12/11/2023（Sunday）15:00-17:00
Explaining Yun Shouping's Creative Concept of "Combining the Abstract with the Substantial to Create the Whole"
The "Inscriptions on Paintings, Poetry and Letters" is a fascinating item in the Yun Shouping: Paintings and Calligraphy from the Palace Museum and the Shanghai Museum exhibition. This album reveals Yun Shouping's concept of "combining the abstract with the substantial to create the whole". This concept has several layers of meanings, though, and it also depicts the artist's understanding of life and his pure experience when it comes to nature, which allows him to elevate his position in his field. He paid a lot of attention to nature in his art – in fact, that's one of the most important characteristics of all Chinese literati painters. He passed on and innovatively promoted "boneless" flower painting techniques – highlighting the idea that humans and nature are one.
This lecture will discuss Yun Shouping's painting theories. Whether a painter considers the relationship between brush and ink, and nature at a higher level depends on that painter's taste. When he or she seeks to achieve a higher "spiritual" level in their art, they must then apply consistent brushwork to express their deeper feelings. Only then can that artist, on his own, reach a state equivalent to "striking up a spiritual connection with both the sky and the Earth". Yun Shouping is one such painter who rose to this level.
Speaker: Jiao Donghua is a deputy researcher at the Palace Museum's Calligraphy and Painting Department. He researches traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting. He has participated in a number of projects by the National Social Science Fund of China, including "Collation and Research in the Palace Museum's Collection of the Oracle Bone Script Found at the Yinxu Site", "Collation and Research in the Palace Museum's Collection of 'Qianlong Si Jian', Catalogues of Chinese Ritual Bronzes", the "Ancient Writing and Chinese Civilisation Inheritance and Development Project" and "Research on the Value Interpretation, Protection and Inheritance of Calligraphy and Painting in the Jin, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties". Jiao has also held several exhibitions of his own artwork.
Organisers: Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government, Macao Museum of Art, Palace Museum, Shanghai Museum
Language: Mandarin
Venue: Auditorium of MAM
Quota: The quota is 100 people. Admission by drawing lots. Free admission.
Registration: 01-09/11/2023 Online Application through Macao One Account
30/08/2023（Wednesday） 19:00-21:00
Wonderful Nature – Yun Shouping's Birds, Flowers and Fish
Cultural Affairs Bureau's Macao Museum of Art again joins efforts with the Palace Museum and the Shanghai Museum to present Yun Shouping: Paintings and Calligraphy from the Palace Museum and the Shanghai Museum. The show features more than 180 pieces spanning Yun Shouping's different creative stages and showcases his artistic achievement and profound influence.
Yun's bird-and-flower paintings integrated the essences of various styles and covered a wide range of themes. The techniques applied are highly innovative. His freehand bird-and-flower paintings succeeded the artistic achievements of some Ming painters from the Wu School of Paintings, including Shen Zhou, Tang Yin and Lu Zhi. He transcended naturalistic shapes and rendered visually pleasant imagery in only a few strokes. Yun's highest achievement was to represent and reinvent Northern Song master Xu Chongsi's "boneless" painting technique of realism, which had been forgotten in art history. Despite few predecessors' references, Yun observed elements from the nature, such as flowers and vegetables, and innovated the use of colours. Consequently, he created delightful imagery that suited the literati aesthetics. He revived the ancient boneless techniques of realism in his serene and refreshing paintings. This lecture will examine the themes and techniques in his bird-and-flower paintings.
Speaker：Wei Wei is currently the Associate Research Fellow of Department of Painting and Calligraphy of the Shanghai Museum. He is engaged in researching Chinese calligraphy and paintings. He has published several theses, including ‘Wu Li's Calligraphy and Paintings and His Fellow Artists’, ‘Two Research Findings on Mi Youren's Activities between 1124-1129’ and ‘Portraits of Li Dongyang in the Ming and Qing Dynasties’.
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