Song lyrics in paintings showcased in Shanghai

The aim of these renowned painters, including Chen Peiqiu, Chen Jialing, Xiao Haichun and Cai Tianxiong, was to capture in both art and life the spontaneous ease by which an inspiration of themoment can be fully and naturally expressed when the technical means have been mastered. In so doing, they have brought out the resonance of a revitalizing spirit.

"We aim to implement the Central Party's spirit to inherit Chinese culture," Huang Peiyun, curator of Xie Zhiliu & Chen Peiqiu Art Center, told China Daily. "We pay a lot of attention to the comprehensive arrangement and allocation of these 30 paintings, in the aspect of the lyrics poets’ allocation, lyrics' classics, and different styles of paintings."

Embracing a variety of content according to the Song lyrics, the 30 traditional Chinese paintings include colored landscape, naturalistic, and flower-and-bird, among others. Their styles are green landscape, concise or conventional ink paintings that embody six essentials: spirit or vitality, resonance or harmony, thought or plan, effect of scenery or motif, and brush and ink. Whether monochrome or colored ink, the paintings demonstrate the virtuoso's ingenuity and creativeness, highlighting the scenery and atmospheric effect. Artistic genius and all-absorbing love of landscape or objects (human figures, flowers, bamboo, birds, palaces and utensils) are brought out in works that beautifully reflect the writer's concept of composition.