Our reporter Lai Rui
All things are in the wind, and the earth is green.
Spring is the season for the recovery of all things and the sowing of hope.
Throughout the ages, artists have paid close attention to the replacement of time series.
They poured their emotional thoughts into the pen, describing the pleasant spring scene.
In this vibrant season, the National Art Museum of China has launched "Magnificent Rivers and Mountains--The National Art Museum of China's Collection of Landscape and Landscape Themed Works Exhibition", "National Style is Visible-National Art Museum of China's Year of the Tiger Spring Festival Folk Art Exhibition", "Ordinary and Extraordinary-Li Pingfan" "Creation and Donation Works Exhibition" and other series of "Collection Activation" exhibitions gather many works depicting the spring of nature, the spring of the heart, and the spring of the times, bringing the atmosphere of spring.
Let us walk into the art museum, into the bright spring, and feel the poetic spring.
This is the spring of good yearning.
The expectation of spring and the wish for a happy life are often reflected in the rich and colorful folk life, and also reflected in the colorful folk art in the form of modeling.
People welcome the arrival of the Spring Festival in the form of New Year pictures, highlight the joy of the festival in the form of paper-cuts, reproduce the pleasant scene in the way of painted sculptures, feel the mighty spring breeze by flying kites, read the spring and autumn of life in shadow puppets, and experience the immortality in toys. childlike innocence.
"National style is tangible - National Art Museum of China Spring Festival Folk Art Exhibition" is divided into 4 chapters, "Hundred Tigers Raising Spring", "Spring Breeze and Scissors", "Spring and Jingming", and "Spring Full of Gardens", including 160 folk art works in the museum's collection. The remaining pieces, covering New Year pictures, paper-cuts, shadow puppets, colored sculptures, kites and other categories, show the unique cultures and customs of different ethnic groups and regions in China.
"Children return from school early, so they are busy flying paper kites in the east wind." Spring and Jingming are the season for flying kites.
Beijing, Tianjin, Weifang and Nantong, four famous kite origins and kite works of important genres are either rough and bold, or lively and delicate, or bright and gorgeous, or light and elegant, embodying the aesthetic ideal, cultural connotation and romantic and detached art of the Chinese nation. temperament.
In the exhibition hall, Hao Deli's kite "Dragon Head Centipede" is suspended in the air, light and agile, especially conspicuous.
This kite is composed of a three-dimensional dragon head and more than 30 "centipede 顄", which symbolize the body, with a total length of more than 10 meters. It is the largest kite in the collection of the National Art Museum of China.
"Shayan" is the most representative kite style in Beijing. One of the mascots of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, "Nini", was designed according to the Shayan kite.
Ha Kuiming's kite "Five Fish Swallow" on display, painted red and blue goldfish on the swallow's body, giving it a beautiful meaning.
In addition, the New Year pictures "The Proud of the Spring Breeze" and "Ten Beautiful Pictures Flying Kite" also show the joyful scene of flying a kite in the spring.
This is the spring full of new signs of the times.
From the white mountains and black waters to the snow-covered plateau, from the northwestern border to the thousands of miles of sea, from the grassland pastures to the water villages in the south of the Yangtze River, the red is strong, the green is rich, the yellow is dazzling, the white is pure, and the black is creamy.
The land of China is full of beautiful mountains and rivers, and spring is everywhere.
Since ancient times, generations of Danqing masters have traveled through nature, accumulated their souls, and depicted great mountains and rivers with wonderful brushstrokes.
These works not only depict the form and spirit of nature in detail, but also incorporate humanistic ideals, interpreting the creative concept of "pen and ink should be with the times" with various aesthetic paradigms.
Whether after the founding of New China, during the period of reform and opening up, or entering a new era, the landscapes of mountains and rivers created by artists all show different appearances with changes and innovations in aesthetic styles.
These works are born out of a child's affectionate mental image, rooted in the great practice of Chinese social progress, and show the new image of the times.
More than 130 works are selected in "Magnificent Rivers and Mountains - National Art Museum of China's Collection of Landscapes and Landscapes", covering Chinese paintings, oil paintings, prints, watercolors, sculptures and other art categories. The 5 chapters of "Great Work", "Poetic Dwelling", and "Nature's Image" use objects to convey feelings and beautiful words.
Yang Xianrang's print "Opening Spring" shows the scene of people working in spring in a romantic way; He Haixia's Chinese painting "Spring in the Fields" has green water and red flowers, and it is full of spring. It depicts the happy time of children's spring outing among the peach forests; Cui Kaixi's 2008 oil painting "Beijing Spring" is based on the "Bird's Nest", the main venue of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, with rose flowers and tourists. It is a spring full of expectations. ;He Jialin's Chinese painting "Symphony of Spring" focuses on the spring of 2020. Under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, people are returning to work and production in an orderly manner... In these paintings that integrate the artist's personal image, the weather of the times and the natural scene In the moving works, the audience can not only feel the breath of the times, but also see the footprints of the strugglers and the creation of the people.
This is spring that means warmth and love.
True to his name, printmaker Li Pingfan's works are mostly based on ordinary life, fresh and simple, with clean brushwork, smooth lines and bright colors.
On the 100th anniversary of Li Pingfan's birth, "Ordinary and Extraordinary - Li Pingfan's Creation and Donated Works Exhibition" selected more than 100 works from the more than 1,600 works he donated to the National Art Museum of China. The two parts of "Giving Extraordinary Gifts" include not only the prints, Chinese paintings, and art diaries created by Li Pingfan, but also the Japanese ukiyo-e, Japanese modern prints, Japanese bookbooks and other international prints donated by him, reflecting the artist's extraordinary creation and great love. feelings.
Walking into the hall, a large number of works with children as the theme are oncoming.
Li Pingfan's paintings of children of different skin colors and ethnicities are smart, cute, and childish.
Among them, "We Want Peace" won the Silver Award at the Leipzig International Print Exhibition in Germany in 1959, which especially reflects Li Pingfan's artistic characteristics and is also a classic among Chinese art works.
Three children are depicted in sequence on the screen, with three skin tones: yellow, white, and black.
The child in the front holds the dove of peace in his arms, and the two in the back put their hands on the shoulders of the children in front, showing the intimacy and desire for peace among children in Asia, Africa, Europe and America.
The engraved lines of the work are strong and powerful, the tones are harmonious and distinct, and the decorative style is rich.
In addition to the representative prints, Art Diary is also one of the highlights of this exhibition.
For a long time, art diary was the main way of Li Pingfan's creation.
He replaces words with lines and colors, records the bits and pieces of life on paper, and brings poetic and pictorial meaning to ordinary life.
Traveling through these exquisite sketches of small size, the audience can also feel the warmth of life and the ordinary and timeless beauty.