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On the afternoon of November 8th, "Golf Landscape: Zhang Shaoxia's Oil Painting Exhibition" opened in the lecture hall of the Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts. This oil painting exhibition exhibits 40 landscape oil paintings by Zhang Shaoxia based on his personal life, as well as some of his writings and working manuscripts in the 80s.
Zhang Shaoxia is a well-known scholar of Western art history in contemporary China, who studied at Nanjing University of the Arts under the tutelage of Professor Liu Ruli, a master of art history. Zhang Shaoxia devoted himself to the study and compilation of the history of foreign arts and crafts, and published a series of academic monographs such as the Outline of the History of European Arts and Crafts, the History of Asian Arts and Crafts, and the Arts and Crafts of Africa and the Americas in the eighties of the last century, which filled a gap in the study of the history of arts and crafts in the continental world, and was one of the founders of the history of arts and crafts. Zhang Shaoxia and his student Li Xiaoshan co-authored and published a representative academic monograph "The History of the Development of Western Art", and later published "The Great Collection of World Paintings", which has been valued by art history researchers.
Lin Shuchuan, the curator of this exhibition and deputy director of the Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, introduced the basic situation of the exhibition, which is based on Zhang Shaoxia's life as a golfer and painted the scenery he saw when he played golf all over the world, and these 40 paintings were selected from nearly four or five hundred works in his studio, which are representative. "From this exhibition, we can see the rigorous scholarship of the older generation of art historians, as well as some of the things that we younger generation of art historians need to learn. ”
Zhu Qingsheng, professor of the Department of History of Peking University and rotating chairman of the International Society of Art History, talked about the landmark of "golf course" and the development and transformation of Chinese contemporary art he has experienced at the opening ceremony. Mr. Zhu Qingsheng said that in the creation of paintings, only by "gazing" can the last gap and path of human dignity not be deprived.
Liu Weidong, a professor of art history at Nanjing University of the Arts, talked about two or three things with Zhang Shaoxia when he was young at the opening ceremony, he affirmed Zhang Shaoxia's academic sensitivity and rigorous academic attitude, and affirmed Zhang Shaoxia's foundational role in the development of Nanyi and the construction of the textbook system. With art, I think we'll live happier lives!"
Zhang Shaoxia, the artist of this exhibition, would like to express his sincere gratitude to the exhibition team and staff. After the opening ceremony, Zhang Shaoxia donated his works to the Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, and Lin Shuchuan, deputy director of the Art Museum, accepted the donation on behalf of the museum.
Hang Jian, a professor at the China Academy of Art, was interviewed by a reporter from the Yangtze Evening News and Purple Cow News during the exhibition, and he affirmed the artistic quality of the exhibition, "I have known Mr. Zhang Shaoxia for many years, and these works are actually a remnant of Zhang Shaoxia after participating in golf, he is intoxicated with it, and expresses his feelings about his love for golf through painting, and it can also be seen that the more he paints, the more relaxed he becomes." It is worth mentioning that Zhang Shaoxia's landscape oil paintings are more traditional, and even ordinary audiences can appreciate the beauty of the scenery in the paintings. Nanyi has an oil painting tradition of oriental lyrical painting, such as Su Tianci, which is the traditional characteristic of Chinese oil painting. I think Zhang Shaoxia is also slowly moving closer to this aspect. ”
It is reported that the exhibition will last until November 27.
Exhibition view
Yangtze Evening News|Purple Cow News reporter Shen Zhao
Proofread by Xu Heng