Shaanxi Provincial Museum and Art Gallery, Shenzhen Art Museum and the Yan’an Revolutionary Memorial Hall Museum and many other co-organized the “Back to the Yan’an – Revolutionary History cum art photo exhibition of historical documents” in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum and Art Gallery opened, 200 more than reflect the Yan’an revolutionary struggle and the life of classic works of art and historical photographs, a time led to waves of viewers. What is red art? It is in painting, printmaking, sculpture, painting and other art made what success? How different schools have their own artistic style, which gave birth to famous artists and classic? In this issue, editors invited experts of traditional Chinese painting, oil painting, sculpture, three representative works of art interpretation red, with the share in the wonderful.
Shi Lu, “fought in Northern”
Liu West “intimate”
Concerned about the real revolution was born in Yan’an
From October 1935 the CPC Central Committee and the main Red Army arrived in Yan’an, the CPC Central Committee Dongduhuanghe March 1948, the Chinese Communist Party and its leadership of the army and people to Yan’an in Shaanxi-Gansu border region as the center of the arduous environment, to 13 years of revolutionary practice, rewrote history, creating a new China, at the same time as the superstructure of the art reconstruction. Created by Lu Xun Art Institute as the center of the creative base, gathered a large number of revolutionary artists, and created a splendid history of the Yan’an Revolutionary literature and art, including literature, music, drama, art and other art forms, which is known as the red Yan’an Art. This belief in art, philosophy and art paradigm, with the flow of time, over half a century of history in the process, after several generations keep the produce from then multiply accumulation become a tradition, condensation to form a culture of blood.
In the Red Literature which, Red art is especially noteworthy.
At that time, the red version of painters gathered in the capital of Yan’an Wen Tao, Hu Yichuan, Waugh residue, Jiang Feng, Chen Tiegeng, Luo Gongliu, Liqun; cartoonist Cai Ruohong, Zhang Ding, Chang E and Hua Junwu, also studying abroad, learning Western painting The Wangman Shuo, Wang-type profile, and other excellent artists. They have created a large number of revolutionary realism art theme, forming a modern and contemporary art history classic sense of the red revolution in art, fine art known as the Yan’an period. From the concept, theme, creative approach and so the established tradition, the new China was founded in different periods of Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking, sculpture and other creations have a profound impact.
Three Painting contests
In the painting, the new China was established there a large number of different times the performance of Yan’an revolutionary life, praise leaders, embody the spirit of good works in Yan’an. Especially the fifties and sixties of last century, the formation of a geographical center of Chang’an Painting School, New Jinling School of Painting, the Lingnan School of Painting, it is the succession in the development of art in Yan’an outstanding. Painter with a strong political passion into writing, three painting school contests, and became the town red painting creation.
Chang’an Painting School, formed in the late 50th century to 60 years of Xi’an to Shi Lu, Zhao Yun Wang, Haixia represented, members of the public, including the Franciscans, Kang Master Yao, Liu West, etc.. Artists more creative in the Loess Plateau landscape, characterized by simplicity stubborn, and hard-working honest customs in northern Shaanxi, southern Shaanxi, farmers figure image. Painting is committed to the inheritance and innovation of Chinese painting, often ingenious idea and simplicity of pen and ink Cang thick, performance materials and pure and boundless leader of the Northwest landscape, at the time had a great response from Chinese painting. Shi Lu’s “fought in northern Shaanxi,” “East Fangyu Xiao,” Haixia’s “Ode to Yan’an” “Yangjialing shengjing map” Francis Chung’s “Pagoda Morninghope” “delicious millet time,” Liu West’s “Big Dipper – Liu Chih-tan and Northern people “” the liberated areas of Heaven “and” Chairman Mao and the shepherd, “and so on, are called classics.
New Jinling School of Painting, the rise in the 60s of last century in Nanjing by Panting, Qian Songyan founded the older generation artists. They advocate sketch, magnificent works of beauty. Jinling Painting new concept of art is a conscious sense of innovation, dialectical national consciousness, a lofty humanistic spirit and passion and the Spirit. In particular, Qian Songyan painting to show the majority of socialist construction materials and Yan’an, “Yan Song,” “Yan’an scenery,” “Red dressed in white” is its representative.
Lingnan School of Painting, formed in the Republic of China, the founder of Gao Jianfu et al. 60 years active in the last century, the second generation of the Lingnan School painters watching the mountains, Li Xiongcai so creative, most representative of the characteristics of the red painting. They focus on painting and Western painting finance long, not only to transform the revolutionary spirit and a strong contemporary Chinese painting, and stick to the traditional pen and ink characteristics, and create a “Ode to the Yellow River,” “Longyangxia” and so very spirit of the times and the local characteristics.
Blend of Western realism with traditional pen and ink
Although many schools of red painting on behalf of the painting created by artists of different subjects, techniques and personal styles, but the similarities are obvious. Main features: emphasis on realism in painting, in the world and highlight the painting services; in the relationship between art and politics, artists high political enthusiasm, attention to the fate of the nation-state, concerned about the socialist construction, subject matter and more a tribute to the New China, Acura leaders, the performance of socialist construction as the dominant aesthetic style emerged from the “Ya” to “conventional”, which focuses on tastes, and meet the aesthetic needs of the public; writing technique, because most of these country artists born in the old China, achievements in the new China, early influenced by the ancient tradition of painting, then contact with Western painting realism effect, therefore, can literati ink painting and Western painting realistic approach combining to create a new painting style. Such as Shi Lu’s “fought in northern Shaanxi,” “East Fangyu Xiao,” Haixia “Yan River Song”, Qian Songyan’s “Ode to Yan’an”, watching the mountains of the “Ode to the Yellow River” and the most representative.