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 ancients’ themes of welcoming spring blessings, Winging Spring Elegant Meetings, and Appreciating Spring Ideas from the paintings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties collected by the Guangzhou Museum of Art and Guangdong Provincial Museum.
This exhibition displays 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
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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 gathering activities that evolved from folk sports activities have injected elegant mood into this festival. The “Preface to Lanting” which has been passed down through the ages in the Eastern Jin Dynasty has made “Lanting Xiuhua” and “Qushui Liushang” into Chinese paintingsA theme that expresses the unique 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 characters that appear in this kind of picture should also be Xin Yueshu and Cinema. They either go outings, go fishing, cross the water, go back to herds, or plowing, forming a unique picture of spring.
The Yearly Dynasty Picture (Qing Dynasty) Yonghuang
The Yearly Dynasty’s offerings: entrusting the vision of a better life
The ancient Spring Festival included Nuo sacrifices, dust sweeping, banquets, ancestor worship, peach talismans, and door gods. Therefore, the “Sui 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.
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 Qing Dynasty Picture” uses fruits and flowers that symbolize harmony and auspiciousness, adding to the festive atmosphere, and praying for a better life in the name of “Qing Gong”, expressing 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 Tu” by Yongying, the sixth son of Qianlong, is a more special piece in the exhibition “Sui Chao” theme works, depicting the scenery of the Northern Sui Chao. Although the picture looks cooler, it implies the peaceful meaning of “Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest”.
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Traveling around the mountains and rivers: The “Peach Blossom Land” is one of the representative works of Tao Yuanming, a famous writer of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is also a creative theme that painters of all dynasties enjoy. This exhibition contains several works based on the story of “Peach Blossom Land”. These works have their own characteristics, including long scrolls that are loyal to text and narrative with paintings, and also include wonderful clips from the story. The sketches created by Komiks also include landscape paintings that jump out of the text and extend the artistic conception of “Taoyuan”.
Among them, Huang Bi’s “Tao Yuanming” href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaPoetic Chart” is a relatively complete reproduction of the work of “The Peach Blossom Land”. This work shows different scenes in the poem in segments through the form of a long scroll. The layout of the entire work is neat and rigorous, and each plot is separated by a large rock in the close-up scene, cleverly dividing different parts of the story. 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 exhibits 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, YunBabaylanShouping, Dong Bangda, Yuan Jiang, Li Jian, Su Liupeng, etc.
Su Liupeng was an important painter in Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty. His painting styles are diverse. Komiks, with fine and extensive skills, and he is good at painting characters, landscapes, flowers and birds and other subjects. The “Green Green Deep Mountain Spring Tour” exhibited in this exhibition depicts the scene of Luo, Komiks in Taohua Creek in Fushan.
The painting contains Babaylan. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksThe author wrote a poem: “The peach blossoms bloom countless times on the stream, and the spring water is green among the flowers. I don’t seek the source because of the fishing boat, and I try to know the immortals (home) to escape from the world. The green rain flows through the clouds and the jade cave, and the sun protects the jade platform. 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 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, held the “Spring” theme painting exhibition for the spring theme of the Ming and Qing Dynasties as its first exhibition in 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 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 Art Museum is the famous Zhongyuan Building, which was originally located 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 north of the city at that time. 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 treasures and treasures of the Guangzhou Art Museum a gathering of treasures and treasures, becoming an indispensable part 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.