Lingnan – Works from the Collection of Professor Shi Yun-Wen

29 Nov Lingnan – Works from the Collection of Professor Shi Yun-Wen

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The Xinhai Revolution of 1911 not only shook the Chinese politics but also stirred the artistic world. The rise of the Lingnan School in the south can be traced to the brothers Ju Chao and Ju Lian, who were the leading figures of the artistic movement. The best known “Two Gaos and One Chen” refer to the most significant artists Gao Jianfu, Gao Qifeng and Chen Shuren.

 

Gao Jianfu founded the Spring Awakening Art Academy after the success of the Xinhai Revolution. Gao promoted taking “realism derived from Western art” which he had learnt during his studies in Japan, and encouraged fellow artists to “combine the best from the East and West as well as the Past and Present”. On the other hand, those traditionalists established the “Guihai Painting Cooperative” in opposition of Gao’s new theories.

 

The debates between the Lingnan School and the Chinese Painting Association based on various topics such as the criticism on the development of Chinese paintings, the understanding of traditional literati paintings, painting in plein air, and the relationship between Chinese, Western and Japanese art, and the discussions lasted as long as two years. In fact, such disagreements were still discussed in the 1930s and 1940s, and had a lasting impact on the development of modern art in China.

 

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Lingnan – Works from the Collection of Professor Shi Yun-Wen

Exhibition Duration | 17th November – 16th December 2018

VIP Preview | 16th November 2018

Talk | 17th November 2018, 14.00-16.00

Speakers | Professor Shi Yun-Wen, Dr Lai Yu-Chih, Associate Research Fellow in the Institute of Modern History in Academia Sinica, and Dr Chen Yunru, Faculty Member of the Department of Painting and Calligraphy in the National Palace Museum

 

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