On October 16th, the "Mountain and River Years - Cui Xiaodong Fine Products Rongbao Zhai Special Exhibition" was grandly opened in Beijing Rongbao Building. The exhibition selects nearly 40 major themed landscape paintings created by Cui Xiaodong in recent years, including new masterpieces of traditional themes such as the "Great Wall" series and the "Taishan" series, as well as the classic masterpieces of the industry in recent years, such as the "Shaoshan" series and the "Xiangshan" series, which not only show the important achievements of the artist's dedication to studying theme creation and opening up a new realm of landscape painting in the new era, but also express the infinite love and deep praise for the motherland.
His paintings are atmospheric and have a "temple atmosphere"
On the opening day of the exhibition, guests gathered and the atmosphere was warm. At the opening ceremony, Tang Hui, deputy general manager of RongBaozhai and president of Rongbaozhai Painting Institute, delivered a speech on behalf of the organizers, saying that Cui Xiaodong is an old friend of Rongbaozhai who has been in contact with rongbaozhai for nearly 30 years, and from the popularity of today's exhibition, he also knows that others have excellent popularity, and he is a model in the way of teachers, and is a painter with both virtue and art.
Tang Hui, deputy general manager of Rongbaozhai and president of Rongbaozhai Painting Institute
He spoke highly of Cui Xiaodong's persistence and meticulousness in art, saying: "Mr. Cui's traditional pen and ink skills are profound, and in the inheritance of traditional techniques, he is the most prominent and most accomplished among contemporary painters; he pursues individuality in art form, combines Chinese open-ended and Western-focused compositions into one, showing that the picture is both holistic and macroscopic and broad; at the same time, his color does not copy tradition and teacher inheritance, but harmoniously combines color and ink color, reaching a certain height academically." While pursuing pen and ink, he painted the creation of Chinese painting into a monumental form, which is shocking. ”
Guests who loved Cui Xiaodong's work but were unable to attend the opening ceremony for some reason sent congratulations to the exhibition. General Xiong Guangkai, adviser to the China Collectors Association and former deputy chief of general staff of the People's Liberation Army, sent a congratulatory letter to the exhibition, which Was read by General Li Mengyan on his behalf. General Xiong Guangkai said in the congratulatory letter: "Mr. Cui Xiaodong is a famous painter I know and love, his works are vigorous and magnificent, with profound national feelings, humanistic precipitation, historical rhyme, reflecting the style and style of contemporary landscape painting integrated into ancient and modern, throughout China and foreign countries, with unique and distinct aesthetic value and spiritual height." It is believed that this exhibition will surely become a new coordinate and a new starting point on the road of Mr. Cui Xiaodong's artistic climbing. ”
Fan Di'an, president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and chairman of the China Artists Association, commented that Cui Xiaodong's new work is "very innovative and spectacular." He said: "Teacher Cui Xiaodong's works are praising the spiritual homeland of the new industrial era with a majestic landscape posture."
Feng Yuan, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, deputy director of the Central Museum of Culture and History, and honorary chairman of the China Artists Association
Feng Yuan, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, deputy director of the Central Museum of Culture and History, and honorary chairman of the China Artists Association, said in his speech that looking at Cui Xiaodong's works is not only the enjoyment of art and the sublimation of academic value, but also the true attitude of being a person, doing learning, and doing art. He said that it is not unreasonable that landscape painting has been given a higher status in the history of Chinese art, because excellent landscape painting not only carries things related to aesthetic value and humanistic ideals, but also contains the ideal feelings of artists of previous generations. Cui Xiaodong's works have a temple atmosphere, Zhongzheng atmosphere, dignified and thick, with a strong visual impact and ornamentality, which is not found in the landscape paintings of "Yibi Caocao" after the Ming and Qing dynasties; in his landscape paintings, the elements of traditional landscape painting are complete, and at the same time, bold experiments are made between color and ink. He believes that the achievements of painters today are not leapfrog and jumpy, but stem from the long-term in-depth study and study of landscape painting, and have a deep insight and understanding of the spiritual essence of traditional landscape painting. He said: "As a peer, I have also been engaged in artistic practice for many years, and Cui Xiaodong's works always leave an impression on me, that is, he is solid and thick, and he can sink his heart to create meticulously, which is rare in today's era." ”
Li Geng, president of the Li Keyan Painting Academy and researcher of the National Academy of Painting of China
Li Geng, president of the Li Keyan Academy of Painting and researcher of the National Academy of Painting of China, said: "Today's exhibition by Professor Cui Xiaodong brings me back to the youth era: the older generation of painters represented by the elderly Qi Baishi, as well as the artists of the Beijing School and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, gathered and exchanged in Rongbaozhai. He said that the holding of Mr. Cui Xiaodong's exhibition is an artist's hard work, and it is also a recognition of his extraordinary talent by society. He said: "In Xiaodong's works, I once again saw a very worthy place in Chinese painting that is worth seriously watching, that is, the pursuit of details in the thick and solemn. This extreme, as well as the fusion of ink and color mentioned by Chairman Feng Yuan, is an innovation and a creation of Mr. Cui Xiaodong's own path since he painted, which makes us feel excited. ”
Cui Xiaodong, a famous artist, professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and director of yanhuang art museum
Cui Xiaodong, the protagonist of this exhibition, professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and director of Yanhuang Art Museum, introduced the background of the creation of these works, he said, the works exhibited in this exhibition are all the places he has been to, such as Shaoshan, Jinggangshan, Yan'an, Taishan, Guilin, Zhangjiajie, etc., these places are not only unique in natural scenery, but also have profound historical origins. Taking their cultural and revolutionary traditions as the subject of expression is their desire for many years.
"My father was a veteran of the New Fourth Army, who had experienced guns and bullets, and I had great respect for their generation and a deep affection for the place where they lived and fought." However, the expression of real life is not exactly the same as traditional painting, and it is also a very big challenge for the painter himself, and it is necessary to mobilize various factors to deal with painting techniques, artistic conceptions and feelings. He said that he is in the process of moving forward, and this exhibition is also an opportunity to communicate with his peers.
The exhibition is a masterpiece of landscape painting with major themes
In the field of contemporary Chinese landscape painting, since 2016, invited by Chairman Mao's Memorial Hall, Cui Xiaodong tried to create thematic creation with "The Former Residence of Chairman Mao of Shaoshan Mountain", and created a series of major theme landscape painting works with the law of the Song landscape and the brush and ink of ancient law sketching, such as "Fragrant Mountain October", "Great Wall Wanli", "Yan'an Pagoda Mountain", "Green Water and Green Mountains are Golden Mountains and Silver Mountains", "Taishan Rising Sun", "Taihang Mountain", etc., because they not only closely follow the theme of the times. Moreover, the success of contemporary landscape paintings highlights the gradually strong Chia Tai atmosphere, the style of the times and the grand style of China in the new era, which is highly praised by the industry and sought after by collectors.
Green water and green mountains are Jinshan Yinshan 96cm× 180cm 2019
Spring to Longevity Mountain 69x136cm Cui Xiaodong 2021
In the past 5 years, Cui Xiaodong has devoted himself to the creation and research and exploration of major theme landscape paintings, and has successfully painted a large number of works that are different from the past, different, express the voice of the times, have a new realm and new concepts, and have also been widely praised by the academic community, the collection community and the art market - in addition to the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, Cui Xiaodong was also invited to create major theme landscape paintings for many important buildings in China such as the Great Hall of the People and Zhongnanhai.
It is reported that most of the works exhibited in this "Mountain and River Years - Cui Xiaodong Fine Works RongbaoZhai Special Exhibition" are the fine works of a series of major theme landscape paintings that Cui Xiaodong has been invited to create in recent years. As a concentrated display of important creations of major contemporary landscape paintings, this special exhibition is particularly concerned about the "Great Wall" series, "Shaoshan" series and "Xiangshan" series created by Cui Xiaodong. It is not difficult to see that Rong Baozhai, which has a history of more than 300 years, while adhering to the excellent traditional culture and artistic spirit, has also accurately grasped the development direction and pulse of the times of Chinese calligraphy and painting art with a very forward-looking vision and keen insight, and through in-depth cooperation with contemporary representative artists, organized classic creation, academic research and characteristic exhibitions, and praised and displayed the brilliant achievements of the great motherland.
Badaling Great Wall 248x129cm Cui Xiaodong 2020
Golden Mountain Ridge of Morning Dawn 96X192cm Cui Xiaodong 2021
Although the Great Wall is a symbol of the indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation, artists in various fields have tried and created many times, but in the field of landscape painting, there are few famous classics preserved or famous in the world. Therefore, on the basis of "studying and practicing traditional landscapes for a long time and often sketching", Cui Xiaodong tried and challenged his "unfamiliar theme of the Great Wall".
After a period of study and effort, Cui Xiaodong successfully used the panoramic pingyuan scenery to express the brilliance of the great wall, the mountain dancing dragons, and even used the "portrait" technique to show the grandeur and solemnity, sublime and heroic of the Great Wall, thus shaping the Great Wall into a giant of the times, standing majestically in the forest of the world's nations, and moving towards the great national rejuvenation.
Former Residence of Chairman Mao of Shaoshan 240cm × 380cm 2017
Sunrise Shaoshan Layer Forest Dyeing 367x144cm Cui Xiaodong 2021
As the "Shaoshan" series of Cui Xiaodong's journey to create major themes, this special exhibition shows the way forward for the contemporary painting world to explore Chinese painting with the theme of revolutionary holy land - on the basis of drawing on the achievements of predecessors, the Shaoshan painted is not only the Shaoshan in the pen of the predecessors and in his own eyes, but the Shaoshan mountain with more majestic and profound momentum, richer layers and stronger color impact in his heart. In this regard, some critics in the industry praised: "(Cui Xiaodong) can forge ahead in the accumulation of previous generations of painters, find another way, create a way of interpreting the current era, present perspective, historical dimension and philosophical thinking, and create an artistic style and aesthetic fashion of the times in a new period of history." ”
Fragrant Mountain Red All Over 240x200cm Cui Xiaodong 2021
With the success of Shaoshan's creation, it became natural to be invited to create thematic creation of Xiangshan. Cui Xiaodong's "Xiangshan" series of landscape paintings represented by "Fragrant Mountain October" and "Fragrant Mountain Like Makeup" were inspired by Li Keyan's seven paintings of "Ten Thousand Mountains Red All Over", and the painter used different expression techniques to show the magnificent scene of Wanshan Red in the late autumn of Beijing's Fragrant Mountain. Because of this, the "Xiangshan" series has been praised by art critics as a symbol of cui Xiaodong's landscape painting transformation period - since then, his creation has gradually been replaced by a gorgeous and solemn aesthetic pursuit from the classical charm of pen and ink, and tried to establish a luxurious and brilliant neoclassical aesthetic style without losing rigorous rationality, the peace of composition, meteorological elegance, and integration into the aesthetic value of the new era.
The exhibition site
The exhibition runs until October 31.