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A fascinating Sunday art tour in Gubei
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As a warm-up for the Shanghai Tourism Festival, a group of expats on a recent Sunday visited the SPSI Art Museum in Changning District to watch the academic series exhibition 鈥淣-Power Paintings,鈥 featuring works by modern Chinese artists.
The exhibition is one of Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Academy鈥檚 oil painting academic series exhibitions.
It was initiated by three artists Li Zhen, Shi Zhiying and Lu Dan and jointly planned by the theoretical research office and oil painting creation center of the Academy. Works of five artists in the oil painting creation center of the academy are jointly exhibited.
The exhibition area on the first floor presents the greatest creations of five different artists in recent years. The exhibition is not divided by artist, but displayed by paintings being interspersed with each other according to similarity of colors and emotional feeling. It is intended that viewers of the exhibition can see the transience of life and the flow of history through 鈥渢hings,鈥 which may lead to the understanding of 鈥渆xistence.鈥
On the second floor of the art museum, each artist has built an area to display their individual paintings and research, so that people can see the form and appearance of their paintings through large-scale works. The works displayed are mainly oil paintings which are combined with various literature forms such as creative sketches, art notes and videos. This not only provide clues about each artist鈥檚 style of research and creation, but also illustrates the trends and overall style of oil painting creation and research in Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Academy.
The visiting expatriates were given an introduction to the works and artists so that they could have a better feeling and experience of China鈥檚 modern art creation. Kris Goethem, managing director MICE, Leisure & sport of Thomas Cook DMC, told Shanghai Daily that he felt the exhibition was really interesting and rich in content.
Goethem and other visitors were told that one of the founders of the academy, a famous sculptor called Zhang Chongren (1907-1998), had a decades-long friendship with Georges Prosper Remi (1907鈥1983), better known by the pen name Herg茅. The Belgian cartoonist is best known for creating 鈥淭he Adventures of Tintin,鈥 the series of comic books which are considered one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century.
鈥淚鈥檓 Belgian and very proud of 鈥楾intin.鈥 Belgium and China are very friendly and the story is very good,鈥 said Goethem in fluent mandarin. Goethem was quite familiar with the friendship between Zhang and Herg茅 as well as Zhang鈥檚 role behind 鈥淭he Blue Lotus鈥 鈥 the fifth volume of 鈥淭he Adventures of Tintin,鈥 which is set in China.
After the event, all visitors walked to the Cheng Shifa Art Museum of the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy. An Exhibition of Works Featuring Xin鈥檃njiang Hydropower Station is being held and will run through to October 24.
The exhibition, to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, displays works by painters of the academy in the 1950s and 1960s focusing on the construction and completion of Xin鈥檃njiang Hydropower Station 鈥 China鈥檚 first self-designed, self-constructed with self-made equipment, large-scale hydropower station.
Among them, the 7-meter-long masterpiece 鈥淴in鈥檃njiang鈥 created by Lu Yanshao (1909-1993), Tang Yun (1910-1993), Wu Lifu (1900-1992) and Zhang Shoucheng (1918-2013) outlines the new panorama after the completion of Xin鈥檃njiang Hydropower Station and reflects the concrete achievements of the transformation of Chinese painting from sketching to expressing the new life.
Apart from the classic works, there are also this year鈥檚 new works by the painters of the Academy. The juxtaposition of works with manuscripts, videos and documents is intended to show how the painters of the younger generation followed their predecessors to visit Xin鈥檃njiang, and how they felt about the achievements of more than 60 years of construction and development, in particular since the reform and opening-up.
Visitors were shocked by the magnificence of the works and the excellent skills needed to produce them. Goethem told Shanghai Daily, 鈥淚鈥檓 European and have often visited all kinds of museums but I didn鈥檛 know there were so many museums here. I am deeply impressed by Shanghai鈥檚 strong cultural resources.鈥
After the visit the expats went to Gubei Civic Center to attend a Chinese painting class and learn to decorate a round paper fan with color and brush.
Wonsook Hong, the first ever licensed foreign Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor in Shanghai, drew a rabbit on the moon. Hong, from South Korea, was very serious about her painting, drawing a connection to the Mid-Autumn Festival which falls on September 21 this year. She enthused 鈥 I love China and its culture and the lunar rabbit is a traditional pattern of the festival.鈥 Hong came to China in 1993. She looks forward to participating in more, similar activities in the future.
Meanwhile, Nishimura Takashi, president of Asahi Beer (China) Investment Co, said he was deeply impressed by the construction of Gubei international community, in particular the development of grassroots legislation, artificial intelligence and e-government. 鈥淐hina鈥檚 development in the field of electronic information services exceeds that of Japan,鈥 Nishimura said.
He also expressed willingness to join the art tour of the international community after work and participate in relevant interest courses with his colleagues as a way to balance work and life. 鈥淲e are usually too busy but would like to attend more activities like today鈥檚,鈥 Nishimura said.
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