The settlement of the Zhang Ding Museum in Xiamen will inject new cultural elements into the Fujian context

Published:2015.05.05        news source: Fujian Art Online

Xiamen Zhang Ding Art Museum opening ceremony and contemporary Chinese famous landscape painters invitational exhibition

In May 2nd, 2015, the opening ceremony of Xiamen Zhang Ding Art Museum and the contemporary Chinese famous landscape painters invitational exhibition were held at Wuyuan Bay culture exhibition center in Xiamen

Chinese Artists Association director, vice chairman of Fujian Provincial literary Federation of Secretary Wang Laiwen made a speech

At the opening ceremony, Chinese Artists Association director, vice chairman of Fujian Provincial Literary Federation Secretary Wang Laiwen said: Mr. Zhang Ding is a famous art educator, theorist, arts and crafts master, he laid the deep foundation of the new China art education, especially in the arts and crafts education, is one of the important founder of art. He was not only an important fine art master in the history of China in twenty-first Century, but also an outstanding Chinese artist in the world. Since the new China was founded, Fujian arts and crafts education, especially in the lacquer art aspect, Mr. Zhang Ding gave great attention and guidance, for example, Mr. Zhang was very concerned of Fuzhou University Xiamen Academy of Fine Arts during his lifetime, also provided a lot of support, the current batch of Fujian province fine arts predecessors in the industry of a gentleman of noble character and high prestige are the students of Mr. Zhang Ding. The art circles of Fujian have been  highly respected Mr. Zhang Ding, and will never forget Mr. Zhang Ding's contribution to the fine arts of Fujian.

All seats are occupied at the opening ceremony

Today Zhang Ding art museum is located in Fujian Xiamen, displayed a lot of Mr Zhang Ding's masterpieces, not only has important academic significance to analyze and study Mr. Zhang Ding, but also has the profound significance to further promote and enhance the influence of Fujian art. In the future, Zhang Ding art museum will inject new elements of culture for the Fujian context, and become a very important cultural landscape of Fujian Xiamen.

Xiamen Zhang Ding Art Museum

 Founded in Xiamen Zhang Ding art museum is currently the largest number of Zhang Ding's art collection, the best quality, the most popular category of Art Museum, is now in the possession of Mr. Zhang Ding calligraphy, paintings, sketches, painting manuscripts, letters, and more than 500 pieces of image data. The same day, all the exhibition gallery on the second floor exhibited a collection of Zhang Ding's works more than 100 pieces, with more than 2000 pages of manuscript materials, book image data of more than 60 pieces (sets). Most works of calligraphy and painting, manuscripts and related images are first published. The purpose is to make the public understanding of Zhang Ding and his creation by presenting his achievements in different periods and different artistic fields. According to Xu Xiangyang, director of the Zhang Ding Art Museum, the second floor of the Museum of art is a permanent exhibition hall, which will show Mr. Zhang Ding's painting and calligraphy works for a long time.

Zhang Ding was born on 1917, in the nearly 80 years of artistic career, with his abundant artistic passion and extraordinary creative energy, active in comics, art design, stage art, animation film, decorative painting, murals, paintings, calligraphy, Chinese art criticism and art education and other fields, and in various fields have made a great contribution.

Mr. Zhang Ding

 According to Zhang Ding Art Research Association Wang Luxiang said, this exhibition takes the time as the clue, combined with the work and presentation of data to the public, trying to depict a comprehensive and vivid Zhang Ding: Zhang Ding drew with Anti-Japanese comics in the early years, but in prison; drew intellectual comic in Yanan, but was rescued to prison; at the beginning of the liberation he sketched in Yunnan; his decorative painting creation was the valley transfer ring, but was ridiculed or rejected; packaged new China can achieve success and win recognition, during the "Cultural Revolution", and forced into a life of despair; on the way to explore the ink, although being famous in the art history, but has not been understood more. As the cultural elderly Mr. Xia Yan said: "his paintings imbued with a sense of uprightness, his ink works, the black and white tone, is a very high beauty, but many people do not understand". To this end, Chen Danqing has also said: "he is a far - unappreciated generation of the times."

According to Wang Luxiang, this exhibition basically reflects the important achievements of Mr. Zhang Ding in different periods, different artistic fields and different forms of artistic expression, and basically summarizes the development and change process of his artistic creation and the general context of his artistic career. This will help us to understand and know the century old man in a comprehensive, systematic and objective way. Unfortunately, Zhang Ding has made achievements in the field of art and design, cant use more intuitive physical display, the reason is that some major design data is hard to collect, only historical data lost in the "Cultural Revolution", and the existing venues can not displayed the huge work, can only take the form of display method, use the text, pictures, video to remedy.

Ms. Li Zhao donated Mr. Zhang Ding's calligraphy to the Museum of Art

 In addition, the first floor of art museum building a temporary exhibition hall in the opening premiere also launched the Chinese landscape painting masters invitational exhibition of "enchanted in landscape, in the embrace of landscape", exhibition planning by scholar Wang Luxiang. According to Wang Luxiang revealed that the twenty artists are the backbone of the Chinese landscape painting creation, they were directly or indirectly taught by Mr. Zhang Ding, or the colleagues was working with Mr. Zhang Ding, or Mr. Zhang Ding thought followers, represents the highest level of the landscape painting in China.

Xiamen Zhang Ding Museum of fine arts is the social public welfare cultural institutions, personally authorized by the wife of Zhang Ding and a famous poet named Li Zhao, jointly established by Ji Ya culture group and the experts of Zhang Ding art research. "The museum has been strongly supported by private capital and Xiamen municipal government, and spent about ten million of the renovation and renovation of venues. We hope to create the best private art gallery in China. As a museum building funded, Xiamen Xinyu Group Chairman Cai Xiangqian said that as a business people, he is deeply moved by Mr. Zhang Dings patriotism, the pursuit of beauty and spiritual influence, in Mr. Zhang Ding's family authority, with several colleagues jointly built the Zhang Ding art museum, for him, with great significance.

Zhang Ding's children represent Zhang Langlang donated works, and the director of the Museum of art, Xu Xiangyang, has issued a collection certificate.

 It is reported that Mr. Zhang Ding's children Qiao Qiao, Lang Lang etc., for the support of Zhang Ding art museum building, has repeatedly visited the scene in the initial stage of building the museum, gave some advice, and free to the museum donated 12 works of calligraphy, ink paintings in early age and comics in old age 14 pieces, ink works 7 pieces, also including the collection of Mr. Zhang Ding and his wife Chen Buwen of a large numbers of books, manuscripts, letters, historical photos, a total of more than 60 pieces, nearly more than 2000 pages.

The art museum is located in the Xiamen municipal government focus on the development and construction of the new city name cardWuyuan bay. On the basis of respecting and retaining the original architectural style, the Museum of art is headed by the Ching Shang architectural design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University. It has been rebuilt and expanded into a single three storey modern style building with a floor area of about 3500 square meters. The first and second floor are divided into two exhibition halls: the first floor is a temporary exhibition hall, and the second floor is a permanent exhibition hall, with a total area of 3200 square meters. The art museum is also equipped with art bookstores, souvenir shops, public squares and catering facilities.