Theme: An Intellectual Improvement Arises from Leisure
——Exhibition of the First Set of Complete Song Dynasty Painting Edition
Sponsor: Library and Information Center of International Campus, Zhejiang University
Time: From Mar. 19th to May, 2019
Location: Corridor on 2nd Floor, Library
The creation of paintings in Song Dynasty does not focus on the magnificence and broadness of the mountains and rivers. Instead, it turns to the inner life and meaning of the images themselves, which greatly enhanced the generality, implicitness and symbolism of the paintings. Artists in the Song Dynasty were good at depicting light and shadow with their paintings. They depicted objective affairs in a very fine way, giving people a strong visual impression. The simple simplicity of color, shape and texture is the aesthetic feature of the Song Dynasty -- white walls and black tiles, natural wood quality and light color of ink.
Complete Song Dynasty Painting Edition by Zhejiang University Publisher, Zhejiang Cultural Relics Bureau and other units to undertake a comprehensive display of ancient Chinese painting art heyday tremendous achievements of large texts, is by far the most authoritative, the most complete song painting images and literature integration, a total of 8 sets, 32 volumes. It collected around 1500 pieces domestic or overseas painting products in the song dynasty, illustrated, the content of tuned poems and exquisite design, which reflects the latest achievements and highest achievement of ancient Chinese painting in the world publishing field, fills the gap in the history of China's song dynasty about painting assembly, creates a large cohort integration of Chinese painting history.
The exhibition, themed on the normal life of the Song Dynasty, selects 20 works from volume one and volume eight of the assembly of paintings of the song dynasty, including some famous paintings. "The Song Dynasty painting but the principle" -- extremely simple, does not show off the skill, but the performance is exquisite, has formed the influence up to now the refined fashion. Behind these works is the systematicness of the paintings of the song dynasty, which is the artist's artistic reflection of the normal life at that time. At present, our library has collected 6 sets, 23 volumes of works of Complete Song Dynasty Painting Edition, which are displayed in the atrium on the first floor of the library.
Library and Information Center
March 18th, 2019