Shanghai occupies 5 seats! This hot exhibition has new activities. Summer Top Ten National Art Museums Hot Exhibition Youth | Nature | Shanghai
The China Expo Hot Search List, guided by the China Cultural Relics Exchange Center, recently released the "Top 10 Hot Search Exhibitions" for July August this year. Among the top ten contemporary art exhibitions that netizens across the country are paying attention to, Shanghai occupies half of the country, and the quality and popularity of Shanghai's exhibitions are evident.
Among them, the "Art Museum with Bookstore" - the "Returning to Nature" international art group exhibition planned and organized by the Shanghai Mingzhu Art Museum ranked sixth, and ranked second among the five exhibitions selected in the top 10 in Shanghai.
Taking advantage of this summer hot exhibition, on August 8th, the Pearl Art Museum, in collaboration with the Shanghai Botanical Garden and the Mangrove Foundation, launched a "Go to Nature" nature note collection competition for young people, encouraging them to enter nature and learn to observe every plant and tree around them through drawing nature notes. Science and art should be combined. The works collected from the event will be selected by a natural note taking expert jury composed of museum experts, science popularization workers, school teachers, social welfare organizations, etc., who will award 3 gold awards, 6 silver awards, 10 bronze awards, and several excellent awards. The entries will have the opportunity to be selected for the Nature Note Tour and the "Nature Note" Collection Competition Album held at the Shanghai Botanical Garden and Pearl Art Museum · Heart Hall.
The creation of natural notes includes comprehensive abilities such as natural observation, plant diversity science popularization, and painting techniques learning. It is an excellent way to popularize natural science and artistic aesthetics, and is full of fun. To help interested audiences understand what natural note taking and drawing methods are, during the collection period, Mingzhu Art Museum will successively carry out various science popularization activities such as online public lectures on "Starting from Around" and offline two-day nature note taking camps on "Going into Nature". For example, the "Going to Nature" nature note taking children's two-day camp not only leads teenagers to Shanghai Botanical Garden to learn plant classification and popularize summer plants, but also goes to the Pearl Art Museum to watch the "Returning to Nature" exhibition's diverse natural themed art creations, learn basic techniques of plant painting, and truly connect interested teenagers with nature and art.
Starting from this exhibition, the cooperation between Mingzhu Art Museum and Shanghai Botanical Garden will be carried out in multiple fields and interdisciplinary fields such as research, exhibition, public education activities, and publishing. The exhibition and public education activities related to art and plant research will be planned, and art popularization will be carried out to the public. The "Going to Nature" natural note collection competition is one of them.
Li Dandan, the director of Xinhua Cultural and Creative · Guangdi Space and Mingzhu Art Museum, said, "Natural notes are a comprehensive and easy to understand science popularization and cultural activity. We look forward to young people from all over the country and the world visiting the Shanghai Botanical Garden, Mingzhu Art Museum, and the parks and nature around us. By learning the observation perspective and creative methods of natural notes, we can discover nature and the beauty of the world."
"I hope this activity can become a platform for teenagers and the general public to pay attention to nature and the environment around them, jointly promote the protection of biodiversity in Shanghai, explore the development model of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature in mega cities, and promote urban development," said Yan Wei, the director and deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Botanical Garden.
Since its opening, the Pearl Art Museum has been continuously focusing on green issues such as sustainable development and the connection between nature and art. For example, the "In the Name of Flowers" exhibition launched in 2020 has become a growing and emerging art and cultural brand project, and the "Long Term Effect" exhibition in 2022
During the "Returning to Nature" exhibition, the Pearl Art Museum held a variety of activities such as special lectures, forums, and workshops, discussing both art and nature, as well as science and philosophy. From multiple perspectives such as natural science, Western and Eastern philosophy, botany, anthropology, and art education, experts in related fields were invited to bring inspiring content. For example, the children's philosophy education expert Gao Haorong was invited to lead parents and children on a wise journey of integrating philosophical skills such as "questioning", "thinking", "exploration", and "explanation" from the two main themes of "children's philosophy" and "artistic cognition"; Inviting Yin Shan, Director of the Department of Resources and Environment at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, to share cases of forest construction and ecological monitoring in Shanghai over the past decade, exploring their roles and contributions in maintaining biodiversity, carbon sequestration and emission reduction, and serving the health of citizens, providing new ideas on harmonious coexistence between humans, cities, and nature; On August 13th, Dr. Zhang Huiqing, Director and Associate Professor of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescription Teaching and Research Office of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Naval Medical University, will give a special lecture on appreciating flowers, identifying herbs, and identifying medicinal herbs, teaching everyone the medicinal value of flowers and herbs.
