Shen Xichun related events

Min Chinese painting Shen Xichun 100th anniversary of his birth was held

On the morning of December 17, 2010, supported by the China National Academy of Painting, China Fine Arts Publishing House (People's Fine Arts Publishing House), Rongbaozhai Painting Institute, the Fujian Provincial Artists Association, Fuzhou Painting Institute, hosted the "commemorative symposium on the centenary of the birth of the great Shen Xichun Chinese painting "held in Beijing hotel. Zhang Kefui, vice chairman of the tenth CPPCC National Committee, Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Executive Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Taiwan League of Nations, Wang Yifu, former Minister of commerce, Fujian governor Hu Ping, Fujian provincial CPPCC Vice Chairman Chen Yun, President of the China national academy of painting, vice chairman of the Chinese artists association, Yang xiaoyang, deputy editor-in-chief of the people's fine arts publishing house, Lin Yang, executive vice president of the Rongbaozhai painting academy, Tang Hui, vice president of the art association of fujian province, secretary-general of the Wang Laiwen, Fuzhou Wang Heping, President of Fuzhou Painting Institute, Shao Dazhen, Chen Chuanxi, Chen drunk, Luo Shiping, Cui Zimo, Cheng Dali, Yao Shaohua, Liu Mo, Han Ke, Zhang Jianping, Wang Jingzhi, Lao Pu, Shen Yidan, Liu Shangyong, Zeng Gang, Zhang Jingzhi, Wu Qiuyu, Chen Yuliang, Yin Ran and other experts in the field of art, critics, painters, as well as the leadership of the hometown of Shen Xichun, his deceased family members, friends and relatives * * * more than 120 people gathered together. *** with the remembrance of Mr. Shen Xichun just brilliant life, sorting out and discussing Mr. Shen Xichun art concept and outstanding artistic achievements.

Experts at the meeting said, Mr. Shen Xichun is the birth of new China after the birth of the Fujian painting world can be called a veteran figure, is an important representative of the "Min school" painters, Republic of China that is the most influential national painters in Fujian, Fujian liberation of the art of national painting is one of the organizers of the inaugural period, once for the prosperity of the art of Fujian made an important contribution. He has made important contributions to the prosperity of art in Fujian. Shen Lao from the art of more than 80 years, his art style to hometown Zhaoan painting school of the sages as the basis, integration of the essence of the sea painting school, Lingnan school of painting, the strengths of all schools of thought, adhere to the outside of the creation of the new, outstanding self-reliance. He has experienced a lot of difficulties and bumps in his life, but he did not give in to adversity, and remained passionate and committed to the pursuit of art. He emphasized the ideas of "inherit the tradition, learn from the master, take the strengths of the predecessors, draw the source of life, and then grind, comprehend, create, and mark the new", which are still of great practical significance today. He has trained many excellent students and elites in the art world, and is y loved by his students and juniors.

Experts at the meeting believe that Shen Lao has been working hard in the field of Chinese painting for more than 80 years, and his artistic practice has achieved fruitful results. As the patriarch of Fuzhou Painting Academy, he has done a lot of fruitful work in the prosperity of art creation, promoting the study of Chinese painting, uniting painters and serving the public. He inherited the tradition and continued to innovate, leaving a valuable spiritual and cultural wealth for the people, which has been recognized by the leaders of the Party and the State, as well as provincial and municipal leaders at all levels, and won the respect of his peers at home and abroad, and at the same time, added glory to the Fujian painting world. Organize this activity, will allow the national art community on Shen's superb art and full of bold and righteous life have a further understanding and awareness, but also to further promote exchanges and development of art in Fujian and the country, and further expand the development of the art of the creative potential of the main creative space, *** with the cause of the art of the Chinese nation to add bricks and mortar.

Chen Yun, vice chairman of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, in his speech, especially pointed out that Mr. Shen Xichun is a moral and artistic, compassionate and heroic artists, educators. Since he was young, he has the ideal, pursuit, full of heroic righteousness, early in life, actively engaged in the progressive movement, and as a result, behind bars; his life is as vicious as hatred, upright and honest, to paint the brush as a gun to join the anti-Japanese salvation, at the expense of his family's wealth; he loves students like a son, devoted to cultivate the later show, the high students, full of peaches and plums; he is indifferent to fame and fortune, advocating simplicity, but all the activities that are conducive to the country's national, are actively involved in. After liberation, despite years of unfair treatment, he did not give in to adversity, always embracing the patriotism and love for the people, love of the hometown of the feelings of the heart. In his later years, Shen was concerned about the unification of the motherland and actively promoted cross-strait exchanges. Many of his paintings, such as "Transmission of Sound by Wild Geese" and "Sole Shadow of Autumn", expressed his wish to be in touch with the Straits, and in 1998, at the age of nearly ninety, he personally led a delegation to Taipei to hold an exhibition of his paintings, which created a great reaction in Taiwan and made his own contribution to cross-strait exchanges. As a member of the China Democratic League, he has been a lifelong lover of the motherland, the people, and the pursuit of democracy and progress, and is a good friend of the Chinese ****anization Party. When Comrade Xiang Nan worked in Fujian, he appreciated Shen's character and personality, praising him for "painting the earth, his life for the people".

In accordance with Mr. Shen Xichun's wishes, family representatives announced at the symposium will donate and sell some of Mr. Shen Xichun boutique set up "Shen Xichun art education fund", the first batch of 2 million yuan donations will be used as a bursary fund for many years of Shen's old life, working in Wuyishan, the poverty-stricken students.

After the symposium was held "to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Shen Xichun national painting boutique retrospective" opening ceremony, Zhang Kefai, Wang Yifu, Hu Ping, Chen Yun, Yang Xiaoyang for the exhibition to cut the ribbon. This "fine retrospective" selected Mr. Shen Xichun different periods of more than 60 representative works, showing his 80 years of artistic achievements, will be held for two consecutive days in Beijing hotel boat art museum.

Chinese *** Central Committee Standing Committee, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Jia Qinglin, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the *** Central Committee of the National People's Congress Vice-Chairman Wang Zhaoguo, Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of Fujian Province Liang Qiping, member of the Central Committee of the National People's Congress Standing Committee of the Chinese National People's Party Shen Qingguang, etc. for the event presented a flower blue.

Ouyang Xijun, deputy director and secretary-general of the art appraisal committee of the art center of the Ministry of culture: Mr. Shen Xichun is one of the founders of the Fuzhou painting institute, "Zhao'an school of painting" fourth generation of the master, is the "Min school" of painters of the elder representative, is the modern Zhao'an school of painting (the modern school of painting). Modern Zhaoan school of painting (Min school) of Chinese painting outstanding representative. 1933 graduated from Shanghai Xinhua art college, in 1937 its works were selected "Chinese ancient and modern famous paintings", in 1947 personal biography and paintings were included in China's modern art history of the first chronicle "Chinese art yearbook", become the most influential painters in fujian during the republic of fujian. His works are a blend of the essence of the Maritime School and the Lingnan School of Painting, and he is unique in painting "live tigers", and he is also known for his majestic landscapes, novel flower compositions, and realistic fish, insects, eagles, and cranes, which have made him famous in the painting world and in China and abroad. He is a realist, and is good at semi-realism and large-scale capitalism, with a long history of birds and flowers, grasses and insects, as well as landscapes and figures. His works are a combination of the "Lingnan" and "Two Rivers" styles of painting, and he organically combines the modeling of Western painting with the ink and brushwork, mood, and interest of Chinese painting, creating a new type of Chinese painting, with strong artistic characteristics and a strong artistic sense. His artistic characteristics are strong, his art has great significance in the country, and his achievements have been fully evaluated, fully valued and fully respected. From Fujian painting and calligraphy in the recently held Fujian Jiade calligraphy and painting collection auction, the late Shen Xichun's works of old painters "cloudy mountains" sold for 240,000 yuan, heralding the value of the Min School of painting and calligraphy located in the "depressions of value" began to return steadily. Can see Shen Xichun's works have a lot of room for appreciation. The wind" and other 6 works were sold for more than 300,000 yuan, auction proceeds of more than 2 million yuan, set up "Shen Xichun art education fund", the first batch of 2 million yuan donations will be funded by Shen old life and work for many years of Wuyi mountain area of poor students. "Virtue and art, compassion and vitality" these eight words are the experts on the Shen Xichun in the field of Chinese painting and Chinese art education for more than 80 years of hard work in the field of deep recognition and heartfelt gratitude.

Fan Dian, director of the National Art Museum of China and vice chairman of the China Artists Association: Mr. Shen Xichun studied painting in the early 20th century, especially in Shanghai Xinhua Art College, where he was instructed by many famous artists, had a broad cultural vision, and well formed the method of creation of both learning from the tradition and experiencing the life, so he was active in the Chinese painting world as early as the first half of the 20th century, and was recognized in the painting world at that time. His art is characterized by, firstly, a combination of the traditional and the living. His art is characterized by a good integration of brushstrokes and brushstrokes. From his brushwork paintings, you can see the atmosphere of literati in his brushstrokes, and in his brushstrokes of flowers, tigers, and other subjects, you can see the good modeling. It is an important feature of his art that he is able to be well integrated in both the brushwork and the realistic fields. Secondly, his works have a distinctive Fujian painting tradition and cultural tradition. As early as the Ming and Qing dynasties, Fujian painters created a particularly dynamic style of modeling, forming the influence of Fujian painting style on the national painting style. Shen Xichun has inherited this dynamic modeling style very well. From his works, you can clearly see a very lively and vibrant scene, the picture is very active, and very well conveyed the breath of life and weather of nature. Thirdly, he has always been firm in his artistic beliefs. Despite having been treated unfairly, no matter how many ups and downs he experienced in life, whether in the provincial capital Fuzhou or in Wuyi Mountain, he always insisted on creating artworks and organized many activities with many painters of the older generation, creating a large number of excellent works that enriched the regional vein and outlook of Fujian.

Professor Shao Dazhen, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Department of Art History of the Central Academy of Fine Arts: Mr. Shen Xichun is a typical representative of his generation of intellectuals and painters. He came to the painting world after the May Fourth Movement by accepting the art education of combining Chinese and Western arts. After accepting the education of Chinese and Western arts, he endeavored to study the traditions, brush and ink, and cultural traditions, and gave full play to his individuality by combining the modeling of Western painting and the brush and ink, mood, and sentiment of Chinese painting to create a novel Chinese painting, so his art is very distinctive, and his art has a national significance. His achievements should be fully evaluated, fully valued and fully honored by us. Western painting pays attention to modeling, Chinese painting pays attention to writing, mood, and style, the integration of these two is originally very difficult, but Mr. Shen Xichun has made achievements worthy of our respect and admiration in this regard. His works include ink paintings, brush paintings, and heavy color paintings, and in the ink, there is the literati's written ink and a great deal of use of bright colors. It is very difficult to use color in Chinese ink painting, generally focusing on the elegance of ink, but Mr. Shen has made many bold attempts to experiment with color in some of his ink paintings and come up with another artistic effect, which is creative. He did a great deal of work on the use of color in Chinese ink paintings. Mr. Shen suffered a lot of setbacks in his life, but he always maintained a spirit of compassion, a spirit of love for mankind and nature, no matter in good or bad times. Therefore, Mr. Shen is an artist who should not be buried, and we should carry forward his spirit and inherit his artistic skills. This is of positive significance to the development of contemporary Chinese painting.

Professor Chen Chuanxi, doctoral supervisor of Renmin University of China: Mr. Shen Xichun is not only a painter, but also an aspirant, a person who has built up a career, a person of high morality, a person of spirit and backbone, a man of letters. The ancients said "painting to people, do not want people to paintings". Mr. Shen is painting by people, because he is more important than painting. Mr. Shen as a painter is very accomplished, he learned to paint when he was less than ten years old, very talented; in his teens, he went to Shantou, Xiamen Art College to study, and later went to Shanghai to study, he learned painting from masters such as Pan Tianshou, Zhu Wenyun, and so on, and we can see from his paintings that he learned from the Hai School, Yun Nantian, Yangzhou Eight Monsters, and Yun Nantian in particular, there are obvious traces in the paintings, which is a true collection of the strengths of the people. Mr. Shen Xichun painted landscapes, figures, birds and flowers, and animals very well, but I think his figures are the best. Mr. Shen Xichun's paintings of tigers and eagles are a manifestation of his ideology and feelings, a sense of responsibility for the country and the nation. The older generation of traditional intellectuals have a strong sense of responsibility for the country and the culture of the nation, which is worth learning from the next generation. We should not only learn from Mr. Shen Xichun's artistic spirit of exploration and his multi-talent, but also learn from his sense of responsibility to the country and the people as a traditional intellectual, as well as the spirit of temperament and backbone.

National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China Academy of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, doctoral supervisor Professor Chen Drunk: Mr. Shen Xichun, although the younger generation is not familiar with, but re-look at his works, leaving me a very deep impression. The first and most important thing that impressed me the most is the spirit of struggle and perseverance of the older generation of artists who made their mark in the 1930s and 1940s. Secondly, Mr. Shen Xichun gave us a good example in terms of painting quality, and an even more important example in terms of personality to the youth of future generations. Chinese painting is about painting and character, Mr. Shen Xichun such character is worth setting as a model. Thirdly, his paintings are as wonderful as his character, and are tightly integrated with his character and painting. His paintings reflect a patriotic heart and a strong sense of worry. For example, his paintings of tigers and lions reflect his patriotic feelings, his attitude towards the national tragedy, his resentment towards the invaders, and his hope for the awakening of our nation. His tiger paintings are very weighty, giving people the feeling that although the paintings are on rice paper, they can't be picked up and are very heavy, which is his pen and ink style. Fourthly, he paints a very wide range of subjects, from his landscape paintings, flower and bird paintings you can see the deep traditional work, the training he received and his own creativity can be reflected. Moreover, there is a little more color and variation than tradition. This is his progress and contribution to Chinese painting. Fifthly, he is able to follow the times and develop well with the times***.

Professor Luo Shiping, doctoral supervisor and professor of art history at the Central Academy of Fine Arts: After seeing Mr. Shen Xichun's paintings, I have two big feelings: first, one of the outstanding impressions of Mr. Shen's paintings is that there is a spirit of vastness and "compassion" in his paintings. Hao Ran Qi comes from the traditional morale, only in the traditional Chinese scholar class can Hao Ran Qi as righteousness, which in Mr. Shen's works, poems, in his life experience is fully embodied. "For learning more and more, for the Tao of loss", in the art of this "Tao", Mr. Shen from his hometown to Lingnan, Shanghai, the whole process along with the process of China's one hundred years, are completing a conscientious painter in the "Tao" above the cultivation. Mr. Shen has completed the cultivation of a conscientious painter on the "Tao". Despite the impacts from different aspects at different stages, his conviction never wavered. In his later years, this vitality still existed, and it was still pure vitality. This is the spirit of China, which is fully embodied in him. Secondly, the spirit of the times is reflected in his paintings and his art. He is an outstanding representative of a very important group of people in the beginning stage of China's transition from traditional painting to modern painting. His growth process is an important stage in the modern process of modern Chinese painting. He has made it his goal to find a new path for the development of traditional culture, taking into account how art develops with the changes of the times, how traditional art can be integrated into the tide of world culture, and how traditional art can be developed to a greater depth. There are many new things in Shen's works, and his exploration with a sense of responsibility for the times is fully reflected in his paintings. He has learned many new things in different times, and has kept close to the times. In his paintings, there are both the regional characteristics of Fujian place and the process of his artistic practice, as well as the various experiments of traditional painting towards modernization. Therefore, Mr. Shen Xichun is a painter who can be observed in the history of modern China for a hundred years. I think he should be well studied.

Lin Yang, deputy editor-in-chief of China Fine Arts Publishing House, calligrapher and art critic: Mr. Shen Xichun is not only a painter, but also a national fighter with a sense of social responsibility and justice. During the war, Mr. Shen as a painter donated a large number of paintings, which contributed to the national war. Mr. Shen specializes in bird and flower painting, and also do landscape, figure, especially good at painting tigers. His tiger paintings are so lifelike and subtle that they give people a positive and vigorous spirit. Moreover, I feel that his tigers can be painted differently according to his own state of mind, which is rare among general painters. The tigers he painted in the 1930s and 1940s were majestic and powerful, which had a certain symbolic meaning and showed the determination and confidence of China's resistance to the war, while the tigers he created on the eve of 1949 expressed his longing for a new China, and the "Ci Huai Hao Qi" he created in 1988 embodied a painter's attitude towards society and life. I feel that this tiger painting carries a sense of love, and in today's words, it is a "harmonious society". In this regard, Mr. Shen had a forward-looking consciousness. The People's Fine Arts Publishing House's publication of Shen Xichun's Collected Paintings is of positive significance. First of all, the excellent works of art to pass on, infecting more people. Secondly, it is conducive to carry forward the spirit of the old generation of artists indifferent to fame and fortune, and set a kind of example of consistency in appearance.

Tang Hui, executive vice president of Rongbaozhai Painting Institute, famous painter, art critic: a look at Mr. Shen Xichun works, feel very powerful. He has his own goal in the exploration of Chinese painting, has its own pursuit, formed a personal style and spirit. This spirit is exactly what impresses us. There is a great need for us to promote the old generation of painters like Shen Lao. I hope, in the art world can form such a trend, eyes not only focus on a few so-called masters, giants, but also on Mr. Shen Xichun such a generation of artists and educators who have the pursuit of art, their contribution is the greatest. Mr. Shen created a very rich subject matter, landscape, birds and flowers, people are good at, especially birds and flowers painting level is very high. Fujian flower and bird painting as a whole is relatively strong, and there is a tradition, which can be seen in Mr. Shen's works. His tiger painting is indeed as everyone said, not showing a personality, but showing all aspects of the tiger's personality, very distinctive and accomplished, the tiger's demeanor is very rich, dynamic and diverse, with a human touch, with a kind of painter's feelings in it.

Yao Shaohua, vice president of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Celebrities Association: Mr. Shen Xichun's paintings are many, and they are all very wonderful, but especially proud of his tiger paintings, he has formed his own style after many years of refinement, and he has the reputation of "live painting tiger". In order to paint the real tiger, he once risked his life to the mountains to see the real tiger, his obsession with art, the pursuit of visible. I think Mr. Shen's paintings have three characteristics. First, he paid attention to modeling and ink and brushwork. His paintings are very vivid modeling, because there is a real tiger sketching basis, so it is very vivid, and the structure is rigorous; because he painted landscapes, flowers is very basic, so the scene and the tiger with the tiger is very close to the scene to support the tiger, there is a very unique style. Secondly, when you see the tiger painted by Shen you really see a kind of righteousness. Where does this "qi" come from? It is the spirit of Chinese painting. Painting a tiger is actually painting himself, the nation and the times. Mr. Lao had a rough life, but he loved his country, his countryside, the intellectuals and his students from the bottom of his heart. He immersed his experience in education, he donated dozens of works for the Anti-Japanese War, and he was persecuted in the Cultural Revolution. He put his spirit into his tiger works, showing a kind of righteousness, and let a person feel that this "qi" is very big. Thirdly, Mr. Shen's paintings have a strong traditional literati spirit, which is especially worthwhile for contemporary people to learn. As an old-timer and an old artist, he was able to persevere in his life, spend his life in his beautiful spiritual home, and live a long life because he was far away from fame and fortune, far away from the world and immersed in the pursuit of art. In his tiger paintings, he strongly embodied the spirit of the nation and the spirit of the times. He left these spirits to our descendants, which is the spirit of traditional literati that we should inherit and carry forward.

Dr. Liu Mo, a researcher at the Institute of Historical and Cultural Resources of Peking University: Mr. Shen Xicun's paintings, no matter whether it is his landscapes, birds and flowers, or his tiger paintings, there is a kind of vitality in them, and this kind of vitality comes from the depths of his life. Look at his tiger, you will find a very "angry", really "tiger with life", representing his tenacious vitality, and this vitality will not be destroyed by any reality of oppression. In his later years, Mr. Shen's works of ink and brush not only did not weaken, but also more and more strong, more and more robust. Through his paintings, we can find in him the valuable integrity and bones of the Chinese literati. What is the most valuable thing in our time? It is this kind of thing in Mr. Shen Xichun. We, cultural people, artists or modern scholars, should maintain and inherit this kind of integrity and backbone that Mr. Shen possesses. This is Mr. Shen most need us to learn, commemorate, worship things.

Chen Yuliang, Deputy Secretary General of the Theory Committee of the Ministry of Culture Guoyun Wenhua Calligraphy and Painting Academy: Through Shen's ink, we see an old man with outstanding bones. He used a hundred years of ink to write the image of a traditional literati who is upright and upright, compassionate, yet consistent. Chinese painting is about style, in the "six methods of Xie He", the chiaroscuro is listed as the first of the "six methods", chiaroscuro emphasizes that the painting is valuable to have a mood, so that after watching it, one can have the feeling of "the sound of the aftermath, three days never stop! The feeling of "aftermath, three days". And low-grade works, can only talk about things, write about things, despite the portrayal of subtle, but ultimately failed to convey the sound of the painting, this work is not desirable. Shen's works are heavy ink and brushwork, high style and elegance. This is the reason why, after seeing his paintings, we can be impressed and even respect him. Shen has studied and researched Yun Nantian's bone-less paintings y, and this study is y reflected in his bird and flower paintings. It is said that one should learn from the ancients without being bound by them. Shen drew on Yun Nantian's fresh and elegant style of painting, but also incorporated Xie He's emphasis on the "bone method of using the brush" and "assigning colors according to the type", and ultimately formed his style of painting, which was both profoundly traditional and unique.

Shen's paintings are summarized in the following characteristics: first, precise modeling, ink and brushwork. Shen Lao's bird and flower painting, early influenced by Zhao'an school of painting, and long immersed in the academy, the integration of the sea school of painting and Lingnan school of painting, and finally into a fresh, elegant and not lack of heavy style. He takes creation as his teacher, keeping in mind that "brush and ink should follow the times", which is the reason why his paintings have both precise modeling and beautiful colors. His tiger paintings are y influenced by Zhang Shanzhu, not only in the inheritance of techniques, but also in the way he conducts himself. Zhang Shanzhu's cynicism is reflected in Shen's body. This is the so-called character is like the character of the painting. Second, in-depth. While conveying emotions well, he also grasps the pulse of the times. Shen Lao created in 1937 "cold", created during the National Day in 1949 "Spring of the motherland", and also in the 1980s into the late age of the creation of the "CiHuaiHaoQi" and other works, not only reflects a literati on the fate of the motherland of the worry and joy, but also can be well preserved the traces of the years. This ability of Shen's to control the current situation, as well as his control over the whole picture, is skillfully exuded through his emotions. Perhaps this is the most important factor that makes his works infectious. It is also the reason why his works can ultimately withstand the test and ultimately be circulated.