Zhang Tingting
【Editor's Note】Pen and ink is the most basic component of Chinese painting, especially literati painting, and is also one of the classic forms of expression of Chinese culture and the inner spiritual structure of Chinese literati. Recently, Pan Gongkai, Jiang Baolin, Wang Xijing and Liu Mu held solo exhibitions in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Xi'an and Beijing respectively, and they all used "pen and ink study" as a clue in the exhibition to analyze their personal creations in the context of the history of Chinese brush and ink research. All four of them have also studied and reformed the tradition of pen and ink in the development of contemporary Chinese painting, and formed their own unique pen and ink language. This issue of "See the Exhibition" focuses on the exploration of these four artists, with a view to enlightening the innovative development of Chinese painting.
Pan Gongkai
Exhibition Name: Pen & Ink
Venue: Fosun Art Center, Shanghai
Exhibition time: November 11 to December 20, 2020
Pan Gongkai has taught and served as the dean of the China Academy of Art and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and is respected as an art educator, and Pan Gongkai's achievements in the study of Chinese art are another way to understand him. In recent years, he has conducted in-depth research on the core structure of traditional Chinese painting, "Pen and Ink", and the exhibition "Pen and Ink" held at the Fosun Art Center in Shanghai is part of his research results. The exhibition is composed of two theme chapters: "True Interpretation of Pictures: An Overview of the Evolution of Calligraphy and Painting Brush and Ink" and "The Realm of Grass Seals: Pan Gongkai's Pen and Ink Exploration Case", with "Pen and Ink" as the starting point, presenting the long history of the complex evolution of brush and ink in Chinese painting through rich documentary materials and multimedia records. Taking his own artistic creation as a case, Pan Gongkai focuses on showing the writing of Chinese pen and ink and the construction of the overall pen and ink language system, and on the basis of inheriting the tradition of freehand flower and bird painting of his predecessors, he explores a more dignified and overall sense of modernity, and expands the aesthetic interest of freehand ink painting.
Pan Gongkai Cursive "No End" 2000
Pan Gongkai New Release 2007
Pan Gongkai Snow Melt Residual Ink Imaging Device Size Variable 2011
Jiang Baolin
Exhibition Title: Shi Xin - "Remember Mr." Jiang Baolin Chinese Brush ink painting exhibition
Exhibition venue: Pan Tianshou Art Museum, Hangzhou
Exhibition period: December 7, 2020 to January 18, 2021
"Both pen and ink, but also modern" is Jiang Baolin's artistic proposition. The "Master's Heart - 'Remember Mr.' Jiang Baolin's Chinese Brush and Ink Transmission Exhibition" held by Pan Tianshou Memorial Hall takes Jiang Baolin's chinese brush and ink learning and research process as the observation point, and is a series of exhibitions that consider the characteristics of Chinese brush and ink and how they inherit and innovate in the contemporary era through the painter's case. In 1962, Jiang Baolin was admitted to the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, where he was personally taught by Pan Tianshou, Lu Weizhao, Lu Yushao, and Gu Kunbo. In 1979, he was admitted to the Shanshui Graduate Class of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and was a graduate student of Li Keyan. It is the study experience of the north and the south and the transformation of many teachers that has shaped his solid and extensive traditional pen and ink training, solid and diverse pen and ink techniques, so that Jiang Baolin has more thinking about pen and ink: "I adhere to pen and ink writing, and at the same time, I am keen on innovation in form composition, extremely 'conservative' to the pen and ink tradition, and extremely 'arrogant' to the form, so that my works have a strong nationality, distinct era, and unique personality." ”
Jiang Baolin You 1994
Jiang Baolin Helan Mountain cut off in 1990
Jiang Baolin Empty Mountain 1993
Jiang Baolin Jinshan Yinshan 2020
Wang Xijing
Exhibition Name: Boundless - Wang Xijing 2020 Ink Art Exhibition
Venue: Xi'an Art Museum, Xi'an
Exhibition time: December 5 to December 28, 2020
"When the afterglow of the huge sunset reflects on the vast Serengeti prairie, the sunset is crushed, and the painting is produced." Wang Xijing wrote this sentence in the preface to the "Boundless - Wang Xijing 2020 Ink Art Exhibition" held at the Xi'an Art Museum. When you look at people and animals in this African land through your works, you can feel the heat of the feelings he has invested. The 50 new figure paintings and landscape paintings are not only artistic innovations that view the present from a historical perspective in the context of global upheavals, but also a record of Wang Xijing's ink art that integrates East and West, contemplating many global issues from the perspective of "community of human destiny". Yang Xiaoyang, vice chairman of the China Artists Association, believes that this batch of ink paintings has broken through various boundaries, and each kind of painting has been integrated into one furnace, embodying the Chinese philosophy of from scratch, from being to nothing, from being to nothing, having nothing to live with each other, and living with nothing.
Wang Xijing East African Chieftain 2020
Wang Xijing Flaming Africa 193cm×207cm 2020
Wang Xijing He is home 144cm × 104cm 2019
Wang Xijing Homeland 116cm× 192cm 2019
Wang Xijing East African Serengeti Grassland 156cm × 199cm 2020
Liu Mu
Exhibition Name: Wuyi Qingcha - Exhibition of Liu Mucai's Ink Works
Venue: Beijing Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Exhibition time: December 4 to December 13, 2020
Since the 1980s, Liu Mu has explored the linguistic expression of contemporary ink painting on the basis of traditional literati painting, and boldly practiced it in combination with the spirit of traditional Chinese literati. Liu Mu fused and reconstructed the natural landscape of Wuyi Mountain with its strong literati feelings to create a unique form of artistic language. The "Wuyi Qingcha - Liu MuCai Ink Works Exhibition" held at the Art Museum of Beijing Academy of Fine Arts further demonstrated Liu Mu's rich artistic life through more than 60 works and video materials, manuscript documents, and tea tasting scenes. After viewing the exhibition, art collector Cai Jianhui believes that Liu Mu's "Wuyishan Qingcha" color ink series combines the pen and ink interest of Chinese painting, dry and wet and thick with the dotted lines and surfaces of Western paintings, black and white gray, and paints the yin and yang changes of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter in Wuyishan. Liu Mu combined the feelings of the literati with the spirit of the times, combined tradition with the contemporary, created his own artistic language, and made the unique traditional art full of youth and vitality.
Liu Mu Kowloon 2019
Liu Mu Wule Ting Ji 37cm× 71cm 2019
Liu Mu Wuyi Mountain Rock Tea Name Fir Flower Name Green Exclusive 30cm × 36.5cm 2019
Liu Mu Wuyi Mountain Rock Tea Name Fir Flower Name Sun Chrysanthemum 32cm × 39.5cm 2019
Liu Mu Wuyi Mountain Rock Tea Name Fir Flower Name Purple Gold Ingot 44.5cm×33cm 2019