On the morning of November 14, "Sticking to the Initial Heart - Wang Youxue Landscape Painting Hometown Report Exhibition" opened at the Zichuan Museum in Zibo City.
The exhibition is sponsored by Lu Yushun Studio of the National Academy of Painting of China, China Academy of Landscape Painting, China Landscape Painting Creation Institute, Academy of Fine Arts of Shandong University of Technology, Zibo Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Zibo Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Zibo Artists Association, Propaganda Department of Zichuan District CPC Committee, Zichuan District Culture and Tourism Bureau, Zichuan Museum, Zibo Blue Shield Security Company, Chinese Ceramic Liuliguan, Pu Songling Memorial Hall, Zibo City Culture Center, Zibo City Museum, Zibo City Library, Zibo Radio and Television Calligraphy and Painting Institute, Zichuan District Artists Association and Zichuan District Elderly Calligraphy and Painting Society co-organized. The exhibition is presided over by famous cultural scholars and art critics Xu Encun and Fu Jingsheng, and curated and presided over by Mr. Cai Chenggang, art consultant of the Artists Association of Central State Organs.
The guests who came to attend the exhibition from other places were: Mr. Fu Jingsheng, a well-known cultural scholar and art critic, Mr. Zeng Xianguo, director of the China Artists Association, vice chairman of the Shandong Provincial Artists Association and former president of the Qingdao Academy of Painting, Mr. Ai Hua, general director of the "Memory of China" column, Ms. Zhou Congshan, chairman of Beijing Youpai Intellectual Property Co., Ltd., and Ms. Cui Xuan. Ms. Song Aihua, Chairman of Beijing Jingchen Ruida Science and Technology Incubation Center, Mr. Ye Jingsong of Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, Mr. Lu Yushun, Zhang Zhimin, Professor of Shandong Academy of Arts, Mr. Zhu Peizhi, Executive Dean of The School of Painting of Shandong Academy of Arts, Mr. Li Shuiyong, Professor of The Academy of Fine Arts of Jinan University and Director of the Department of Chinese Painting, Consultant of the Artists Association of Central and State Organs, Host of the Selected Works of Famous Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Artists Column, Senior Media Planner, Moderator, and Former Vice President of Today's Information Newspaper Mr. Cai Chenggang.
The leading guests who attended the exhibition were: Mr. Guo Limin, former chairman of the Zibo Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Mr. Zheng Feng, former director of the Propaganda Department of the Standing Committee of the Zibo Municipal CPC Committee, Ms. Guan Mari, former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Zibo Municipal People's Congress, Mr. Zhao Xinfa, former Secretary of the Party Committee of Zibo Higher Normal College, Mr. Zhao Peng, Director of the Zibo Ceramic Glass Light Industry Development Center, Mr. Wang Donghong, Chairman of the Zibo Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, Mr. Che Li, former Deputy Director of the Organization Department of the Zibo Municipal Committee of the CPC, Mr. Zhang Kejun, former Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Zibo Urban and Rural Construction Committee, Mr. Wang Xinping, former Deputy Secretary-General of the General Office of the Zibo Municipal Government, Mr. Bai Xiangfang, Director of the Propaganda Department of the Standing Committee of the Zichuan District CPC Committee, Mr. Cao Pizhen, Deputy Director of the Zibo Municipal Bureau of Culture and Director of the Chinese Ceramics Glass Museum, Mr. Sun Yuedong, Chairman of the Zichuan District CPPCC Committee, Mr. Liu Zhongjin, former Director of the Zibo Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau, Mr. Li Jinxiao, former Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Zichuan District People's Congress, Ms. Niu Airu, former Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Zichuan District People's Congress, Ms. Wang Qiaomei, Deputy County-level Cadre of the Zibo Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, and Ms. Zhao Lingyun, a fourth-level researcher of the Zibo Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism. Mr. Wang Zhenhua, Director of Zibo Municipal Museum, Mr. Liu Yuxiang, Director of Zibo Municipal Library, Mr. Jiao Wei, Director of Pu Songling Memorial Hall, Mr. Zhan Huajun, Director of Zibo Municipal Cultural Center, Zhai Peimin, Former Director of Zibo Municipal Cultural Center, and Mr. Lü Qishun. Mr. Ding Xiukun, Manager of Zibo Film Company, Ms. Zhang Xuemei, Former Secretary of the Party Branch of Zibo Municipal Cultural Center, Ms. Xia Hong, Former Deputy Secretary of Zibo Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics, Mr. Zheng Liangcun, Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the Zichuan District COMMITTEE of the COMMUNIST Party of China, Mr. Zheng Liangcun, Director of the Zichuan District Rong Media Center, Mr. Bi Xuewen, Director of the Brand Operation Center of Zibo Daily and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Zibo Evening News, Mr. Si Zhidong, Deputy Director of zichuan District Rong Media Center, Mr. Lin Kaiqing, Director of Zichuan Museum, Mr. Wang Xueming, President of Zibo Radio and Television Calligraphy and Painting Institute and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Zibo Sound Screen Newspaper, Mr. Liang Shangcheng, former Executive Vice President of Xinhua Pharmaceutical, Mr. Wang Zuoren, Chairman of Lianxing Carbon Group, Mr. Zhang Zhilin, General Manager of Xizhao Group, Mr. Wang Shengli, General Manager of Shandong Xinshuohua Environmental Engineering, Mr. Su Fasheng, Secretary General of Jiangshuai Children's Association, Mr. Hao Bo, Chairman of Yudai Lake Cultural Tourism Scenic Spot, Mr. Yang Changshan, General Manager of Shandong Huangjia Co., Ltd., Mr. Ma Qian, Former Vice President of Shandong Silicon Research Institute, and Ms. Han Ping, Director of Taiping Life Zichuan Company.
Artists from Zibo City include: Mr. Yin Gan, Master of Chinese Ceramic Art, Vice President of ceramic art committee of China Ceramic Industry Association, Mr. Yan Xiangong, executive director of China Arts and Crafts Artists Association, Mr. Li Ziyuan, master of Chinese ceramic art, Mr. Dong Shanxi, vice president of China Ceramic Industry Association, Vice Chairman of Zibo Literary Association, Chairman of Zibo Artists Association, Vice Chairman of Zibo Artists Association, Vice Chairman of Zibo Artists Association, Vice Chairman of Zibo Artists Association, Mr. Tian Gencheng, President of Zibo Chinese Painting Society, Ms. Yang Qingfen, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of Zibo Artists Association, Associate Professor of School of Fine Arts of Shandong University of Technology, Mr. Yao Shanchen, Vice Chairman of Zibo Book Association, Mr. Song Weidong, Director of The Department of Art Education of Zibo Teachers College, Vice Chairman of Zibo Artists Association, Mr. Wang Lihua, Vice Chairman of Zibo Artists Association and Chairman of Huantai Artists Association, Mr. Qiu Chuancheng, Vice Chairman of Zibo Artists Association and Chairman of Zichuan District Artists Association, Vice Chairman of Zibo Calligraphers Association, Zibo Calligraphers Association, Zibo Calligraphy and Painting Mr. Xu Hongguo, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Mr. Yan Guilin, Mr. Gao Chengchuan, Mr. Du Guojian, Mr. Wang Shixi, Mr. Wang Guangcun, Mr. Dong Weiyao, Mr. Yang Hua, Mr. Li Zhenkui, Mr. Lü Peihe, Mr. Pan Yongchang, Mr. Zhai Pei'an, Mr. Zhang Daoqiang, Mr. Xu Jizhou, Mr. Gao Yisheng, Mr. Liu Wentao, etc.
Mr. Lu Yushun, President of the National Academy of Painting of China, Mr. Wang Youxue's mentor, and Mr. Chen Keyong, President of the China Academy of Landscape Painting, sent special letters of congratulations because they could not come to the scene to observe the incident.
Mr. Wang Youxue learned to paint since childhood and was enlightened by Mr. Yan Guilin and Xu Yongqi. He was taught by Mr. Xu Jindi, a professor at Shandong Academy of Arts and a famous landscape painter. In the 1980s, I learned about Zhang Tong, Lu Yushao, Zhou Shaohua, Sun Kegang, Bai Xueshi, Zhou Cangmi, Wu Yangmu, Wei Zixi, Zhang Wenjun, Yan Lichuan and other predecessors in the painting world, and received more advice and benefited a lot. Mr. Sun Qifeng of Tianjin Youmeng was very loving, accepted as a protégé, raised his life in his ear, exchanged letters for more than 20 years, and benefited from his life as a person. He studied at jia youfu studio of China Academy of Art (visiting scholar) and Lu Yushun of the National Academy of Painting of China to do research on the first advanced study class of landscape painting. Mr. Wang Youxue has held solo or group exhibitions in Shandong, Guangdong, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the United States, Thailand, Singapore, Japan and other regions and countries. His works are collected by museums, galleries and memorials at home and abroad. Newspapers and periodicals such as China Art Daily, China Culture Daily, Fine Arts Daily, China Painting and Calligraphy Daily, Hong Kong Wen Wei Po, and Ta Kung Pao published his works and art introductions. Published: "Elite of the Academy of Painting, Wang Youxue Works Collection", "Wang Youxue Landscape Selection", "Wang Youxue Landscape Painting Art" and various exhibition works at home and abroad.
Mr. Wang Youxue is an old cultural worker in Zibo City. In the course of more than 40 years of work, he has done a lot of work for the cultural and museum undertakings in Zibo, especially for the prosperity and development of the Pu Songling Memorial Hall. Whether it is infrastructure, team training, business improvement, or external publicity, especially in the collection of calligraphy and paintings in the Pu Songling Jiguan, it is a great contribution.
Mr. Wang Youxue is also an enthusiastic social activity organizer, he has long served as the vice chairman and secretary general of the Zibo Municipal Artists Association, and has paid a lot of effort and labor to improve the level of art creation in Zibo and promote artistic exchanges in Zibo, and has been commended and rewarded by the Shandong Provincial Artists Association for many times.
In his spare time, Mr. Wang Youxue has always insisted on painting, learning and creating, and for decades, he has never slackened off in both the rural work team and the teaching and cultural work. Since the 1990s, he has used holidays to travel all over the motherland to sketch and collect sketches and feel nature. In particular, he has a special love for the Taihang Mountains, and has experienced the style of mining dozens of times.
We can feel it from his thick and warm and bright ink landscape works. This is directly related to its cultural cultivation and personality tone, the so-called painting like its own people, as he himself said, painting is not only in the painting, but also in the painting of the heart. Paint Thoughts. Paint personality and realm. From 2006 to 2019, he traveled back and forth to Jinglu, immersed himself in reading, creating diligently, and working tirelessly.
This exhibition in his hometown of Zichuan, is Wang Youxue's long-standing wish, the years have passed, he has entered the ancient rarity of his idea more and more strongly, he once said that when an artist is far away from his hometown, he can deeply feel the nostalgia and attachment of his homeland, this exhibition of seventy works, most of them for recent years of sketching and creation. Many of them are sketches of the landscape of the hometown, such as the anti-Japanese ruins of Ma'anshan, Mengquan Mountain Village, etc., which are permeated with its rich nostalgia. This year coincides with Mr. Wang Youxue's 13th year of study tour in Beijing, 70 years old, 70 paintings, this is his exhibition review of study tour in Beijing, but also a comprehensive report to his hometown fathers and elders, relatives and friends of the same road. To this end, Mr. Wang Youxue carefully prepared, selected the best from a large number of works, and added a large number of historical materials, from the first textbook of learning to paint, to the first publication of the work, from the artistic exchange with your teachers to the important nodes of his artistic career, through those yellowed letters and picture newspapers, as well as notes, sketches and antique albums, etc., so that visitors deeply felt Wang Youxue's original intention and did not forget the deep affection of his hometown.
Mr. Fu Jingsheng, a famous cultural scholar, art critic and academic host of this exhibition, said: "Every time I see Wang Youxue, I feel that it is younger, not at all like a 70-year-old man, just like Du Fu's poem "Singing and drinking in the daytime, and youth is a good companion to return to his hometown", this kind of youth is determined by the painter's spiritual temperament and pursuit, and it is precisely Mr. Wang Youxue's hometown landscape and Qilu culture that nourish his soul, casting his cultural character and painting realm and academic height. That is, the Sutra of Worship, which reflects this sage temperament and Taoist atmosphere in his landscape paintings.
For Mr. Wang Youxue's creation, many critics and well-known painters have given high praise: Mr. Sun Qifeng, a tenured professor of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, a famous art educator and a calligrapher and painter: "Youxue paints Huangshan, the gods meet and trace, and the commentators should not seek perfection by form." ”
Xu Encun, a well-known cultural scholar and art critic, said: "Wang Youxue's creation is mainly characterized by momentum, and his works, no matter how big or small, are full of vigor, especially the smoothness of the line and the movement of the ink, which adds a sense of freshness to the work." Reading Wang Youxue's landscape paintings, in the ink flow, we feel a kind of tuotuo atmosphere, a kind of informality. ”
Lu Yushun, president of the National Academy of Painting of China and a famous landscape painter, said: "You have been studying for decades, cultivating yantian, raising sails in the ink sea, inheriting and borrowing, exploring and innovating, absorbing the advantages of a hundred schools, combining the essence of the eight directions, casting the personality style of the great beauty of heaven and earth, and not losing the national cultural characteristics and the spirit of the times." Therefore, the landscape under his pen is vast and thick, the weather is magnificent, which is rich in the essence of traditional pen and ink, and has the novelty of the life of the times. ”
Mr. Li Chang'an, director of the Beijing Collectors Association, director of the Professional Committee of Calligraphy and Painting, famous scholar and connoisseur, commented: Mr. Wang is a famous contemporary landscape painter, looking at his landscape works, the composition is simple and majestic, the dot painting is fine and exquisite, the green and deep show, the longitudinal and colorful, the winding path is far-reaching, the fog is empty, the cloud is confused, the cottage is hidden, the patchwork is in place, and even the charm of the real mountains and real waters is also there. In the past, Huanghe Mountain Qiao had this ink relic, mr. not only got the magic of ancient law, but also dissolved into personal ink innovation, so the work can be unique in spirit and the weather is also new. ”
After Mr. Youxue's enlightenment teacher Yan Guilin attended the opening ceremony of the exhibition, he said with emotion, "I had the honor to participate in Mr. Youxue's landscape painting hometown report exhibition, which was full of friends and grand and grand opening ceremony, reflecting the charm of the master's character and the realm of the paintings. Today's chaotic and chaotic painting and calligraphy circles, Mr. Youxue has always maintained a sober mind, not following the trend, not following the tide, not quitting with the pen, always adhering to his own piece of artistic world, his landscape painting works are not limited to the carving of one stone and one wood, the pursuit is the great realm, the atmosphere, whenever Mr. Cang's thick and thick works, naturally associated with the landscape painter Mr. Lu Yunsuo's works, although the sky is thick but slightly dull, may be related to Mr. Youxue's unfortunate encounter, and Mr. Youxue's works are cleverly integrated into the small bridge in the depths of the mountains. Flowing water, people, and added a combination of light and green, so that the reader can see that the depths of the mountains can be lived and swim, a piece of life. After decades of cultivation, Mr. Youxue's landscape paintings have gradually formed their own unique artistic style, which has a wide influence in today's landscape painting world. (Reporter of this website)
Source: Lu.com