China News Service, Changsha, July 10th (Zhang Xueying and Ding Yangliang) On July 10th, the first China Freehand Oil Painting Still Life Special Research Exhibition opened at the Li Zijian Art Museum in Changsha.
As a painting subject, still life has attracted much attention for its close and sensible aesthetic value.
The earliest still life paintings in China can be traced back to the "Flower Basket" painted by the painter Li Song in the Song Dynasty.
Since the introduction of Western still life oil painting into China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Chinese and Western painting circles have collided with intense sparks.
Several generations of Chinese oil painters, on the basis of learning Western painting techniques, combined them with the Chinese traditional freehand spirit, and painted many excellent art treasures, which became the precious cultural heritage of Chinese still life oil painting.
Parents bring their children to the exhibition.
Photo by Zhang Xueying
There are 158 works on display, of which 120 are selected from 1,555 submissions from across the country, and 38 are works by specially invited artists, covering almost all popular concepts and languages in today's painting circles, fully demonstrating the current status of young and middle-aged artists in the Chinese oil painting industry. Excellent standard and academic quality in the creation of the subject of "still life".
Shang Hui, director of the Art Theory Committee of the China Artists Association and president and editor-in-chief of "Art" magazine, believes that although the subject matter of this exhibition is limited to still life, and the expression is determined to be freehand, there is still form in stillness, there are people in stillness, and there is stillness in stillness. It reflects the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional resources pursued by contemporary oil painting artists.
Visitors stop to admire the paintings.
Photo by Zhang Xueying
Li Zijian, director of Li Zijian Art Museum, said that the exhibition is titled "Mood and Story", emphasizing returning to the true feelings of the heart, perceiving and touching the world with a transparent and clean mentality, so as to achieve the aesthetic realm of forgetting things and me. .
This is the embodiment of the ancient wisdom of the Chinese, which not only includes the transformation and innovation of the Chinese freehand spirit, but also the understanding and digestion of Western still life painting.
It is reported that the exhibition will last until August 14 and is open to the public free of charge.
During the period, domestic experts and scholars will also be invited to hold academic seminars to conduct special discussions on the academic issues of Chinese freehand oil painting.
(Finish)