Yu Yunjie's "Welcoming Spring - Shi Zhongqin"
64x92 cm oil on canvas
1978 Collection of china Art Palace
Appreciation of works
This work depicts a portrait of the national first-class dancer Shi Zhongqin. In 1972, Shi Zhongqin participated in the ballet film "White Haired Girl" filmed by Shanghai Film Studio, playing the role of White Haired Girl, and since then, Shi Zhongqin's name has been firmly remembered by hundreds of millions of Chinese audiences along with White Haired Girl. In the same year, he became a participant in the "ballet diplomacy" in the process of establishing diplomatic relations between China and Japan. In 1978, Shi Zhongqin was elected a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress.
In the picture, the background color is fresh and full of vitality, the characters are full of vitality in the bright, the dancer's white ballet gauze skirt, flying with the dance of the arms, and an early spring flower protruding from the front of the body perfectly connects the characters with the environment. The painter uses subtle and concise techniques to show his meticulous observation and grasp of the characters, injecting the poetry and artistic conception emphasized by Chinese painting into the Western realistic painting technique, and also conveying the joy of welcoming the arrival of spring.
Related exhibitions
"Sunrise in the Orient - Shanghai Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China" is sponsored by the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Party History Research Office of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Liberation Daily Newspaper, organized by the China Art Palace (Shanghai Art Museum) and the Shanghai Artists Association, and co-organized by the Shanghai Academy of Chinese Painting and the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute.
The exhibition is divided into four chapters based on the clues of time( the period of the new democratic revolution), the 600 million Shenzhou Shunyao (the period of socialist revolution and construction), the oriental wind full of spring (the new period of reform, opening up and socialist construction), and the people's city seeing the original heart (the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics). A total of more than 140 works/groups of works are exhibited, mainly in the collection of the China Art Palace, and also in the collections of some important institutions. The types of works include Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking, sculpture, comic strip, etc., covering the representative works of three generations of artists in Shanghai.
Sunrise In the East - Shanghai Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China
Exhibition venue: 0-meter floor atrium, 20, 21 halls