Xu Beihong and His Time" Exhibition Tours in Jinan CAFA Art Museum

Xu Beihong and His Time" Exhibition Tours in Jinan

Co-hosted by CAFA Art Museum, Publicity Department of Jinan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Jinan Department of Culture and Tourism, as the 2018 annual communication and promotion project of National Art Fund, "Xu Beihong and His Time" exhibition is now touring in Jinan, Shandong.

On November 23, its opening ceremony was held at the Jinan Art Museum, participated by over 1,500 people including Jinan municipal officials, art practitioners, scholars and educators from Shandong Province, CAFA professors including Director of the CAFA Art Museum Zhang Zikang and the exhibition's curator, Director of Department of Publications at CAFA Art Museum Hong Mei.

The ceremony, hosted by the Director of Jinan Department of Culture and Tourism Zhi Liang, began with a promotional video that reveals the splendid achievements of modern Chinese art masters led by Xu Beihong and the significance of the exhibition, which approaches the art world of the master from a new, contemporary perspective. Wang Shaojun, Deputy Director of CPC Committee of CAFA, Yang Feng, Director of Publicity Department of Jinan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Zhang Wang, President of Shandong Artists Association, also gave their speeches.

Wang Shaojun, Deputy Director of CPC Committee of CAFA, gave his speech.

In his speech, Wang Shaojun said: "There's a special significance of the ‘Xu Beihong and His Time’ exhibition's tour in Jinan. On the one hand, Mr. Xu has a history with Jinan. After he went back to China from his study in France, his painting of grand historical events were inspired by Jinan's history; on the other hand, as an important art province in China, Shandong has been attaching great importance to the inheritance and promotion of traditional culture." Wang also expressed his hope for CAFA and the Jinan art circle to have more cooperation in the future.

Yang Feng, Director of Publicity Department of Jinan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China

Zhang Wang, President of Shandong Artists Association

Guests at the ceremony inaugurated the exhibition together.

After the ceremony, the exhibition's curator, Director of Department of Publications at CAFAM Hong Mei gave a guided tour of the exhibition.

The tour was followed by a symposium around the exhibition. It was hosted by Deputy Director of Jinan Art Museum Zhang Hui, and Hong Mei as the academic presenter. Over 50 scholars, including Deputy Director of CPC Committee of CAFA Wang Shaojun, former director of the Department of Mural Painting Sun Jingbo, Director of the School of Plastic Arts, CAFA and Director of Department of Oil Painting Ma Lu, Director of CAFA Art Museum Zhang Zikang, attended the symposium.

Wang Shaojun

former director of the Department of Mural Painting Sun Jingbo

Director of the School of Plastic Arts, CAFA and Director of Department of Oil Painting Ma Lu

Director of CAFA Art Museum Zhang Zikang

Director of Chinese Painting Research Department at CAFA

The exhibition's curator and Director of CAFAM Department of Publications Hong Mei and Deputy Director of Jinan Art Museum Zhang Hui

The symposium centered around the topics "Xu Beihong and His Time", "Reform, Innovation and Development of Chinese Painting", "Formation, Development, Influence and Significance of Xu Beihong Educational School" and the relationship of Xu Beihong and the artists of his time with the context of Shandong.

The "Xu Beihong and His Time" exhibition is based on the precious collection of CAFA Art Museum, and exhibits over 110 works by 34 artists of Xu Beihong's time. This is the first time that either Jinan City or Shandong Province holds a large-scale exhibition of modern Chinese art masters since the foundation of New China.

The exhibition is presented in two parts: "Pursuit of the Time" and "Inheritance of the School". The first part sets out from Xu Beihong's art, and develops around Xu's realistic artistic idea and his like-minded companions who strived to reform Chinese painting, summarizes Xu's broad, multi-field social connections, and presents the various explorations of modern Chinese art in the 20th century with works of Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong, Zhang Daqian, Chen Shizeng, Fu Baoshi, Ye Qianyu, Li Keran, Jiang Zhaohe, Chang Shuhong and Li Kuchan. In the second part, the exhibition studies the art approach of Xu Beihong, Wu Zuoren, Ai Zhongxin, Sun Zongwei, Li Zongjin and Feng Fasi that supplemented with art education, along with the influence of Xu Beihong's art educational practice and inheritance on the 20th century Chinese art.

Through an overall and deep summay of the art and influence of Xu Beihong and his time, clarify the history of development of 20th century Chinese art, and review the formation of 20th century Chinese art, the exhibition has special significance for the current development of Chinese art.

The exhibition will last till December 10 (The museum opens on Monday during the exhibition.)

Chinese text by He Yifei

Photo by He Yifei and Yin Xiang

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