The plan for the year lies in spring. There are countless paintings on the themes of scenery, scenery, folk customs, daily life, etc. that have been related to spring and the Spring Festival in the past dynasties. “The Wind of Benefits and Blossoms – Painting Exhibition on the Spring Themes of Ming and Qing Dynasties” was exhibited from December 30, 2020 to Komiks on March 30, 2021 at the China Painting Hall of the Years on the first floor of the Guangzhou Museum of Art. The exhibition specially selected a large number of works related to spring, including the paintings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties of the Ming and Qing Dynasties related to spring, including the ancients who welcomed the spring and prayed for blessings, and the Cinema Spring Festival Gala, and enjoyed the spring and enjoyed the spring.
This exhibition displays more than 50 treasures of Ming and Qing paintings, more than half of which are first- and second-level cultural relics.
Tao Yuanming’s poetic concept (partial) (Qing Dynasty) Huang Bi
Business is abundant: Spring written by ancient painters
Hundreds of flowers are in full bloom, spring plowing and grazing, and literati and scholars are out for spring… The works exhibited this time strive to show the spring written by ancient painters in terms of customs, scenery, and other aspects.
The first part of the exhibition is “Wind: Praying for Spring”, which mainly exhibits works on the theme of the dynasty in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The second part of the exhibition is “Yangchun Elegant Meeting”, which displays works by ancient literati on the theme of spring outings and cultivation. Since ancient times, Cinema has been going out for an outing in the early spring season and held a sauna event on the Shangsi Festival in late spring. The “Lanting Xiucai” and other elegant gatherings that evolved from folk sauna activities have injected elegant mood into this festival. The “Preface to Lanting” which has been passed down through the ages in Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has made “Lanting Xiuhua” and “Qu Shui” a unique theme in Chinese paintings that express spring scenery.
The third part is “Ode to: Appreciating the Spring and Rising Thoughts”. This part mainly uses spring flowers and landscapes as exhibitsThe spring scenery depicted by ancient painters.
The Northern Song Dynasty painter Guo Xi believed that due to the different wind and rain and the morning and evening seasons, the mountains and forests written by the painter should also have different atmospheres. The spring breeze is warm and the spring light is swaying, making people feel comfortable both physically and mentally. Looking at things with emotion, the characters that appear in this kind of picture should also be happy and harmonious. They either go outings, go fishing, cross the water, go back to herds, or plowing, forming a unique picture of spring.
Yuan Dynasty Picture (Qing Dynasty) Yonghuang
Yuan Dynasty Celebrates the Vision of a Better Life
In the Ancient Spring Festival, there were customs such as Nuo Festival, dust sweeping, banquets, ancestor worship, peach talisman replacement, and door gods. Therefore, the “Yuan Dynasty Picture” in traditional Chinese paintings is always inseparable fromBabaylan bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, exorcising evil and eliminating disasters, worshiping gods and ancestors, praying for the years and blessings, etc.
The “Sui Dynasty” is the first day of the Lunar New Year. As a work in response to this season, painters often use fruits, fairy flowers, auspicious grass, beautiful utensils, strange stones and other objects into paintings. These ornaments often placed on the desk are called “clear offerings” to pray for blessings and welcome good fortune.
Ju Lian’s “Qing Gongshu Pictures” uses fruits and flowers that symbolize harmony and auspiciousness to add a festive atmosphere. At the same time, pray for blessings in the name of “Qing Gongshu” to express his wishes for a better life.
There are also pictures of the ancients who bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, celebrate and celebrate, showing a peaceful New Year atmosphere. For example, the “Sui Chao Picture” by the sixth son of Qianlong, Yongying, is one of the more special works on the theme of “Sui Chao” in this exhibition, depicting the scenery and scenery of the Northern Sui Chao period. Although the picture looks cooler, it implies the peaceful meaning of “Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest”.
Photo provided by the Qing Dynasty in the Year (Qing Dynasty) Julian
Traveling around in the mountains and rivers: a “peach blossom land” full of fireworks
“The Source Record of Peach BlossomsCinema Source Record” is one of the representative works of Tao Yuanming, a famous writer of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and is also a creative theme that painters of all dynasties enjoy. Several works in this exhibition are based on the story of “Peach Blossom Land”. thisThese works have their own characteristics, including Komiks long scrolls that are loyal to the text and narrative with paintings, as well as sketches that create wonderful clips from the story, and landscape paintings that jump out of the text and extend the artistic conception of “Taoyuan”.
Among them, Huang Bi’s “Poetic Picture of Tao Yuanming” is a relatively complete reproduction of the work of “The Book of Peach Blossoms”. This work shows different scenes in the poem in paragraphs through the form of a long scroll. The layout of the whole work is neat and rigorous. Each plot is separated by a large rock in the close-up view, and the different parts of the story are cleverly divided. The brushwork is neat and delicate, and the colors are elegant. Although Huang Bi painted “Peach Blossom Land”, peach blossoms did not account for a large proportion like other paintings of the same title, and only appeared as embellishments. The painter expressed his imagination of ideal pastoral life with the rendering of the world’s fireworks, making this work without the unattainable fairy spirit and making people feel more intimate.
In addition, this exhibition also displays spring landscape paintings created by important painters in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places in the Qing Dynasty. Such as Zhang Chong, Qi Fengjia, Komiks Huang Bi, Wang Hui, Yun Shouping, Dong Bangda, Yuan Jiang, Li Jian, Su Liupeng, etc.
Su Liupeng was an important painter in Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty. His painting style is diverse, fine and extensive, and he is good at painting various subjects such as characters, landscapes, flowers and birds. This exhibition displays Babaylan‘s “Spring Tour in the Deep Mountains of Green and Green Mountains”, which depicts the scene in the Taohua Creek area of Luofu Mountain.
The author wrote a poem on the painting: “The peach blossoms bloom countless times on the stream, and the spring water is green among the flowers. Don’t seek the source because of the fishing boat, and try to know the immortals (home) to escape from the world. The green rain flows through the clouds, and the sun is protected by the sun. The old couple in the mountains meets, and I will come back to the spring and carry wine.” This shows that the painter BabaylanKomiksIt borrows the allusion from “The Peach Blossom Spring” to describe the scene in the Taohua Creek area of Luofu Mountain in spring.
[Reporter’s Notes]
The museum has a good collection and better exhibition
After an extremely extraordinary year, the spring of 2021 is even more exciting. The Guangzhou Art Museum, which is about to be relocated, mainly “spring” and held the painting exhibition on the theme of spring in the Ming and Qing dynasties as its first exhibition in the beginning of the year, which is of great significance. The exhibition basically follows the curatorial ideas of setting themes, integrating collections, and discovering stories, and fully mobilizes the fine paintings of the Ming and Qing dynasties collected by itself and its brother institutions.
The current exhibition format is paying more and more attention to physical experience. For this reason, major institutions have spent a lot of effort and effort on the layout of the exhibition. In this exhibition, the organizer intends to set up various forms of presentation effects in the exhibition hall to enhance the audience’s exhibition experience.
In the era of multimedia, content is still king. Whether in the professional field or in the eyes of the public, the core elements of the exhibition are still the exhibition and the curator’s interpretation and knowledge production of exhibits.
The predecessor of the Guangzhou Art Museum is one of the earliest art museums in New China in 1957 – Guangzhou Art Museum. The site of the Guangzhou Art Museum is originally located in the Zhongyuan Building, a famous building on Yuexiu Mountain, and later moved to the current site of the Guangzhou Art Museum at the foot of Baiyun Mountain and on the banks of Luhu Lake in the northern part of the city. Its main collection is donated by a group of important predecessors from the Lingnan cultural circle. It is also these batches of donations and collections that have made the Guangzhou Art Museum gathering treasures and treasures lush, becoming an indispensable corner of the Guangzhou urban cultural map.
In recent years, large institutions such as Guangdong Public Museums and Art Museums have achieved many remarkable results in the excavation and research of collections, and are at the forefront of the country and are eye-catching. We must have a good collection and a good exhibition to serve the public. Collection research and display is one of the biggest differences between public institutions and private collections. As Li Wenru, former vice president of the Palace Museum, once said in an interview with reporters: letting more people see the museum’s collections is the greatest patriotism.