Beautiful and elegant. The works of the "Changzhou School" painters represented by Yun Nantian bring a bright color to the golden autumn in Beijing. On October 21st, the "Ouxiang Transmission of Yiyun - Exhibition of Works of Changzhou School Painters collected by the National Art Museum of China and Nanjing Museum" was launched at the National Art Museum of China.
According to Wu Weishan, director of the National Art Museum of China, this exhibition is a selection of the "Changzhou School" works selected by the Nanjing Museum and the National Art Museum of China. The purpose of revitalizing these collections is threefold: first, to reiterate that painters should learn to inherit and be fickle, and to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of tradition; second, to emphasize that painters should always maintain the feeling of "true" and "I" to face natural reality and express natural reality; third, to advocate that painters should pay attention to academic cultivation, and should have both scholarly insight, poet temperament and expert skills.
The exhibition is divided into two parts: "Kaizong Lipai Fusion of the Ancient and the New" and "The Succession of Famous Artists in Later Learning", and a total of 80 fine works (sets) of the "Changzhou School" of the Qing Dynasty collected by the National Art Museum of China and the Nanjing Museum, including Yun Nantian's "Sketch flower atlas" and "Residual Lotus Reed Sketch" and other classic works.
Yun Nantian, the founder of the Changzhou School of Painting, was a famous calligrapher and painter in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Yun Nantian is highly knowledgeable, he created boneless flowers, animals, grass worms, both shapes and gods, as far as possible, the method is "dot dyeing chalk with grease, after the dot to dye the pen foot", water, color, ink fusion without marks, bright and transparent, elegant and warm. His vivid and fragrant works are unique in the early Qing Dynasty painting circle shrouded in the wind of ancient times, and are regarded as "authentic sketches", and have "rising and falling merits" for flower and bird paintings in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. His works have also become a model for the Qing Dynasty courtyard to emulate, and Ma Yuanyi, Jiang Tingxi, Qian Weicheng, etc. are his followers.
The exhibition is presented in Halls 19, 20 and 21 of the National Art Museum of China and will be on view until December 5 (closed on Monday). It is reported that in early December, the Ming and Qing portrait exhibition co-sponsored by the National Art Museum of China and the Nanjing Museum will be exhibited at the National Art Museum of China.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Wang Yan
Editor/Bow Lifang