Life upward | Speech by Gao Shiming, Dean of the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts at the graduation ceremony in 2022

Dear teachers, alumni, dear classmates, parents:

This year's graduation exhibition is very exciting, and the classmates' creation is full of vitality. In the display space of more than 50,000 square meters of Hangzhou City, more than 3,500 graduation works were displayed, and more than 200 mainstream media reports were obtained. Overseas communication covered 45 countries and 740,000 people. Each platform on the entire network exceeded 568 million readings. With the prevention and control of the epidemic, the number of offline exhibitions exceeded 150,000. This is amazing and proud of the world. This graduation exhibition is not only a display of the graduation works of the students, but also a large -scale aesthetic activity in our school. It has won the attention and widely of praise from the whole society, but also shows the energy of Gome. Now let us congratulate you with warm applause, and let us thank all the teachers who have worked hard for your growth!

In recent years, our graduation exhibition has gone out of the campus and exhibited in the whole society in the best public exhibition space in Hangzhou. It is hoped that every Gome graduate can treat themselves as an independent artist, designer, architect and architect. director. The graduation exhibition is the first step in your society, and it should also be your first step in your professional field. The praise and applause you won at this moment will become the driving force for moving forward. In the future, you will follow this step firmly and independently to achieve your wonderful life.

Classmates, in the college, your identity is "student". The meaning of "learning" is consciousness, and the meaning of consciousness is unknown. Learning this word has two meanings of consciousness and conscious people. Those who read and act as a sense of understanding are all learned. We learned art, and art opens the body and mind through emotional exercises, so that we feel and feel for this world. Therefore, it is the most valuable "awakening age" in your life.

Tao Xingzhi (1891 ~ 1946), native of Yixian County, Anhui, Chinese people's educator and thinker

To exhibitions at the public space, I hope that your works can withstand the inspection of the public, and don't be too "student". But for the identity of "student", in 1919, Mr. Tao Xingzhi explained in his article "New Education":

The meaning of the word "life" is life or survival. What students have learned are the way of life. Learning is life, life is learning. ... Only students were students in school before, and they were not students at home. Now we are all students who are all society. Although they are out of the school, they are still students.

The key here is that we are all students in society, and we learn life. Everyone knows that the theme of this year's graduation exhibition "living power" is the proposition of Mr. Tao Xingzhi a century ago. Today, a hundred years later, "living power" has special significance -the vitality of life and the motivation of life, which is especially important for each of us's physical and mental body in this epidemic. Choosing "living power" as the theme is related to this year's life experience and realistic feeling; in fact, there is still deeper thinking behind the "living power".

Gao Shi named Liu Zhenyun Award

Three days ago, I attended the awards ceremony of the Chunfeng Yue Reading List, as a guest of Liu Zhenyun. Zhenyun is particularly interesting, and first made a big advertisement for the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts in the award -winning speech. He said that the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts was incredible. Wan Ma Caidan arrived at Gome. Director Muson also had a book in Gome in the past years. He wanted to ask the big guy, is Gome still recruited people? Can you also consider him and Yu Hua?

This session made me very warm in my heart. I also advertised him here. His award -winning book is "One Day Three Autumn". I do n’t say it here. Only a little spoiler, this novel is related to painting. Liu Zhenyun's writing can be said to be a thorough realism and extreme formalism (two kinds of opposite things are integrated, which is the characteristic of all good art). His writing structure is "a hundred surnames", and his theme is "the people". Writing the virtuality, seeing the air in the sky, and seeing the emptiness with reality. Liu Zhenyun wrote the spiritual life of the people. It is the history of life in the dust of the small people. , But sorrow and joy. The full or empty, reality and emptiness in all this life shows a loneliness that penetrates into the bone marrow, not a hundred years of loneliness, but a thousand years of loneliness, not a loneliness of a person, but the loneliness of the world. The loneliness of a hundred surnames. So in the awards, I said that behind Liu Zhenyun's humorous style, there is nothing, loneliness, sorrow, and sympathy.

This state described by Liu Zhenyun reflects the life and fate of the Chinese in the past century. "). In Mr. Tao Xingzhi's view, this is precisely due to the lack of living power that it must vibrate the spirit through the education of civilians, and education can only be "through life to become a real education." The purpose of education is to "create students with living capabilities, so that the living power of each person is more moist, rich, and stronger. Forces, they can conquer nature alone or together. " Tao Xingzhi's thoughts and Mr. Cai Yuanpei said in our school -based style "truly completing people's lives" can be described as the same.

The statue of the giant square (left: Cai Yuanpei: Lin Fengmian)

What is "truly completing people's lives"? For Mr. Cai, it is to go through art and aesthetic education, "breaking the opinions of people, and gaining gains and losses. The object of beauty, the world is the public, can enjoy it with others, but also make people self -denial. The launch of the beauty, the pottery to raise sexual spirit, and the emotion can make people make the body, regardless of the blessing, and run to it with warm emotions. This is what Cai Yuanpei said in his school's speech at the beginning of our school- "The spirit of bravery, the fearless spirit, and the emotion of work." In 1929, Mr. Cai Yuanpei's book "National Art Institute" school monument

The aesthetic education that Mr. Cai Yuanpei said that year was different from what we said today. Aesthetic education is to gain aesthetic experience from the perspective of nature and the world, and establish perceptual science, so as to cultivate and influence people's hearts. It aims to be the development of personality. Art education is to guide people to complete the artist's self and self through creative production, and emphasize the creative transformation of life experience. Art education needs to penetrate the process of hand, eyes, body, and mind in the training and physical feeling of the body. Here, the process of art creation is also the process of self -creation. Here, art and education belong to the creation of life.

In 1928 in our school, Mr. Tao Xingzhi issued such a declaration:

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We believe that life is the center of education.

We believe that health is the starting point of life, that is, the starting point of education.

We are convinced that education should cultivate vitality and allow students to grow up.

We are convinced that education should help the environmental resistance.

We are convinced that teaching is unified.

We are convinced that teachers and students live together, and they are willing to work together for the best education.

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Tao Xingzhi is convinced that school life is the starting point of social life, because society is the greatest school. "In the great school of society, everyone can be our husband, everyone can be our classmates, and everyone can be our students." When I read these words, I was very moved. In recent years, I have repeatedly emphasized that the "artistic moment" in everyone's lives is to advocate a "wallless college" and a "art of everyone". This is in line with the spirit of Cai Yuanpei and Mr. Tao Xingzhi. This spirit runs through the century, showing the unique value ethics of Chinese art education, and also gives us a reflection of modern history.

One hundred years ago, it was the year of modernism. T.S. Eliot's "Wastel", James Joyce's "Yulisus", Kafka's "Castle" ... 1922 is therefore called the "year of miracle" in the history of modern literature. This year, Feng Xuefeng, Wang Jingzhi and others set up China's first new poem organization "Lakeside Poetry Society" in Hangzhou; Ye Shaojun and Zhu Ziqing founded the first new poem "Poetry" in the history of modern Chinese literature; "Scream" ... Regardless of China or the West, these modernist classics a hundred years ago, most of them were depression and struggle, loneliness and absurdity, confusion and confusion of that era, and they were hidden behind them. Lack of. In this regard, Gorky wrote:

"The writers of the past have a broad idea, a harmonious worldview, and a strong sense of life. The more you can't ponder, getting more and more vague, more and more vulnerable. The author is no longer a mirror of the world, but it becomes a piece of broken glass. Out of the majority of social life, it can only reflect the broken trivial of soul. "

The main body of modernism is like a dull crushed glass, which is a lonely and alienated existence in modern society. He either throw himself into the dust of daily life and become the so -called "ordinary people" of Heidegger; or get rid of the fetters of the external world. , Turn to pure internal tilt self, thereby producing a free phantom. One hundred years have passed, such a mental state, such a soul crisis still lingering in the literature and art world. Today, one hundred years later, we re -refer to "living power", which is to promote artistic practice and carry out a "upward life" to overcome the modern crisis in the spirit of art.

Living up to the upward needs to be lonely into common, to discover the purpose and possibility of life in the common life, and open its own channel in the ocean of life. Classmates, Gome is a life. In the years in the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, you are soaked in the common artistic life of Gome. No matter which major you are, you who have experienced Gome life, you need to go closer, more specific, stronger, deeper, more comprehensive and more subtle and more subtle after walking out of the campus. Learn to improve our lives and make it "upward".

Classmates, you who walk out of the campus will take on a colored social role. Whether you participate in the operation of galleries, exhibitions, art galleries, and expo as an artist, or as an office worker, you should not be caught in that one. The "storm in the teapot" on the field, let alone avoid reality, always think "living elsewhere." For those who learn art, daily life is the frontline, and we have to try to re -invent the daily life.

Reading the daily life, not only the courage and spiritual motivation of action, but also the imagination and creativity. We need to invented the daily life of the daily life of the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, and enhanced reality. New methods and new paths to open an experiment towards unknown life. That will be a creative differentiated power, a potential energy that enables cultural value to reconstruct and feel the perceptual power. This potential energy will change the inherent mechanism of daily life from the bottom up to make it "upward." Classmates, in the ocean of life, you may feel limited life and impermanence of the world. At this time, you have to think of the theme of your graduation exhibition -living power. What does life mean to us? I think it was what Liu Yuxi said- "with endlessness and new day." Because art is not just a professional, a profession, the first is a state of people, a state of self -imagination, self -transformation, self -experiment, and self -liberation. Regardless of which major you are, you who have experienced Gome's life will retain an art gene in life. While creating works, artists are also updating themselves, and they are re -shaping our world of life. In this sense, art has become a heterogeneous mirror in the life world, and a spiritual preparation of new life. Therefore, the genes of Gome's life are extremely precious. In the future, I hope you should guard and take care of it carefully.

Classmates, finally this moment. Now, I have invited the Director of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts and our old principals Professor Xu Jiang on the stage to host this solemn ritual with me.

Classmates, now ask everyone to stand up. We shouted "Gome", everyone shouted "for art war", and at the same time, the embroidered spikes were left behind -when you were in school, you were cared for and growing freely. After graduation, it would turn into a beauty man Responsibility. You will be carrying this responsibility, actively make progress, and work hard to make it forward.

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