The first in the series of painter exchange exhibitions is Han Shuo's ink figure painting exhibition, and the Beijing Painting Academy and Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy are blooming "side by side"
On May 31, the first exhibition of the "Bingdi·Beijing Academy of Painting and Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy Painter Exchange Exhibition Series" co-sponsored by the Beijing Painting Academy and the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy, "Jane Zhen - Han Shuo's Ink Figure Painting Exhibition", opened at the Beijing Painting Academy.
In 2023, the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy and the Beijing Painting Academy reached a consensus to cooperate in establishing a painter exchange and exhibition mechanism. "Jane Zhen - Han Shuo's Ink Figure Painting Exhibition" is not only the first exhibition since the establishment of the exchange exhibition mechanism for painters from the two academies, but also a retrospective exhibition of Han Shuo's personal art.
Han Shuo is a national first-class artist, director of the Art Committee of the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy, researcher of the China National Academy of Painting, and vice president of the Chinese Painting Society. He once served as vice president of the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy, director of the Chinese Artists Association, and member of the Chinese Painting Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association.
The exhibition brings together more than 70 masterpieces of ink figure paintings by Han Shuo since the 1980s. These include "Relatives", which he collaborated with Shi Dawei in 1984, "Hot Blood" created in 1999 and won the gold medal at the National Art Exhibition, "Nanchang Uprising", "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove" and other representative works. All these works are on display, which is a rare sight. It is also an academic sorting and presentation of Han Shuo's ink figure painting creation over the past decades. The works on display are based on tradition, integrated into the aesthetics of the times, and molded by themselves. They are ancient but not rigid, change but not weird, new but not vulgar. They demonstrate Han Shuo's profound skills in the creation of ink figure paintings and the characteristics of the times.
In addition, the exhibition displays many creations and sketches of Buddhist and Taoist figures, opera figures, historical figures and contemporary figures by Han Shuo. Han Shuo pursues simplicity in traces and complexity in connotation, emphasizes the spirit of pen and ink, attaches great importance to the refinement of drafts, and focuses on literary artistic conception and other painting concepts and pursuits, which can be traced in the exhibited works.
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