"The History of Art with Temperature - Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts '987 Oral History Project' Selection Exhibition (III)" recently made a wonderful appearance at the University Town Campus of The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. A total of 6 artists participated in the exhibition, namely: Zhang Tongyun, Yuan Hao, Li Hanyi, Liang Shixiong, Kwong Sheng, zheng Shuang.
Among them, the oldest oil painter Zhang Tongyun is 92 years old, and the youngest printmaker Zheng Shuang is also 84 years old. Sculptor Li Hanyi and oil painter Yuan Hao passed away last year and this year.
Li Hanyi was interviewed for oral history in 2018
Keeping "Human Records" for Guangdong Art Research
"Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts '987 Oral History Project'" is an oral history project promoted by the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts since 2018, and is the first attempt to engage in oral history research on such a large scale in guangdong province and even in the field of domestic art.
The project focuses on the "rescue" collection of oral historical materials from the older generation of artists in the college. The project takes the old professors, old experts and parties of the three ages of 90, 80 and 70 of the whole hospital as the interview objects, and carries out oral recording in an all-round way in the form of video, audio, photos, text and other multimedia forms, and strives to fill the gap in the existing literature and historical materials with vivid and vivid first-hand oral historical materials.
Teacher Liang Shixiong was interviewed by Oral History
From the official launch of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in April 2018 to September 2020, the "987 Oral History Project" of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts has recorded a total of 52 artists of the older generation in Guangmei, including Pan He, Chen Jinzhang, Guo Shaogang, Yin Guoliang, Liang Shixiong, etc., with a total of nearly 10,000 minutes of recording and video recordings and more than 1.5 million words of oral text.
"The past 100 years have been a very brilliant 100 years for Guangdong art." Li Jinkun, head of the engineering leading group and president of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, said that every expert and scholar interviewed is a wealth for our Guangdong, "Being able to preserve their sounds and smiles is a very important means to fill the 'human record' of Guangdong art research in the future." ”
Liang Jiang, the project planner and host, former deputy director of the National Art Museum of China, and director of the Institute of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, revealed that the editing and publishing of the "First Series of Guangmei Oral History Series" is in full swing and is expected to meet with readers next spring.
Yuan Hao's oil painting "Dawn of the Yangtze River", collected by the Central Academy of Fine Arts
Convey affection for the motherland with a paintbrush
Although the 6 participating artists have different places of origin, different growth environments, and different artistic experiences, in their wonderful oral history narration, they all invariably reveal their love for the motherland and their adherence to art.
Zhang Tongyun, a 92-year-old oil painter, is the oldest of the participating artists. In the early days of liberation, she heard in Hong Kong that the Central Academy of Fine Arts had been established in Beijing, so she resolutely decided to go north and was admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts as she wished. Zhang Tongyun's representative oil painting "Motherland" created in 1960 is based on this unforgettable experience.
Teacher Zhang Tongyun and her husband, Teacher Yin Guoliang, are at home
Not long ago, oil painter Yuan Hao died at the age of 90. As the first oil painting student of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in the early days of the founding of New China and a student of Maximov's optimization training class, Yuan Hao's oil painting "Top Gun" with a strong atmosphere of the times is engraved in the contemporary memory of Chinese painting.
Looking back on the past years, the artists express their gratitude for life and years. "As a literary and art worker, the relationship between oneself and life and technology is the relationship between life, and you cannot leave life, you cannot live without life." When looking back on his life's creation at the hospital bedside, Yuan Hao said with feelings.
Zhang Tongyun's "Motherland", 114x57cm, 1960
The personal artistic experience of the older generation of artists condenses the history of the development of Chinese art in the 70 years since the founding of New China. Through the collection and recording of oral history projects, future generations can not only understand the artistic journey of the older generation of artists, but also vividly feel their serious and dedicated artistic attitude.
Liang Jiang said that in the past, oral history revolved around a topic, topic or activity, and the "987 Oral History" took the artist as the main body and the artist as the protagonist, "The art world has not yet done this oral history precedent, and the '987 Oral History' has pioneering significance in Guangdong and even the whole country." ”
[Reporter] Yang Yi
[Correspondent] Xu Zhen, Wang Lin, Huang Fuyuan
【Photo】Courtesy of the organizer
【Author】 Yang Yi
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client
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