"The Soul of Flowers and Birds - Zou Chuan'an Art and Documentary Exhibition" opened.
Photo by Deng Xia
Visitors stop to admire the paintings.
Photo by Deng Xia
China News Service, Changsha, May 7 (Deng Xia and Zhang Xueying) On May 7, Zou Chuan'an, a Chinese meticulous flower and bird painter, donated 399 representative works to the Hunan Provincial Museum.
Previously, he has donated more than 1,000 pieces of representative works, paintings and manuscripts of various periods to the museum, enriching and continuing its "Hunan Famous Calligraphy and Painting Collection".
On the same day, the "Soul of Flowers and Birds - Zou Chuanan's Art and Documentary Exhibition" was launched simultaneously to show the public Zou Chuanan's legendary life from an ingenious porcelain worker to an art master.
Zou Chuanan was born in Xinhua County, Loudi, Hunan in 1940. He is currently a member of the Chinese Artists Association, a librarian of the Hunan Provincial Institute of Literature and History, a visiting professor of the Fine Arts Department of Hunan Normal University, a consultant to the Hunan Provincial Calligraphy Court, and a national first-class artist.
As one of the leaders of contemporary Hunan meticulous painting of flowers and birds, Zou Chuan'an has formed his own unique style of "Zou's Flowers and Birds".
Zou Chuan'an integrates his exquisite skills, unique aesthetics and life insights into flowers and birds with his generous life feelings and artistic courage to forget his predecessors and himself, turning them into "flower soul and bird soul".
This exhibition showcases more than 300 pieces (sets) of calligraphy and painting works and documents selected by Hunan Provincial Museum from the donated works, which are divided into "Old Porcelain Workers Carving Worms and Casting Birds", "I Love Danqing Foot Taoran", "Xiang Song People". The four parts of "Seeking Life Outside the Eaves" and "Only Today I Still Know Xu Huang" comprehensively show Zou Chuan'an's artistic history, artistic characteristics and achievements over the past 60 years in art.
The Hunan Provincial Museum also planned and produced the documentary "Years" of the same name based on Zou Chuanan's masterpiece "Years" in his later years.
In the exhibition hall, the paintings and the special documentary of the same name, art memorabilia, and 32 diaries are placed in the same space, forming a small theme display about "time", allowing visitors to sit quietly after watching the exhibition, and feel Zou Chuan'an's journey along the way. Song years.
"The works of my life are basically left here." 82-year-old Zou Chuan'an said in an interview that he donated the works to the Hunan Provincial Museum, hoping that future generations will have the opportunity to see them and understand how people live today through the paintings , what are you thinking about and what you are observing, to provide some useful references for the inheritance and development of Chinese fine brushwork flower and bird painting.
The exhibition, which runs until June 8, is free and open to the public.
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