In the history of Chinese literature, Jiangnan is a passionate place of parting.

Therefore, it left a legacy for future generations: "The flowers on the river are as red as fire at sunrise, and the river is as green as blue in spring." Can I not remember Jiangnan "and" Under the peach and plum blossoms, the Spring Festival Gala has not yet been completed. Outside the wall, flowers are seen looking for directions, willows are shaded by horses crossing the singing of orioles."" There is a string of jade on the river on the boat, and the city is filled with catkins and light dust. Beautiful poems such as "Busy Killing Flowers Watching".

Over the past thousands of years, among mountains, rivers, flowers and trees, moonlit nights, morning and dusk, among the poems and ink of literati, Jiangnan has gradually developed from a geographical space term to a humanistic space term.

Space is Jiangnan, and culture is life.

Every late autumn, there will be another Internet celebrity check-in point on Renmin Road in Suzhou's Ancient City. A bright red persimmon tree hangs high between the white walls and black tiles, hidden in the Buddha light of the Beisi Tower, making it refined and dusty.

This persimmon tree was originally just an ordinary thing planted by ordinary families in Suzhou, but it fell in the past of more than 2500 years in Suzhou, so it has poetry.

The small building listened to the spring rain all night long, and the deep alleys sold apricot flowers in the Ming Dynasty. Whenever spring is warm and the flowers bloom, the Suzhou flower girl who hangs on the streets and calls "Oh, come a white orchid" in the sweet words of Wu Nong has also been an unforgettable mark of life for this city and tourists.

"The night market sells lotus roots, and spring boats carry silk", which is a vivid living scene with great beauty in Suzhou;"Qingfen is going to enter the Zhilan Room, and the Boya is like a traveling calligraphy and painting boat." The dotted calligraphy and painting boats along the river bank are part of the poetic life of literati in the south of the Yangtze River.

For a long time, a large number of literary works singing Jiangnan have constructed the image of "Jiangnan" in the Chinese imagination. The recent "Poetic Jiangnan-Thematic Art Exhibition" at Yinshanhu Art Museum gave the ancient Jiangnan a concrete expression close to the times and poetry.

For example, Yan Ping, a professor at Renmin University of China, vice chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, and vice president of the Chinese Oil Painting Society, uses large contrasting bright colors and inherent color blocks to display rich base materials in the shine, giving the picture an uncertain momentum, like a pipa plucked in an artist's hand. Sometimes it is soothing and sometimes it is rushing like a wave, giving people a wonderful feeling of turbulence and jumping, like being in a Pingtan theater and listening to this "China's most beautiful voice".

(Yan Ping's "Suzhou Pingtan 2" 60cm 50cm)

Another example is "Living by Water" written by Xue Fangming, a member of the Chinese Artists Association, associate professor of the School of Art of North China University of Science and Technology, and director of the Painting Department. Through dark wooden roofs, open doors and windows, horizontal bamboo pole clothes lines and dried clothes, mottled walls and balconies, it shows the residential style of Jiangnan people and the daily life of endless life relying on canals.

(Xue Fangming's "Living Near the Water" 120X180)   

Another example is "Beautiful Family" by Suzhou painter Guo Zhongming. Through the portrayal of the traditional technique of Jiangnan embroidery, it shows the tenderness passed down from generation to generation by traditional female red and continuous silk threads. Through the meticulous depiction of the embroider mother bowing her head before embroidery, it presents the inheritance and persistence of ordinary labor, and the tenacity and singing of maternal love to the viewer.

(Jinxiu Family-174 × 148-Guo Zhongming)

The "Poetic Jiangnan" series of exhibitions is a long-term strategic cooperation project between Yinshanhu Art Museum and the Chinese Artists Association. Taking "Jiangnan" as a bridge for the convergence and communication of culture and spirit, from the aesthetic perspective of Jiangnan artists, we collide with Jiangnan in the eyes of artists in other regions, and discuss the artistic evolution of Jiangnan culture in the context of the current era., better interpret Jiangnan culture from a regional and contemporary perspective, and give Jiangnan culture a deeper poetic spirit.

Poetic Jiangnan Theme Art Exhibition

Extension: January 1-April 10

Venue: 1F and 3F of Yinshan Lake Art Museum

Type of work: oil painting, fine brushwork

This exhibition intends to use "Jiangnan" as a bridge for the convergence and communication of culture and spirit. The meaning and emotion reflected in the works on display emphasize the aesthetic lyricism and spiritual style, which implicitly conforms to the cultural character and aesthetic psychology of the Jiangnan region.

Starting from the perspective of poetic dual viewing, stimulating and colliding with the landscape in the eyes of artists in Jiangnan and the perspective and dimensions of Jiangnan in the eyes of famous masters in other regions of the country. By exploring the artistic evolution of Jiangnan culture in the context of the current era, we can better interpret Jiangnan culture from a regional and contemporary perspective.

The exhibition is presented from a poetic dual viewing perspective, starting from the landscape in the eyes of artists in Jiangnan and Jiangnan in the eyes of artists in other regions, focusing on embodying the poetic spirit of Jiangnan culture. The 107 works of art on display jointly respond to the cultural theme of "Poetic Jiangnan" from four aspects: distant mountains and valleys, simple morale, non-objects, and elegant interest in leisure, expressing the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan, telling stories of Jiangnan, and shaping Jiangnan spirit.

Yinshanhu Art Museum has long been based on the local spirit of Jiangnan culture, develops the profound connotation of Jiangnan meaning and radiates to the whole country. The exhibition focuses on Chinese painting and oil painting works and presents them from a dual viewing perspective. It displays the creative practices of representative artists from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai in expressing humanistic landscapes, as well as nationally renowned artists such as Xu Li, Yan Ping, Pang Maokun and others who use poetic Jiangnan as the theme. A masterpiece. The exhibition strives to create a poetic and long-lasting Jiangnan atmosphere, presenting the "artistic conception theory" of traditional Chinese aesthetics and the aesthetic concept of "harmony between man and nature".

This "Poetic Jiangnan Art Theme Exhibition" aims to tell the "Jiangnan Story", outline the beauty of Jiangnan, reflect the rich connotation of the inheritance and development of Jiangnan culture, and also present art's spiritual interpretation and reshaping of nature, humanities and other topics., promote China's excellent traditional culture, and launch the "Jiangnan Culture" brand.