Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Zhu Shaojietu/Provided by the organizer
From June 22 to July 6, the second phase of the "2021 Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Undergraduate Graduation Works Exhibition" was exhibited at the University Town Art Museum of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (currently only open to teachers and students on campus).
More than 600 undergraduate graduates from the School of Chinese Painting, the School of Painting Art, the School of Sculpture and Public Art, the School of Cross-Media Art, the College of Arts and Crafts, the College of Arts and Humanities, and the School of Fine Arts Education have observed life with an open vision, strived to innovate, and demonstrated the richness and possibilities of the world with works full of youth and passion. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
Attention and expression of real life
Lingnan's artistic ethos has always emphasized life and innovation, and this graduation exhibition shows young people's attention and expression of real life. On the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the Party, Zheng Manlin from the Department of Chinese Painting expressed the red allusion of "wedding on the execution ground" in a revolutionary romantic way.
The work "Weeping Blood Twilight" imagines Chen Tiejun and Zhou Wenyong meeting in front of the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau during the Guangzhou Uprising. The painting uses a symmetrical composition, the two people looking at each other, and the kapok falls to the ground, showing the "silence before the storm".
In the fast-paced pace of urban life, social activities are also gradually changing. Han Xuxin's "Convenient Socialization" at the Academy of Painting Art attempts to explore the "fast and cheap" of interpersonal communication and social relationship distance.
Guo Dingfen, a school of cross-media art, was born in the countryside and his family had many people who went to the city to work, so his "Life on scaffolding" focused on the construction workers among the migrant workers in the city. He went to the construction site, worked and lived with his cousins for a month, filmed documentaries, and at the same time carved his own experience and feelings of shooting on bricks.
Focusing on tradition and connecting with the present is an important issue for a new generation of art creators. Hu Gui's "Distant Present" of the School of Sculpture and Public Art depicts people and things around him with the linear modeling language of traditional Chinese murals, reliefs and the expression of Mai Jishan's "thin flesh sculpture", so that the fragments of traditional murals become a link between history and today, between the nation and the individual.
Highlight the healing power of art
"The global epidemic is still not settling, mankind is undergoing unprecedented changes, and the development of science and technology is constantly changing the way of life of human beings, and it is also affecting our creation." Qi Zhe, vice president of the College of Arts and Crafts, told the Yangcheng Evening News reporter that in the graduation creation of the College of Arts and Crafts, the healing effect of art was highlighted.
The reporter noticed that the hospital has two creations entitled "Gifts", but they have different perspectives. Bin Zhiyao's clay work "Gift" blends humans and animals into strange shapes, exploring the close relationship between humans and nature: when humans harm animals, animals also "back-gift" their own injuries to humans like "gifts"; and Huang Limin's "Gift", which uses cake mounting techniques and mud with different consistency ratios, is used to create pottery, showing the creator's love for food.
Huang Tingting's "Coming" is a group of rock color decorative paintings, consisting of six paintings. The cut of the picture presents the shape of an arch, combined with the semi-three-dimensional frame, expressing the three stages of loss, search and protection. According to reports, "Coming From" aims to express that young people may be blinded by flowers and lose themselves in the process of growing up, but fortunately, they can still look back at the place, do not forget the original intention, and let themselves continue to move forward.
It is reported that this year's graduation exhibition of the College of Arts and Crafts emphasizes the return of arts and crafts to its roots. "We hope that through these graduation works, we can provide new possibilities and new ideas for creating a better life." Qi Zhe said that with the increasing improvement of the quality of life in China's society, arts and crafts have ushered in the best opportunity for development, whether in first-tier cities or in border villages, young students have great potential.
【Famous Teacher's Comments】There are many soothing works in the graduation creation
Text/Qi Zhe (Professor, School of Arts and Crafts, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts)
During the period of guidance and creation, this year's graduation exhibition has experienced the impact of the epidemic to a certain extent. We obviously feel that in addition to practical functions and aesthetic functions, the students have added their further thinking about society, nature and life, although some of their thinking is relatively immature, but it is also sincere and valuable.
In this graduation creation, we have seen more warm and soothing works, which embody the healing function of art. It is not only a response to the epidemic, but also a catharsis and regulation of students' emotions in the nervous and anxious graduation season.
In the process of guiding the graduation creation, we have learned from the experience of the preparation of the graduation exhibition in the past two years, and while continuing the tradition, we have emphasized the "source", that is, returning to the origin of craft production and returning to the source of the era's demand for craftsmanship. In the exhibition layout, it is also hoped to highlight the overall academic proposition and academic outlook of the College of Arts and Crafts.
The School of Arts and Crafts has long paid attention to the creation of modern space, so that the creation has a specific foothold and integrates into the modern indoor and outdoor space. Dean Li Jinkun made specific comments on our students' works during the tour and the exhibition, and we are also working to combine the excellent works with the space of the school library and permanently display them in the public space.
This kind of collection display is more meaningful than entering a warehouse permanently. It makes the work face our lives, and it also encourages us to create more works that make the audience more engaged. This is a major feature and fine tradition of guangmei Academy of Arts and Crafts compared with other art academies in China, which is worthy of the younger generation to continue to carry forward.
This year's graduation exhibition also coincides with the major historical moment of the centenary of the founding of the Party, perhaps the arts and crafts are not particularly good at positive expression of major historical themes, and we can make the arts and crafts better adapt to the needs of the general public in the specific creation, through their own works, to create a better and happier life at the moment to provide some new possibilities and new ideas.
Source | Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng Pie
Editor-in-charge | Zhou Xinyi