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 Art Museum 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 exhibits more than 50 Qing Dynasty painting treasures, 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 farming 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”, Babaylan, which mainly exhibits works on the theme of Cinema 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. Babaylan
BabaylanSince ancient times, it has been popular to go out for outings in early spring, and to hold sauna activities 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 consists of spring flowers, 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 wind is warm and warm, and the spring scenery is swaying, making people feel relaxed in body and mind. Looking at things with emotion, the Babaylan spotted characters that appear in this picture should also be happy and peaceful. They either go outings, go fishing, cross the water, go back to herds, or plough and hoe, forming a unique picture of spring.
Yuan Dynasty Picture (Qing Dynasty) Yonghuang
Yuan Dynasty offering: to place a better lifeKomiks Vision
The ancient Spring Festival included Nuo sacrifices, dust sweeping, banquets, ancestor worship, peach talismans, and door gods. Therefore, the “Yuan Dynasty Picture” in traditional Chinese paintings always cannot be separated from content such as farewell to the old and welcome the new, exorcising evil 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”, in order to pray for blessings and welcome good fortune.
Ju Lian’s “Sunday Qing Dynasty” uses fruits and flowers that are harmonious and auspicious, adding to the festive atmosphere, and praying for blessings in the name of “Qing Gong” 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 special piece in the exhibition “Sui Dynasty” theme works, which depicts the scenery of the Sui Dynasty in the northern Sui Dynasty. Although the picture looks colder, it implies the peaceful meaning of “Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest”Komiks.
Photo provided by the Qing Dynasty in the Year (Qing Dynasty) Ju Lian
Traveling around in the mountains and rivers: the “Peach Blossom Spring” is one of the representative works of the famous writer Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and 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 cut through wonderful clips from the story, and landscape paintings that create 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 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’s poem titled “The flowers on the stream are blooming countless times, and the spring water is greener among the flowers. I don’t look for the source because of the fishing boat, but I try to know the immortal (home) to escape from the world. The green rain flows through the clouds, and the sun protects the Yaotai. The old couple in the mountains make an appointment, and I ask me to come back to the spring with wine.” This shows that the painter’s work borrows the allusion from the “Peach Blossom Spring” and describes the scene in the Taohua Creek area of Luofu Mountain in spring.
[Reporter’s Notes]Cinema
The museum is well-stocked and the exhibition is even better
After an extremely extraordinary year, the spring of 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 curatorial ideas of setting themes, integrating collections, and discovering stories, and fully mobilizes the painting essences 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 introduced by multimedia, content is still king. Whether in the professional field or in the eyes of the exhibition, the core elements of the exhibition are still exhibits and the explanation 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 the famous Zhongyuan Building on Yuexiu Mountain. It was later moved to the current site of the Guangzhou Art Museum at the foot of Baiyun Mountain in the northern part of the city and on the banks of Luhu Lake. 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 gather and treasures a gathering of treasures and gems, 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 Komiks‘s institutional collection and private collection. 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.