Wu Zixiong Glass Art Museum

Wuzixiong glass art museum is located in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province. It is the first glass carving art museum in China. It can be regarded as the unique wuzixiong glass art museum in China. It was founded by Wu Zixiong, a famous master of Arts and crafts in China. It displays the fine arts created by the master for more than 40 years. It has high cultural connotation and has been praised by the party and state leaders for many times. Using grinding wheel as pen and glass as painting, glass carving art is a wonderful flower in the forest of national arts and crafts in China, and also the most distinctive arts and crafts in Zhejiang.

The museum displays exquisite works of art created by Wu Zixiong and his son and his disciples over the years, precious photos taken by Hu Yaobang, Jiang Zemin, Qiao Shi, Li gangqing, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Chi Haotian and other party and state leaders with Master Wu Zixiong, as well as autographs signed by more than 20000 international friends, praising glass art with high cultural taste and rich connotation.

Wu Zixiong Glass Art Museum

Wuzixiong glass art museum is located in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province. It is the first glass carving art museum in China. It was founded by Wu Zixiong, a famous master of Arts and crafts in China. The museum displays the fine arts created by the master for more than 40 years. It has a high cultural connotation and has been praised by leaders of the party and the state for many times. At present, the new museum, which is being built according to the national 4A tourist area (spot) standard, will become a shining city card of Taizhou.

Wu Zixiong and glass art

Using grinding wheel as pen and glass as painting, glass carving art is a wonderful flower in the forest of national arts and crafts in China, and also the most distinctive arts and crafts in Zhejiang. The museum displays exquisite works of art created by Wu Zixiong and his son and his disciples over the years, precious photos taken by Hu Yaobang, Jiang Zemin, Qiao Shi, Li Lanqing, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Chi Haotian and other party and state leaders with Master Wu Zixiong, as well as autographs signed by more than 20000 international friends, praising glass art with high cultural taste and rich connotation.

Wu Zixiong lost his parents when he was young. At the age of 11, he had no money to go to school. Start wandering. After liberation, he became the first generation of glass carving workers in Haimen glass factory. For more than 40 years, with indomitable will and tireless artistic pursuit, he has been painstakingly pondering and exploring on the spinning wheel peak and transparent glass, pushing the glass carving art to a new level and becoming a leader in this field. His works, a combination of eastern and Western art, have both traditional connotation and modern flavor, and are highly artistic.

establish

Wuzixiong glass art museum is located in the middle of jiazhijing cultural corridor, Central Avenue, Jiaojiang District, Taizhou city. The purpose of its establishment is to reveal the tenacious vitality. It tells people that no matter it's inanimate glass or living people, or whether it's a "thing" in the wilderness or a "person" who becomes a vagrant, as long as you are good at yourself, you will become a rare material under certain conditions. When people come here, they will calm down, make people balanced, and enter a realm that philosophers call "people should not be too worldly, too materialistic, too worldly, but also need spirit". Here, in wuzixiong glass art museum, you can be influenced, sensed and sublimated by the spirit.

development

In 1998, wuzixiong glass art museum was awarded two-level patriotism education base by Taizhou City and Jiaojiang District. The basic composition of the base is the dreamlike glass art world and the legendary life of Master Wu Zixiong. Founded on August 19, 1998, wuzixiong glass art museum is a highlight of Taizhou culture. At that time, it was located at No. 7, Xingming Road, Jiaojiang District, covering an area of 3 mu and a reception area of 3000 square meters. Although it has rich collections, it can't be upgraded. At that time, Zhang Guoying, director of Guangdong Provincial People's Congress, said, "we all have high-rise buildings in Taizhou, but we can't find special venues like wuzixiong in Guangzhou Here we are. Such venues reflect the taste of the city, if only there was a bigger space. " Director Zhang's words are deeply rooted in the hearts of Wu Zixiong and his son. They are determined to build a new art museum. Under the care of Taizhou Municipal Party committee and government, after two years of efforts, the new museum was finally completed on May 22, 2004. This is the overall style of Wu Zixiong glass art museum. This double-layer black building integrates modern civilization and ancient tradition, and integrates oriental culture and European and American style. It rises in the middle of the prosperous jiazhijing cultural corridor. In the East, the mountains are vast and the river is surrounded; in the west, the trees are dancing and the rivers are connected.

Architectural design

As one of the top ten tourist attractions in Taizhou City and two patriotic education bases in Taizhou City and Jiaojiang District, the glass art museum is designed according to the national 4A tourist attraction standard. Attention to the unique appearance, people daydream; into the wonderful palace, even more intoxicated. Covering an area of 15 mu and a construction area of more than 7000 square meters, the new museum has four skylights of 60 square meters. In the open exhibition hall, you can fully enjoy the natural pleasure of "wandering in the sky, clouds and shadows". There are more than 3000 crystal clear sculptures in the Museum, which are extremely beautiful. You can not only learn about Wu Zixiong's legendary life of growing up from a vagrant to a master of Arts and crafts, but also have the opportunity to roam the dreamlike crystal art world with Wu Zixiong.

Characteristic collection

Here, you can learn about the "glass culture" created by our ancestors along the ancient Yellow River more than 2000 years ago; you can see the photos of close dialogue between three generations of Chinese leaders and Wu Zixiong; you can also see the handwriting written by more than 28000 foreign friends for Wu Zixiong. It can be seen that a series of life themed works carved by Wu Zixiong, such as "the source of life", "the power of life", "the tension of life", "the melody of life", "the desire of life" and other works with Chinese cultural connotation, show us the beauty of glass, art and emotion, and feel the power of "life".

In the museum, you can see the only large-scale relief art work "87 immortal scroll" with a length of 15 meters in China; you can see the only glass carving calligraphy corridor in China, and the ink given by hundreds of politicians and calligraphers are all carved on the glass with concave convex carving techniques. In the corridor, there is the Yellow Crane Tower presented by Chairman Wu Bangguo to Mr. Wu Zixiong and the ink rhyme inscribed by more than 30 Chinese ambassadors abroad. You can see the unique color relief glass art arrangement. In the "exhibition hall of the foreign Pavilion", Wu Zixiong re carved 20 foreign famous paintings on the glass, vividly representing the charm and charm of the original painting, which is amazing . There are also "crystal chess" and "glass newspaper". It is the world's first largest glass newspaper. It is the "Tianjin Daily" on October 1, 1949, reflecting the grand occasion of the founding of the people's Republic of China. It was written to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China. Enlarged by 6 times of the original, it is composed of two 2.2-meter-high and 2.6-meter-wide "layout" and weighs 125 kg. The original printed regular script, running script and leader portrait are all carved by Ceramic Art Click engraving technique combined with glass engraving technique, which has been declared the Guinness world record in Shanghai.

significance

Since the establishment of wuzixiong glass art museum, wuzixiong and his son have devoted themselves and managed carefully. Since the implementation of the "Three Represents", we have realized the importance of building an advanced culture. We should pay more attention to human care, humanistic construction, constant innovation, adjust the focus of the exhibition, realize the theme play, and make exhibition education to a higher level. After a recent visit abroad, Wu Gang felt that the art of glass carving is not only Chinese, but also world-wide. In order to let Chinese art go to the world and let the people of the world understand China, a train of "training production exhibition" should be built in Wu Zixiong glass art museum, and the art of glass carving should be developed as an industry.

Social evaluation

At present, Wu Zixiong Glass Art Museum has established sister museums with his Majesty's Museum in Shengde, France, Mupu Art Museum in South Korea, Dale chihari "boat house" Museum in the United States, and friendship museums with Lei Feng Memorial in Liaoning and Huayun Museum in Tianjin. The Art Museum has become the moral education base of Taizhou vocational and technical college, the quality education base of Taizhou radio and Television University, the quality education base of Zhejiang Huangyan Normal University, the practice base of Taizhou University, the ideological and moral construction education base of Taizhou minors, the patriotism education base of Jiaojiang No.1 Middle School, and the practice base of Taizhou evening news reporters.

Wu Zixiong glass art museum is a business card of Taizhou city. Most of the guests who come to Taizhou come to visit the museum. The gifts that represent Taizhou are the products of the museum. Over the past few years, more than 80 international friends have visited the museum, with more than 28000 inscriptions, 500 state leaders, more than 10000 inscriptions and more than 200000 visitors. On behalf of national level gifts to international friends, such as "Cherry Blossom flying swallow" given to former Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, "pine and crane spring" given to former US President Bill Clinton, and a portrait of French President Jacques Chirac. On behalf of the provinces and cities, several hundred pieces were presented, such as "reunification of Kowloon" for the return of Hong Kong, and "Lotus lion" for the return of Macao. Many exhibits are collected by many art museums at home and abroad.

Master Wu Zixiong is also a friendly Ambassador of national, provincial and municipal culture. He flew to the United States three times and Fusang seven times, covering more than 20 countries and regions. Recently, he was invited by the Beijing Municipal Government on May 31, 2005 to serve as the world's Nobel Prize winner at the Oriole Hall of the summer palace in Beijing

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