The tiger, as the king of the hundred beasts, is a masterpiece of creation that has survived the long and desolate era. Its majestic appearance, majestic bones, colorful fur and temperament to shock all beings are revered by the world as a symbol of strength and majesty. In Chinese culture, tiger culture is one of the earliest totem cultures that originated, which expresses people's eternal wish to use the power of the tiger to drive away evil spirits and protect peace.
Coinciding with the Year of the Tiger, the National Museum carefully selected dozens of cultural relics related to tigers and held the "Tiggo You'an - 2022 Chinese New Year Exhibition", which respectively showed the festivals and customs related to tigers from the aspects of faith and etiquette, history and culture, and artistic life. In addition, the exhibition also exhibits a number of contemporary artists' New Year's Celebrations and calligraphy and painting works to show the new chapter of the times and the beautiful wishes for the New Year. This edition of the exhibition will share the first part of the exhibition.
Fu Hu is auspicious
Yang and cloth gas, spring run north window. In the rapidly changing years, the tiger entered people's lives from the mountains and forests, becoming an indispensable aesthetic image, and its image also appeared in the solemn temples, the study rooms of the literati and ordinary daily utensils. Tiger culture does not simply simulate the shape of a tiger, but conveys certain cultural information and aesthetic views in the form of shape and meaning. For example, Chinese painting, since its birth, the tiger has been incorporated into the depiction objects by which the painter expresses along with figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc.
Tan Fei - Tiger half a day idle
The cultural connotation of the tiger is constantly enriched, whether it is the "Tiger Ben Three Thousand" of the Wu King, or the "Adult Tiger Change" in "Yi", which highlights the unique status of the tiger in people's hearts. Among the hundred beasts, Chinese especially love tigers, and in today's trend culture, painters still have fun in painting tigers, which is the continuation of this stubbornness of aesthetic consciousness.
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Luo Xiang - Yingchun
It can be said that tiger culture is an art closely related to life, and in the eyes of artists, there is both the pride of "swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger" and the dashing and graceful spirit of "white tiger shaking and phoenix blowing". It is a historical precipitation from the ancient period, which has gone through many periods of human historical development, and also carries people's pursuit and yearning for life.
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Liu Wanming - Shan Jun is idle
The exhibition exhibited a number of Chinese paintings with the theme of tigers, and the painters used the image of the tiger to convey love and blessings, express hope and affection. The fierce tiger will in the painting is not without losing benevolence, bravery and gentleness, and the flexible and fluffy plush stripes are wonderful and natural, showing a unique high-end and elegant feeling in the majestic.
Li Shizuo - "Tiger" Axis (Qing)
Horse Negative Chart - "Cliff Milk Tiger Diagram" Axis (Qing)
Cui Dong xiang Shan He
With the change of the times and the continuous development of painting art, the combination of cultural elements based on the background of the times and the brush and ink of Chinese painting has enabled some works with the symbolic significance of the times to be produced. The pursuit of spiritual connotation in paintings is no longer the same as in ancient times, mostly the sustenance of simple idealistic feelings, but the sense of the world with painting, and more practical significance in the changes of lines and colors, at the same time, the extraordinary brushstrokes also fit the painter's hope for a better tomorrow.
Choi Dong-Ho - Qiu He
Cui Dongxiang, graduated from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Arts, majoring in Chinese landscape painting, with a master's degree in fine arts, the first visiting scholar of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, once worked at the Education and Training Center of the National Academy of Painting of China, and is now a researcher at the National Museum of China, a professional painter of the Research and Creation Center of Calligraphy and Painting Art, a national first-class artist, and a member of the China Artists Association. He has published "Cui Dongxiang Painting Collection", "Cui Dongxiang Landscape Painting Collection", "Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts Works Collection - Cui Dongxiang Works" and so on.
Cui Dongxiang is good at expressing the landscape situation with "jiaomo", and the depiction of the landscape is not only simple in shape and free with the pen, but also able to present the soul of the landscape with a simple, rough and strong painting style with a very personal freehand spirit and technique.
Cui Donghuan - Rong Winter and Spring Map
Cui Donghuan - Plateau Spring Color
The works of Cui Dongxiang exhibited in this exhibition are heavily painted in the in-depth portrayal of the new era and the new chapter. The mood of spring in the painting is proud and unworldly, and the vitality of early spring is fully presented at the end of the pen. Behind the context is the endless life of the human network, the flesh and bones of the blood are connected, from the Yamada Hidetsui of "Melting Winter and Welcoming Spring" to the local greenery of "Plateau Spring Color", from the cave silver of "Welcoming Spring Snow on the Loess Plateau" to the red ink of "Chinese Red on Helan Mountain", one place and one color, jagged and connected. The land of China, the splendid mountains and rivers, in Cui Donghuan's pen is clear and clear, between the square inches, panoramic view of the New Year in Shenzhou.
Cui Dongxiang - Spring snow on the Loess Plateau
Cui Dongxiang - Chinese red on Helan Mountain
Ma Shuo Shan Sheng Xiang
Chinese painting is the most representative art category of the Chinese nation, but also one of the important carriers of China's long-standing traditional culture, its quiet and broad condensed the aesthetic concepts and ideological realms that the sons and daughters of China have been consistent for thousands of years. Based on the needs of modern aesthetics, contemporary painters have also continuously explored and innovated in traditional brush and ink, presenting the distinctive characteristics of Chinese painting given by the times in a more novel and unique form of expression.
Ma Shuo Shan - Wangdi Chunxin to Cuckoo
Ma Shuo Mountain - Lily Forget Worry Grass
Ma Shuoshan, who studied at the Studio of China Academy of Art, CENTRAL American and The National Academy of Painting of China, is now a full-time painter of the Calligraphy and Painting Academy of the National Museum of China, a member of the China Artists Association, a director of the Chinese Painting Society, and a tutor of the Ma Shuoshan Studio of the Painting Institute of Chinese Min University.
Ma Shuoshan's works can not only be retracted and relaxed freely in composition and technique, but also can be adjusted in rhyme and situation. Smooth lines and warm colors are the aesthetic concepts given to him by traditional painting, but while drawing on tradition, Ma Shuoshan also interprets his own semantics with his works - in addition to appealing to the taste of pen and ink, he also emphasizes the naturalness of ecology, and then gives contemporary Chinese painting a return to the real look.
Ma Shuo Mountain - red cherry, green plantain
Ma Shuo Mountain - Spring Breeze March Green Plantain
Ma Shuo Mountain - Iron Thousand Copper Skin Resistant to Wind and Snow
Xiangrui culture, including tiger culture, is an important source of materials for Chinese artistic creation. Whether it is the blessing of the tiger that carries the beautiful message, or the style of the times behind the love of the landscape, it is the profound impact of cultural development on the direction of art. At present, spring is full of spring, the landscape is renewed, and in addition to pen and ink, it is still people's praise for vitality and yearning for a happy life.
Tiggo You'an - 2022 National Expo New Year Exhibition, we will meet again in the next issue.
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