2012 Ink Paintings on Four Seasons: Nomination Exhibition on Chinese Painting by Contemporary Outstanding Artists

         "Sing through the years and paint the four seasons." Jointly organized by the Art Museum of Beijing Fine Art Academy and Beijing Century Light Art Center, the opening ceremony of "2012 Ink Paintings on Four Seasons: Nomination Exhibition on Chinese Painting by Contemporary Outstanding Artists" will start in the Art Museum of Beijing Fine Art Academy at 10:00am on October 10th , 2012. 

          Since the first session held in 2008, this has already been the fifth year. The curatorial concept has changed, and the exhibition theme varies each time with new painters emerged. However, one thing has never changed which is contemporary outstanding painters meet at a high level platform, freely showing their new exploration and directly expressing demands of communication and interaction with the audience.

          The "Four Seasons" has profound meanings, which can refer to the timing, concept, styles, forms and other active, passive or the unexpected evolution and change, filled with tension, temptation, and imaginative space for now or the future, artists or the audience.

          Ink painting belongs to China, naturally carried with a distant and deep cultural memory. Ou Yangjiong's "Guan Xiu Ying Meng Luo Han Hua Ge" was recorded in Quan Tang Shi, with the sentence "Heaven bestowed inks to paint buddha, spectacular landscapes, and familiar figures". Ink painting is free and in-depth expression of techniques. A painter can draw dignified and simplified figures as well as fantastic flowers and birds. You may also try painting grand landscapes, like Wu Daozi's work "Thousands-of-miles Jialing River". Randomness is very common in ink painting. The hardest part is to control over time in a free manner, acquiring forms and spirit naturally while innovating. Ink painting can transcend over pure techniques and forms, rendering inner implications. It thus highlights the independent aesthetic value. Ancient painting theory illustrates Chinese impressionism, with the essence that simple strokes carries strong feelings, less elements conveys more meaning. This is fully applicable to ink painting, which is so marvelous and difficult to make out.

         The fifth session "Ink Paintings on Four Seasons" is held in 2012, inviting twelve contemporary well-known artists nationwide together to give the impressive show. The nominated artists are Du Dakai, Liu Mu, Zhang Peicheng, Lao Pu, Zhang Zhimin, Liu Jinan, Zhou Jingxin, Hu Yingkang, Xu Huaxiang, Fang Xiang, Lei Ziren, and Qiu Ting. The works include figures, landscapes, flowers and birds of various categories, covering all aspects of contemporary metropolitan and rural life. The totally more than 80 pieces not only concerned with subject matter and rich connotation, but also characters of painters and works. These new artworks presented painters' latest thinking and pursuit by way of visual images, from which the audience can feel the charm of ink painting, tension of forms and the spirit of the subjective.

          The exhibition will continue until October 19th.