Co-sponsored by the Editorial Board of the Contemporary Public Art Series and the China Academy of Sculpture Art, and undertaken by the Propaganda Department of the Qilin District Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Zhujie Street Working Committee of the Qilin District Committee of the Communist Party of China Qujing City, the academic seminar on "Red Cultural Tourism in the Southwest Region and Public Art in the Construction of Beautiful Villages" was successfully held in Qujing City, Yunnan Province at the end of 2023. The highlight of the event was Mr. Ho Paulsen's donation of masterpieces with a total value of 3.85 million personal creations and collections to return to his hometown, and the "Long March - Red Ribbon of the Earth" sculpture created by him was officially unveiled. 
Experts, scholars and guests attending the meeting were: He Baosen, Su Shishu, Feng Xiaoping, Fu Zhigang, Lu Jing, Wang Sucheng, Zhang Jingzhai, Zeng Yafei, Qiao Qian, Du Tongjian, Xu Jing, Chen Gaojiao, Wen Shan, Xu Yongtao, Fang Yan, Liu Baohe, He Yuchun, Zhu Hongwu, Liu Hong, Zheng Hongchang, Yao Mengdie, He Huanu, Xu Feng and Li Mengru. The staff and volunteers who served the conference were: Li Zhicheng, Mai Haiming, Xu Xianjie, He Xian, Wang Wenyu, Lu Shaoshuai, Tian Enyin, Chen Chen, Yin Wenqian, Liu Runling, Niu Xiaoling, etc.
Relevant leaders of Qilin District, Zhujie Street, and Yongquan Village in Qujing City. Wan Bo, deputy secretary of the Qilin District Party Committee of Qujing City, and Jun Jiahong, member of the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee and director of the Propaganda Department of the District Party Committee, introduced the population, history and culture, and industrial development of Qilin District to the guests. I welcomed the arrival of the experts and teachers, and thanked all the guests for their concern for the development of the local red cultural tourism and rural industry. 
Professor Qian Qian of North China University of Technology served as the academic host of the meeting, and he believed that the southwest region has a long history and rich culture, and public art has an important role in promoting and broad development space in the current red cultural tourism and rural beautiful construction. Rural revitalization has become the core of the national strategy, and the combination of the activation of red cultural resources and rural revitalization has far-reaching significance and value. It is necessary to fully excavate, organize and make good use of red cultural resources, develop characteristic rural tourism, ecological tourism and red tourism, and promote the prosperity of the industry. Feng Xiaoping, director of the Renovation Center of the Ministry of Land and Resources, made a policy interpretation from the aspects of land use and urban and rural planning; Fu Zhigang, head of the Rural Revitalization Office of the Career Development Center of the Red Cross Society of China, believes that this meeting is another important activity carried out along the Long March after the launch of the "Red Cultural Tourism to Help Rural Revitalization" project in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province in November 2023. Lu Jing, director of the Public Art Department of the China Architectural Culture Center of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that it is necessary to strengthen ecological construction and promote the green ecological development of rural areas with the inheritance and promotion of red culture. Attaching great importance to the characteristic resource of red culture, on the basis of repair and protection, scientific and rational development and utilization, create economic value, improve the quality of life of villagers, and truly realize the goal of harmonious and beautiful villages; Du Tongjian, executive vice president of China Academy of Sculpture Art, made a key speech on "Red Cultural Tourism Helps the Construction of Beautiful Villages, Public Art Promotes Rural Revitalization and Development", analyzed the relationship between red culture and beautiful rural construction, the importance of public art to help rural revitalization, and put forward relevant ideas and suggestions. Experts and scholars such as He Yuchun, Xu Jing, and Liu Hong also made speeches respectively. 
At the donation ceremony, He Baosen said in an exchange with some universities and art teachers in primary and secondary schools in Yunnan Province that it is necessary to let the students see more authentic works of famous artists and feel the charm of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy.
At the donation ceremony.
The guests took the children to learn in the exhibition of donated works.
Mr. Su Shishu took a photo with the guests.
Mr. He Baosen** and former chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association Su Shishu said at the event ceremony that Mr. He's rigorous work, dedication to study, and enthusiasm for education are admirable, and he hopes that more people will understand Mr. He's works of light and ink.
He Baosen's donated works (painted by Wu Zuoren).
He Baosen's donated works (He Baosen paintings).
He Baosen's donated works (He Baosen paintings).
He Baosen donated works (Huang Zhou painting).
At the same time, the large-scale sculpture "Long March - Red Ribbon of the Earth" created and designed by Mr. He Baosen was also officially unveiled. The inauguration ceremony of the sculpture was held in Zhu Street, Qilin District, Qujing, Yunnan Province.
More than 60 calligraphy and painting art experts and scholars from Beijing, Liaoning, Hebei, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Yunnan and other places discussed the research on the sculpture and light and ink painting of Mr. He Baosen, a red cultural tourism.
Light and ink painting——
Light and ink painting - the brightest star in the time and space of Chinese painting
In recent years, Mr. He Baosen, a famous painter, sculptor and art educator in China, has devoted himself to decades of research - light and ink painting has attracted the attention and report of more than 40 news outlets across the country. At the same time, He Baosen's light and ink painting exhibition was also continuously held in Beijing, Liaoning, Hebei and other places. This has become a focal point in the painting circles of our country.
From "coloring with class" to "coloring with light", light and ink painting stirs up thousands of waves with one stone!
With the kind of color, the thousand-year-old dead knot of Chinese painting; With the light and color, the style of modern art of Chinese painting is also opened. ”
The concept of "light and ink" was first put forward by He Baosen in China's painting circles through his decades of creative practice.
In an interview with reporters, He Baosen said that although in modern times, Qi Baishi and others used heavy color ink and wash to combine, but at that time, Chinese painting was always difficult to get rid of the black and white fate of ink painting, and it was believed that Chinese painting could only be a black and white world, and it was impossible to have a colorful effect. Chinese painting once went to a "dead end" of art, and even had the worry of becoming an "intangible cultural heritage".
The development and innovation of Chinese painting is the "topic of the century" to be answered in the 21st century. Based on Chinese ink painting techniques, He Baosen integrated the concept of "light" in Western painting into one, opening a new chapter in Chinese painting in the 21st century.
Light and ink painting is known as the "color revolution of Chinese painting".
Light and ink painting has created the "light and ink painting" technique in the 21st century, which has both the charm of Chinese ink painting and the beauty of Western oil painting, and has become a peak on the road of integration between China and the West, promoting the transformation of contemporary Chinese painting. As a result, light and ink painting is also known as the "color revolution of Chinese painting".
In the fifties of the last century, Master He Baosen was admitted to the ** Academy of Arts and Crafts, and successively studied in the Department of Ceramics and the Department of Sculpture, following Mr. Zheng Ke, a modern craftsman and sculptor who studied in France, and was the founder of the Academy of Fine Arts.
1. Qi Baishi is proud of Mr. Zhang Ding and other famous artists who have been able to improve in art.
So,How do you create a light and ink painting?
First of all, the first step of the "light and ink" painting method is to copy Western oil paintings with rice paper, brushes and Chinese paints, which is interpreted by Master Ho Po Sen as "translation lin". The color of Western painting went through several stages from low to high: flat painting, mixing, blending, and even developing to break away from the palette and adjust the colors on the picture, such as "pointillism", that is, "juxtaposition". Master He Baosen has taken another step forward and created the "light spelling method" of Chinese painting, which cannot but be said to be a great contribution to Chinese painting.
Secondly, oil painting is painted on canvas, and watercolor and gouache painting is painted on paper. The pigment of the oil painting is not transparent, it can only be covered and cannot be overlapped. In order to produce brilliance in the picture, the oil painting cleverly uses the juxtaposition method to combine blue and red colors to give people a purple visual experience, and yellow and blue together to give a green visual sense. After years of practice, Mr. He has used the rich brushwork of Chinese painting, such as striking, dyeing, dotting and hooking, interweaving and overlapping on the picture many times, so that the picture has both brilliance and a sense of heaviness, which can not be done by any kind of painting. Therefore, Mr. He's "light spelling" is an epoch-making contribution to Chinese painting.
After years of practice, Mr. He Baosen has applied the most difficult light ink in Chinese painting to the extreme, supplementing the ink with color, covering the color with ink, and coloring in the ink, which can completely surpass the "high-grade gray" of Western painting. The rice paper and brushes used in "light and ink painting" are unique to China, and its painting method is irreplaceable by any kind of painting, as Master He said: "Western painting is painted by the painter on paper and cloth, and Chinese painting is "grown" from rice paper.
Why does light and ink painting cause a sensation in the industry and enjoy such high praise?
Mr. Chen Xiaoxin, a well-known art critic and art critic, commented: "The light and ink painting method, from the standpoint analysis, is to break through the gap between Chinese and Western paintings, especially traditional Chinese ink painting, and Western (European) 'Outer Light School' and 'Impressionist' painting (including oil painting, watercolor, and watercolor painting). Only after breaking through the barriers can we truly complement each other's weaknesses and be inclusive, integrate the high-quality elements of the two systems on the same plane (or rice paper or cloth), and create a new artistic conception and new artistic effect. At the same time, it has opened up a new space for the development of ink painting art - all of which have now been truly and vividly reflected in Mr. Ho Po Sen's paintings. ”
He Baosen, born in 1938, is a famous painter, sculptor and art educator in China. He used to be the chairman of the China Arts and Crafts Sculpture Professional Committee and the head of the old professors' group of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University. He Lao can be said to be full of peach and plum all over the world, and has cultivated dozens of well-known calligraphers and painters in China, including Su Shishu, the former chairman of the Chinese Calligraphy Association.
In recent years, He Lao designed the mural of "Painted Pottery Art" for the Ziguang Pavilion in Zhongnanhai and created the statue of Li Dazhao for the "Li Dazhao Memorial Hall", which was well received. In 1999, he won the Golden Dragon Award for World Outstanding Sculpture Masters of the Hong Kong (Overseas) Literary Artists Association.
Since the 80s of the last century, He Baosen has specialized in the combination of Chinese and Western paintings"Light and ink painting——"law, participated in four sessions"China Art Fair"His works have attracted wide attention at home and abroad. As a result, light and ink painting is also known as the "color revolution of Chinese painting".