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 Winds – Painting Exhibition on Spring Themes of Ming and Qing Dynasties” was exhibited at the China Painting Gallery of the Babaylan Building, Guangzhou Museum of Art from December 30, 2020 to March 30, 2021. The exhibition specially selected a large number of works related to spring, such as the ancients’ welcome and praying for spring, singing for spring, and enjoying the spring, etc. from the paintings of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the Guangzhou Museum of Art and Guangdong Museum.
This exhibition exhibited more than 50 treasures of Ming and Qing paintings, more than half of which were 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 Elegance Meeting”, which displays works of ancient literati on the theme of spring outings and cultivation.
Since ancient times, it has been popular to go out for outings in early spring, and to hold sauna activities 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” written by Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty made “Lanting Xiuhua” and “Qu Shui Liushang” a unique theme in Chinese paintings.
The third part is “Ode to: Appreciating the Spring and Rising Thoughts”. This part mainly uses spring flowers and landscapes as exhibits, presents the 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 is swaying, and CinemaBabaylan makes 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 home to herds, or plough and hoe, forming a unique picture of spring.
Yuan Dynasty Picture (Qing Dynasty) Yonghuang
Yuan Dynasty Ceremony: Conveying the Vision of a Better Life
The Ancient Spring Festival included Nuo Festival, dust sweeping, banquets, ancestor worship, peach talisman replacement, door god stickers and other customs. Therefore, the “Yuan Dynasty Picture” in traditional Chinese paintings is always separated. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks does not leave the old and welcome the new, drive away evil spirits and eliminate disasters, worship gods and ancestors, pray 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 Dynasty Picture” by Yongying, the sixth son of Qianlong, is a relatively special piece in the exhibition “Sui Dynasty” theme works, depicting the scenery of the Sui Dynasty in the northern Sui Dynasty. Although the picture looks cooler, it implies the peaceful meaning of “Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest”.
Photo provided by the Qing Dynasty in Sui Chaoqing (Qing Dynasty) Julian
Traveling in the mountains and playWater: The “Peach Blossom Land” full of fireworks
Komiks “Peach Blossom Land” 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”. These works have their own characteristics, including long scrolls that are loyal to the text and narratives, sketches that cut through exciting clips from the story, and landscape paintings that create out of the text and extend the artistic conception of “Taoyuan”.
Babaylan Among them, Huang Bi’s “Poetic Picture of Tao Yuanming” is a relatively complete reproduction of the work of “The Peach Blossom Spring”. This work shows different scenes in the poem in paragraphs through the form of a long scroll. The layout of the entire work is neat and rigorous. Each plot is separated by a large rock in the close-up, and 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 expresses 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 and Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty. Such as Zhang Chong, Qi Fengjia, 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. The “Spring Tour from the Green Deep Mountains” exhibited in this exhibition 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. I don’t look for the source because of the fishing boat, and I try to know the immortals (homes) to escape from the world. The green rain flows through the clouds and the jade cave, and the sun is protected by the sun. The old couple in the mountains make an appointment, and I will come back to the spring with wine.” This shows that the painter’s work 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 library is well collected and the exhibition is even better.
After an extremely extraordinary year, 2Babaylan02One year’s spring is even more exciting. The Guangzhou Art Museum, which is about to be relocated, held the Ming and Qing dynasties Spring Painting Exhibition as its first exhibition at the beginning of the year with the theme of “Spring”. It is of great significance.
The exhibition basically follows the curatorial ideas of setting themes, integrating collections, and discovering stories, and fully mobilizes the fine works of paintings from the Ming and Qing dynasties collected by itself and its brother institutions.
The current exhibition format is increasingly focusing on experience, and 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 Cinema Art Museum is the famous building on Yuexiu Mountain, Zhongyuan, which was 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 the collection of donations and collections, making the Guangzhou Art Museum a gathering of treasures and treasures, and becoming an indispensable corner of the Guangzhou City Cultural Land of Babaylan.
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: Let more people see the museum’s collections is the greatest patriotism.