Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Zhu Shaojie
A few days ago, the Yangcheng Evening News reporter learned that feng Shaoxie, vice president of the Guangdong Academy of Painting, oil painting "Member of the Communist Party of China - Zhong Nanshan" Following the permanent collection of the National Art Museum of China, the artist accepted the invitation to create the same work again, which is currently in the permanent collection of the National Museum of China.
In fact, this work also had a relationship with the National Museum of China before: in 2020, in the "Unity of Purpose - Anti-epidemic Theme Art Works Exhibition" held by the National Museum, "Zhong Nanshan, a member of the Communist Party of China - Zhong Nanshan" was displayed in the most conspicuous position at the entrance of the exhibition hall.
Since then, the National Art Museum of China has held the "Great Journey, Picture Scroll of the Times - Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China Art Works Exhibition", "Beauty in Science and Technology - Exhibition of Fine Art Works on Science and Technology Collected by the National Art Museum of China", "Beauty in Cultivation - New Year Exhibition of the National Art Museum of China", and "Centennial Fanghua - Exhibition of Centennial Party History in Art Classics" held by the Propaganda Department of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China. The work has been featured in several major exhibitions.
Feng Shaoxie is known for his realistic oil painting portraits. He is good at exploring and revealing social reality through his works, drawing and showing the spiritual connotation of characters through details.
The huge oil painting "Member of the Communist Party of China - Zhong Nanshan" is a re-creation inspired by Feng Shaoxie's news footage. Feng Shaoxie said that at the moment of fighting the epidemic and in the face of disasters, the great spirit of Academician Zhong Nanshan who dared to take responsibility and did his duty touched countless Chinese people, and it was this kind of touch that made him create this work.
"I have paid attention to this work a long time ago," said Academician Zhong Nanshan, seeing this painting, his thoughts also returned to the anti-epidemic scene in Wuhan, when the epidemic was very severe, and his mood was also very anxious, "This work painted me more haggard, but it truthfully reflected the situation at that time."
Up to now, he has created a total of four works of the same title, two large and two small. Two of them, 2.3 meters wide and 1.8 meters high, are collected by the National Art Museum of China and the National Museum of China, and the other two are 0.9 meters wide and 0.7 meters high, which are collected by Academician Zhong Nanshan himself and the Shanghai Baidai Art Museum.