【Artistic view】
Guangming Daily reporter Tian Ni Guangming Daily correspondent Zhu Hong
In the palm-sized picture of 9.6cm×11.1cm, in the freezing winter, some people on the ice are dancing lightly with their backs bowed, and some people adjust their body weight slightly cautiously. The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and the common people are walking together. The ice, the traces of the ice blade are like a brisk melody, which is a tribute to life. This “Yan’an Skating” created by printmaker Liu Xian in 1941 engraves the vibrant sports scenes in winter and the moments of Yan’an military and civilian life. The bold and unique composition, rich in changing and decorative lines, are delicate and sound. The sound of the woodpecker sings the song of the joyful life in the hard years.
Ice Skating in Yan’an (Print) Liu Xian
Colorful roller skating (Chinese painting) Wang Mengtong
In the recently held “Winter Olympics, Beauty is Chasing Dreams” exhibition of sports-themed art works collected by the National Art Museum of China, this print is the smallest in size, but it is full of emotions that overflow the picture in the knife and brush.
Born from human labor, sports is an important carrier for people to strengthen their bodies, exercise their will, shape their characters, delight their spirits, and exchange emotions. Originating from the ancient Greek civilization, the Olympic Games has become the cultural wealth of all mankind.
The Chinese Olympic dream has a long history. In 1932, Liu Changchun represented China in the Olympic Games; in 1984, Xu Haifeng achieved the “zero breakthrough” of the Chinese Olympic gold medal. Since then, Chinese athletes have continued to compete for gold and silver in the Olympics, making China an undisputed sports power with impressive achievements. In 2008, in the midsummer of Beijing, the Centennial Olympic Games was a dream come true. At that moment, the Olympic Games were closely linked to the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
On February 4, 2022, the Olympic flame will be lit again in Beijing, and Beijing will become the world‘s first “Double Olympic City” to host the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics.
Olympic Team Flower Ice Hockey (Paper-cut) Guo Aixian
Ice Dance (Chinese painting) Yang Gang
“Father of the modern Olympics” Coubertin once mentioned that the Olympic movement is not just about enhancing muscle strength, it is also intellectual and artistic. The fusion of sports and art is a perfect example of the interplay of “power” and “beauty”.
In 2017, IOC President Bach invited Wu Weishan, a sculptor and director of the National Art Museum of China, to make a statue of Coubertin. This “Smiling Coubertin” was completed at the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland, and is also in this exhibition. be presented. Coubertin in the sculpture has a slightly upturned beard, and his eyes are full of warmth. Bach once said: “I like the smile of this statue the most. Coubertin’s smile is full of energy and perseverance, which is a tribute to the Olympic spirit.”
More than 160 classic works of sports themes collected by the National Art Museum of China, with a creation time span of 80 years, carry forward the Olympic spirit through the creation of “power” and “beauty”. “These works are full of youthful vigor, the power of sports, and the creation of beauty.” Wu Weishan said that the art works vividly and three-dimensionally interpret the Olympic spirit, showing a credible, lovely and respectable image of contemporary China. It also tells the story of China’s sports development to the world, and composes a chapter of “strength” and “beauty”.
The tough race walkers in the sculpture “Going to the World” are in high spirits; the Chinese painting “Before the decisive battle” reproduces the Chinese women’s volleyball team’s ideal of “revitalizing China” with hard work; the sculpture “Challenge” captures the disabled athletes in wheelchairs struggling to throw a discus The moment, the high arm, the moment of passion, played the tenacious voice of life… These fighting figures in the Olympic competition interpret the Olympic culture of “faster, higher, stronger and more united” beauty of.
Go Skating (Print) Sun Very Fei
Smiling Coubertin (sculpture) Wu Weishan
From Huang Zhou’s “Playing Polo”, Liu Kaiqu’s “Kicking Shuttlecock”, Zhu Cheng’s “A Thousand Arrows”, to Feng Jie’s “Conquering Mount Everest”, Li Hongjun’s “National Fitness Rhythm China”, the beauty of sports has changed from Has not left the artist’s sight. Through the works, the audience can not only see the fusion of “power” and “beauty”, but also feel the artist’s reverence for the beauty of human sports.
Xu Haifeng, Li Ning, Deng Yaping, Liu Xiang, Lang Ping, Luo Xuejuan… More than 30 portraits of Olympic champions shot by photographer Pang Xiaowei, who focuses on “portraits”, occupy a wall in the exhibition hall. The faces of the champions framed between black and white are shocking, as if they constitute a wall of national spirit. “From these portraits, you can see a kind of firmness, a kind of clarity, and a love for life in the eyes of sports people.” Zhang Xiangxiang, the champion of men’s weightlifting 62kg at the 29th Beijing Olympic Games, stopped for a long time in front of the photo works.
“Champion, can you take a picture in front of this painting?” Someone grabbed Zhang Xiangxiang, and hanging on the side was the portrait created by the artist Shang for him. A few days ago, artists Li Yang, Shang Ke, and Huang Huasan created portraits of three Olympic champions, Wang Liping, Zhang Xiangxiang and Gao Ling, in the “Portrait of Olympic Champions” activity, showing the valiant and heroic appearance of Olympic athletes with the clever brushstrokes of Chinese painting. and mental outlook.
In addition to traditional Chinese paintings, oil paintings, prints and sculptures, folk paper-cuts and peasant paintings with a local flavor show the scenes of people’s daily physical exercise in a joyous manner, which is relished by the audience.
Games (Peasant Painting) Lu Xiangwei
National Fitness Rhythm China (Chinese painting) Li Hongjun
Guo Aixian, who was born in a family of paper-cutting, is the representative inheritor of Baotou paper-cutting. Her “Olympic Group Flowers” series of paper-cuts are simple, simple, ancient and romantic. People seem to be looking at colorful pictures through a kaleidoscope. Ice hockey, figure skating, and steel sleds, she used a pair of dexterous hands to drum and shout for the times, and cut out a colorful Olympic dream.
Shuttlecock kicking, dragon boat racing, dragon lantern dancing, horse racing… These folk entertainments and competitive activities with Chinese characteristics are very lively in the works. “Sports for All” highlights the Chinese people’s understanding and innovation of the Olympic spirit. The world shows a confident and self-improving image of China.
As the head of the “Cheers for the Olympics” art sketching group, artist He Jialin has been paying attention to the Beijing Winter Olympics since the beginning of the sketching group. Do sketches. “At the time of the cold wave, the lowest temperature in Zhangjiakou was minus 34 degrees Celsius, but everyone was still full of enthusiasm and cheered for the Beijing Winter Olympics with brushes.” He Jialin introduced that the art troupe not only held the “Hundred Artists Painting the Winter Olympics” activity, but also In the “Olympic Culture Entering Campus” activity, the sports culture and art are promoted through lectures, so that teachers and students can experience a different kind of Winter Olympics cultural experience. “I hope more artists can participate in the art creation of the Winter Olympics and sports, and tell the story of Chinese sports to the world.”
The Beijing Winter Olympics is not only a global sports event, but also a stage for the blooming of diverse cultures and the exchange and mutual learning of civilizations. Let’s meet in Beijing, and when the light of the five rings blooms again, let’s go to the ice and snow appointment together.
“Guangming Daily” (09 edition on January 23, 2022)
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