Ask Nanshan - Shi Feng Chinese Landscape Painting Exhibition Held in Qi Baishi Memorial Hall

Nov 30, 2024

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Mr. Qi Baishi is a world-renowned art master whose artistic achievements have deeply influenced the development of modern Chinese painting. As an important art hall in Hunan and even the whole country, Qi Baishi Memorial Hall carries the profound heritage of Huxiang culture. Shi Feng is one of the outstanding contemporary Chinese landscape painters. He is currently the director of the Theme Creation Institute of the Chinese National Museum of Calligraphy and Painting, the director of the Chinese Artists Association, and the researcher of the China National Academy of Painting. His landscape paintings are clean, beautiful, poetic and meaningful. Shi Feng attaches great importance to tradition, and his art is good at innovating from tradition and integrating into the spirit of The Times on the basis of careful study of tradition, especially his green landscape, which opens a new chapter on the traditional context of green and green, builds a foundation with ink, blends color and ink, is clear and boundless, elegant and elegant, and interprets the prosperous weather of green and green mountains in the new era with a unique artistic style. "Ask Nanshan - Shi Feng's Chinese Landscape Painting Exhibition" exhibits more than 40 landscape paintings carefully created by Shi Feng in recent years, covering his two creative directions of green and ink painting. His works are rich in forms, ranging from huge and mountainous works to delicate and vivid small pieces. Each painting vividly shows Shi Feng's profound observation of nature and unique artistic perspective, showing the artist's infinite love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland.

The exhibition is co-organized by the Calligraphy and Painting Academy of National Museum of China, Beijing Artists Association, Hunan Artists Association, Shandong Artists Association, Hunan Painting Academy, Shandong Painting Academy, Xiangtan Culture, Tourism, Radio, Television and Sports Bureau and Jingxiang Art Museum. At the opening ceremony, Wu Jian, curator of Qi Baishi Memorial Hall, gave a welcome speech, Tan Changde read a congratulatory letter from Ma Fenghui, Secretary of the Branch Party Group of the Chinese Artists Association and Vice chairman of the association, Ni Wenhua and Liu Wanming delivered speeches, Shi Feng delivered a thank you speech, and Lu Zhangshen announced the opening of the exhibition. In his welcome speech, Wu Jian pointed out that Nanshan symbolizes the spiritual pursuit of transcendence and transcendence in Chinese culture, carrying the thought of the unity of heaven and man and the natural way. Qi Baishi seal "my home under the Pengyue Mountain" and Hengshan scenery added a strong regional cultural color. Shi Feng interprets the traditional culture with the ink of The Times, not only paying tribute to Qi Baishi, but also expressing the spiritual dialogue with Xiaoxiang landscape. Tan Changde, vice chairman and secretary-general of Hunan Artists Association, read a congratulatory letter from Ma Fenghui, secretary of the Branch Party Group of China Artists Association and vice chairman of the association. Ma Fenghui spoke highly of Shi Feng's artistic achievements in his congratulatory letter. He believed that over the years, Shi Feng insisted on integrity and innovation, and created a number of fine works full of the spirit of The Times in the combination of sketching and creation. From ink to green, from traditional to contemporary, from ink to character, all of them expressed his sincere love for the motherland. It shows his deep expression of the thought of "the unity of nature and man" in Chinese traditional culture, and interprets his unique understanding of the clear waters and green mountains in the new era. Ni Wenhua, a member of the Party Group of Hunan Provincial Federation of Literature and Arts and Vice Chairman, said in his speech that Shi Feng's landscape works, both green and ink, pay attention to the inheritance of tradition, but also emphasize the reflection of The Times. Based on the pen and ink, the traditional green color is integrated into the brushwork, the color does not hinder the ink, the ink does not hinder the color, see the Qingjun in the vast, reflecting the new atmosphere of the rivers and mountains. Liu Wanming, president of China National Academy of Painting and vice chairman of China Artists Association, spoke on behalf of the organizers. In his speech, he said that Shi Feng's paintings have always been full of broad and moist, and the ink is the god of the vast, the spirit of the strong, the green into the beautiful spirit, and the elegant simplicity, which has a wide influence on the current Chinese landscape painting creation. With the theme of "Asking Nanshan", this exhibition shows the philosophical thoughts of "harmony between nature and man" and "Tao Fa Nature", which is Shi Feng's tribute to traditional culture with the brush of The Times, and the artist's spiritual inquiry in the face of landscape in the new era. The "Nanshan" in Shi Feng's works is full of sincere love for the land of Sanxiang. It is not only a concrete manifestation of the majestic natural landscape of Hengshan Mountain, but also a profound interpretation of the concept of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, creating a landscape world full of poetry and philosophy.