On the morning of April 30th, 20 14, the opening ceremony and exhibition of liyang city Art Museum and Xu Peichen Art Museum were held in liyang city Culture and Art Center. This activity is sponsored by liyang city Municipal People's Government, Nanjing Normal University, Chinese Painting Society and Jiangsu Cultural Province Construction Base. It is organized by Jiangsu Painting and Calligraphy Research Center of Nanjing Normal University, Jiangsu Chinese Painting Society, Jiangsu Flower-and-Bird Painting Research Society and liyang city Culture, Radio, Film and Television Sports Bureau, and co-organized by Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Nanjing Jinhong Culture Development Co., Ltd. and Nanjing Tang Hede Art Museum.
Liao, director of Xu Beihong Memorial Hall, Hu Zhenmin, member of the Standing Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy director of the Education, Culture, Health and Sports Commission, unveiled the liyang city Art Museum, while Zhu Jianwei, vice chairman of Changzhou, and Sheng, secretary of Liyang Municipal Committee, unveiled the museum.
Peng Liming, vice chairman of Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Zhang Jiuhan, vice chairman of Beijing Calligraphers Association, Song Yongzhong, former vice chairman of Jiangsu CPPCC, party secretary and president of Nanjing Normal University, Tang Hui, president of Rong Baozhai Painting Academy, Zhu Hongzi, vice president of China Fine Arts Newspaper and other leading experts attended. More than 500 artists, critics, collectors and painting lovers from Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou attended the opening ceremony.
At the opening ceremony, Mr. Xu Peichen and Ms. Diao Siwei signed a donation agreement with liyang city and donated 486 works and collections.
Chinese Department of the United Nations, China Project Department of Harvard University, China Culture and Art Foundation, Vice President of China Artists Association, Yang Xiaoyang, President of China National Painting Academy, Wu Weishan, Vice President of China Artists Association, and Yan Gongda, Vice President of China Calligraphers Association also sent congratulatory letters to congratulate Liyang Art Museum and Xu Peichen Art Museum on their opening. Yu, a master of meticulous flower-and-bird painting in China, and Zhang, honorary chairman and famous painter of Suzhou Artists Association, specially created paintings and donated them to liyang city.
Liyang city Art Museum and Xu Peichen Art Museum are the first batch of public art galleries and famous art galleries in liyang city, which undertake many functions such as the prosperity and development of public art in this city and the exchange and training of Chinese paintings in Xu Peichen. The building is located in liyang city Cultural and Art Center, adjacent to the elegant, dynamic and fashionable liyang city Cultural Park in the east, with an area of 3,300 square meters. It is divided into theme exhibition hall, public exhibition hall, Chinese painting studio, pastel studio, calligraphy studio, comprehensive study room, sunshine art bar and other functional facilities. The theme pavilion is divided into two parts: China Cultural and Art Treasures Pavilion and Xu Peichen Art Treasures Pavilion.
Xu Peichen Art Museum * * * has a collection of 232 paintings and calligraphy works such as Xu Peichen's traditional Chinese paintings and apes, and this exhibition 135 pieces. These works include the ingenious and ingenious new work "Hundred Monkeys in Twelve Seasons in Tong Jingping", Liu Zhang's masterpiece "Snow in Deep Valley", monkey landscape paintings with different verve and expressions, 12 blue-and-white porcelain bottle made by Mr. Xu Peichen in Jingdezhen in the cold, and "Sketched Figures" in the 1980s and 1990s. Each work embodies Professor Xu Peichen's profound understanding of the monkey world and apes.
Xu Peichen Art Museum also collected 254 collections donated by Mr. Xu Peichen, including 77 famous paintings, 4 ancient fabrics, 65,438+00 Majiayao pottery pots, 65,438+0 woodcuts, 65,438+0 bronze ding, 65,438+0 tri-colored plates of Tang Dynasty, 3 fish fossils and 40 ancient Persian seals. There are 87 pieces on display this time, many of which are rare treasures, including the inscription of Ma Shijun, the top scholar in Liyang in the 18th year of Qing Shunzhi, and the contemporary works of Yu Feian, Wu Guanzhong, Lu,,, Lu Xingtang, Wei Tianchi, Yang Jianhou, Qi Gong and Ouyang Zhongshi. There are ancient works of art in China, such as Han Dynasty stone reliefs, Majiayao painted pottery, bronze tripod, tri-color dish of Tang Dynasty, and overseas ancient works of art such as ancient Persian seals, which are beautiful.
Xu Peichen, a famous contemporary painter in China, was born in Pei County, Liu Bang's hometown of Emperor Gaozu in195/kloc-0. 1976 graduated from Nanjing Normal University and has been teaching there ever since. Professor and doctoral supervisor of Academy of Fine Arts of Nanjing Normal University, director of Jiangsu Painting and Calligraphy Art Research Center, member of China Artists Association, founding director of China Painting Association, consultant of China People's Institute for Foreign Art Exchange, chief expert of Jiangsu Province's research base for the construction of a strong art province, and president of Jiangsu Province's Flower and Bird Painting Research Association. His Chinese paintings are good at landscapes, figures, flowers and birds. In particular, the Danqing ape is quite famous in the painting world, and has the reputation of "China Holy Monkey", "Oriental Monkey King" and "Contemporary Yi Yuanji". The apes in his works are full of fun, blending with books, landscapes and people. His pen and ink are bold and unrestrained, and his painting style is smart and free and easy, breaking through and innovating from tradition. His works have participated in many national art exhibitions and won many gold medals, scientific research awards and artistic achievement awards, and more than 30 works and paintings have been published. From 2000 to 2004, "Wanshui Qian Shan always loves Xu Peichen's traditional Chinese painting ape-man exhibition" was held in 33 provincial capital cities and art galleries of Taiwan Province Province and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and CCTV's "Son of the East" column made a special report. Two exhibitions were held in China Art Museum on 1992 and 20 10. In recent years, he has been invited to hold exhibitions at United Nations Headquarters and Paris, and give lectures at Yale University, Columbia University and Harvard University. His artistic achievements were selected into Linz Fine Arts, China Contemporary Artists Directory and China Artists Yearbook. The Ministry of Culture, China Art Museum, China National Museum, Zhongnanhai and Chairman Mao Memorial Hall all collect his representative works.
Liyang has a long history and profound cultural heritage. In the 1990s, a 45-million-year-old fossil of "Australopithecus China" was found in the Jellyfish Mountain of Upper Huang Zhen, Liyang, which proved that this place was the birthplace of the common ancestor of all primates, including humans. 20 13 the fossil site of "China Shu Ape" in jellyfish mountain was announced as "National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit" by the State Council and "Jiangsu Provincial Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit" by Jiangsu Provincial People's Government. At present, the liyang city Municipal Government has built the China Southern Australopithecus Fossil Site into a Great Site Park, which has become an important scenic spot for Liyang to develop cultural tourism, display geological evolution and publicize natural ecology.
Professor Xu Peichen has formed an indissoluble bond with apes. He often comes to Liyang to visit friends, enjoy the scenery and sketch. He was deeply impressed by the aura of Liyang mountains and rivers, intoxicated by the charm of China Shu apes, and sprouted the desire to establish an art museum in Liyang, so that Chinese painting apes could enter the hometown of apes and become Liyang's cultural business card. With the attention of Liyang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, liyang city Culture, Radio, Film and Television Sports Bureau and Tang Hede Art Museum made careful preparations to actively promote the simultaneous construction of liyang city Xu Peichen Art Museum. In order to repay the love of Liyang people and enrich the collection, Professor Xu Peichen enthusiastically donated his own works of Chinese painting apes and his precious collection, totaling 486 pieces, which made outstanding contributions to the construction of art galleries and art galleries.
Liyang city is located in the center of the Yangtze River Delta at the junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, with an area of 1.535 square kilometers and a population of 780,000. The territory has beautiful ecology, beautiful scenery, developed economy and prosperous culture. In recent years, closely following the main line of culture and people's livelihood, liyang city has made every effort to promote the construction of public cultural service system, and has successively built public cultural and sports facilities such as cultural centers, libraries and gymnasiums, and has been rated as "the hometown of folk culture and art in China" and a culturally advanced county and city in Jiangsu Province. At the same time, liyang city has deeply explored cultural resources and vigorously developed cultural industries, forming a new pattern of cultural industry development featuring cultural tourism. In 20 13, the cultural industry accounted for more than 5% of the regional GDP and became the pillar industry of the national economy. The completion of liyang city Art Museum and Xu Peichen Art Museum not only fills the blank of cultural services in liyang city, but also sets a new benchmark for the development of Chinese painting art, enriches urban cultural resources, improves urban cultural level, increases the points of cultural tourism, and opens up new fields of cultural tourism, so that "China Ape" can not only be seen, but also be hidden, which will promote the construction of China Ape Tourist Scenic Area from an artistic height and further expand the popularity and influence of Liyang Cultural Tourism.