Dr. Sun Yat-sen Within the Green Mountains
Artist: Mo Junjie (School of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy)
Instructor: Lin Haizhong
"Of the hundreds of temples on the Western Hills, none can rival Biyun Temple's opulence." Biyun Temple was originally built during the Yuan Dynasty and later expanded during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, integrating temple buildings with a garden. The ancient temple is located on the eastern foot of Mt. Jubao, to the west while facing the east. Its multileveled halls are stacked alongside the mountain and are surrounded by tall pine and cypress trees, quiet streams, and birdsong. At its peak is a Pagoda Temple from which one may gaze up at the heavens and down at the grand halls and terraces below. Found within the temple is Shuiquan Court, a courtyard named and built for a spring (quan) and found in the most secluded spot in the temple. The artist created this painting of Biyun Temple as an attempt to gain insight into the mind of Wang Wei (a painter and poet during the Tang Dynasty; courtesy name Mojie) as he painted his snowy landscapes.
A Game of Latitude and Longitude Chess
Artist: Yang Taibei (School of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy)
Instructors: Pan Wenxun, Deng Xianxian
The artwork seeks to convey the interconnectedness of crowds, drawing inspiration from parks, which are actually the most familiar scenes in everyday life. The park is always bustling with people playing chess, creating a vibrant and lively atmosphere. I enjoy being part of it, observing their every move, which inspires my creativity. I then try to translate the sketches of life and the careful observation of people's states into my artworks.
Heavenly Questions Series One
Artist: Yang Muyuan (School of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy)
Instructor: Shen Hao
Excerpt from "Heavenly Questions," drawing inspiration from the inscriptions on Western Zhou bronze bells and tripods, in pursuit of their magnificence. Using retrospection as a means to explore Chinese traditional art, rather than treating the "restoration" of traditional forms as the ultimate pursuit, would turn tradition into a form of dependence and confinement. To truly understand tradition means to appreciate the virtues of freedom, openness, and progressiveness that are inherent in traditional art through multidimensional perspectives, it transforms tradition into a bridge that connects the past and present as well as others and oneself, guiding us to discover and attentively observe the myriad aspects of our surroundings and to exercise prudence and self-reflection.
About BRAIN GARDEN
Brain Garden – The 5th Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival 2023 & CAA Graduation Season kicked off online and offline concurrently on June 1. This edition of Youth Art Festival is co-hosted by Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Publicity Department of the CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee, China Academy of Art (CAA), and Zhejiang Conservatory of Music under the guidance of the Publicity Department of CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and Hangzhou Municipal People's Government. The festival features a wide variety of online and offline artistic shows and activities centered on the future and the youth. It is a grand city-wide artistic feast in Hangzhou.
The Youth Art Festival is presented online on CAACOSMOS and West Lake Sky Screen and offline at six venues, namely Zhejiang Exhibition Hall, West Lake Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum, World Tourism Museum (1368 Xiangxi Road), Quan Shanshi Art Center, and Yichuang Town, with a total exhibition area of nearly 70,000 square meters. Over 3,000 works from more than 2,500 Class of 2023 graduates (including 1,766 undergraduates, 688 masters, and 97 doctors) are showcased. Over 2,000 young artists, designers, writers, and scholars have gathered online for this youthful art event.
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