Kunyun Danqing · Yongkun Opera Theme Art Exhibition held in Wenzhou

Recently, the "Kunyun Danqing · Yongkun Opera Theme Art Exhibition" opened at Wenzhou Art Museum. On site, 104 pieces of Chinese paintings, oil paintings, watercolors, crafts, and other works met the audience up close. The entire exhibition vividly reproduced the stage moments of Yongkun's classic plays and deeply conveyed the cultural spirit behind Yongkun opera.

 

This exhibition is guided by the Propaganda Department of the Yongjia County Committee of the Communist Party of China, with academic support from Wenzhou Cultural and Art Research Institute (Wenzhou Art Museum, Wenzhou Calligraphy and Painting Academy), Zhejiang Chinese Figure Painting Research Association, Art Daily and other units. It is hosted by the Yongjia County Cultural and Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau, Yongjia County Literary and Art Federation, and jointly organized by Yongjia County Cultural Museum, Yongjia Kunqu Opera Troupe, and Jinsong Artist Studio.

 

The opening ceremony kicked off with the performance of the opera and held a donation event for calligraphy and painting works by exhibitors. Six authors, including Jin Song, a member of the China Artists Association, a professor at Hangzhou Normal University, and a master's supervisor, donated one Yongkun themed art piece to Wenzhou Art Museum and eight Yongkun themed art pieces to Yongjiakun Theater Group.

 

Yongjia Kunqu Opera is known as the "living fossil of southern opera". In 2005, it was included in the first batch of "National Intangible Cultural Heritage List" and received special funding support from the provincial level. It became the only county-level troupe among the seven Kunqu Opera troupes supported by the Ministry of Culture at that time.

 

This exhibition presents the unique interpretation of Yongjia Kunqu Opera by artists. Each author closely follows the theme of Yongkun, starting from personal experience, boldly innovates in the form of painting art expression, and uses a unique artistic language to create vivid and diverse themed works. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the directive, 33 painters from inside and outside the province have carried out in-depth creative work around the theme of Yongkun opera. "Jin Song said that under the guidance of Yongkun experts, the painters based on the texts, stills, and video materials of 19 major plays and 29 excerpts, and through various forms such as online discussions, group visits to rural areas, on-site observation, and sketching, after six months of careful preparation and multiple revisions, finally presented a vivid and varied Yongkun themed art exhibition, adding a unique brilliance to the commemorative event.

 

Ye Yuchang, the former dean of the Academy of Fine Arts of Wenzhou University and the dean of Wenzhou Modern Chinese Painting Research Institute, believes that the works of this exhibition have broken through the stereotype pattern of traditional opera figure painting, created a new mode of expression of truth, kindness and beauty, and opened up another Xintiandi for the artistic expression of this particular theme.

 

The exhibition will continue until October 19th.