"Memory · Phantom -Cao Li Art" & "Quiet Daily -Zhang Xiaoxi Painting Works" Double Exhibition appeared in Guizhou Art Museum

Author:Central Academy of Fine Arts Time:2022.08.25

On August 20, 2022, "" Memory • Fantasy " -Cao Li Art, hosted by the Guizhou Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and hosted by the Guizhou Art Museum," Cao Li Art "," Quiet everyday "-The Zhang Xiaoxi painting works The exhibition "Double Exhibition opened at the Guizhou Art Museum.

Chen Wenzheng, a professor of the Department of Macration of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the vice chairman of the Chinese Oil Painting Society, a professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Yang Yang, a professor of the Department of Art History of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, Yan Xinyuan, a professor at the School of New Media and Design of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the animation and the animation and the Department of Modern Media University of China Zhang Jun, former deputy dean of the School of Digital Arts, Chairman of the Guizhou Artists Association, Xu Heng, a professor at the School of Fine Arts of Guizhou University, and experts and scholars from relevant art colleges in Guizhou, and guests from Guizhou art circles attended the opening ceremony.

President of the Chinese Artists Association, President Fan Di'an Video Speech by the Central Academy of Fine Arts

Fan Dian, chairman of the Chinese Artists Association and dean of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, said in a video speech that Cao Li's biggest feature is to be good at integrating individuals' cognition of life, society, and longing for the realm of art. The expression of cultivation and painting language, his world is mysterious and simple, the more you explore the more surprise discovery. Zhang Xiaoxi is talented and sincere, and has accumulated many works about daily life and true emotions. It can see things that many professional painters are pursuing and unable to pursue.

Deputy Director of the Chinese American Association National Art Committee, former Chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Academy of Arts, President Xi Hongwei presided over the opening ceremony and delivered a speech

Wu Hongwei, deputy director of the China American Association National Art Committee and former chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Art Association, said that the exhibition of this work brings together Cao Li's new work in recent years and important works and art literatures in various periods. A comprehensive review of ten years.

Pan Wenyi, Dean of the Guizhou Painting Academy and Chief of Guizhou Art Museum, spoke

Pan Wenyi, the president of the Guizhou Painting Academy and the director of the Guizhou Art Museum, said that Cao Li's oil painting works have a distinctive personal art language system. For this exhibition, the Guizhou Art Museum specifically reconstructed the expansion and upgrade of the exhibition hall, and strives to complete the exhibition. The unity of space and work style enables artist's works to better present.

Vice President of the Chinese Oil Painting Society and Professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts

The vice chairman of the Chinese Oil Painting Society and a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts recalled the experience of studying with Cao Li and Zhang Xiaoxi in Yangmei. He talked about Cao Li's work in college. The color level of the work is rich, which fully reflects the art blend of East and West.

Yang Feiyun, president of the Chinese Oil Painting Society, and his wife sent video congratulations

Artist Cao Li spoke

Cao Li recalled his growth experience in Guizhou. He talked that Guizhou's unique mountainous and rivers landforms and local customs had a deep -rooted and subtle influence on his art. This exhibition is his first return reporting exhibition in his 44 -year -old home. He hopes to let his hometown father understand how Cao Li, who was obsessed with painting that year, and what kind of way did he go out of art.

Artist Zhang Xiaoxi Speaking

Zhang Xiaoxi said that she enjoyed the process of talking to things with things when painting, and enjoyed the process of converting audio -visual stage opera art into the art of silent painting. It was the meaning of painting to find her life.

Chen Shunxiang, Secretary of the Party Branch of Guizhou Art Museum, came to power to issue a collection certificate to Cao Li and Zhang Xiaoxi

Geng Yan, vice chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Federation of Literature and Art Federation and Dean of the School of Fine Arts of Guizhou University, announced the opening of the exhibition

Seminar site

At the same time, the exhibition held a seminar "Cao Li Art Fifty Years" and "Static and Daily" seminar. The artist and the participating colleagues and paintings talked about painting experience and artistic perception. Provide a broad vision and open thinking for better transmission of Guizhou symbols.

"Memory · Phantom -Cao Li Art"

Preface

Mr. Cao Li's exhibition was held at the Guizhou Art Museum, and I was really happy. This is his first art returning journey after leaving his hometown, and also a journey of returning to his hometown. He said that this exhibition has a little review and the taste of reporting to the old friend. Although it is not a complete review, the exhibition works include all the creations of his types, including oil paintings and large amounts of paper works, and sculptures and devices. The literature and materials constitute the pictures of his decades of artistic minds. I deeply feel that this exhibition is the heart of his fellow and fellows of his hometown and revealing his affection. He is a manifestation of his empathy, treating others, and sincerity. The album published by the exhibition is also an art assembly, which carefully sorted out his spiritual demand and profound accomplishment in art in the past 50 years, let us see his artistic evolution trajectory and creative accumulation. As his colleagues in Yangmei, I expressed warm congratulations and sincere respect for this!

Cao Li was a generation of painters from the era of reform and opening up from learning art to growing talents. The most valuable quality on his body is always keeping a pure artistic ideal, constantly grinding accumulation in long -term practice, consciously resolving the constraints of external themes, returning to the mind of the soul, so that the experience of Chinese and Western painting and the country gene of Guizhou are in the country's local genes. Self -settings and self -reliance have gained a new vitality, and in the active "center of the center of the center", the "centralization of the edge" containing the power of strong individuals is constructed. During his studies at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, he laid a solid foundation foundation, sketched the image and created paintings in a large number of sketching and composition practice. The boundary area of the border is the characteristic of his "style" and "style". He abandoned the worldly thoughts and trendy urge, sincerely observed nature, quietly thinking about art, drawing the aura of heaven and earth in thousands of meters, refining contemporary values in ancient and modern classics, and injecting full enthusiasm and plenty of imagination into brushes, breaking the brush, breaking Performing the rules and the boundaries of time and space, with children's simple and bold, let the expressive and creative online and colorful combinations flow. From his works, he can see his distinctive subject consciousness and self -awareness, surreal art imagination and spitting language, and build the Merit Materials of the Western Painting Media and Local Materials, Plane expression and symbolic metaphor, primitive wildness and modern spirit. It has a deep humanistic connotation and a realistic artistic realm. Putting Cao Li's artistic evolution in the cultural context of the times observed, it can be seen that he has formed a seal of self -pursuit. After the reform and opening up in the 1980s, new ideas and new concepts continued to pour into the art world, which was undoubtedly an impact and threat to the younger generation of painters. In addition to realistic and classical art, Cao Li began to explore the expression of art itself. From his early masterpiece "Miao Family Style", it is not difficult to see his creative methods of taking the country and shaping the people, but he even absorbed Western modern art nutrition and traditional Chinese art extracts, and established the culture of Bona, China and the West. The artistic ideals of learning and adherence to free expression come from the mysterious and agile cultural genes from the land of Guizhou, and provide him with unique mental resources. In his art world, his love for life is not only reflected in the nostalgia, but also the longing for the city, but also to be beyond the reality. Therefore, absorbing the aura of nature, fully expressing rich imagination, and the ever -changing brushstroke texture and color composition, eventually remitted into his unique theme, and pioneered a new state of art containing local spirit.

In my opinion, Cao Li's works have three outstanding characteristics:

First, the heart tour is created, and the grid is known. Heaven and earth are the source of his inexhaustible creation. When he observes the agility of the ecology of all things, he is particularly good at refining a symbolic styling structure and picture form. Incorporate the combination and reconstruction of imaginative space on the paper. He always pursues a deep and harmonious visual aesthetics. The bold changes of the composition layout, the layers of the lines and the shape of the image are all condensed as a visual picture with a strong surreal meaning. In terms of color tone, he explores the use of gray tone in the full and warm oil color, forming the effect of colors, so that the described shape and the created picture presents psychedelic visuals in the superposition of the color blocks. Essence Cao Li's awe and insight into the natural creature made the art world wide. Between the long and horizontal puppets of the brushes, the visual picture of the beings of the creature was formed, and the richness of the self -soul world was launched.

Second, take the horse as the phase and see yourself. Cao Li is a horse and also likes to paint a horse. The horses of various forms have become frequent visits in his works. We can view the horse as his spiritual partner or even his portrait. Since the 1990s, the image of the horse has appeared in his works in large numbers. Their style and expression, the power and changes of the Pentium, entrust Cao Li’s emotions and temperament, imagination and creation, and become his life state and thoughts. Deep metaphorical symbols. Cao Li's horse is not an objective recording, but the mysterious power that is interspersed and flashed in his spiritual world, or deforms or exaggerated, or dislocates or upside down. Essence His paintings seem to be empty and unrestrained, but in fact, his grasp of lines, rich colors, delicate texture fluctuations, and solid structural variations are all used to be good. Poetic mind. He borrowed his horses and looked at himself and thought of his own reveries and sensitivity. It was a reflection and answer to the situation of life, making his works construct a deep humanistic charm in a simple monologue.

Third, the pen is followed by Le Sheng, surpassing Chinese and Western. Cao Li learned the piano since he was a child. In the old campus of the Jingshuai Garden of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, his violin's voice often echoed in the corridor of the student dormitory. The music and painting, sound and painting, became Cao Li's expertise, and violin became one of the common objects in his works. He also pays special attention to the rhythm and aesthetic value of the picture itself. He transformed the free melody and beating notes in the music into a careful composition in the picture. The layout of the object is in order, the line arrangement is methodical, and the composition of color is suitable. More importantly, Cao Li found a way of survival beyond China and the West with music. His "swimming art" made him learn from two cultures of Chinese and Western cultures, and used aesthetic to refer to the harmony of the integration of Chinese and Western culture. He uses his understanding of life as the background, and is beyond utilitarian and simple artistic expression. He tells the general destiny concerns of human beings, about faith, happiness, distress, and death, which has brought about the distance between China and the West, proved that art is the art is The language of the world. In the era of complicated images, contemporary art with painting medium as a language form is a difficult constructive construction. It requires artists to move towards the depth of the belief of prejudice, respond to the common demands of life in the individual's emotion, and show that through formal language shows themselves in form language, showing themselves in form language to show themselves themselves. Artistic character. Cao Li's works constructed surreal free pictures with a pure pen tone, the deformation and combination of objects, and the fullness and depth of spirit, reflecting his artistic style of elegant style and profound meaning. For decades, he has sinked into the creation and concentrated arts, and has not been moved by the tide. He has maintained an independent art pursuit in Bo Ci, the West and the Contemporary Da Da. A vibrant space. This is not only the inner experience of Cao Li's experience of the times, but also his time as a contemporary artist.

Chairman of the Chinese Artists Association

Dean of the Central Academy of Fine Arts

Van Di'an

"Quiet everyday -Zhang Xiaoxi Painting Works Exhibition"

Preface

It has been thirty years since I saw the first sketch of Xiaoxi for the first time. For many years, I have been curious and looking forward to her paintings. I like the sincerity and focus on her work, this emotion is very thin today. After several years of hard work in the college, we finally achieved the style of styling technology. When each work can easily meet our expectations, it is found that the effect of the picture is not much different from the photos, and The work is easy to be similar. Those vivid, fresh, unexpected, and personalized elements are not valuable in the paintings of the stream. Interestingly: Initially, Xiaoxi also wanted to control the expectations of the screen. The painting process has always been very laborious to aim at the target heart. The effect of the outside. Based on this alone, it may be said that she was blessed because she had not received systematic professional training! I think this is why her artistic works are loved and collected by many professionals!

I often go to think, what is the element that moves my work. She painted some very common objects: the flowers inserted in the vase, the fruits placed in the fruit plate, many bottle cans that she collected and the scenery of the scenery when going out. I think what I value is that every stroke in the picture is the result of her serious observation. The pen is not slippery, there is no reliable experience. The painting process is very focused. The strokes are even awkward and naive. Essence She has a natural understanding of color, and composition is also a personal preference. I think her so -called observation, the subjective ingredients account for the main position. I can't see the specific imaging effect in her mind, but I can see what she wants to think in front of her eyes and the last effect after synthesizing on the picture. I can only marvel at the life I saw in her eyes through her work so different from the world I saw! Without a special scene, we usually don't pay too much attention to a common daily necessities. I found that this object was so cute through the guidance of her work! It turns out that it can be depicted like this, and the color dares to match it like this! Can it be understood like this; although a song that is familiar with the heart, we are willing to listen to different singers to sing in different styles. This is also the preciousness of her artistic value.

The stream in daily life is an unable to live in a person who likes to do things. After busy, she is very intoxicated with the personal world of facing the canvas. Xiaoxi's paintings are not the result of thinking, but because of a sense of innocence, it is not easy to copy with knowledge just by knowledge. Her achievements today have her talents and sensitivity, and of course, she is inseparable from the nourishment of her surrounding art environment. Probably she felt that she was not born in a science class, but she had a nearly religious awe of the attitude towards art. She was very serious, sincere, and focused. So her paintings are very beautiful! Look at it! Although she has seen her personal painting exhibition several times, so many years later, I was startled by her progress in painting! Daily accumulation has bloomed such beautiful flowers. Congratulations to Xiaoxi!

Professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts

Chen Wenji

丨 Exhibition site

丨 "Memory · Phantom -Cao Li Art" part of the exhibition works

"Miao Family Style" 150cmx160cmx4 cloth surface propylene 1982

"Heat of Life" 180cmx140cm cloth oil painting 2010 "The Ancient Rhymes of the Han Dynasty" 90cmx140cm cloth oil painting 2016

"Wilderness Dusk Chorus" 110cmx140cm cloth oil painting 2018-2020

"Victory-Light of Hope" 300cmx42cm cloth oil painting 2020-2021

"Thor Driving" 136cmx96cm cloth oil painting 2020-2021

丨 "Quiet everyday -Zhang Xiaoxi Painting Works Exhibition" part of the exhibition works

"Orange Pot" 20cmx30cm wooden board oil painting 2015 2015

"Red Tune" 30cmx40cm cloth oil painting 2016

"Little White Bottle and Red Hawthorn" 50cmx40cm cloth oil painting 2021

"Cloud outside the window" 35cmx35cm cloth oil painting 2020

"Blooming Flowers" 30cmx30cm Flat Oil Painting 2022

Introduction to the artist

Cao Lijian

Cao Li was born in Guiyang, Guizhou in 1954. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1982, a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and the director of the original painting department.

Zhang Xiaoxi, born in Guiyang, Guizhou in 1959, actor in Guiyang Review Troupe from 1977 to 1985, began learning painting in 1990. From 1993 to 1995, he studied in mural assistants in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Department of student work.

丨 Exhibition Information