Paintings of Mountains and Rivers---- The first exhibition by Xie Xin in Beijing, an Mountain-and-water painting master from Xiangxiang

         On the 4th May of 2012, the "Charm of the Divine Land - the 70th Anniversary of Xie Xin Painting Career Exhibition" is opened ceremoniously in Art Museum of Beijing Fine Art Academy, the exhibition is hosted by the Art Museum of Beijing Fine Art Academy, Chinese Artists Association Academic Committee, Hu’nan Artists Association, Qi Baishi Memorial Museum and Xiangxiang Municipal Committee of the CPC, Xiangxiang Municipal People's Government.

         Xie Xin was born in 1924 in Xiangxiang, Hunan Province. Mr. Xie is 90 years old this year; he had followed Xu Beihong, Zhang Anzhi, Gao Xishun, huang Junbi in the early of his art life. He absorbed the art education which combined both Chinese and Western art style. He used paintbrush to serve the War of Resistance Against Japan, War of Liberation and the construction of China. Although he was persecuted in Against Hu Feng, the Against Rightist and the Culture Revolution, he loves the Communist Party and people all the time. This exhibition included 68 paintings which he painted during his journey, his paintings depicted Guilin’s particular landscape, magnificent Inner Mongolia Grassland scenery, gorgeous red sorghum in Dongbei, gigantic Helan Mountains and arduous stone forest, despite the scenery the artist also painted the spirit of mountain-and-water. In particularly, Mr.Xie’s later years’ paintings though distinct theme and possess convey the characteristic of authority's demeanour.

          Shao Dazhen, who is the famous art critic, said that Xie Xin's mountain-and-water painting is similar to his personality which is simple and unadorned, pure, full of culture and spirit. This kind of mountain-and-water painting with humanistic spirit and internal spirit of the times is rare in today's blundering art circles.