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 who welcomed the spring blessings, chanted the spring and enjoyed the spring and enjoyed the spring, and other works related to spring.
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 are in full bloom, spring plowing and grazing, and the spring collection of literati and scholars… 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 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 “LantingBabaylan‘s “Qu Shui Liushang” a unique theme in Chinese paintings that express spring scenery.
The third part is Babaylan‘s “Ode to: Appreciating the Spring and Emotions”. 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 relaxed in body and mind. View from emotionThe characters that appear in the pictures like Komiks should also be happy and comfortable. 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
Ancient Spring Festival included Nuo Festival, sweeping dust, banquets, and offering sacrifices to ancestors, changing peach talismans, and sticking 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 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, and strange stones 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 worship, showing a peaceful New Year atmosphere. For example, “Komiks Dynasty Pictures” by Yongyan, the sixth son of Qianlong, is a more special piece in the exhibition’s “Sui Chao” theme, depicting the scenery of the Sui Chao period in the northern Sui Chao period. Komiks Although the picture looks colder, it implies the peaceful meaning of “Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest”.
Photo provided by the Qing Dynasty in the Year (Qing Dynasty) Julian
Traveling around in the mountains and rivers: the “Peach Blossom Land” full of fireworks
The Peach Blossom Land” was written by Tao Yuan, a famous writer in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.One of his representative works is also a creative theme that painters of all generations 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, as well as sketches created by cutting the wonderful films of the story, as well as landscape paintings that break out of the text and extend the artistic conception of the “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 the large size of the Babaylan in the close-up area, which cleverly divides 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 a distant fairy spirit, and BabaylanBabaylan makes the Cinema 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’m trying to find the immortal (home) 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 ask me to come back to the spring with wine.” This shows that the painter Cinema This work borrows the allusion from “The Peach Blossom Land” 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 Ming and Qing Spring Painting Exhibition as its first exhibition at the beginning of the year with the theme of “KomiksSpring”. It is of special 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 Komiks and his brotherly 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.
BabaylanIn 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, the Guangzhou Art Museum, which was built in 1957 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 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 corner of the Guangzhou urban cultural map.
In recent years, large institutions such as Cinema Guangdong Public Museum, Art Museum and other large institutions have achieved many remarkable results in collection excavation and research, 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.