Statue "Rong Guo tuan"
Statue of Chen Aisen
Statue of Liu Shiwen
Sports & Culture Series (2)
Yesterday, on the sixth day of the tokyo Olympic Games after the opening ceremony, the Chinese team won 15 gold medals and returned to the top of the gold medal list. In addition to watching the heroic performances of Olympic athletes on TV, can you feel the greatness of sports heroes on other occasions in Guangzhou?
The style of the champions has been favored by the artists. In the "Champion's Home" exhibition area created by the Guangzhou Sports Culture Museum, 13 champion sculptures created by well-known sculptors in Lingnan are displayed, including Rong Guotuan, Chen Jingkai and Qi Lieyun, who are known as the three "monumental" figures in the history of new Chinese sports, as well as 10 Olympic champions such as Yang Jinghui, Liu Shiwen and Chen Aisen trained in Guangzhou.
Text: Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Li Qiaorong
Photo: Courtesy of Guangzhou Sports Culture Museum
Sports sculpture is used as a carrier to present power and beauty
In the history of China's sports development, Guangzhou as one of the birthplaces of modern sports, soon after the founding of New China, the first Rong Guotuan to win the world championship, the first to break the world record Chen Jingkai and the first to break the swimming world record Qi Lieyun, since then the elite generations, has trained 9 Olympic champions, 78 world champions and 70 Asian Games champions for the country.
"Champion's Home" is a sports culture display platform created by Guangzhou Sports Culture Museum, focusing on the Olympic champions and champions that Guangzhou has continuously cultivated, creating art in batches, and collecting and storing various sports collections donated by champions, and comprehensively forming the exhibition content.
The reporter saw in the "Champion House" that Chen Aisen, who had just won the silver medal in the men's doubles 10 meters platform of the Tokyo Olympic Games diving, and Liu Shiwen, who won the silver medal in the mixed doubles table tennis competition of the Tokyo Olympic Games, were on display in the "Champion House". The statue "Liu Shiwen" was created by Lu Zengkang, vice president of the Guangzhou Sculpture Academy. Lu Zengkang said that the sculpture focuses on Liu Shiwen's explosive shape of a calm but not losing sense of speed during the competition, and by portraying her technical movements, it presents the athletes' focused eyes, expressions and all-out posture, conveying the sportsmanship of hard work and never giving up.
Lu Zengkang told reporters that he himself is a sports fan and has liked to play table tennis and swim since he was a child. In his view, sports sculpture is a perfect combination of sports and art, and has a peculiar function that other art disciplines cannot reach in terms of displaying sportsmanship, depicting the competitive image of various sports, and expressing sportsmanship. "In ancient Greek society, sculpture had a constant connection with the Olympics. The performance of force and beauty, humanistic care, national characteristics, etc. can all be based on sports sculptures as the carrier, and it is believed that these sports sculptures can contribute to the construction of guangzhou's urban sports culture. Lu Zengkang said.
The statue "Chen Aisen" was created by cao Chongen, an 88-year-old professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. At the Rio 2016 Olympics, Chen Aisen became the first athlete in Olympic history to win gold medals in both the men's singles 10m platform and the double 10m platform in the men's diving event. This sculpture is modeled after Chen Aisen's diving movement during the competition, showing the determination, will and spirit of the Olympic champion. Cao Songen said that sports-themed sculptures need to be repeatedly deliberated in creation, like Chen Aisen as a diver when diving fingers must not be rooted.
The sculpture was highly praised by Tan Aisen's coach Tan Jingyu and Chen Aisen's mother, Tan Songxian. Tan Jingyu said that this diving action involves turning and churning, and it is difficult for athletes to perform perfectly, and it is even more difficult to express it through sculpture. The whole sculpture has both power and beauty, as well as a sense of vividness, which is extremely infectious.
Show the spirit of Guangzhou sports people
The statue "Zhang Jiewen" was created by Li Ming, the former director of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, and the character prototype is Zhang Jiewen. Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei teamed up to participate in the 28th Athens Olympic Games in 2004, winning the gold medal in women's doubles in badminton and achieving a breakthrough of zero gold medals in the Guangzhou Badminton Olympic Games. Li Ming said that in the creation, the characteristics of Zhang Jiewen's female athletes are highlighted, and the white feathers are not only a symbol of badminton, but also a symbol of the girl's dedication of youth to sports; the whole shape freezes the image of Zhang Jiewen winning the Olympic champion and wearing a rugby wreath, which is engraved on the badminton ball in relief, showing the light beauty of badminton players; a single piece of badminton, with the silhouette of a horizontal badminton racket, uniformly shows Zhang Jiewen's athlete identity, mental outlook and achievements. In Dawn's view, "sculpture is the most perfect art form for recording human sports competition." The combination of sport and the arts will allow these two cultures to achieve mutual success and prosper together."
The statue "Yang Jinghui" was created by Liang Mingcheng, former president of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. At the 28th Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, Yang Jinghui and Tian Liang won the men's doubles 10m diving championship. On this statue, Yang Jinghui has a clear eyebrow, a calm eye, and a tightly closed lips that shows superior willpower and self-confidence, reflecting Yang Jinghui's sportsmanship of perseverance, continuous self-improvement and courage to climb the peak in the face of difficulties, and the Olympic gold medal on his chest.
The "Three Monuments" are from the hands of three Lingnan masters
The statues of three monumental figures in the history of new Chinese sports, Rong Guotuan, Chen Jingkai and Qi Lieyun, were completed by Lingnan sculptors Li Hanyi, Pan He and Tang Daxi respectively.
The statue "Rong Guotuan" was created by the late Professor Li Hanyi of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Rong Guotuan was the first world champion in the history of new Chinese sports, and won the men's singles championship at the 25th World Table Tennis Championships on April 5, 1959. Li Hanyi once made a statue of Rong Guotuan in 1987, but because there were not many relevant materials and photos at that time, the realism was lacking, and the statue of Rong Guotuan exhibited in the "Champion House" was re-created by Li Hanyi after 30 years, the facial expression was more realistic, and the champion style was more moving. Li Hanyi said before his death that the statue was his "work of collecting mountains".
The statue "Chen Jingkai" was created by the late sculpture hero Pan He, a tenured professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. On June 7, 1956, Chen Jingkai broke the world record for the lightest weightlift with a score of 133 kg in the Sino-Soviet Weightlifting Friendship Tournament held in Shanghai, becoming the first athlete in China to break the world record. This statue is slightly sideways and high-headed, looking forward to the future, full of spirit, reflecting the spiritual outlook of China's modern sports pioneers who cut through thorns and thorns and opened up the field of sports. The statue is made of bronze, implying that his achievements will remain in history forever.
The statue "Qi Lieyun" was created by Tang Daxi, former president of the Guangzhou Sculpture Institute, and the character is based on Qi Lieyun, the first athlete in New China to break the swimming world record. On May 1, 1957, Qi Lieyun set a world record in the 100-meter breaststroke with a score of 1′11"6 in the "May Day" swimming exhibition competition in Guangzhou.