Recently, sponsored by Suzhou Public Cultural Center and undertaken by Wu Zuoren Art Museum, "A Piece of Dan Heart to the Motherland - Exhibition of Wu Zuoren's Calligraphy and Painting Works in the Collection" was launched at Wu Zuoren Art Museum.
Mr. Wu Zuoren is one of the few artists who graduated from the class in China in the 1920s and 1930s who studied Western art in Europe, and the artistic achievements and artistic ideas he created throughout his life have formed an artistic monument in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese art. Mr. Wu Zuoren has successively served as the president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the chairman of the China Artists Association, and the vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
Audience viewing
Mr. Wu Zuoren's works are rich and diverse, including oil paintings, drawings, Chinese paintings, etc., his Chinese paintings are not only extensive and novel, but also the yaks and pandas have never been included in traditional Chinese paintings. The novelty of Wu Zuoren's Chinese painting has a multi-faceted presentation, and there are new evolutions and expansions in many aspects such as artistic values, artistic creation concepts, and the spirit of brush and ink in Chinese painting.
He advocated "art for life", arguing: "Art is not only a reflection of the soul, the expression of thought, and a language without words, so it is 'into the world', it is 'era', and it can be understood." What the public can understand is immortal. Therefore, we must go to society to understand society and find nature in nature. Therefore, even the themes of flowers, birds, grasses and insects can express the emotions and styles of an era through artistic techniques such as "Bixing", rather than just sticking to and being limited to the so-called "bookish feelings" of the traditional literati. Wu Zuoren adheres to the realistic view of creation, and in his Chinese paintings, there is both the tender lyricism of the breeze and the moon, and the spirit of the excitement. Wu Zuoren, who came from a professional oil painting class, did not ignore the value of Chinese painting, on the contrary, he also required students who studied Western painting to learn a little calligraphy and paint a Chinese painting. He believes that the brush and ink of Chinese painting have more shaping power and generalization power than oil painting.
Director Ding Jianzhong of Wu Zuoren Art Museum guided tour
Nearly half of the 33 works of Wu Zuoren's calligraphy and paintings exhibited in this exhibition are his calligraphy works, ranging from seal writing to cursive writing. From his birth to the age of 18 when he graduated from middle school and left Suzhou, Wu Zuoren was fully nourished by the cultural highland of Suzhou, and we can feel his profound traditional cultural education from the calligraphy works on display.
On the occasion of celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the theme of the exhibition is "A Piece of Dan Heart toward the Motherland", which is to highlight Mr. Wu Zuoren's socialist realist artistic values and show his heart and ardent affection for the great motherland through the artistic charm and appeal of these calligraphy and painting works. And with this exhibition, it is a gift to the centenary of the founding of the party.
Exhibition hall
Ding Jianzhong, director of Wu Zuoren Art Museum, said that in order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the PARTY, Wu Zuoren Art Museum took Mr. Wu Zuoren's calligraphy "A Piece of Dan Heart to the Motherland" as the theme of the exhibition, and specially launched "A Piece of Dan Heart to the Motherland - Exhibition of Wu Zuoren's Calligraphy and Painting Works in the Collection", which is also one of the series of activities of the Suzhou Public Cultural Center to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Party. This exhibition has three characteristics, one is that for the first time, we have made a panoramic exhibition of all the calligraphy and painting works in the collection, among these works, books and paintings are an equal proportion, there are 17 Chinese paintings, 16 calligraphy, such a large volume is very rare. Second, most of the works on display are related to the struggle process of the Communist Party of China, for example, one of the calligraphy works is Mao Zedong's words, reflecting the revolutionary spirit and fighting spirit of the Communist Party of China. Third, we can see wu Zuoren's artistic outlook from his works - "the law changes from me, and art becomes life."
It is reported that the exhibition lasts until September 10.