Grand Canal Media News (Zhu Guiyan).Towering drum towers, historic post stations, patchwork of ancient buildings shaded by greenery, the calm water of the canal with occasional boats, and the lush woods on the opposite bank ...... no sideIn the "Spring Breeze Ten Miles - 2024 Yangzhou Academy of Chinese Painting New Year Exhibition", the work "Yucheng Station" depicts the quiet appearance of the ancient canal city Gaoyou in spring.
As soon as the beginning of spring passes, spring begins. Spring water is born, spring forests are in full bloom, spring breeze is ten miles, and what season is better than spring. The spring of Yangzhou, a famous canal city, is the "white moonlight" praised by literati and writers in the past dynasties, it is "the old man left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and the fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March", it is "the spring river tide is even with the sea, and the bright moon on the sea is born together", and it is also "the spring breeze is ten miles of Yangzhou Road, and it is better to roll up the bead curtain". Recently, the "Spring Breeze Ten Miles - 2024 Yangzhou Chinese Painting Academy New Year Works Exhibition" hosted by Yangzhou Academy of Chinese Painting and undertaken by Yangzhou Art Museum was launched in the exhibition hall of Yangzhou Art Museum, allowing citizens and tourists to appreciate the beauty and vitality of spring in Yangzhou through art works.
This exhibition brings together 78 outstanding works of in-service calligraphers and painters of Yangzhou Academy of Chinese Painting, with rich themes and different styles, covering landscapes, flowers and birds, figures, calligraphy and other themes. The Slender West Lake full of spring, the vibrant garden, the smoky Yucheng Station, the breakfast shop full of fireworks on the street, the young woman buying flowers in the flower market, the old and young family going out for spring, the swan ...... of the prophet Spring River plumbingThe artist uses pen and ink to tell about life, record the times, explain the "ten miles of spring breeze" in his heart, and also show the spring day of Yangcheng that was highly praised by an ancient literati and elegant scholar in front of the audience. "The styles of the works are diverse, both traditional and contemporary, with fine brushwork and freehand, which brings a beautiful enjoyment and makes me feel the charm of Chinese painting. Mr. Li, a citizen of Yangzhou who came to watch the exhibition, praised.
It is understood that most of the works exhibited in this Spring Festival exhibition were created by calligraphers and painters of Yangzhou Academy of Chinese Painting in the past one or two years. The time of the painting is not only spring, but covers the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the place is not limited to Yangzhou, in the paintings on display, you can also see the Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou, the Xianzhao Temple in Hangzhou, the famous mountains and rivers in the north, and so on. However, calligraphy and painting works with the theme of "Yangzhou" and "Spring" account for a large part, such as "Yucheng Station", "Spring Dawn in Five Pavilions", "Geyuan" and so on. "Spring Dawn of the Five Pavilions" adopts the form of a strip screen that is not common in garden landscape paintings, the pavilions and water pavilions are cleverly embellished, the painting boat cruise ship looms, and the Wuting Bridge and the spring trees in the distance are integrated, full of dense atmosphere, which not only has the exquisite beauty of real-life sketching, but also pursues perfect artistry. "Yucheng Station" captures the scene of looking down on the ancient post station, and the quiet and simple buildings are harmoniously integrated with the boats on the ancient canal not far away, presenting a calm and distant beauty. These two works are by Teng Qiang, director of the Landscape Painting Creation Research Office of Yangzhou Academy of Chinese Painting and a member of the Chinese Artists Association. Teng Qiang told the Grand Canal media reporter that he has created a lot of works about Yangzhou in the past two years, and the ancient canal has always been the source of his pursuit of poetry in his paintings.
Gao Wei, director of the exhibition department of Yangzhou Art Museum, told the Grand Canal media reporter that it is the tradition of Yangzhou Art Museum to hold a New Year painting exhibition, and in order to welcome the arrival of the new year, the art museum will hold a New Year theme exhibition every year. This exhibition happened to be launched after the beginning of spring, and the poet Du Mu's sentence "Spring Breeze Ten Miles Yangzhou Road" is well-known to everyone, and also makes countless people yearn for Yangzhou, so the exhibition is given the beautiful name of "Spring Breeze Ten Miles", hoping to invite citizens and tourists to follow the painter's brush and ink and enjoy the poetic Yangzhou in spring when the farewell is welcome and the spring returns to the earth.
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First trial: Gui Yan Zhang Li.
Second instance Xiao Dong.
Third trial Hui Jun.