Guangzhou Art Museum

Guangzhou Art Museum is located on the Bank of Luhu lake at the south foot of Baiyun Mountain. It is a landmark cultural construction project in Guangzhou. It is an elegant cultural palace integrating ancient and modern treasures and Lingnan art. It is a large comprehensive art museum in South China. It was completed and opened on September 23, 2000, covering an area of 20000 square meters and a construction area of 40000 square meters. The collection is mainly based on the collection of ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy works, especially focusing on the painting and calligraphy works in Lingnan area, taking into account other categories of works of art.

Guangzhou Art Museum

Guangzhou Art Museum is located at the foot of Baiyun Mountain on the shore of the lake, with a total investment of nearly 200 million yuan. Art Museum is a national unique modern large-scale art museum integrating many famous artists, special exhibition hall and exchange exhibition hall. Guan Shanyue, Zhao shaoang, Li Xiongcai, Yang Shanshen and Yang Zhiguang, the masters of Lingnan Painting School, Lai Shaoqi and Liao Bingxiong, the masters of calligraphy and painting, Ou Chu and Zhao Tailai, the collectors, all have special celebrity museums named after them in the art museum. Guangzhou Art Museum is now a patriotic education base. It is open to the public free of charge.

In 2015, it was selected as the second batch of national key art museums.

Architectural design

Guangzhou Art Museum is designed by Mo Bozhi, a famous architect and academician of Chinese Academy of engineering. The whole building integrates Lingnan architecture and gardens, and carries forward the spirit of the times, forming an architectural group with rich outline, towering towers, courtyard landscape and exquisite carving. Wenta is set in the middle of the front of the art museum. The architectural details of the tower have metaphors of "Yang" and "Feng", pointing out the local names of Yangcheng and Suicheng. On the red sandstone wall in the south of Wenta, there are abundant prehistoric rock reliefs to show the long history of Lingnan culture; on the north of Wenta, there are the entrance gate of the exhibition hall and three pairs of solid wood carved gates, which are precious, elegant and extraordinary. The traditional courtyard space is used in the building space, which should be high and low terrain, wide and narrow terrain, four buildings are surrounded by four sides to form courtyard. The transition of towers with different shapes is adopted in the transition part. The buildings are scattered in different heights. The details are decorated with Fenghuo Gables, eaves of Han and Tang Dynasties, stone carvings of zhutoulong, etc. with Lingnan local characteristics, so as to show the style and culture of Lingnan area.

Introduction to the exhibition hall

The long-term exhibition halls set up by the Institute include Chinese painting Museum, Chinese calligraphy Museum, Foshan Ceramic Art Museum, special exhibition hall, sculpture exhibition area, etc. The first batch of all kinds of works of art on display totaled 1027 pieces, 1289 pieces in kind, covering tens of thousands of works of art, such as traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy, oil painting, gouache, watercolor, print, sketch, sketch, sculpture and tablet inscription, rubbings, Thangka, bronzes, etc. The collection is rich and exquisite, ranking in the forefront of the National Art Museum.

first floor

Chinese painting gallery

It displays the fine paintings of Chinese dynasties accumulated by Guangzhou Art Museum in the past decades. The collection of paintings started from the song and Yuan Dynasties to the present age, and many of them are precious national first and second class cultural relics.

Guan Shanyue Art Museum

Guan Shanyue, born in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, is the main representative of Lingnan Painting School. The representative works on display in the museum include "iceberg on the wall", "flying sparrow on cotton", etc.

Lai Shaoqi Art Museum

Lai Shaoqi, a native of Puning, Guangdong Province, is the main founder of "new Hui school" prints. Representative works: door god in the war of resistance against Japan, flowers, etc.

The second floor

Special exhibition hall

All kinds of short-term special exhibitions will be held, the first round of which is "watercolor, gouache and powder painting exhibition".

Li Xiongcai Art Museum

Li Xiongcai, born in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, is a representative of Lingnan School of painting. He created the style of "Lijia landscape". His representative works include: reading the book of changes in Shanju, Huayan waterfall in Japan, etc.

Liao Bingxiong Art Museum

Brother Liao Bing, born in Guangzhou, is a famous cartoonist in China. Representative works: Zichao, Jinming, etc.

Sculpture exhibition area

It shows all kinds of attempts made by Chinese sculptors on the basis of the integration of China and the West since the 20th century.

The third layer

Zhao Tailai collection

Zhao Tailai, an overseas Chinese living in Britain, is an art collector whose ancestral home is Dongguan, Guangdong. The exhibits are mainly ancient and modern cultural relics.

Chinese calligraphy Museum

The collection spans from the Song Dynasty to the present age, with the collection of Ming and Qing Dynasties as the bulk.

Zhao shaoang Art Museum

Zhao shaoang, born in Panyu, Guangdong Province, is a representative of Lingnan Painting School. Representative works: Twilight in Guilin, fish chasing flowers, etc.

Main collections

Collection treasures

The collection of art museum is based on the collection of traditional Chinese paintings in Guangzhou Art Museum. Many of them are valuable art treasures. The treasure of Zhenyuan is the painting of ink bamboo by Wentong in the Northern Song Dynasty, the painting of birds gathering in autumn by Lin Liang in the Ming Dynasty and the painting of Huangshan shixinfeng by Hongren in the Qing Dynasty. Among them, "Mo Zhu Tu" is very precious. There are only three paintings that have been handed down and recognized as Wentong. One is in the Chinese History Museum in Beijing, one is in the Forbidden City in Taiwan, and the other is in the art museum. In addition, Ming Daijin's "mountains are high and rivers are long", with a total length of more than 20 meters, the highest in the country. Fan Zeng, a famous artist, visited the art museum and bowed when he saw these fine works. In collecting cultural relics and works of art, the Art Museum has the support of veteran artists Guan Shanyue, Li Xiongcai, Lai Shaoqi, Liao Bingxiong and their families. It is particularly worth mentioning that Zhao Tailai, a British collector, has donated cultural relics to the art museum three times in succession, which is rare since the founding of the people's Republic of China. The Tibetan Thangka donated by him is second only to the collection of Potala Palace in Lhasa in terms of quality and grade. These thangkas were bought by Zhao Tailai with a lot of money when he was exiled from Tibet to foreign countries for auction in London.

Private donation

Since the 1950s, people at home and abroad have successively donated to Guangzhou Art Museum, including leading comrades such as Tao Zhu, Zhu Guang and Wu Nanshan, and celebrities such as Jiang Guangding and ye gongchuo. Mr. Rong Geng collected 1088 calligraphy and paintings, which were donated to Guangzhou Art Museum in four times. Mr. Yang Quan of Hong Kong donated 796 pieces of ancient paintings. The family members of Chen Shuren, Huang Shaoqiang, situ Qiao, Fu Luofei, Huang Prajna and Hu gentian donated calligraphy and paintings. We have collected a batch of paintings and calligraphy by Mr. Gao Jianfu, and more than 100 pieces of legal inscriptions of celebrities in the Haishan fairy Hall of Qing Dynasty. During the preparation of Guangzhou Art Museum, Mr. Lai Shaoqi and his wife Zeng Fei donated 275 pieces of paintings and calligraphy; Mr. Guan Shanyue donated 106 pieces of paintings and calligraphy; Mr. Li Xiongcai donated 154 pieces of paintings and calligraphy; Mr. Zhao shaoang and his relatives Zhao Zhigan and Zhao Zhitai donated 1490 pieces of paintings and calligraphy; Mr. Yang Shanshen donated 121 pieces of paintings and calligraphy; Mr. Yang Zhiguang donated 649 pieces of traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy, sketching and creative drafts; Mr Mr. Chu donated 84 pieces of Hebi traditional Chinese paintings, 213 pieces of four treasures of the study and 127 pieces of ceramics; Mr. Zhao Tailai donated 451 pieces of bronze ware, 61 pieces of Thangka and a batch of calligraphy and painting.

Exhibitions and collections

Li kongxiu's poem reciting on the back of a donkey

Li kongxiu (1436-1526) has a long character and is known as baozhenzi. Shunde, Guangdong, is an overseas Chinese living in Guangzhou. Gongshi is good at painting. He is good at painting feathers, animals and landscapes.

Money: Zichang.

Postscript: when Jia Dao met Wen Gong, he did not think about it on the mule road. Just because the birds stay by the pond, pushing words is not like knocking words. Shi Zhai Shu.

Seal: Zichang (seal in white) Shizhai (seal in white)

In the early Ming Dynasty, zhuzixue was regarded as one of the most important schools. With the compilation and promulgation of the three complete works, the academic circle was restrained by the stylized zhuzixue. The trend of Eight Legged selection of scholars flourished in the world. Chen Baisha advocated "complacency" and opened up the way of mind learning in Ming Dynasty. Since then, the style of study has changed. The painting and calligraphy of Baisha school also pursue "book is heart, heart is reason".

Li kongxiu is Chen Baisha's proud disciple, known for his upright nature. According to the general annals of Guangdong, Li kongxiu is good at painting cats. His princes and princes paid a lot of money for painting. Instead of painting, Li kongxiu gave some to the woodcutter and other common people. In the history of painting, Li kongxiu is famous for his painting of animals, especially cats. According to folklore, the hair and bones of the cat painted by Li kongxiu are real, and the mice are scared away when they see them. Therefore, many people ask Li kongxiu to draw a cat to prevent rats. It is also said that Li kongxiu once drew a picture of birds. When a fire broke out, the birds in the picture immediately turned into real birds and flew away, "people saw them flying away from the smoke.". Li kongxiu's cat painting has disappeared, and the existing painting axis of poetry chanting on the back of a donkey by Guangzhou Art Museum represents the level of his figure painting. The picture only shows a man, a donkey and a corner of a mountain and stone, but it vividly tells the story of Jia Dao, a poet of Tang Dynasty, riding a donkey and reciting poems, which contains the emotion of "thing and self". Li Gongming, a professor of Guangzhou Academy of fine arts, commented that Li's "freehand brushwork of ink and wash, the literati's interest is beyond the brush and ink, and he has the style of a master who seems to have done it inadvertently, which seems to contain the spirit of Su Renshan in the future.".

Wang Zhao's Yangliu waterfowl scroll

Wang Zhao (Ming Dynasty, from the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 16th century) was named Dechu and Haiyun. Xiuning (now Anhui) people. Good at landscape, character, flower and bird. The style is close to that of Wu Wei and Zhang Lu, and the picture is turbulent.

Color design of silk

On the right side of the painting is a willow tree with ancient trunk and thick ink. The author enlivens the picture with weeping willows, waterfowls and ribbons, and enhances the heavy texture of the picture with tree trunks and slope stones. The whole picture is vivid, interesting, natural and natural

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