Related News
Home
» City specials
» Hangzhou
Sketches set to draw the crowds
By Xu Wenwen |
September 28, 2012, Friday
|
Print Edition
Print Edition
IT is not common to see an exhibition devoted exclusively to sketching, but in Hangzhou an exhibition of Chinese-style ink works entitled "The Significance of Sketching from Nature" is running until October 8 at Han House Art Museum.
Featuring 50 ink-painting sketchings of landscapes, buildings and figures, the exhibition is a solo exhibition of Ma Fenghui, director of Zhejiang Art Museum.
It features works Ma painted from life at Gansu, Shanxi, Zhejiang and Yunnan provinces, with touches of the artist's imagination ensuring they are not simply renderings of a scene.
Traditionally, creating a Chinese painting starts with sketching. While Western sketching usually aims to produce a copy of the subject, the Chinese style requires painters to add imagination to the work.
But while the finished sketch may be different from what artist sees, the feeling of the view should be kept.
"For years, Chinese painters seemingly forgot about this tradition, so I created the exhibition to bring people's attention to the methodology," says Ma. This is his first solo exhibition since his graduation from China Academy of Art in 1988.
Compared to traditional Chinese paintings, all the exhibits are quite small (less than 50 centimeters by 50 centimeters) and are on thick, hard cotton paper.
Nor do they feature traditional water-and-ink permeation, instead being characterized by a clean, dry style of contrasts between nothingness and essence.
Ma explains the thick paper and smaller size are to meet the challenges of sketching in the field, and that his works borrow some Western sketching techniques.
Date: Through October 8, 10am-5pm
Address: 202 Nanshan Rd
Featuring 50 ink-painting sketchings of landscapes, buildings and figures, the exhibition is a solo exhibition of Ma Fenghui, director of Zhejiang Art Museum.
It features works Ma painted from life at Gansu, Shanxi, Zhejiang and Yunnan provinces, with touches of the artist's imagination ensuring they are not simply renderings of a scene.
Traditionally, creating a Chinese painting starts with sketching. While Western sketching usually aims to produce a copy of the subject, the Chinese style requires painters to add imagination to the work.
But while the finished sketch may be different from what artist sees, the feeling of the view should be kept.
"For years, Chinese painters seemingly forgot about this tradition, so I created the exhibition to bring people's attention to the methodology," says Ma. This is his first solo exhibition since his graduation from China Academy of Art in 1988.
Compared to traditional Chinese paintings, all the exhibits are quite small (less than 50 centimeters by 50 centimeters) and are on thick, hard cotton paper.
Nor do they feature traditional water-and-ink permeation, instead being characterized by a clean, dry style of contrasts between nothingness and essence.
Ma explains the thick paper and smaller size are to meet the challenges of sketching in the field, and that his works borrow some Western sketching techniques.
Date: Through October 8, 10am-5pm
Address: 202 Nanshan Rd
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
