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 Pavilion 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 paintings of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the Guangzhou Museum of Art and Guangdong Museum, including the themes of ancient people who welcomed the spring, prayed for blessings, Wing Chun Elegant Meeting, and enjoying the spring.
This exhibition exhibited more than 50 rare paintings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, 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 year-degree theme of Komiks during 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, 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 “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 uses spring flowers and landscapes as 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 points that appear in this picture should also be happy and peaceful. They may be suburbsBabaylanSwimming outings, fishing, crossing the water, returning to herds, or plowing and hoeing, forming a unique picture of spring.
The Yearly Chao Picture (Qing Dynasty) Yongfeng
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The ancient Spring Festival included Nuo sacrifices, dust sweeping, banquets, ancestor worship, peach talismans, and door gods. Therefore, the “Sui Chao Picture” in traditional Chinese paintings always cannot be separated from the content of bidding farewell to the old and welcome the new, exorcising evil spirits and eliminating disasters, worshiping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and blessings. “Sui Chao” is the first day of the Lunar New Year. As a work in this season, painters often use fruits, fruits, fairy flowers, auspicious grass, beautiful utensils, strange stones and other items. These ornaments often placed on the desk are called “Sui Chao” to pray for blessings and welcome good fortune.
Ju Lian’s ” KomiksThe Qing Dynasty Pictures of the Year of the Qing Dynasty are used to express harmony and auspiciousness to add a festive atmosphere. At the same time, pray for blessings in the name of “Qing Dynasty” to express wishes for a better life. KomiksThe Qing Dynasty Pictures of the Year of the Year depict the scenes of ancient people bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, celebrating and worshiping, showing a peaceful New Year atmosphere. For example, the “Xi Dynasty Pictures” by Yongying, the sixth son of Qianlong, is the exhibition “Xi Dynasty Pictures of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of The more special piece of the theme works of href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan” depicts the scenery of the Northern Dynasty. Although the picture looks colder, it implies the peaceful meaning of “Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest”.
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Traveling around in the mountains and rivers: the “Peach Blossom Land” full of fireworks
“The Peach Blossom Land” is a famous article in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.f=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks One of the representative works of the scholar Tao Yuanming 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 cut through exciting clips from the story, and landscape paintings that create out of the text and extend the “peach garden” environment. Among them, Huang Bi’s “Tao Yuanming’s Poetic SchemeCinema” 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 whole work is neat and rigorous. Each plot is separated by a large rock in the close-up, which cleverly divides different parts of the story. Babaylan‘s 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.
KomiksIn addition, this exhibition also exhibits the 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. Don’t look for the source 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 in 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 Spring” to describe the scene in the Taohua Creek area of Luofu Mountain in spring.
【Reporter’s Notes】
The museum is well collected, and the exhibition is even better
After an extremely extraordinary year, 2The spring of 21 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 paintings of 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 exhibits and the curator’s interpretation and knowledge production of exhibits.
The predecessor of the Guangzhou Art Museum was the Guangzhou Art Museum, one of the earliest art museums in New China in 1957. 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 southern cultural circle of Komiks. It is also these batches of donations and collections that make the treasures and treasures of the Guangzhou Art Museum a gathering of treasures and treasures, becoming an indispensable corner of the Guangzhou urban cultural map.
In recent years, large institutions such as Guangdong Public Museum and Art Museum have achieved many remarkable results in collection excavation and research, and are at the forefront of the country, which is remarkable. 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. Babaylan