Chinanews.com, Beijing, January 15th (Reporter Pan Xulin) The "Oriental Dawn: Chinese Art Development Forum in the New Era" hosted by Li Keran Academy of Painting was held on the 14th at Li Keran Academy of Painting.

The forum was held online and offline, and artists, experts and scholars from the painting and calligraphy circles across the country attended the forum.

  Mr. Li Geng, Dean of Li Keran Painting Academy, said in his speech at the forum that, as a research-oriented painting academy, it is very meaningful for Li Keran Painting Academy to hold this forum at the beginning of the new year.

In the past year, Li Keran Academy of Painting continued to strengthen its academic construction, and researched, edited and published "Li Keran Academy of Painting Yearbook" and "Li Keran Academy of Painting" periodical, and based on the findings in the research process, hired a group of researchers of Li Keran Academy of Painting, and elected Nominated for the 2022 Artist of the Li Keran Academy of Painting.

President Li Geng (second from left) and guests attended the launch ceremony of "Li Keran Academy of Painting Yearbook (2021)" and "Li Keran Academy of Painting Journal (2022)".

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  Oriental Dawning is a cross-century topic proposed by Mr. Li Keran, and it is also a strategic topic for the development of Chinese culture and art.

Xi Mu, vice president of Li Keran Academy of Painting, said in his speech that the reason why Dongfang Dawning was used as the key word and guiding word of this forum is that, on the one hand, how the development of culture and art can empower Chinese-style modernization has become a topic of the times.

On the other hand, the pace of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has never been so powerful and rapid as it is today, and the background of the era of the East has never been so clear.

  At the forum, eight artists, experts and scholars combined their respective research and creative practices, conducted an in-depth and systematic discussion on the topic of Oriental Dawning proposed by Mr. Li Keran, and agreed that Oriental Dawning is important in the development of culture and art in the new era. We must face modernization, the world, and the future, become a national, scientific, and popular socialist culture, promote and stimulate the vitality of cultural and artistic innovation and creativity of the entire nation, and strengthen the spiritual power to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The newly recruited researcher of Li Keran Academy of Painting and the nomination of annual artist were announced on the spot.

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  During the forum, the organizers also held the release ceremony of "Li Keran Academy of Painting Yearbook (2021)" and "Li Keran Academy of Painting Journal (2022)", the newly hired researcher of Li Keran Academy of Painting and the nomination of annual artist, "Oriental Dawn: Academic Nomination Exhibition of Li Keran Academy of Painting Yearbook" "And the press release event of the editing and publishing of "The East is White: Li Keran Academy of Painting Yearbook Academic Nomination Exhibition Collection".

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