carvings, but also includes wood carvings, paintings, seals, takumoto, famous inscriptions, archival materials and other cultural relics related to Kim's artistic career.
The Birth of Fine Art: From the Sun King to Napoleon – An Exhibition of the Collection of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure in Paris
Exhibition period: November 5, 2019 - February 9, 2020
Venue: Shanghai Museum, 1st Floor, Exhibition Hall 1
More than 80 art treasures from the collection of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris are exhibited, and through various forms such as oil paintings, sculptures, prints, models, books and manuscripts, the surging process of French art from the time of Louis XIV to the Napoleonic Empire is gradually developed to the top of European art.
Chenggu Mengxin Rui Yi Yingxiang - Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum, Shanghai Municipal History Museum Tibetan New Year Painting Exhibition
Exhibition period: December 27, 2019 - March 1, 2020
Venue: Shanghai Municipal Museum of History
The exhibition exhibits 87 groups of Fine New Year paintings collected by the two museums across the country, covering the genres and typical works of New Year paintings in 27 new year painting regions across the country, of which "mouse marrying relatives" is one of them, and it is also the theme of new year paintings in various places.
Afterglow of the Wind and Currents - Cultural Relics and Documentary Exhibition of the Shanghai Municipal History Museum
Exhibition period: December 18, 2019 - March 22, 2020
Venue: Songze Site Museum
The Nanshe cultural relics on display are basically from the old collection of shanghai tongzhi museum in the 1930s, and in 1950, Liu Yazi donated documents to the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee, a few of which were left behind by other Nanshe friends, and more than 90% of the exhibits were the first time to meet the audience.
Grandma Bridge with good white phase
Session: January 10– January 17, 2020 (Grandma Bridge) January 18, 2020 – January 31, 2020 (Good White Phase)
Venue: Yuwatai Art Museum (Building 2, Hongqiao Park, No. 9 Ziyun West Road, Changning District)
The exhibition, which is organized by the Shanghai Academy of Calligraphy and Painting and the Yuwatai Art Museum, is divided into two themes: "Grandma Bridge" and "Good White Phase" (sub-exhibition, starting on January 18), inviting three generations of artists from Shanghai to create, covering nursery rhymes, time-honored brands, urban life and other aspects. Among them, the artists' independent creations around 28 old Shanghai nursery rhymes, whether calligraphy or painting, show the past longtang culture from different angles.
There is a study series exhibition season three
Exhibition period: January 12-March 4, 2020
Location: Anyi (1st Floor, No. 4, Lane 90, Tongren Road, Jing'an District)
This year is the 983th anniversary of Su Shi's birth, in order to commemorate his birth, the organizers collected collections with Su Shi as the theme, including Song Shi Qingtuo's "Xuelang Zhai Monument", "Gu Su Ti Kao", Qing Tuo Zhao Songxue's "Chibi Fu", etc. Literati and literary play are intertextual, in such a self-cultivation space as the study, the two sides echo each other, intersect each other, and infiltrate and complement each other in their respective life experiences.
"I paint my motherland" Zhou Pu Painting Academy calligraphy and porcelain painting works
Exhibition period: January 9-20, 2020
Location: No. 528 Jinhui Road, Minhang District (6th Floor, Hongqiao Antique City)
The exhibition brings together the Chinese paintings of 32 painters of Zhoupu Painting Institute and more than 20 pieces of painted porcelain. It presents the achievements of the three generations of painters of Zhoupu Painting Academy in the exchange activities of collecting styles, and is also a report display of their annual creations. In 2019, Zhoupu Painting Institute and Zhoupu Art Museum specially planned the "Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China • I Paint My Motherland - Calligraphy and Painting Style and Porcelain Painting Exchange and Creation Series Activities", which is not only a gift to the 70th birthday of the mother of the motherland, but also an art practice education that does not forget the original heart. The series of activities in the past ten days is divided into two parts, one is the Huangshan style collection, and the other is the Exchange and Creation of Jingdezhen Porcelain Painting. Collecting style has always been an important part of the creation of calligraphy and painting. Artists feel nature and experience life through collecting style and sketching, thus creating grounded works of art.
Heart Painting Series 1
Exhibition period: January 11-February 11, 2020
Point: Harukado (Koshikaji 819 Tying No. 7)
This exhibition brings together calligraphy from Lin Sanzhi, Zhao Heng, etc., although their respective calligraphy styles are different, they have their own refinements.
After the wave
Exhibition period: December 8, 2019 - February 9, 2020
Venue: Shanghai Photography Center (No. 2555-1, Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District)
"Houlang" showcases the work of photographers nominated by 14 of the most influential curators and senior art practitioners in China and the UK. The project creates a close connection between two generations of neighboring generations and casts the spotlight of the moment on a group of artists with very different but equally noteworthy styles.
The Shape of Time – The Centre Pompidou Collection
Exhibition period: November 8, 2019 - May 9, 2021
Venue: West Bund Art Museum & Centre Pompidou (2600 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District)
On 8 November, the West Bund art museum and the Centre Pompidou Five-Year Exhibition officially opened to the public in Shanghai. During the joint project, the museum will bring three permanent exhibitions for 18 months to the public, as well as two temporary exhibitions per year. The opening exhibition includes "The Shape of Time – The Centre Pompidou Collection", which introduces the works of important artists from the collection of the Centre Pompidou, such as Duchamp, Picasso and Kandinsky. In addition, there is the "Observation - Exhibition of the New Media Collection of the Centre Pompidou".
Beijing
Scorching Its Glory - Beijing Academy of Fine Art Collection of Freehand Flower and Bird Painting Exhibition
Exhibition period: January 10-February 10, 2020
Venue: 1st and 2nd floors of the Art Museum of Beijing Academy of Fine Arts
The exhibition takes freehand flowers and birds as the context, and tells the mainstream appearance of the freehand flowers and birds in the early 20th century in the Beijing painting world through three sections: "Zhong Lingyu Xiu", "Safflower Ink Leaves" and "Bamboo Breeze"; Qi Baishi, who resolutely changed the law in the year of the flower armor, created the wind of safflower ink leaf freehand; discusses the blossoming flowers of the white stone protégé, and how to recreate the master's artistic inheritance path under the master.
Heavy Teacher Creation - Li Xiongcai's Source Path
Exhibition period: December 26, 2019 - February 23, 2020
Venue: Exhibition hall on the third and fourth floors of the Art Museum of Beijing Academy of Fine Arts
Li Xiongcai (1910-2001) is one of the most outstanding representative painters of the Lingnan School and an important practitioner of the modern new Chinese painting movement. This exhibition selects Li Xiongcai, the representative painter of the Lingnan School, as the research object, hoping to present the fundamentals of Mr. Li Xiongcai's gradual construction of personal style and new system from creation, from the times and from inheritance.
The Great Sacred Relics - Zhong PuGong Guqin Art Exhibition
Exhibition period: November 29, 2019 - February 29, 2020
Venue: The Palace Museum's Noon Gate Exhibition Hall
The first guqin and guqin-related utensils exhibition opened by the Palace Museum, in addition to displaying one Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing guqin standard instruments in the courtyard, also built a guqin and Ming and Qing emperor life exhibition area, displaying qin ink, qin box and other life utensils.
Sumiya Fukushou: When Tashilhunpo Monastery meets the Forbidden City
Exhibition period: December 10, 2019 - February 29, 2020
Venue: Exhibition Hall of Zhong Pu Palace, Palace Museum
It is the first time since the establishment of the Palace Museum that the exhibition of cultural relics with the theme of the 1st to 9th Panchen Erdeni and Tashilhunpo Monastery has been held. The exhibition will display more than 220 pieces (sets) of exhibits, of which more than 140 pieces (sets) of cultural relics are from the Palace Museum, and more than 80 pieces (sets) are from Tashilhunpo Monastery, most of which are on public display for the first time.
Exhibition of delacroix prints from the collection of the nineteenth century "Bard"
Exhibition period: December 20, 2019 - September 13, 2020
Venue: Sackler Museum of Archaeology and Art, Peking University
The exhibition focuses on the masterpieces of the 19th-century master Delacroix donated by Professor Donald Stone, including 4 drawings, 1 watercolor, 2 etchings and 41 lithographs.
Jiangsu
Brother King - from the Mancheng Han Tomb to the Dayun Mountain Han Tomb
Exhibition Period: December 20, 2019 - March 29, 2020
Venue: Nanjing Museum
Jointly created by the Nanjing Museum and the Hebei Museum, the exhibition reflecting the cultural and ceremonial life of the princes of the Han Dynasty is divided into four parts: "Princely Power", "Royal Rituals", "Death as Life" and "Dream of Eternal Life", which integrates 250 pieces/sets of fine cultural relics excavated in the two mausoleums of the brothers and kings in the theme, and the precious cultural relics reach more than 90%.
Yang Zhi Migao - Exhibition of Chinese Paintings in the Twentieth Century
Exhibition period: November 27, 2019 - February 28, 2020
Venue: Nanjing Museum Special Exhibition Hall, 3rd Floor, Exhibition Hall, 11
Presents the artistic achievements of eight masters, including Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong, Xu Beihong, Pan Tianshou, Zhang Daqian, Lin Fengmian, Fu Baoshi and Li Keyan.
Must wait and see - the collection of the Pan family in Suzhou in the Qing Dynasty
Exhibition period: December 21, 2019 - March 15, 2020
Venue: Suzhou Museum Wumen Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition Hall, Special Exhibition Hall
Pan Yijun was the first jinshi in the "Guipan" family in Suzhou in the Qing Dynasty, and his son Pan Shihuan Ke Shao Jiqiu, who followed him, followed by Wu, to explore the flowers and the first, while lighting the lintel, inheriting the family style, idyllic and self-contained, and soon disappeared from Wuxia. In the Quiet Fast, Luo Chen calligraphy and painting inscriptions, ancient books and rare books, to entertain the old father, and also the descendants of the descendants, from the Qing Dynasty to the Jia, stretched for four generations. The exhibition covers the collection of Su Jingzhai Pan VI, and returns to Suzhou to gather.
chekiang
Longquan under the heavens: Longquan Celadon and Globalization Special Exhibition
Exhibition period: November 15, 2019 - February 16, 2020
Venue: Zhejiang Provincial Museum
It exhibits 513 cultural relics from 42 cultural institutions around the world, explains the development, use and technology dissemination of Longquan celadon in China and even in the world from the 12th to the 15th centuries, presents the globalized picture of Longquan celadon culture in a three-dimensional way, and is also a concentrated display of the research results of experts from Zhejiang Provincial Museum and the Palace Museum in the past 10 years.
Guangdong
From Rembrandt to Monet – 500 years of European painting
Exhibition period: January 10- May 5, 2020
Venue: Guangdong Provincial Museum
Imported from the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the exhibition presents an overview of the 14th to 19th centuries from southern Italy to the Netherlands and Britain in 60 works, including works by European masters such as Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, Monet, Gauguin, etc.
Beauty and Italy Longevity: Qi Baishi's Art World
Exhibition period: January 1 - March 22, 2020
Venue: Guangzhou Museum of Art
More than 100 works of Qi Baishi collected by the Beijing Academy of Painting and the Guangzhou Art Museum are exhibited, inviting people to appreciate the natural interest of Qi Baishi's art, express New Year blessings, and try to show Qi Baishi's artistic world in three dimensions.
Unexpectedly: the 15th Lianzhou International Photography Annual Exhibition
Exhibition period: November 29, 2019 - January 23, 2020
Location: No. 120 Zhongshan South Road, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province
Since its inception, photography has been closely associated with the idea of manipulation: the manipulation of time and space, history and memory, society and nature, and, of course, the manipulation of reality. Participating artists, although they have very different ways of working, all of them incorporate unpredictable elements into their creative methods or creative concepts. Several of these artists abandoned the act of taking images in favor of ready-made images as objects for editing and creating.
Sichuan
Special exhibition "Discovering Sanxingdui: Sanxingdui and the Archaeology of Bashu"
Exhibition period: December 20, 2019 - March 20, 2020
Venue: Sichuan Guanghan Sanxingdui Museum
A total of 286 cultural relics are exhibited in the exhibition, including mysterious bronze longitudinal masks, heads of people wearing gold masks, and huge Shang Dynasty stone bi, among which the national treasure-level cultural relics Yubianzhang is the first public exhibition in nearly 30 years.
Taipei
Huge famous paintings
Exhibition period: January 1 - March 25, 2020
Venue: National Palace Museum, Taipei
As a distinctive permanent exhibition of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, the "Giant Famous Paintings" will continue to exhibit the famous calligraphy and paintings of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, such as Ma Yuan's "Painting Snow Scene", Wen Boren's "Wushan Chunji", Wang Yi's "Thousand Rocks and Ten Thousand Valleys" and so on.
Wan ErTong - the story of the seal book
Calligraphy is a special art form in the history of human culture, and in addition to being used in daily writing, it has also developed a complete and independent art theory system for a long time. The development process and aesthetic evaluation of calligraphy have always been the subject of attention, and this exhibition specially selects seal books from different periods to introduce the flow of style and the perspective of appreciation.
Four-way to the Dynasty - Occupational Gongtut Exhibition
Exhibition period: January 1, 2020 - March 25, 2020
The exhibition will be divided into two periods: the first phase (January 1 to February 13) and the second period (February 14 to March 25), exhibiting 20 pieces (groups) of "Gong Gong" theme calligraphy and paintings, including the Tang Dynasty Yan Liben's "Gong Tu" volume, the "Wang Hui Tu" volume, the Tang Dynasty Zhou Fang's "Barbarian Gong Tu" volume, the Song Dynasty Li Gonglin's "Gong Tu of all nations" volume, and the Yuan Zhao Mengqian "Gong Mastiff Map" volume.
overseas
Tokyo
550th Anniversary of Birth: Wen Zhengming and His Time
Exhibition Period: January 2, 2020 - March 1, 2020
Venue: Tokyo National Museum
Active in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), his creations improved the level of calligraphy at that time, and also had a great influence on later generations. Japan, which faces the sea, is no exception, especially in the Edo period, when Bunseiaki's calligraphy dominated the Japanese book world. 2020 marks the 550th anniversary of Wen Zhengming's birth. The Tokyo National Museum and the Calligraphy Museum held a large exhibition of Fumisei Ming, exhibiting The existing works of Fumisei Ming in Japan and the calligraphy that has enlivened everyone in the same era, exploring the charm of Bunsei Ming and introducing its influence on future generations.
"Paired" look at paintings
Exhibition period: January 9 - February 11, 2020
Venue: Nezu Museum of Art
In Oriental painting, there are many pairs of 2 pairs or 3 pairs of complex composition works, such as pairs, screens, etc., so that the paintings can not only be appreciated as a whole, but also individual works. This exhibition will focus on the continuity, independence and contrast of "paired" paintings, presenting their rich and diverse interests.
London
Special exhibition "Picasso and the Art of Paper"
Exhibition period: January 25-April 13, 2020
Venue: Royal Academy of Arts
From January 25, 2020, the Royal Academy of Arts will jointly hold a special exhibition "Picasso and the Art of Paper" in conjunction with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Picasso Museum in Paris, from the study of "Guernica" to the 4.8-meter-wide collage, presenting more than 300 works of paper spanning Picasso's 80-year career.
Troy: Myth and Reality
Exhibition period: November 21, 2019 - March 8, 2020
Venue: British Museum
The exhibition features 300 historical artifacts and works of art related to the city of Troy, spanning 3,000 years, and explores the influence of Trojan mythology on Western art and literary history.
Lecture information
The success or failure of the Académie - the relationship between the French Collegiate system and the development of the fine arts
Venue: Academic Lecture Hall, Shanghai Museum
Speaker: Dong Qiang
The development of French fine arts is closely related to the perfect academic system in France. Both the "Sun King" and Napoleon are concerned with the construction of the Academy of Fine Arts. Around the Academy of Fine Arts, a complete set of mechanisms has been formed, covering the discovery, cultivation and reward of artistic talents, as well as the collection and recognition of fine art works. This lecture aims to tell the story of the formation, development and prosperity of this mechanism, as well as the controversy encountered after the Second Empire, and to comprehensively show the promotion of the academy system to the development of the fine arts.
Hangzhou
From Dunhuang to the Forbidden City – the same original intention and mission
Speaker: Wang Xudong (President of the Palace Museum)
Lecture venue: Zhejiang University Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1st Floor Lecture Hall
The Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes reflect the highest achievements of Buddhist culture and art in China from the 4th to the 14th centuries, from the Northern Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty. The Forbidden City is a collection of Ming and Qing dynasty royal buildings and collections, and is the gathering place of China's 5,000-year civilization.
Fang Wen Art and Archaeology Academic Lecture No. 18 - Qianlong: The Original Intention of the Agricultural Era
Speaker: Wang Zilin, Research Librarian, Palace Museum
Qianlong loves to read, he said that this is the cause of the previous life can not be changed, at the age of 16 he had his first book house Leshan Hall, from an early age determined to be like Da Shun". Until old age, he was still "tired of being diligent during his old age" and was diligent in his work like Da Shun.