On the morning of December 31st, the opening ceremony of the “The 20th Anniversary Exhibition of Zhejiang Human and Natural Oil Painting Academy” hosted by Zhejiang Natural History Museum was held in Zhejiang Natural History Museum of West Lake Culture Square in Hangzhou.
Zhejiang Academy of Human and Natural Oil Painting was officially established in Hangzhou in 1996. The Oil Painting Academy is an academic research department under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Natural History Museum. It is committed to taking oil paintings as the medium, reflecting and expressing nature in the language of art, and studying the oil paintings collected by Zhejiang Natural History Museum.
As early as 1985, Zhejiang Museum of Natural History and Zhejiang Art circle jointly organized a special oil painting exhibition of “Water Town Tour”. The exhibition of “Water Town Tour” featured the painting of the Jiangnan water town, and organized more than 160 works of the old, middle and young painters to participate in the exhibition, which played a great role in promoting the creation of oil paintings in Zhejiang Province at that time. After the exhibition, Zhejiang Museum of Natural History collected 48 of the works, which became “the only museum collecting oil paintings” in the province at that time. This move is considered to be a beneficial attempt to reflect nature by artistic means, and is the rich connotation of natural museums. In the following years, the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History exhibited paintings throughout the country, producing a wide influence in various places.
In the past 20 years, the Academy of Oil Painting has hired more than 40 famous oil painters to go deep into nature, go deep into social life, conduct artistic creation, hold academic activities, and make unremitting research and innovation on oil painting art, and achieved gratifying results, which have been fully affirmed by the painting circle inside and outside the province. In addition to the annual academies annual exhibition, in recent years, the academy has undertaken the “ecological civilization construction achievements in Zhejiang province painting exhibition” “Zhejiang island painting sketch exhibition” “in the water side, Zhejiang wetland painting sketch exhibition” and so on more than 10 large exhibition and more than 80 exhibition, to promote our province ecological civilization construction achievements contributed, but also is the function of Zhejiang museum of nature to expand vivid practice.
This exhibition exhibits 87 oil paintings with the theme of man and nature created by 36 painters from Zhejiang Academy of Human beings and Nature Oil Painting. Both the theme and the ideological connotation reflect the theme of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, providing the audience with art appreciation, and at the same time, improving the sense of responsibility and participation consciousness of the whole people to participate in the construction of ecological civilization.
On the afternoon of the same day, a seminar on the 20th anniversary of Zhejiang Human beings and Natural Oil Painting Academy was also held. More than 30 artists from the art circle at the meeting had a heated discussion, and believed that the 20th anniversary of Zhejiang Human beings and Natural Oil Painting Institute made outstanding achievements, and the organic integration of humanity and nature played a positive role in spreading ecological culture, publicizing and displaying the achievements of ecological civilization construction in our province. It is hoped that during the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, we will take the opportunity of the construction of Zhejiang Natural Museum project, increase investment, continue to uphold the purpose of serving the people and the development of The Times, and make new contributions to the construction of Zhejiang strong cultural province and the construction of ecological civilization.
The exhibition runs until February 16,2017.