China News Service, Beijing, February 22 (Reporter Ying Ni) The "Jiashan - Fang Jun Art Exhibition" co-sponsored by the National Art Museum of China, the Propaganda Department of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the Nanjing University of the Arts opened at the National Art Museum of China on the 21st.
This exhibition is a series of academic invitations from the National Art Museum of China. It displays more than 200 pieces of Fang Jun's Chinese paintings, as well as a large number of sketches and related documents, and comprehensively reviews his artistic life.
Fang Jun (1943-2020), graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Normal University in 1965, and graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing University of the Arts in 1981 with a master's degree in Chinese painting, and stayed at the school to teach.
In the 40 years of art and teaching, Fang Jun has worked hard and achieved fruitful results.
Photo by Shi Chunyang at the exhibition site
The exhibition comprehensively showcases the Chinese painter's artistic world in four chapters: "Leaning on the South of the Yangtze River", "Xintian Tour", "Western Landscape" and "Sketching Love".
Among them, the "Huwan Chronicle" group paintings showing the style of Suzhou, the "Four Seasons Screen of Yunshan" and "Fortunately in Jiangnan Mountains" with the style of Jiangnan; Representative works of various periods, such as the "European Danube" group paintings, are displayed in this exhibition.
The exhibition also received strong support from the China National Academy of Painting.
Wu Weishan, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, director of the National Art Museum of China, and vice-chairman of the China Artists Association, commented in the preface of the exhibition, "Fang Jun is cruising in the traditional Lingshan Road and the sea, and he has learned from his life and wrote about the 'home mountain' filled with Jiangnan's transparent interest. , to find a path of self-improvement for the creation of contemporary landscapes.”
Wu Weishan (right) presents a donation certificate to Mrs. Fang Jun's wife, Ms. Tang Huili (left).
Photo by Shi Chunyang
He pointed out that the formation of Fang Jun's landscape painting style largely benefited from Song Ci.
In the history of ancient Chinese poetry, Song Ci is best at imitating sound and shadow, with light and color, light and shade, movement and stillness, virtual and real, intertwined and scattered.
Mr. Tang Guizhang, a master of ci, called it "like a painting environment".
Fang Jun, who was immersed in the artistic conception of Song Poetry, understood this, so he externalized the synaesthesia of both poetry and painting to create a visual space of "nine layers of clouds on the screen, shadowing the clear light of the Ming Lake".
The application of color and color has jumped out of the long-standing debate about ink and color in landscape painting, and made ink one of many hues.
The title of the exhibition is taken from the Song Dynasty poem "Home Mountain is naturally countless, and it is pleasant to recognize the spring breeze."
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