The Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon is approaching, and there are many "dragon" decorations in the streets and alleys of Putuo, adding the joy of the New Year to the city. In Wanli Street, more than 80 artworks of the Year of the Dragon created by community residents are on display, which is full of the atmosphere of welcoming the new year, so follow the reporter to the scene to take a look.
The vigorous and powerful colored pen painting dragon, the lifelike can dragon, and the light rubbing dragon ......Walking into the Wanli Street Community Cultural Activity Center on the 5th floor of No. 51 Zhenjin Road, a "Longteng Wanli Intergenerational Art Exhibition" with the theme of "Dragon" is underway. The dragons in front of her in different shapes dazzled Citizen Aunt Sun.
In particular, the big red rubbing dragon painting won the aunt's favorite. "It's pretty good, red is festive, and this dragon is very beautiful, and now it's dancing in the air. "Aunt Sun had some small surprises.
At the exhibition site, around the theme of welcoming the New Year, integrating the "dragon" element, the handicrafts of Wanli Street cleverly conceived, created a number of Chinese paintings, calligraphy works, and also exerted their creativity, with colorful discarded paper stickers, pulp paintings, glass art carvings and soldering iron paintings.
The word "2024" is painted on the top of this wooden fan with a soldering iron, and the "2" is designed to look like a dragon, which is subtle and slightly warped. "Before branding, the painter has to design the composition and then brand the painting with one stroke. Be very careful in the process and do not make mistakes. Yuan Mingang, the curator and the person in charge of Wanli Innovation House, introduced.
It's about to be the Year of the Dragon, and we also want to learn to draw dragons by ourselves, and now these works just give us creative ideas. Ms. Xu, a visitor to the exhibition, was a little eager to try, "I like the works that combine classical and modern elements the most. ”
It is reported that the exhibition is rich in the form of works, combining tradition and modernity, and the creation is also dominated by community residents, and the age range of the creators is from 4 to 84 years old, fully demonstrating the artistic presentation of different ages and generations.
In addition to the exhibition area on the 5th and 6th floors of No. 51 Zhenjin Road, some works are also displayed on the billboards along Xinquan Road, Wanli Street. The exhibition will last until the end of February (during the Spring Festival, No. 51 Zhenjin Road will be closed from the first to the third day of the new year, and the exhibition can be visited from the fourth day of the new year).
Author: Editor: Zhang Xiaoming Responsible Editor: Zhu Yue.
*: Shanghai Putuo.