The Pentium Era - South to North

There were so many visitors to the "Andy Warhol Works Exhibition" that the "Riverside Oil Painting Gallery" had to implement capacity restrictions. They extended the exhibition hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. to evening Eight o'clock.

After eight o'clock, the museum cannot be closed. The door of the oil painting gallery is closed, but it remains open to the media. There are too many visitors during the day, and the media has no way to record or take photos.

There are also some important guests who have postponed their visit to after eight o'clock in the evening, saying that they can watch the exhibition quietly.

Andy Warhol's significance to modern art, his status and influence are godfather-level, Zhang Chen expected that he could attract a lot of audiences, but it was beyond Zhang Chen's expectation that so many people came all at once. .

But it’s not surprising when you think about it. How long have you heard about Andy Warhol, but he has always been in the United States. Not everyone can go to the United States, but almost everyone can come to Hangzhou. Andy Warhol You have come, how can they not come?

Liu Qing called Zhang Chen and said that he was coming to Hangzhou to do a feature on Andy Warhol. Zhang Chen and Liu Qing said that they could do a cultural report and do a feature on Andy Warhol. Yes, but don't ask me to be the guest commentator.

"Why?" Liu Qing asked, "Didn't we already agree?"

"Yes, it was agreed upon a long time ago, but..."

"Nothing."

"Before I saw such a large number of original works, I still had a lot of ideas, but when I actually saw them, I felt like I had nothing to say." Zhang Chen and Liu Qing said, "I can't just talk nonsense when I have nothing to say. do you think so?"

"Disappointment?" Liu Qing asked.

"It's not disappointing." Although Liu Qing couldn't see it, Zhang Chen held the phone and still shook his head:

"It's not disappointing, it's more real. Do you know this feeling, Liu Qing, that is, I saw a more real Andy Warhol. He used to be a bit like a god, but now he is a human being. In this process, there are Something is broken, just, just..."

Liu Qing remained silent on the other end of the phone. She was waiting for Zhang Chen to continue speaking. She knew that Zhang Chen was looking for more appropriate words to express his words.

“It’s, ‘Oh, so this is Andy Warhol.’” Zhang Chen said, “When we say, ‘Oh, so this is what it is,’ there’s a click in our hearts, as if something is broken. I am also disillusioned, a little disappointed, a little happy, and a little proud. I just feel that he is not that far away from me, Liu Qing, I don’t know how to express it..."

"I understand." Liu Qing said, "I have felt this way too."

Zhang Chen breathed a sigh of relief and said: "So, Andy Warhol left me speechless... No, no, this is a bit frivolous and derogatory. To be precise, it left me speechless. By the way, you can Go to the Central Academy of Fine Arts to look for him, you can ask Fan Di’an, he is an expert, maybe he will have a deeper understanding of Andy Warhol, I will be there, you can also learn from it.”

"So humble, Brother Zhang?" Liu Qing said with a smile.

"It's not about being humble, it's because everyone has their own Andy Warhol in their eyes." Zhang Chen also smiled.

"Okay, I'll let you go this time." Liu Qing said.

The next day, on the afternoon of the 29th of the Lunar New Year, Liu Qing and his party came. Zhang Chen and Xiao Sheng drove a van to the airport to pick them up. When they saw Liu Qing, Zhang Chen said, after working so hard, they are all 20 years old. It's nine, are you still coming?

"Is there anything I can do? There are too many things to do. I can't rush it. After the first episode of "One Man's Oil Painting History" was aired, the response was good. "Painting Talk" is still going on. Why did you stop? Take a shot. Once the butt is gone, the rest is our business." Liu Qing said.

Zhang Chen said fine, blame me.

"I don't blame you. You are so efficient. Even though we are busy, we still feel confident. We would panic if we had nothing on hand." Liu Qing said with a smile.

Zhang Chen went to Beijing this time and stayed for more than a week. In addition to filming the episode about Castiglione the missionary, "One Man's History of Oil Painting" also filmed an episode about Cai Yuanpei. Zhang Chen believes that no matter from which perspective, Cai Yuanpei The contributions to Chinese oil painting are all foundational and crucial. There must be an episode to talk about Cai Yuanpei.

The growth of Xu Beihong, Lin Fengmian, Liu Haisu and others is related to the care and help of Cai Yuanpei. When Cai Yuanpei served as the president and director of education of Peking University, he directly promoted the cross-ocean dream pursuit of a generation of Chinese youth, and later the establishment of the National Art College , more directly approved by Cai Yuanpei.

When they arrived at the National Art Museum of China, they collected a lot of materials, not only for "A Person's History of Oil Painting", but also for "Theory of Painting". In the National Art Museum of China, there are some of Wu Guanzhong's best landscapes that Zhang Chen considers There are also paintings by Yan Wenliang, Guan Zilan, Sha Qi, Yu Ben and others.

What's even more rare is that Zhang Chen also saw Zhang Chongren's paintings, which echoed the first episode. Zhang Chongren is one of the students of the "Tushanwan Oil Painting Museum".

Because of the status and convenience of the National Oil Painting Museum, the National Art Museum of China has collected many works of the new era, such as "Father" by Luo Zhongli, "The Spring Breeze Has Awakened" by He Duoling and "Sweat of Steel" by Guang Tingbo. These are all It was a work that caused a sensation at the time.

What is even more rare is that the three most important works of "Scar Art", Gao Xiaohua's "Why", Cheng Conglin's "Snow on X month X, 1968" and Wang Hai's "Spring", are all collected in China. Art Museum.

"Scar Art" originated from "Scar Literature". On August 11, 1978, Shanghai's "Wenhui Po" published Lu Xinhua's novel "Scar", which aroused a huge response from readers. For a time, they reflected on a period of history in the past. and questioning have become the themes that many literary and art workers think about.

This trend of thought also spread to the art world. In 1979, the first national art exhibition in the new era, the "National Art Exhibition on the 30th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China", was held at the National Art Museum of China. Three works by three students from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts - Gao Xiaohua "Why" by Cheng Conglin, "Snow on X-month, X-day, 1968" and Wang Hai's "Spring" shocked the art world at that time.

Wang Hai's "Spring" also won the second prize in the art exhibition, which opened the prelude to "Scar Art".

When it comes to the history of Chinese oil painting, "Scar Art" is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed. Zhang Chen feels that it must be said. He also wants to talk about Gao Xiaohua's "Why" and his 1982 "Catching the Train".

From the reflective history of "Why" to the reflection of ordinary people's lives in "Catching the Train", the "thorn" of the painter seems to be less and more peaceful, but this also heralds the coming of a big change. How does a painter In a period of great historical change, Zhang Chen thinks it is a very interesting topic to change oneself.

In 2003, when the Chinese contemporary oil painting market just started, "Catching the Train" sold for 3.63 million yuan, beating out many modern and contemporary masters and setting a record for the highest auction price for a Chinese oil painting at that time. It can be said that it was another marketization of Chinese oil painting. a testimony.

"Scar Art" couldn't be avoided, but the topic was very sensitive. Zhang Chen was not sure, so he asked Liu Qing if it could be photographed. Liu Qing was not sure either, so he asked Taili for instructions, but Taili didn't seem to have a good grasp of the scale. A few years ago, TV series like "Wasted Years" and movies like "Furong Town" could still be screened, but now, who knows?

Taili asked for instructions from the superiors again. The instructions from the superiors were beyond everyone's expectations and were quite enlightened. They said that this is history and there is no need to avoid it, as long as it is not over-exaggerated.

Zhang Chen breathed a sigh of relief and thought this was a bit funny, much like a false alarm created by himself.

When Zhang Chen was having dinner at Li Yong's house, Zhang Chen told Li Yong and Sun Hou a joke. Li Yong and Sun Hou also laughed. Li Yong said, in fact, all the above people have experienced this period of history personally. I don’t know what history is about. Avoidance is historical nihilism. As far as I know, people above are more enlightened than below.

Zhang Chen didn't understand and asked Li Yong, why is this happening?

Li Yong said with a smile: "In the past two years, everyone from bottom to top asked for loosening of restrictions. In the past two years, I think everyone has tightened restrictions on themselves, increasing the restrictions at every level. We are all soldiers. As a result, the common people feel that we are extremely hypocritical and disgusting. To put it bluntly, there aren’t too many cadres like Monkey.”

Sun Hou was unconvinced and shouted: "What does it have to do with me?"

Li Yong said: "Didn't you say that you don't seek merit, but seek no faults? But if you seek no faults, that's it. You are afraid of something happening, afraid of this and that, and you have become an old lady with little feet, even in economic policies. It's the same thing. When we go to the lower levels, sometimes the lower levels are very anxious and ask us for instructions on something. If we don't know about this, the higher authorities have already loosened the restrictions and given the authority to the province."

Zhang Chen is right. It’s really what you said, Li Yong. Like Gao Xiaohua’s “Why” and Cheng Conglin’s “Snow on X, Month, X, 1968,” there are fewer and fewer opportunities to meet the public. I asked the museum Why, they couldn't explain why, and they didn't receive any clear instructions. They just felt bad about it.

"This is self-imposed restraint," Li Yong said.

Now that they had the above instructions, Zhang Chen and the others shot a lot of material in one go. Zhang Chen came back, and Liu Qing and the others were still editing "Hua Shuo" episode by episode.

When Zhang Chen and Liu Qing were talking, they stayed away from the others. After talking, they returned to the crowd. Liu Qing introduced Zhang Chen to a guest they brought, a professor from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, but it was not Fan Di'an. Zhang Chen and He shook hands and said welcome.

Zhang Chen then told Liu Qing, I have asked Zhao Xin to arrange it, and you can shoot it tonight, so that it will not delay everyone's return for the New Year's Eve dinner tomorrow.

"Why, you won't invite us tonight?" Liu Qing asked with a smile.

Zhang Chen said, "Of course, please. I'll ask the chef from Tuxiangyuan to wait. You can take photos until two or three o'clock in the middle of the night. We'll go over and eat after the photoshoot."

Everyone cheered when they heard it. Liu Qing said, "This treatment is not bad. Thank you, Brother Zhang."

At eight o'clock, the "Riverside Oil Painting Gallery" closed. Liu Qing and the others started taking pictures, and Zhang Chen followed them. He wanted to hear what the experts were saying, but after listening for more than ten minutes, Zhang Chen walked away and went back. Zhao Xin's office.

He felt that this expert was completely talking to himself. What he was talking about was not Andy Warhol at all. In other words, he could be talking about Andy Warhol or any modern artist. .

If your words are meaningless and pointless, screw you, you, the professor, are not as good as me, Professor Zhang.

Zhang Chen thought a little proudly, and at the same time he was a little proud. He felt that he was at least a little ashamed.

It's a pity that there is a table of good food and wine in Tuxiangyuan. I will invite a vulgar food later. When thinking about this, Zhang Chen felt that he was being mean. He couldn't help but laugh. Zhao Xin asked:

"why are you laughing?"

"You're not laughing at anything, just smile, okay?"

"Can."

"By the way, why don't you go out and listen?" Zhang Chen asked, "Didn't you say you can't understand?"

"If you don't go, I can't understand you." Zhao Xin said, "You're still talking about me, why don't you go?"

"I understand everything, no need to listen." Zhang Chen said.

Zhao Xin stared at Zhang Chen: "Are you so awesome, boss?"

"What do you think?" Zhang Chen looked at Zhao Xin and smiled.

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