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Recently, the “Speaking the Voice of the Times and Forging the Soul of the Nation – Pan He Art Seminar” was held at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. More than 50 artists and critics from both inside and outside the province attended the seminar. The guests discussed the creative language, theme significance, artistic style of the sculptor Pan He, and his educational philosophy, and hoped to gather forces and resources from multiple parties to conduct a comprehensive study of Pan He and his works, and called for the launch of the “Lingnan” sculpture research. “Old Pan from Hong Kong to ChinaKomiks South People’s Academy of Literature and Art, and then his exchanges with the Lingnan School of Painting, contact with Western sculptures, local sculptures, etc. are worthy of study. He is the pride of Guangdong and the most worthy of study in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.” Li Jinkun, Vice Chairman of the China Artists Association, Dean of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Dean of the Guangdong Academy of Painting, and Chairman of the Guangdong Artists Association, said at the meeting that Pan He’s sculptures have already been href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks becomes the memory of a region and a country. Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts will use more power and resources to conduct comprehensive research on important artists such as Pan He and preserve this valuable academic resource.
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To this day, Pan He, in his 80s, has been committed to sculpture art creation for nearly 70 years, has been engaged in art education for more than 40 years, and has created more than 100 large-scale outdoor sculptures, and his works have been spread across more than 60 cities at home and abroad.
Pan He has won many awards and titles, and is the winner of the first Guangdong Lifelong Achievement Award and the winner of the Lifelong Achievement Award of the Chinese Art Award. CinemaIn the eyes of many artists and critics, he is a modern sculptor who “produces the voice of the times and forges the soul of the nation”. The mark of the times and national thoughts permeate every work. In the view of Feng Yuan, a professor at Sun Yat-sen University, there was an important proposition in the Chinese literary and artistic circles in the 20th century: “How to make Western modern Chinese literature”Transform into national culture. He believes that Pan He consciously understands the cultural mission through his personal cultural awareness and takes action to complete artistic practice, giving this proposition a good answer. Komiks His series of works represent or shape the key nodes of historical development since the founding of New China, and are closely linked to the pulse of the entire era.
Li Ming, former dean of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, believes that from “When I Grow Up” to “Hard Times” and “Will I Pay Stupid You”, to “The Fisherman of Zhuhai”, “The Boat of the Land”, “The Memorial Image of Liberation of Guangzhou”, etc., Pan He embraces the times and ideals with his memory, cognition and conscience, and keeps his creations close to the times.
Artist Wu Xinkun of the United States also said that Pan He’s works are rich in connotation and believes that his Cinema‘s works reflect historical stories, humanistic emotions, and people’s emotions towards social life, integrating the fate of the country and nation into the work. “In “Hard Times”, no one can surpass Pan He’s portrayal of the joy of old farmers after they get the land and their expectations for the future. Babaylan is a work of the times. “He said.
“The key to whether a person has nationality lies in his thoughts rather than aesthetics. Mr. Pan He’s aesthetic is extremely foreign, but his thoughts are absolutely national. “Pan Fen, son of Pan He, said that the times gave Pan He a special artistic mission, allowing him to convey national thoughts with the ultimate Western aesthetic taste in the torrent of the times.
Clearly with the Lingnan School of Painting
Pan He studied in Xianggang since childhood. At the age of 14, he went to Foshan, Guangdong to learn figure sculptures in Foshan; at the age of 19, he went to Macau to study, met the Italian sculptor Xia Gangzhi and his wife, and also met well-known statue masters such as Gao Jianfu, Yang Shanshen, and Yu Ben. Commentator Liang Jiang said: “This context is the same as the context of the Lingnan School of Painting. He has a very close relationship with the Lingnan School of Painting. “
Liang Jiang believes that Pan He’s turning local factors into historical narratives of the entire nation is an important aspect that should be paid attention to when studying regional art history and regional art. He gave examples of Pan He’s Lu Xun portrait sculpture “You’re stupid” and believed that the title of this work has a very obvious Guangdong characteristic, connecting the Guangdong Cantonese cultural circle. His work “The Cow of the Land” is also an important work in which local factors participate in mainstream discourse in the country. Yin Shuangxi, a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, also said: “Mr. Pan He’s works are in every history.Nodes can resonate and respond to Komiks, and his works can grasp the most important moments of the theme, plot, historical development and the characters’ psychological state, and use sculptures to turn the moment into eternity. ”
In addition, Yin Shuang mentioned that a sculpture Cinema‘s family can leave a city mark in a city throughout their life, and the people of this city will always remember him, and Mr. Pan He left his landmark works in Zhuhai and Shenzhen, two important cities in Guangdong. The spirit expressed by Shenzhen’s urban landmark “The Cow of the Land” has not only become href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks is the spirit of Shenzhen, and has become the spirit of reform and opening up.
Pan He is good at capturing details and refining core characteristics. Most of his classic works come from wonderful moments that touched him. “When I Grow Up” created in the early 1950s was a creation that was inspired by the situation of rural teachers after participating in the “land reform”. It is said that Chairman Mao gave a high evaluation. This work also represented China at the International Mother’s Day Conference held in Switzerland and the Fifth World Youth Festival held in Poland, which caused a sensation.
To this day, Pan He has recorded the century-old development history of China’s modern and contemporary times with sculpture art, and has also condensed BabaylanThe spirit of the times of reform and opening up in China, his outstanding contributions to the construction of socialist cities and cultural construction are obvious to all, beautifying the urban space and enriching the urban connotation.
Excellent novelty in artistic form
From form to theme, Pan He’s sculpture art has a distinct personal style and an irreplicable uniqueness. “This is the embodiment of the artist’s wisdom and personality, and it is also a precious quality and pure realm.” Huang Qiming, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, believes that as a sculptor who grew up with the Republic, Mr. Pan He always revolves around the melody of the country and the times, but in artistic form, he can often find the perfect combination point between the form and the theme.
Pan He is in 1Komiks. This classic work has always been interpreted as a firm belief in expressing the hard environment of the Red Army. Previously, Pan He explained that the work did not express the Red Army, but the Hainan guerrillas. But no matter what, the work reflects the belief in life and life of the revolutionary ancestors in that difficult era, and directly conveys an optimistic spirit.
“The work conveys a sincere belief in human nature. No matter how hard and hard life is, it still maintains the belief in life and the future. “Yin Shuangxi believes that Pan He closely connects the fate of art with the fate of a country, an era, and a nation. His works have strong thematic nature, but his theme is not rigid and symbolic, but grasps the characteristics of art, so that the language and plot and theme of sculpture can balance it, attracting a wide audience.
Exploring Lingnan Sculpture through Pan He
In addition to independent creation, Pan He also has an unavoidable identity as a teacher. From a lecturer at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts to a tenured professor in the Sculpture Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, he has been teaching for forty years and uses unique educational concepts. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan trained a group of outstanding artistic talents.
The American artist Wu Xinkun became a graduate student of Pan He during the first national graduate student recruitment in 1978. In his impression, Pan He’s usual teaching does not emphasize basic skills and techniques, but focuses on ideological education. “He himself is an aesthetician and thinker. What he said has a great influence on me, which is more than Komiks. If he said, “no stubbornness, no illness, no illness, no illness,” he believed that the creation of literary and artistic works does not necessarily have to be perfect, and its shortcomings are its personality. “Wu Xinkun recalled.
Pan Fen revealed that Pan He’s educational philosophy is related to his learning experience. Pan He has always had a very personal personality in his learning. He believes that the teacher is not a technical one, but an ideological one. He believes that the thought is one thousand times stronger than the technique.
Pan He’s sculptures have far-reaching cultural significance for contemporary art. The seminarThe participants at the meeting all proposed that we should gather forces from multiple parties to collect and organize resources and conduct a comprehensive study of Pan He and his works; we hope to establish a team of sculpture theory research as soon as possible, sort out the development context of sculpture theoretically, and promote the development of disciplines. In the process of Guangdong art’s transformation from tradition to modernity, it has always been the first, the era is the first, and the path of change. It should focus on the in-depth research of the Lingnan School of Painting, and conduct vertical and horizontal comparisons by artists such as Pan He to deeply explore Lingnan sculptures.