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 the Spring Themes of Ming and Qing Dynasties” was exhibited at the China Painting Museum of All Times on the first floor of the Guangzhou Museum of Art from December 30, 2020 to March 30, 2021. The exhibition specially selected a large number of works related to spring, including the ancients’ themes of welcoming spring blessings, yelling spring elegant meetings, and enjoying spring happiness from the Ming and Qing Dynasties paintings collected by Guangzhou Art Museum and Guangdong Provincial Museum.
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
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Hundreds of flowers bloom, spring plowing and grazing, literati and scholars traveling for spring…The works on display this time<a Komiks strives to show the prosperous spring of ancient painters from 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 “Yingchun Elegant Meeting”, which displays the works of ancient literati traveling and cultivating in the spring and cultivating Cinema.
Since ancient times, it has been popular to go out for outings in early spring. Cinema and hold a sauna event on the Shangsi Festival in late spring. The “Lanting Xiuhua” and other elegant gatherings evolved from the folk sacrificial 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 “Qushui Liushang” unique themes in Chinese paintings that express spring scenery.
The third part is “Ode to: Appreciating the Spring and Rising Thoughts”. This part mainly consists of spring flowersKomiks Flowers and landscapes are exhibits, presenting 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 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 happy. 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 Ceremony: Conveying the Vision of a Better Life
The Ancient Spring Festival included Nuo Festival, sweeping dust, banquets, worshiping ancestors, changing peach talismans, and sticking door gods. Therefore, the “Yuan Dynasty Picture” in the traditional Chinese paintings is always inseparable from farewell to the old and welcome the new, exorcising evil spirits and eliminating disasters, worshiping gods and ancestors, praying for the years and blessings.
“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”, so as 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, “Sui Chao Tu” by Yongying, the sixth son of Qianlong, is a more special piece in the exhibition’s “Sui Chao” theme, depicting the scenery and scenery of the Northern Sui Chao period. Although the picture looks colder, it implies the peaceful meaning of “Snow indicates a good harvest”.
Photo provided by the Qing Dynasty in Sui Chaoqing (Qing Dynasty) Julian
YouPlaying in the mountains and rivers: The “Peach Blossom Land” full of fireworks. “The Peach Blossom Land” is one of the dynasty works of the famous writer Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It 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 narrative with paintings, sketches that produce wonderful clips from the story, and landscape paintings that break 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, 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 the 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, 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 will try to know the immortals (home) to escape from the world. The green rain flows and clouds flow with the jade cave, and the sun is protected by the Yaotai. The old couple in the mountains made an appointment and asked me to come back to the spring with wine.” This shows that the painter’s work borrows the allusion from “The Peach Blossom Land” and describes 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 Cinema in 2021 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 setting theme, integrating collections, and excavation.The curatorial ideas of the matter fully mobilize the fine paintings of the Ming and Qing dynasties collected by oneself and his brother institutions.
The current exhibition format of Komiks is increasingly focusing on experience. For this reason, major institutions have devoted themselves to 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 Komiks collection that makes the Guangzhou Art Museum’s treasures gathered 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 for the former vice president of the Cinema Museum, Li Li, Komiks, once said in an interview with Babaylan: Babaylan: Let more people see the museum’s collections is the greatest patriotism.