Wu Xueshan.
Mural "Ode to the Great Wall", Wang Yingsheng, Dong Zhuo, Wang Zhiyan, Li Dan, Yue Yang, Ma Xin, Ma Yaping, Zhang Peijian, Zhang Liuxin, Cao Yang, Hao Kunpeng, Cui Xiaoxu, Chen Yuting, Zhang Feng.
1. Song Anyi and other collective creations.
Chinese painting "Juyong Guan Chunxiao", author Zhuang Xiaolei.
Oil painting "Oriental Desire", author Cheng Xiangjun.
One of the watercolor painting "Dragon Yun Xuanhuang" series, the author is Zhao Lin.
The Great Wall has been the object of artists' singing and depiction for more than 1,000 years. In modern times, the Great Wall has gradually become a major theme in artistic creation. Famous painters such as Guan Shanyue, Huang Xinbo, Zhang Ding, and Wu Guanzhong all have well-known works on the theme of the Great Wall. In recent years, with the steady progress of the construction of the Great Wall National Cultural Park, the art creation with the theme of the Great Wall has been vigorously launched, and artists have deeply excavated and expressed the spiritual connotation, historical context and new appearance of the Great Wall with rich visual language, and painted the Great Wall picture scroll in thick ink and color, highlighting the cultural significance of the Great Wall in the new era from different aspects.
Carry forward the spirit of the Great Wall.
The cultural significance of the Great Wall lies first of all in its spirituality, which embodies the Chinese nation's unremitting spirit of self-improvement and the patriotic feelings of unity, perseverance and perseverance. Eulogizing the Great Wall and praising the motherland is the main theme of the Great Wall-themed art creation. In recent years, there have been many masterpieces on related themes, and the two works displayed in the History Exhibition Hall of the Communist Party of China are particularly prominent.
As an important red venue newly completed in recent years, a large number of art works are displayed inside and outside the History Exhibition Hall of the Communist Party of China, silently telling the glorious history of the century-old party. Among them, there is a large mural called "Ode to the Great Wall" in the preface hall and the red hall, both of which highlight the majesty of the Great Wall with unique artistic techniques, and strive to reflect its spirituality and symbolism on the basis of the familiar image of the Great Wall. The lacquer mural "Ode to the Great Wall" in the preface hall was created by Professor Cheng Xiangjun of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University. Since the 80s of the 20th century, Cheng Xiangjun has led his students to sketch on the Great Wall in Huairou and Miyun in Beijing. In the specific visual environment of the Party History Museum, the painter made full use of the material texture characteristics of lacquer painting, and combined the natural landscape of the Great Wall with the "red rock" image tradition in the art history of New China, so that the symbol of the national spirit and the red brilliance of the party were seamlessly integrated, and the picture was magnificent and gorgeous. The mural "Ode to the Great Wall" in the Red Hall was created by Professor Wang Yingsheng of the ** Academy of Fine Arts, painted with traditional Chinese Jinbi landscape techniques, rendered layer by layer with bright mineral pigments, combined with gold pasting, gold painting, powder and other craft techniques, making the Great Wall brilliant and dazzling. The beacon towers and the brilliant glow reflect each other, and the artistic conception is magnificent. These two thematic art creations not only explore how to realize the artistic innovation of traditional themes in practice, so that the figurative Great Wall and the spiritual Great Wall are integrated, but also demonstrate the spirit of teamwork in large-scale collective creations.
How to better express the unique spiritual connotation of the Great Wall? Through field investigations and consulting relevant documents, many artists combine what they see, feel, and think to create a profound image of the Great Wall. In the "Great Wall Cultural Theme Art Works and Literature Research Exhibition", which was selected as the 2023 National Art ** Communication and Promotion Funding Project, many works reflect the in-depth thinking of artists on the culture and spirit of the Great Wall. For example, Yang Jinxiang's print "The Soul of China" combines the human wall, the Great Wall, and the Yellow River in the form of vertical composition, and engraves the indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation with a knife and brush, so that the work has a thick humanistic heritage. Yan Guiru's oil painting "The Soul of the Nation" and Wang Ke and Qiu Lin's oil painting "Red Yao Jinshan Ridge" also show the spiritual outlook of the Great Wall through personalized style.
The majestic atmosphere and cultural heritage of the Great Wall bloom with new brilliance in the picture scroll. In the process of expressing the cultural spirit of the Great Wall, the artists' high recognition of Chinese civilization and infinite love for the motherland flow through the pen, injecting surging spiritual energy into the art works on the theme of the Great Wall.
Inherit the culture of the Great Wall.
For more than 2,000 years, countless stories have taken place on the Great Wall. Sorting out and depicting the important events, characters and stories carried by the cultural relics and cultural resources along the Great Wall has become an effective way to explore the historical value of the Great Wall and inherit the culture of the Great Wall.
The publication of the Great Wall story as the theme is the highlight of the Great Wall-themed art creation activities in recent years. In 2022, ** Publishing House will organize the publication of "National Cultural Park Theme *** Great Wall", which collects 5 excellent works with the theme of Changcheng, namely Hu Mingjun's painting "Zhao Wuling Wang Goes Out of the Great Wall", Yang Hongfu painting "The First Great Wall on the Land of China", Pu Huihua painting "Zhaojun Out of the Plug", Shui Tianhong painting "Qi Jiguang Great Wall Meritorious Service" and Ding Shibi painting "Pingxingguan Dajie". These 5 independent works have been published before, and this reprint not only reorganizes the storyline, but also adds and deletes the picture, telling the historical and cultural origin of the Great Wall in simple terms. In terms of painting, the artistic styles of the works are varied, and most of them use concise lines to outline complex images, interpreting the symphony of rigidity and softness, strength and beauty in close proximity. In terms of text, the script is refined and the guide is distributed to make the work more in line with the reading habits of teenagers. The First Shot of the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, published by Yanshan University Press, also focuses on the historical stories that happened on the Great Wall, and stimulates readers' patriotic feelings with vivid artistic narratives.
The Great Wall has endured wind, frost, rain and snow, forming a vast natural appearance. Another way to present the history of the Great Wall and inherit the culture of the Great Wall is to give full play to the unique advantages of art in shaping the artistic image, and show the beauty and majesty of the vicissitudes of the Great Wall through rich and varied perspectives and painting languages. At the "2023 Impression Great Wall Theme Cultural Exchange Exhibition" hosted by the Shanxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and the people of Yangquan City**, Liu Bowu's oil painting "Standing for a Thousand Autumns" takes the Jiayuguan Great Wall at sunset as the performance object, and the warm-colored city wall contrasts with the cold-colored snow-capped mountains in the distance, highlighting the magnificent wonder of "the world's first Xiongguan". Li Shiling's Chinese painting "A Thousand Autumns in Ancient Times" is a triptych that shows the rammed earth Great Wall still standing tall despite wind and rain, and reflects the historical changes of the sea through color changes. In the Qinghai Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism sponsored the "Great Wall of the Great Wall" Qinghai Ming Great Wall cultural theme creation series of activities, artists have gone to the Great Wall many times to experience life along the Great Wall, writing about the ancient rhyme of the Great Wall, such as Wang Zhen's series of prints "The Great Wall of the Great River" and other works, with different perspectives, ideas, shapes, artistically express the time imprint on the Great Wall, showing the deep and far-reaching poetry and charm of the Great Wall.
Historical images of the Great Wall condense the visual memory of the times, but many precious images of the Great Wall have not been handed down to the present day in the long river of time. Some artists have tried to re-establish the Great Wall with their brushes through in-depth excavation of the history of the Great Wall. The "Castle Map of Datong Town in the Ming Dynasty" is an example. It took a year for the painter to complete the creation. The handscroll uses the map drawing method to creatively reproduce the castle community of Datong Town in the Ming Dynasty, which not only provides image support for reconstructing the whole picture of the Datong Ming Great Wall, but also reflects the special value of the map in historical research.
Show the new look of the Great Wall.
Along the Great Wall, there are many Guanpu towns, traditional villages, and historical and cultural districts, and different cultures blend and coexist at the foot of the Great Wall. As all localities pay more attention to maintaining the cultural and natural features along the Great Wall, and at the same time drive the economic and social development along the route through tourism, the surrounding environment of the Great Wall is now more beautiful, and the people's life is getting better and better. Artists use their brushes to record these rapid changes.
In order to depict the new appearance of the Great Wall, Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and other places have held various sketching activities in a planned and organized manner based on the local cultural relics and cultural resources of the Great Wall, setting off an upsurge of art creation on the theme of the Great Wall. For example, in 2020 and 2023, the Hebei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism will successively carry out the "Walking the Great Wall" and "Painting and Talking about the Great Wall" sketching and creation activities, inviting artists from all over the world to go deep into the Shanhaiguan Great Wall in Qinhuangdao City, the Jinshanling Great Wall in Chengde City, and Dajingmen in Zhangjiakou City to feel the simple folk customs of traditional villages along the Great Wall and the vigorous pulse of rural revitalization. A number of new works have effectively enriched the art creation of the Great Wall. The Great Wall is like a link, which not only connects artists from all over the world, promotes the integration of resources between local innovation and research institutions, but also gathers Chinese and foreign tourists from afar to enhance cultural exchanges in the deep integration of culture and tourism.
For the people living along the Great Wall, the Great Wall is part of their daily lives. Artists try to embody this ordinary beauty of the Great Wall in their works. Chen Ping's Chinese painting "At the Foot of the Great Wall" and Jiang Shiguo's Chinese painting "Living by the Great Wall Stream" all depict the leisurely life of the people at the foot of the Great Wall from a bird's-eye perspective. In the artist's brush, the Great Wall is not an abstract thing, but a place where many people have lived since childhood, and it is a monument with fireworks and nostalgia. Wang Hequn's oil painting "Neighbors at the Foot of the Great Wall" is even more ingenious, focusing on the new life of the old couple living at the foot of the Great Wall. Together, these works present an intimate and vivid aspect of the Great Wall.
In the daily experience of many people, the Great Wall is a popular tourist check-in place. The influx of tourists has given new vitality to the Great Wall, and many artists are also among the tourists, who record the style of the Great Wall in the new era during their tours. For example, Liu Gen's print "The Crown on the Jinshanling" is cleverly conceived, through a close-up of a pair of green sunglasses, reflecting the beacon tower on the Jinshanling Great Wall. The one wearing these sunglasses may be the painter himself. Bai Chunyu's oil painting "Jinshanling Ushers in the Sunshine of the Plateau" depicts the joy of children in the plateau area when they climb the Great Wall, and the bright colors render a pleasant and warm atmosphere. In addition, Liu Kegong's oil painting "Ancestors and Grandchildren" and other works interpret the theme of "cultural and tourism integration" through small incisions, showing the style of the times of the Great Wall-themed art creation.
The author is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts).
Typography: Cai Huawei.
People** 2024-02-04 08 Edition).