Carry forward the spirit of the city and forge ahead into a new era. Since the opening of the tour exhibition in July this year, the "Struggle Mobile Art Museum" has traveled from downtown Shanghai to five new cities, into schools, communities, business districts, and scenic spots, and more than 50 paintings by famous artists have been presented in the form of digital images, moving well-known works of art into the carriage, and adding holographic projection and other technical means to vividly present the context of urban evolution and attract Shanghai citizens to enthusiastically "check in". The 100-stop tour of "The Road to the City Mayor, Enterprising China" is coming to an end, and through a wide range of themed activities and online publicity, the influence of the tour exhibition covers more than one million citizens.
City Mayor's "Bus."
The Road to the Mayor, Enterprising China" - Striving for Mobile Art Museum Aesthetic Education Series Touring Exhibition, co-sponsored by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Poster Industry Group, jointly organized by Shanghai Science and Technology Art Education Center, Shanghai Art Museum of Baidai Art Museum and Jiemian News, and supported by SAIC-GM Buick brand. As the main project of the "Social Aesthetic Education" classroom, the "Struggle Mobile Art Museum" series of aesthetic education touring exhibitions launched the "City Mayor's Road, Enterprising China" tour exhibition on the basis of the successful holding of the "Road of Struggle, Enterprising China" tour exhibition in the first quarter of this year, so that "urban aesthetic education" can enter the public life, infiltrate, take root and inherit in the hearts of the general public, and create an aesthetic education classroom that the citizens love.
Create a red aesthetic education classroom and cultivate young people's belief in loving the party and the country.
The touring exhibition uses an art bus to create an immersive curatorial space, focusing on the "City Mayor-People's City Theme Art Exhibition", presenting 100 fine paintings of the "City Mayor" exhibition in a multi-leading form. Boarding the bus, classic red paintings such as "The Inauguration of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Building" and "Never Fading" come into view. The city landmarks and stories that the citizens are familiar with are doubly intimate in the mouths of the little narrators. This tour departs from Songjiang, Shanghai, and under the explanation of the little narrator, the stories behind the works are presented one by one. "The process of telling the story of the work has not only deepened my understanding of the city I live in, but also served the visitors, which is really a double win! Commentator Zhang Wenyue said.
A small docent guides the scene.
In order to reflect the educational significance of the "Struggle Mobile Art Museum" as a social aesthetic education classroom for young people, this season's tour has increased the proportion of primary and secondary schools, so that the art and culture of the "People's City" theme can be infiltrated and spread in the hearts of young students, and the passion and mission of creation will be injected into the dreams and growth of young people.
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Students take a group photo during the visit.
The tour also passed many red spots along the way. In the Oriental Green Boat Station, the Struggle Mobile Art Museum stops in front of the famous scenic spot of the scenic spot - the Red Army Footprints Memorial Park. The Red Army Footprints Memorial Park displays the footprints of 100 old Red Army soldiers, and engraves the names of the old Red Army and the time of leaving the seals, etc., in order to create a red education classroom and cultivate young people's patriotic beliefs in loving the party and the country. The red art and red culture of the bus complement each other, presenting a wonderful red culture and art feast for the public, and making the belief of loving the party and the country more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Many of the tourists are painting enthusiasts, and Lele is very interested in a painting depicting Lujiazui in Shanghai, he said: "This painting has given me a lot of creative inspiration, and I want to use a brush to depict my hometown of Shanghai in the future." ”
Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the development and change of the city and the transformation and revitalization of the town are stimulated, their patriotic enthusiasm is stimulated, and they are encouraged to actively participate in various community activities, and they are educated and guided to participate in community governance and devote themselves to daily study and life as masters.
Feel the story of the "city mayor" and integrate urban aesthetics into public life.
The content of the touring exhibition showcases the concept of "People's City" in artistic language, and tells the stories of "city mayors" in different eras through four parts, including "urban development, urban landmarks, urban people and urban life", so that the audience can understand the century-old changes of Shanghai through more diverse perspectives. In the paintings on display in this exhibition, many elements of Shanghai city are selected: the prosperity scene of Shanghai's rivers and rivers, the landscape of alleys depicting the fireworks of Shanghai, and the abundance of urban builders, etc., to explore the growth and diversity of urban development in the form of art.
Yan Wenliang, "The Completion of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Building".
Among them, Ding Xiaofang and Ding Yang's Chinese painting "One River and One River Exhibition New Look" uses traditional green landscapes to color, and incorporates Shanghai's "one river and one river", the Bund and Pudong into the picture from a panoramic perspective, and reproduces the most representative geographical and cultural landscape of Shanghai with a combination of freehand and realism, implying the city's past and present, as well as the endless Shanghai-style culture. In the presentation of modern digital technology, the prosperity of Shanghai's one river and one river (Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek) can be seen in full view.
Ding Xiaofang, Ding Yang, "A River and a River Exhibition New Look".
In Yang Yan's painting "Hometown", the artist extends his brushstrokes to the alleys of Shanghai. The Chinese paintings created by him focus on the alleys, depicting the unique urban fabric of Shanghai, and the picture paints an affectionate stroke for the alleys of Shanghai in the grand background of urban construction. On the picture, the large red roof of the alley contrasts with the modern buildings in the distance, just like the time rubbing of modern urban development, which is full of ideals and nostalgia.
So who are the architects of urban development? During the tour, I walked into Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and between the square inches of the carriage, Xiao Lin, a student of Jiao Tong University, found his own answer. She said that the theme of this exhibition is "urban growth", and among the many paintings, the paintings with people as the main body impressed her, including the portraits of sanitation workers and the works of urban "spider people", which make people feel that the little people are also one of the diverse builders of the city, and they are displayed in the form of paintings, which makes people feel very impactful.
Li Gen, "Urban Spider-Man".
Another painting depicting firefighters, "Courageous", was also well received by the public during this tour. The painter Xie Yu was deeply moved by the news that "a firefighter died in order to save others", and then created this painting to pay respect. The painting uses an inverted triangle composition and delicate brushstrokes to show the bravery of the firefighters at the scene of firefighting. In order to increase the sense of layering, the painter also added two barbed wire fences to strengthen the fearless spirit of the firefighters who are not afraid of difficulties.
Xie Yu "Go Forward".
Behind the transformation of the city is the hard work of generations of builders, and it is also the struggle of generations of builders who have the courage to explore, pioneer and innovate. By telling the story of the city's growth, citizens can feel the experience of the mayor of the city who coexists and prospers with the city, and walk towards beauty together.
"Walls Art Museum" allows art to enhance urban aesthetic education.
The "city mayor" bus shuttles through the streets and alleys of the city, becoming a beautiful scenery of the city. The mobile art museum allows citizens to realize the freedom to see exhibitions, and at the same time, it also makes urban aesthetic education ubiquitous. When the whole city of Shanghai becomes a "wallless art museum", only then can we achieve the integration of creativity, create a new highland of desirable quality life, and truly participate in the pursuit of a happy life by the people of Shanghai.
The 100 stations of the touring exhibition include many park stops, which were exhibited in Shanghai Fengxian Zhuangxing Suburban Agronomic Park for nearly half a day, and the artworks with diverse elements attracted hundreds of people to visit. Mr. Xu, a member of the public, said that the works on display in the exhibition resonated with him very much, "I have been working in Shanghai for more than 20 years, and I have personally participated in and deeply felt the rapid changes in Shanghai. Through this exhibition, we can more vividly experience the existence of this change and the expectation that Shanghai will get better and better. ”
In the Oriental Luzhou Scenic Area in Qingpu District, Shanghai, Xiao Xu, a Huawei employee, had a lot of insights after visiting the "Struggle Mobile Art Museum" series of aesthetic education tours. He said that as a staff member who had just arrived in Shanghai and was participating in the construction of Huawei's Qingpu R&D center, he found a sense of belonging to the builders through his paintings.
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Art has an important value in enhancing urban aesthetic education, promoting urban construction, and nourishing people's aesthetics and values. Liu Zihui, curator of the tour and director of Shanghai Art Museum, said: "Through the tour, we have made the art museum break the circle, connect more closely with the city, and let the public have zero contact with art. ”
It is reported that from 2021 to 2025, Shanghai Art Museum plans to carry out a series of aesthetic education exhibitions of "Struggle" every year in combination with the theme of the times in the past five years, and continue to bring high-quality cultural benefits to the people in the innovative form of the art bus "Struggle Mobile Art Museum", and continue to deepen the implementation of the social aesthetic education plan. In the future, the project will continue to carry out new touring exhibitions, and the third part of the Struggle Series Aesthetic Education Exhibition, "Mountains and Rivers - Lucid Waters and Green Mountains Theme Art Exhibition" has been launched.